Sustainable In The City: Prepping In Small Spaces

Ready Nutrition May 2013

One of the most frequently asked questions on Apartment Prepper is how can someone living in a small space prepare for an emergency.  I’ll be the first one to admit that it can be challenging, but it’s definitely doable.

1.  Free up some space

FoodAlthough it is tempting to just go out and buy supplies and gear, and a lot more exciting, the first step that I recommend is to designate a space for your supplies.  Find a closet or drawer or even a corner of the house that you will use for your emergency supplies.  Depending on how organized you are when you start out, you may have to declutter and get rid of stuff in order to accomplish this.

Take a Saturday going through your belongings and weeding out stuff you no longer use.

The purpose of this step is two-fold:

  • You clean up an area and find an empty space for your prepping supplies.
  • You may find items you can sell at a garage sale, Ebay or Craigslist that can net you some extra funds to fund your emergency budget.  Or, you can donate items to charity and get a tax deduction.

Decluttering is a win-win for everyone, plus you will feel better in the process.  Do not skip this step!

2.  Track your usage

The next step that I recommend is to take about three days to track everything you use.  From the time you wake up until bed time, keep a little notepad with you and make a note of every time you and your family uses.  The purpose of this step is to make you aware of all the items you and your family uses, including drinks and food, so you will only stock up on stuff you actually use.  You will want to have items that you will use, even if no emergency happens.

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Sartre ~ Preppers, Patriots & Pirates

BATR | December 30 2012

Concord HymnNow that the prospects of a second Obama administration are hitting home, the pace of a rapid deterioration are confronting all thinking Americans. The radical transformation that is centrally planned for the economy and authoritarianism administrated by the statists that are part of the most tyrannical regime in memory, is taking place before our eyes. Falling off the cliff is more like descending into the abyss of martial law contrived to eliminate the last remnants of independent citizens. Advocating for civil liberties is treated as a criminal act and the gun culture is looked upon as the preview of a terrorist cell.

Several decades ago, the label of being a survivalist painted a prepared person as odd if not deranged. Today the “prepper” is demeaned as an enemy of the state. The Obama dependency society demands that government is the dispenser of all wants and needs. The threat to the state from a prepared population has become a primary target of the New World Order minions.

So what is so perilous about the Prepper Nation? The overt resistance to arbitrary authority is a fear that any beholden bureaucrat abhors. Combating the grievous culture, which is the federal ruthless and tyrannical government, is a crucial concern of the beltway elitists. Thus, the prepared individual is a dangerous agonist that ignores, if not resists, the best-laid plans for a controlled society.

The American Dream presents a perceptive analysis and alert in Why Are Preppers Hated So Much?

“In fact, it has been estimated that there are now approximately 3 million preppers in the United States alone. So now the mainstream media has decided that mocking the movement is the best strategy, and lots of “critics” and “skeptics” out there have picked up on this trend. Instead of addressing the very real issues that have caused millions of Americans to prepare for the worst, those criticizing the prepper movement attempt to put the focus on individual personalities. They try to find the strangest nutjobs they possibly can and then hold them up as “typical preppers”. The goal is to portray preppers as tinfoil hat wearing freaks that need to be locked up in the loony bin for their own personal safety and for the good of society.”

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