Made several realisations

[Ranger]

(9 February 2013, 22:35)Destiny Wrote: Thinking back through the past couple years and my present situation, I made several realisations;

1. I used to own an OS map of my local area when I was 12. It was given to me for free from my school. I ended up chucking it away, because I didn't see the point in having such a big map.
2. If I want to get some serious prepping done, I will have to move out. But with no funds, that seems real unlikely it will happen any time soon.
3. I really need a job. the only source of income I get is from my mum and from my college. It seems place with vacancies don't want to employ me.

So I know that until I get a job-or win the lottery- I'm stuck living with my mum buying cheap end food and waiting until I can legally buy guns and knives.

The best "serious" prepping you can do is expanding your knowledge; get of your arse and go and learn what edible and medicinal plants are growing wild in your local parks, at all times of the year. You don't need guns and knives to be a prepper. They are useful tools,but humans survived and thrived for millennia with nothing more than wood, antler and flint tools. Native Americans did not have any metalwork until Europeans arrived, and yet, they lived and thrived and how many people nowadays think they were culturally better than we are today. Learning to improvise, adapt and overcome with little more than what is within your head is the mark of a "serious" prepper and survivalist. Food stores, weapons, BOV's and other tools are important in that they really improve your chances of surviving but without knowledge of how to use them in a holistic way to live, they are no more than a dead weight. I.E. you could have the worlds greatest rifle system, but if you don't know where to find a deer to shoot you're going to starve. Conversely, some guy armed with a home made/ improvised bow and arrow who knows where to ambush his prey has a better chance of survival.