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Survival Sunday: April 11, 2021

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

 

A lot of people are talking about the decline of the standard of living
in the United States. While we definitely have our tent cities and
crappy apartments, we should note that most of us have it pretty good.

I wanted to show you some typical housing for Baja California, Mexico.
Let me precede this with the fact that I'm absolutely not trying to
insult anybody's home. I just wanted to bring a little bit of a reality
check from south of the border.

Baja is a state that is filled with extremes. This photo was taken from
the dining patio of an upscale beachside restaurant on the Pacific
Ocean. I got permission from the owner to use the photograph.

There are all sorts of homes here in Baja - everything from hillside
mansions on ranches to oceanfront condos to downtown apartments. There
are very few structures made of wood because there aren't many trees
around here (aside from palm trees and fruit trees.) And if that weren't
reason enough, the risk of wildfire would make anyone hesitant to use
wood as a building material.

The home in the photo is not at all uncommon. You see many structures
like this, cobbled together from whatever materials the owners have been
able to acquire within their budget. Some of them have roofs, others are
covered with tarps, and still others are a combination. There are no
building inspectors and codes, at least not of which I'm aware.

I've visited some local friends who live in homes along these lines.
Some had electricity that came from an extension cord running from
another person's home. Others were hooked up to the grid. Still others
are without electrical power. Running water is similar. You'll often see
a garden hose poked through the window of one of these homes of mixed
construction. Other people rely on water catchment during the rainy
season and 200-gallon water tanks that they fill to meet their needs.
(There's a water truck that delivers water.) I know another person who
uses some solar-heated water on the roof for a shower and otherwise uses
the 5-gallon jugs of bottled water for drinking, cooking, and washing.

Cooking and heating are generally powered by those 5-gallon
barbecue-sized propane tanks.

Most places, but not all, have at least a small septic system that has
to be pumped regularly. These generally use greywater for flushing.

Many neighborhoods of homes like this combined with campers and other
structures can be found tucked in between gated condominium communities
like the one in which I am staying. You might look at this and think,
"This is the difference between the haves and the have-nots." You'd be
incorrect. Nearby cities are filled with homeless people or folks living
under tarps who would be thrilled to have such accommodations.

Again, this isn't a judgmental post. I just thought that some of you
might find it interesting to see the homes where other folks live.

Quite honestly, visiting those homes gave me a great deal to think about
considering the luxuries that most of us consider essential. It makes me
feel hopeful because the homes that I have visited are clean, tidy, and
filled with love and gratitude. We can survive and be happy, clean, and
content with a lot less than our current lives would lead us to believe.

I'm not suggesting that I plan to live in a home that I've constructed
from the goods I can acquire nor am I suggesting any of you do that, but
it's important to see that it's entirely possible and it's far from the
end of the world.

Daisy

 

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"Doomsday" Prepping Goes Mainstream?

An article on the Psychology Today website asked, "Were the Doomsday
Preppers Right?" in relation to the events of 2020. The answer? "Sort
of."

The assessment was written by Dr. Allen Fetterman, a professor of
personality and social psychology at the University of Houston. I'm
going to assess Dr. Fetterman's assessment.

The article started off in a way that didn't seem promising, painting us
as the pessimistic, ammo-hoarding, bunker-dwelling stereotype.

Dr. Fetterman shared his academic history that included years of
research on "post-apocalyptic and doomsday prepping beliefs." He and his
colleagues had neatly summarized the prepper personality type in a
hypothetical way.

And then 2020 happened.

Fetterman felt that people cooperated better than his hypothetical
preppers expected them to but that their worries about the shortage of
resources was much more accurate, summarizing, "Therefore, while
concerns about human nature are probably overly cynical, concerns about
the availability of resources in post-apocalyptic scenarios may be
warranted."

The article ended on a positive note, with a recommendation to stock up
on some non-perishables and check out some preparedness suggestions
(from the government, but still, Rome wasn't built in a day.)

So was Dr. Fetterman right? In my opinion, "Sort of." I think we're
still on the edge of a dangerous precipice with regard to human nature
and cooperation. But all in all, I felt his treatment of prepping was
fair and particularly reasonable for a mainstream source.

You can take a look at his article here
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BOOK REVIEW

I did an interview with one of my very favorite blogger friends, Gaye
Levy, who runs the delightful site Strategic Living
.

Gaye was one of my early blogging mentors and a very dear friend. I was
so thrilled with her review of my book.

We talked about what led me to the path of frugality, some of the
emotional aspects of poverty that folks don't really like to discuss,
and how preparedness and frugal living are related, but not the same.

As with every interview I've ever done with Gaye, her questions were
really insightful and I hope you enjoy our chat.
You can check out the interview here.

What I'm Doing to Prep This Week

This week, I didn't do a whole lot of prepping in the typical sense, but
I did take on some extra work projects to increase my emergency fund. So
- yes, it's prepping, but nothing terribly exciting to write about here,
unless you want to envision me typing away on my little pink laptop.

That aside, I was absolutely thrilled to discover that Feedspot placed
The Organic Prepper in the #3 position for the Top 100 Survival Blogs,
Websites & Influencers in 2021 for Preppers
.  There are some fantastic
sites on this list, so be sure to check it out.

I hope you had a prepared week!

This Week's Articles

The Organic Prepper
* Are You Prepared For a "New Normal" of Flashmobs, Revolutionaries and
a Lower Standard of Living?

by Robert

* Cooking Oil Prices Are About to SKYROCKET: How to Produce YOUR OWN
Cooking Oil and Render Fat
by Joanna

* Biden's New Executive Orders Could Turn a Whole Lot of Gun Owners
Into FELONS

by Robert

* 8 Reasons You Should Be Collecting Rainwater
by
Kristen

* Is 2021's Fictional Cyberattack Simulation Prepping Us For a Cyber
Pandemic? by
Robert

* Food Storage: The Prepper's Three Layer Plan
by Daisy

* At the Rate We're Running Out of Semiconductors, We May Not Have to
Wait for an EMP to Take Down Almost Everything
by Daisy

The Frugalite
* Dirt Cheap: The Best Frugal Gardening Ideas on the Internet
by Daisy

* The Poverty Trap: How A Small Financial Setback Can Spiral Into an
Inescapable Disaster by Daisy

 

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