If You Knew The Economic System Was Going To Fail...

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If you knew the whole economic system was going to fail in a year, how would you prepare? By fail, I mean the dollar loses all value as do other world currencies thus sending society into a tailspin and total disorder. In this would be a loss of normal means of getting food, fuel, earning income, and a loss of at least some utilities. Where would you live? Would you arm yourself? Stockpile food? Precious metals? What kind of car would you choose to own? Other?
 
Ah....I love this sort of stuff 🙂 I am a fan of "end of society" movies and books, provided we are not overrun with those really fast RAGE zombies.

I live in the woods currently and we loose power a lot. A generator is nice but if society collapsed gas would be hard to come by.

I have:

4 deep cycle batteries (31 class)
2 solar panels to recharge them
numerous 12volt inverters

that keeps some of the more important electronic stuff running.

Plenty of water around me and I have several filters for when I hike/camp so for a while that would work. After that is is cloth and sand to filter the main debris from the water. Boil it to get rid of the swimmers.

In the summer keeping food would be challenging but in the winter the cold will do that for me.

Our house has 2 fireplaces and as we live in the woods I have firewood.

Food? Some gardening in the summer months and then deer, squirrel, whatever I can get in the winter. I do not hunt but I would sure learn how.

Arm myself? hell yes! If society collapsed you had best believe you will need to fight to keep what is yours. I have....um.....a few guns....


I have two groups of friends when we talk about this sort of thing.

1) you are crazy. You read too many zombie books
2) cool....I am coming to live with you if this ever happens.


🙂

Will
 
I sometimes get accused of being crazy, but, whatever...

Before the economy really tanked hard, my wife and I made a few hard decisions based on the level of communism spreading through the government. The level of social programs and spending just keep rising no matter who is in power so I have started to prepare in various ways.

First off is becoming debt free. Whether the monetary system collapses or changes (or whatever happens) it is always better not to owe anybody anything. We are almost there...

We bought a house with a good fireplace and a decent sized yard. We will be planting a garden. I am over here in the war zone now so that we can pay off the house and be ready for anything that hits.

I don't think America will deteriorate to the status of a Road Warrior movie any time soon, but when the economy really drops like it is now and the government makes it worse, I think going back to depression era thinking for the consumer is the way to go. My grandparents (they are 81) remember growing up that way and they are in good shape still.

Living within your means and slowly working your way is the order of the day. Pay off the cars, pay off the house, and become self sufficient.

Oh, yeah, and learn to use the gun that you should be buying!! Home defense is a necessary reality when the times get tight. You don't have to have a monetary collapse for that to become real.
 
Well, my thoughts are something like this. If the dollar loses all value, during the time it is descending into hell the value of my mortgage will gradually go down. During that time, pay it off. Find a way now to convert to solar electricity. Buy a indirect injection diesel car like an old Mercedes or VW Rabbit, with a manual transmission. The Rabbit is preferable because, although slow, it uses fuel at a very slow rate. Diesel engines can run off of 25 different things, so finding fuel would be easier for a diesel than gas. If you have a gas car, run it off wood using a process called pyrolization. It's too complex to go into right now, but it basically allows you to run a car off of wood or gasoline. I would also have a house on well water. This way you still have a source of drinking water if your solar panels are in place to power the pump. Stockpile Gold and Silver coins. Large denomination gold coins are good, but hard to make change for, so you also want a healthy supply of pre-1965 quarters and dimes-which are 90% silver. Have a laptop computer. If it does not descend too far, the internet will still be around, and you can use it for data at cafe's. Get a geiger counter. A rogue nation might use the opportunity to further destabilize us with a nuclear attack. This is where the diesel car comes in too. Older diesels need no solid state electronics to run and would not be affected by an EMP. (This is why I suggest an old Civil Defense Geiger counter as they use no transistors) The same holds true for points ignition on a gas car, so hold a complete points ignition and ballast resistor just in case. You will need a gun, so I would go for the AK-47. They rarely jam and can work under low maintenance situations, plus they take a common ammo type. They are also easy to repair and make parts for in a low tech situation. I would also live in the country and grow my own food. The suburbs and urban areas will be a bad place to be due to civil unrest and a lack of food and essentials. Too many people will be competing for too few resources and violence will be inevitable.

Have I done all of this? Sadly, no. I really don't have the reserves needed to get all this stuff just yet.
 
According to the bible its called Armageddon.
No need to prolong the end by stockpiling anything.
I would do just anything I ever wanted to do that would be considered illegal and hope someone shot me in the process so I would not have to do it myself.
 
NY87SS said:
According to the bible its called Armageddon.
No need to prolong the end by stockpiling anything.
I would do just anything I ever wanted to do that would be considered illegal and hope someone shot me in the process so I would not have to do it myself.

Well, your post raises a number of theological points too deep to get into here. Basically, it depends on how you read scripture as to what will come for you as a Christian. You could be taken home before it gets ugly, or you could have to endure 7 years of Tribulation before Armageddon.
 
Well, I'm hoping if Armageddon is coming that I will get taken early on!

Unfortunately, I am sure the early Christians thought that when they were being thrown to the lions, or later during the dark ages in Europe, or WW2, but it didn't happen then, either. Those people just had to tough it out and come through it.

You should try to tough it out and be prepared for that, just in case you don't get the early ticket!

I think the MAC 90 is better suited than the AK 47 nowadays, it is the same gun but it is chambered down to use the more readily available M16 (5.56mm/.223) ammo. I also personally prefer the shotgun for home defense. Use double -00 - buck to get the job done.

I'm not sure about stockpiling precious metals, because someone always finds out, and then you are a target. I'll have to ponder that....
 
i would quit my job!! yay!

i also have a gun... .22.. that is all.. but here it's not so easy to get any kind of arm's..
 
I would also legally change my name to "The Great Humongous", as it has a catchy, dystopian ring to it...
 
for some reason, i always picture post-apocalyptic america as it was portrayed in idiocracy. "you are an unfit mother, come back when you have some money, you deadbeat! your children are now the property of carl's jr."
 
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