Made several realisations

[Scythe13]

You might hate this suggestion...Tesco.

Moving out isn't worth it until you can afford a deposit. Renting isn't much fun.

Tesco pay about £9 an hour for night shelf stacking. Is it crap degrading work? Who gives a toss?!?! It's money, regular, and a pretty good wage. Well worth looking into, in my opinion.

For living at home, see if you can sneak tins under the cupboard false floor. Stealth caching haha.

As for doing serious prepping...don't. If your focus is prepping, you're missing out on life day by day. Better to lead an awesome life, have fun, adventure, explore, learn, develop, grow, then prep as well.

Remember, prepping is for something that MIGHT happen. Since there's no guarantee anything will happen, better enjoy now, but be ready incase something happens. I have a job, Internet business (not paying much at the moment), sell stuff on eBay. I'm in the gym when I can. I drive a reasonable car, am married to an amazing woman, we're buying a house at the moment, we holiday around the world. I educate myself daily, and all in all, lead a pretty good life.

I'd rather live the life I have, than stay at home, prep all the time, and wait for something that might never happen.

Don't live to prep. Prep to live.