Minding My Own Business

 

If you've noticed the relative (and likely also temporary) peace and quiet here, it could be because we've been taking part of that potential job loss war chest from the last couple of months, and picking up some more needful things. Not all of it is being spent, to be sure, and that slush fund will remain well-added to as well.

But we remind you all, Gentle Readers, that

1) Inflation is rampant. And running 5-20X what FedGov claims it isn't. Buying more things now that will keep allows you to eat next year at last year's prices.

2) Winter is coming on soon. Figuratively, as well as actually. This one may last years to decades.

3) Government isn't getting less intrusive, brighter, nor more helpful, at any level. The more you do now to preclude needing them later, the better off you'll be both now and later.

4) We even note some calming of the ammo hoarding, and the modest return of once-familiar items to local store shelves. Add to your surplus now, before the next panic-trigger, and the one after that.

5) We will also be activating some back-of-our-mind contingency plans that we had thought about before the whole jab-or-be-fired kerfluffle. That includes the A-C-E for everything, at every level of consideration, for our own personal PACE planning. Consider us now firm believers in the belt-and-suspenders-and-duct-tape School Of Preparedness. An acre (or more) in adjoining/nearby state(s), as well as the closer hinterlands in this one, offers an unbelievable number of interesting possibilities. And that's all we'll say about that.