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Survival Sunday: February 11, 2024

Happy weekend, friends!

Survival Sunday is a personal note and a round-up of the week's news
and resources for folks who are interested in being prepared. This
curated collection of information is only available to email and Patreon
subscribers.

Have a great week ahead!

Daisy

A PERSONAL NOTE

 

Today I want to talk about what tends to be a touchy subject in the
preparedness world. Life/prepping balance.

There's a lot written out there about life/work balances and not letting
that get out of whack, but sometimes I get comments on the website that
are intensely critical, either of me or someone else, and most of them
boil down to "clearly, you don't want to survive as much as I do" or
"you're not serious about prepping."

To be clear, this is a lifestyle, not just a hobby. Those of us who are
deeply interested in preparedness are more aware than your average Joes
and Janes about the things that could go wrong. We map things out. We
think things through. We put back supplies and we learn from every
single storm and power outage.

I think that's great. That's exactly my approach. I love learning more
every single day about ways to manage if the power goes out or skills
that can help me in the event of a disaster.

The problem is when it begins to overtake your life.

I've gotten messages from people who loved their former spouses but left
them because they weren't serious enough about survival. I've received
emails from folks who despise living in the country but they do because
"the city is a death trap." There are people out there who upend their
lives and choose to be miserable and uncomfortable now because they
think they'll live longer when things go sideways.

There has to be a balance. An appropriate ratio. Otherwise, you really
are the "crazy prepper" that outsiders scoff at.

Life shouldn't be like that. If you spend all your time preparing for a
possible event that will be 1% of your life to the exclusion of having a
good quality of life the other 99% of the time, where does that get you?
Is that really how you want things to be? Bad things can happen anywhere
at any time, but so can good things, if you let them.

Don't leave a great job that you love because you think you'll fare
better when the SHTF if you live unhappily in the boondocks until the
balloon goes up. Don't move far away from everyone you love to "survive"
if your life until survival time is not going to have a good quality.

Now, if moving to the country is your cup of tea, fits your desired
lifestyle, and is your longtime dream, that is another matter. Then it's
awesome! I've gotten to do this before, and I really enjoyed it. I've
lived on a remote homestead in the mountains in California and on the
edge of the Algonquin Forest in Canada. Both were spectacular places and
I have no regrets.

But at this time in my life, it would be a nightmare to be in either
place. So I'm embracing suburbia, the city, good doctors, and ease of
accessibility.

No matter where you live or what your lifestyle is, you'll face smaller
emergencies like storms or plumbing issues or money problems.  That's
how life is and prepping for those things should be our preparedness
priority. Things like this are likely and happen many times throughout
our lives.

But worrying about nuclear winter or an EMP or a Mad Max situation?
Well, sure, I prep for it - we all do. But it's not where MOST of my
prepping effort goes because it's not the MOST likely thing to happen.
It could - and your other preps will help you to be ready for it. The
food you put back, the skills you acquire, the knowledge you build will
all help you through the Big Kahuna of Bad Events.

But remember that you still have 99% of your life to live that will be
free of apocalyptic scenarios. That 99% should be treasured, enjoyed,
and lived to the fullest. I don't regret a single trip I took. I
wouldn't trade for anything the time I spent roaming around ancient
historic sites in faraway lands.

I am so glad for all the experiences I have under my belt. I'm happy
about the books I've read, the movies I've watched, the piano recitals I
attended, and the gymnastics practices I took my kids to. I have loved
living in cities and rural areas and having the experiences I had in
those places.

When I'm gone (hopefully a long time from now), I don't think my family
will sit around and say, "Wow, Mom sure did have a lot of canned corn.
That's a life well-lived."

I think they'll unearth photos of me smiling in front of crumbling
ancient monuments, find old scrap papers where I was practicing writing
in Greek and Russian, and locate the jar of coins I've collected from
every country I've ever been to. They'll see photos from the farm, from
the cabin, from the high rise, and from the little suburban house in
Ontario. They'll remember when we went to Disneyworld together or when
we visited the Redwoods and rented an Airbnb in a former 19th-century
brothel. They'll thumb through the thousands of books in my library that
I've collected over the years. They'll have a chance to treasure all the
wacky and wonderful memories, PLUS they'll inherit a lot of canned corn.

And that will be the legacy of a life lived in balance. One that focused
on the 99% while still preparing for the 1%.

 

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Thank you so much for the kind words about the puzzles I've been
creating! I've written down every single suggestion on my list of future
puzzle books.

This has been a really interesting project to spend some time with and
your purchases are incredibly helpful. They go toward the rollator that
I'm getting (it's not covered by insurance) so that I can get around
better when I leave the house. So every purchase helps me more than you
can imagine! (You can grab them here
if you're interested.)

Being a total history and travel nerd, making these is really enjoyable.
A puzzle book takes about 30 hours to create - it's a pretty hands-on
process but so interesting to learn. Once I have a good selection of
word search puzzles made, I'll start learning how to make crosswords.

