Budget Prepping: Surviving On Less
By Robert Paine
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Prepare for Anything without Breaking the Bank!
You know you need to be prepared. But maybe you don’t know where to start? You are worried that you need to spend a lot of money on survival? Not true!
Maybe you consider yourself an expert prepper already. Maybe you’re just a beginner. No matter how long you’ve been prepping, we all make mistakes and spend too much money. It’s natural. It’s human. But there are ways you can learn from others and avoid the same mistakes that we all make.
With this book, you’ll learn how to be prepared for almost any event and how to survive for as long as you need to, without spending a fortune or going into debt!
If you are interested in learning how to protect your family from any and all of the inevitable disasters that could potentially happen, this book is your first step to learning how to prepare for any emergency situation.
Don’t wait - Get started today!
Also includes Two Sneak Peeks at Upcoming Novels!
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Budget Prepping - Robert Paine
Prepare for Anything without Breaking the Bank!
You know you need to be prepared. But maybe you don’t know where to start? You are worried that you need to spend a lot of money on survival? Not true!
Maybe you consider yourself an expert prepper already. Maybe you’re just a beginner. No matter how long you’ve been prepping, we all make mistakes and spend too much money. It’s natural. It’s human. But there are ways you can learn from others and avoid the same mistakes that we all make.
With this book, you’ll learn how to be prepared for almost any event and how to survive for as long as you need to, without spending a fortune or going into debt!
If you are interested in learning how to protect your family from any and all of the inevitable disasters that could potentially happen, this book is your first step to learning how to prepare for any emergency situation.
Don’t wait - Get started today!
Also includes Two Sneak Peeks at Upcoming Novels!
Budget Prepping
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So you want to start prepping? Maybe you’re new to the entire idea, or maybe you’re a seasoned veteran who is looking to add a few new tricks to your arsenal. Whatever the case may be, you probably think your next steps will require a lot of money, right? Wrong! One of the major myths about prepping is that is requires a lot of money. Most people think you need to buy the most expensive gear, the biggest weapons, storage containers, or pre-made bug out bags. This couldn’t be further from the truth! You can easily prep with a family for a fraction of what most people think. If you do it smart, and do it right, you can actually save money by prepping. So, how do you get started?
The secret to prepping on a budget is frame of mind. Most preppers aren't militants or zealots. They are simple people who err on the side of caution in their daily lives rather than investing in extravagance. Their investments protect their needs more than their wants. That's what it means to prep, after all. To prepare, or be prepared, for any emergency is what prepping is all about. Prepping really isn't complex or scary, it merely requires you to understand that there isn't an insurance policy for prosperity.
The state of mind to become a prepper is the same state of mind needed to be financially successful. That's the great part about this subject. If you can become debt free, you can become a prepper. The key is prioritizing what you do after that and along the way. To prep is to prepare for the future with dedication and enthusiasm.
The most important step to becoming a prepper is to adopt a cautious state of mind. Frugality is a virtue that pays dividends not only in prepping, but in personal finance. The cautious individual is very often a frugal individual, and the frugal individual is very often also a thrifty individual. Frugality and thrift are the hallmarks of budget living, and if you live on a budget you have the state of mind for prepping on one.
The simplest first step to achieving this state of mind is comparative pricing and shopping. Very often, bulk is less expensive per unit than individual. You pay more up front, but when you break it down you are getting more of the item in question for less. An illustration, purely hypothetical, might be cans of baked beans. A can of baked beans might be a dollar. A box of ten cans could be five dollars, same size and type as that individual can.
Break it down: you are paying fifty cents for the can you are looking for. Sometimes however, fulfilling this goal means investing in bigger containers, such as with rice. In the long run, saving money means spending on Ziploc bags or plastic containers in such an instance. Another good idea there could be figuring out how to repurpose containers, such as peanut butter jars. That's the single biggest way to stretch your finances that I know of, buying bulk.
The next step in shaving financial expenditure is figuring out whether that name brand is all that its cracked up to be. A solid example I noticed when I first started looking at this subject is diced tomatoes. When pricing tomatoes, I discovered that the only difference between the name brand of diced tomatoes and the less expensive off-brand is sodium content. The name brand potentially tasted better simply because it had more preservatives. In other words, I was paying more to have it salted in advance. I've found this to be true in other groceries, so I suggest to all of my readers that reading product labels can actually not only lead to healthier eating but savings in your pocket book as well. Naturally, those savings can in turn be invested elsewhere such as your gas tank or putting together your first bug out bag.
The next thing to look at is whether you really need to have something. This is where the question of utility versus specialty comes in. I like to think of it as the videogame console versus DVD player question, because there are video game consoles that cost less than DVD players yet can also play DVDs. The high end resolution isn't important to me, and if it isn't important to you then it's worth considering. With a little research, you may find this is true in a lot of situations. The one purpose item does one thing really well, and very often costs more than the item made to fill a lot of uses. Sometimes you can even find where an item isn't made for a certain purpose, but can handle it well. An example is lubrication. Butter is a natural lubricant, but that isn't what it's marketed as. I know of no better product for fixing stuck or broken zippers than butter.
In my family, we grocery shop monthly rather than weekly. We buy our goods in bulk, and hit up the salvage stores for the difference. We know how to tell when groceries are good, versus when to pass them up or advise employees to throw them out. When you know these things, sometimes it can be less expensive to buy individually at the salvage store versus bulk elsewhere because the price per unit can sometimes be just above cost when they are trying to move them. It isn't hard to tell whether canned goods are safe, check around the rings on top and bottom. If there are black spots, they need to be thrown out. If the cans are swollen, they also need to be thrown out.
Some say that we should all have a six-month supply saved up for emergencies. This is a fine goal, but untenable for most people. I think a month is good enough for a starting benchmark, then working your way up from there. Thinking about the space so much food would take up, six months is a daunting prospect for the beginner who lives from paycheck to paycheck. Hopefully these beginning tips help shed some light on how to stretch your dollar to gain the breathing room necessary to prepare for an emergency.
You will find as you start investing in bulk rather than individual items that this goal will creep closer and closer into sight. It might even start to become a game for you. Start examining your life, if it does. How often do you eat out? What are your favorite foods? Rather than getting canned beans, maybe bags of dried beans are cheaper for you. Learning how to cook with a crock pot is a great way to break into budget eating, and the recipes are a pinch.
Planning your bills can also pay dividends. Go through them, and see what you can cut back on. Figure out what temperature you are actually comfortable at, and how often you run your air conditioner when you could be opening your window. Your health may thank you, as an aside there. Leaving lights on behind you is also a power bill killer, more than some realize. Do any of your sinks leak? That could be running up your water bill more than you realize.
The single biggest myth that I know of pertaining to bugging out is that it's like an emergency camping trip. This isn't necessarily false, but it's nevertheless a misnomer. Bugging out isn't camping, and shouldn't be thought of as such. A bug out bag is a bag of bare essentials, and perhaps a little more on a personal and preferential basis, to help make it if you find yourself needing to evacuate to safety. The ordinary bug out situation doesn't involve camping out whatsoever, which automatically negates the importance of the vast majority of items you would find in your average hiking rucksack. While a hiker is most certainly prepared to bug out if he has his bag prepared at all times, there are several important reasons for the average person not to follow that model aside from perhaps being a city dweller that doesn't care for the great outdoors.
We are also told that all preppers are anti-government, or more generally, anti-social, people who want to cause trouble for the rest of us. This isn't true, it just happens that there are some troublemakers who also prep.
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