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sure it does. Living off the grid and being properly prepared with a contingency plan means having some kind of gas/diesel generator for backup purposes, as well as to charge your battery bank when the wind/solar/hydro can't...
--rebalancing investments
--putting off travel plans
--putting off purchasing a house
--putting off large expenditures (furniture, new PC, new motorcycle, new TV, washer/dryer)
--cutting down on small expenditures (eating out, clothes, entertainment)
--working harder
--not panicking or holing up with a bunch of ammo as if this were a disaster movie
--rebalancing investments
--putting off travel plans
--putting off purchasing a house
--putting off large expenditures (furniture, new PC, new motorcycle, new TV, washer/dryer)
--cutting down on small expenditures (eating out, clothes, entertainment)
--working harder
--not panicking or holing up with a bunch of ammo as if this were a disaster movie
Does that also mean that you have to put off having a child? No, not me, I perish the thought. Brrr.
Does that also mean that you have to put off having a child? No, not me, I perish the thought. Brrr.
Making smarter choices about procreation is a good long-term idea.
Maybe a couple who were on the fence about whether to have a child at all decide that with the coming energy crisis and inability for the government to pay for everything, remaining childless, or better yet adopting an existing child would be smarter.
Maybe a couple who have a child were looking at whether to have that second and decide one child is enough.
Maybe that family with four children decides to STOP at four instead of pushing for five or six or eleven (given that so many of our problems stem from crass overpopulation at a fundamental level).
If I were married and planning to start breeding I think that might be something we'd think twice about in the short term, but I also hope we'd consider the long term implications as well and at least limit the size of the family...
A guy I know wanted 2, but at the moment only has one. For medical advisors to tell him that until all this is over, he can't have the second, would crease him to high hell.
A guy I know wanted 2, but at the moment only has one. For medical advisors to tell him that until all this is over, he can't have the second, would crease him to high hell.
Medical advisors? Not sure what you mean. His insurance company? I doubt they would ever step in to that extent.
I was more talking about a voluntary choice by individuals, not something some group forces or advises.
I agree. I'm certainly not buying seeds and trying to grow my own food. I've got more important uses of my time!
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Originally Posted by Nepenthe
--rebalancing investments
--putting off travel plans
--putting off purchasing a house
--putting off large expenditures (furniture, new PC, new motorcycle, new TV, washer/dryer)
--cutting down on small expenditures (eating out, clothes, entertainment)
--working harder
--not panicking or holing up with a bunch of ammo as if this were a disaster movie
Okay, I'm going to answer my own question here. We've decided, for now, to pay off debt outside of mortgage (actually we've been working on that for awhile and have been near successful), spend less on entertainment, stock up on water, canned foods, batteries, and pepper spray. My husband has been saying he needs to get a gun for years, so it looks like that's in the near future, too.
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