If you missed out on the free puzzles I'm giving away, go here to check
them out . And please
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WHAT I'M READING, WATCHING, AND LISTENING TO

Here's some content from the previous week that you may find
interesting.

* Tucker Carlson: The Putin Interview

* Biden classified memos report re-ignites debates about dual justice,
'diminished' president

**"too cognitively impaired to be charged with a crime, but not too
cognitively impaired to be the Commander-in-Chief?"**

* 3 Shocking Truths Most People Don't Know About Money in Bank
Accounts...

* The Guy That Could Replace Putin Warns That War With The West Would
Result In An "Apocalypse" And "The End To Everything"

* New York's Illegal Alien Compounds Exposed: Stabbings, Drugs,
Deaths...

* The United States Has Zero National Security

* A "Gigantic Systemic" Meltdown, Greater than 1930s Depression is
Coming Warns Market Insider

* New Report Reveals Federal Gov't "Funds Domestic Censorship
Superweapons" Against Taxpayers

* 12 Absolutely Insane Examples That Show Just How Far The U.S. Has
Fallen

* No Farmers No Food: Will You Eat The Bugs? | Documentary

* Millions Of Americans "Prepare For The Apocalypse" As The Global Food
Crisis Reaches Unprecedented Levels

* Electrical Engineer Whistleblower Exposes Serious 5G Health Hazards,
Explains 5G Propagation Into Every Orifice of the Head

* It Begins... Stand with TexasMore Gov sending Troops to Texas,
Biden Vs Texas Migrant Crisis

* Scandalous Senate 'Deal' Allows 1.5 Million Illegals Per Year,
Slides Up To $2.3B To NGOs Trafficking Them, And Gives $60B To Ukraine

* The Use of States' Rights in the Battle Against the Federal
Government

* President Biden's migrant crisis is affecting the entire nation

* Criminal FDA Declares Informed Consent Null and Void

**FDA has amended its regulations, waives the requirement to obtain
informed consent. "Patients" now referred to as "human subjects"**

* Largest Refinery In US Midwest Shuts Down After Power Outage

* Tucker Carlson - The actual number of illegals is 22+ MILLION

* The Era of Easy Money Ruined Us

**The rot caused by easy money will only become fully visible when the
hollowed out institutions start collapsing under the weight of
incompetence, debt and hubris.**

* Free Puzzles for People Who Love America

* Global Economic War Is Coming And The Threat To The US Dollar Is Real

* Bombshell: Treasury Dept. Admits Targeting 'MAGA' Finances Without
Due Process

* The Thirdworldization of the First World Is Ramping Up

* Pentagon Secretly Institutionalized DEI In Its K-12 Public Schools

**Extreme curriculum being taught to the 70,000 children of service
members.**

* The Recognition Of Reality Destroys The Dystopian Dreams Of The Borg

* The Self-Reliance Manifesto: More Than 350 Resources to Guide You on
the Path to Radical Freedom

* The Commercial Real Estate Crisis Of 2024 Is Going To Be A Doozy...

* Irony Alert: "Outlawing" Recession Has Made a Monster Recession
Inevitable

* Induction Cooktops: Your Most Efficient Low-Power Cooking Method

* What the collapse of a company owing $300 billion means for the world

* The True Costs of Net Zero Are Becoming Impossible to Hide

* 10 Things You Can Do When You're Just Too Busy To Prep

* China's Property Crisis Is Much Bigger Than Evergrande

* Open Borders & Closed Courts: How The Supreme Court Laid The Seeds For
The Immigration Crisis

* A Study Says Growing Your Own Food Is "Bad for the Climate." Here's
Why They're Wrong.

* Theater Of The Absurd

* Federal Agency Issues Security Warning For Apple Devices, Gives Three
Weeks To Comply

* Dear Diary: It's Me, Jessica Part 3

* US Strikes At Least 85 Targets In Iraq & Syria, Including From B1
Bombers

* How to Build a Dollar Store Dental Kit for Your Bug Out Bag

* 27 Lost Survival Skills Your Ancestors Had

* How to Purify Water for Drinking

* 'Millions Will STARVE': Rancher Sounds Alarm on Global Food Agenda

* Best Mylar Bags for Food Storage

* Stop Throwing Away Your Lemon Peels. Do This Instead!

* The 10 Daily Habits of Frugal People

* How to Recharge Soil in Raised Beds

* 17 Household Products You Can Make Yourself

* Cybersecurity and the Future of Tech with Dan Nowak

* What Can You Plant in February in Your Area?

* How to Plan Your Best Garden & Harvest for a Year's Worth of Food

* 5 Ways City Living Can SAVE You Money

* Organic Fertilizer - Feed Your Plants, Soil and Microbes

* 4 Cheap Household Items You Can Use for Cleaning

* How to Prep When You're Broke (now also available in paperback at
Amazon)

* 7 Best Reasons - Why be a Prepper

* 20 Vegetable Garden Layout Ideas (with Plans!)

* Green Beret Tips on Land Navigation

* 23 Herbs and Veggies You Can Grow on Your Porch

 

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