Saving money to buy preps

[Scythe13]

Good to hear you're making savings and things are moving in the right direction. Just a few ideas you might like:

Have you thought about going solar? Not full scale crazy solar. I just mean small bits here and there? Like a solar phone charger, solar battery charger, etc. Preps and money saving, also good for camping. 3 birds 1 stone. Then using the savings for larger stuff, like laptop solar charger, etc. Always worth considering.

Don't forget growing your own food. That saves money. If you have a few willow trees you can get a mini coppice for the wood, a 3 year cycle seems to work well.

I go out with the air rifle and use that to get rabbits for the dogs. The wife's still a veggie, so no such luck feeding the whole family with bunnies....yet. But dog food ain't cheap...when you're feeding 3 dogs.

One major money saver, go old-school, we have no gas, no TV's or landlines in our house. So we pay no license fee, no line rental and no gas bill. Our electric is low as we use an open fire and candles to heat the house, but I don't really feel the cold, so I never heat the house if the wife's not around, but when she is around, we exercise together and that keeps us warm enough. We use books, conversation, and the computer for entertainment, and we have mobiles phones as phones....no wait, that's what they are. You know what I mean. With a Zero-Limit internet contract on the mobile, it doubles up as Wifi router.

Total saving? I don't know, as we purchased this house with those things in mind, but it's amazingly easy to go old-fashioned.

Because you're looking at a log-burner, I assume you have a chimney? If so, do you have an open fire at the moment? If you do, have you thought about recommissioning that, firstly as a prep, but also because it's something you'll need to do, and you could use it as an open fire too. When out walking, I've heard of people picking up logs and the alike for their home fire's. I'm not sure how legal that is, but I've heard of people doing it.