ROB'S PREPPER PRESENTATION

                                Prepping Step 1.  

         Google It with Unemotional Critical Thinking
                               

Use your internet search engine to review three pages about power grid vulnerability.

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Click on Utility Grid in the menu above for the links that I have found listed by publishing date.

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When you search USA power grid vulnerability you may find articles that believes that if the whole country is hit 90% of the population will die.

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There theory dose not account for our military and Relief agencies of other countries that are going to come in and help.

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Every cruse ship on the planet will head to the United States to take people off the coast.

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If the two thirds of the utility grid (  east coast  ) is down FEMA, National Guard, Red Cross, Christian charities and large corporations who are in Texas and the west coasts states will send in buses to evacuate people who have not prepared.

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             Prepping Step 2.      Reunited with Children

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Create a plan to be reunited at home with your teenagers or younger children.  

A different plan is needed for summertime and school time that involves grandparents and other family members.

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Schools must have a plan on how to deal with a EMP worst-case scenario or a regional attack on the power grid.  

If your school or daycare does not have a medium size generator, 100 gallons of gas, several 55 gallon drums of water and food you may have to provide these items yourself.  Groups of parents can get together to buy these things. 

See if your local city, county or school emergency response teams have a plan.  Join the PTA.  Get elected to the school board to advocate for a plan.  Visit the Principal to get permission to store the emergency items on the schools property.

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If your child goes to daycare ask the daycare teacher " Will you take care of my child for the rest of his or her life if I do not make it make it home ? " This is a good way to get them to take this seriously.  You have to use a positive magician trick to install fear to get over there laughter in denial. 

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                      Prepping Step 3.     Maturity

  
 ​My goal is to save the lives of innocent children, special needs adults and children by asking there parents " If they think it is a good idea to cancel there homeowner insurance after their mortgage on their home is paid off or to drive without auto insurance if it was not illegal ? "  

The goal of this question is to compare the understood need for insurance with new idea of having a shelter in place or leave the affected area plan.  

To survive a long term utility grid down event the tools that you need to sharpen and organize are not in your garage but in your mind. 

Those tools are a Healthy and Mature Mind, Body, Spirit and Bank Account.

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Maturity is the ability to delay immediate pleasure and gain pleasure from hard work. It will take work on your maturity to be able to step away from this lifestyle and plan for a different type of lifestyle for months or years. This will not be fun.

I judge myself and everyone reading this to have room to expand their maturity on issues of Mind, Body, Spirit and Bank Account.

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These are the areas that I struggle with.  

I am asking to Choose Curiosity instead of Anger. 

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​          Prepping Step 4.   How far away is Home ?

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Look at where you live. If you have children and live more than a 30 minute drive from home then you are going to have to move home closer to work or get a job closer to the house or work from home.  

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If they hit us with a worst-case scenario an EMP in middle of January communications and sources of heat will not work.  

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Even if your car starts how much gas do you have ?

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Walking home or to school / daycare will be the only option wearing your coveralls and boots from your get home bag in the middle of the day when the sun is out. 

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                    Prepping Step 5.   Apartments                                                               

​The danger of living in an apartment in a utility grid down situation is fire.  Your neighbors will be trying to cook and stay warm with grills and bond fires.  The fire department will not have the personnel, fuel for the truck or strong city water pressure to put out a fire  

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On the other hand driving out of the affected area before FEMA and the National Guard have set up gas stations along the evacuation rout is more dangerous.  You could break down, run out of gas, be stuck in traffic with other anxious and desperate people.  

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Instead of abounding the shelter of your apartment right away do three rotating fire watch / trouble shifts.  One person has to be awake at all times. 

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Financial advisers Dave Ramsey and Joshua Sheats will tell you that Apartments are temporary housing until you save up for your down payment on a house.    

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Pay off all your debts and start saving for a house in a working class neighbor. Fix that house up, flip it and buy one in the suburbs, flip it and buy a house where farm land meets the suburbs.  

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This way you will have options to dig a well, put up windmills and solar panels and erect a large building with a concrete floor, bathrooms / showers to place travel trailers inside. You can not do that in the city.

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You cannot store the gasoline that you will need to drives out of the affected area in an apartment. Try to find a storage unit place that is owned by a prepper who is already planning to have his bug out location there.  See if they will allow you to barter work for exchange of renting a storage unit.  

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Store you water, generator and gasoline on a little trailer inside the unit.  Ask if their back up generator is going to be able to open the gate or if he will allow you to install a removable link in the gate chain that you could take apart and reassemble after you manually roll open and close the gate.

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Have two ladders to climb over the fence and drop one on the other side and a letter of permission from the owner to show the police.

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Also be working on having a reliable, well-maintained mini van with good tires and a hitch to tow the little trailer or pop up camper that you can load up and drive out of the area.  

                  Prepping Step 19.  Faraday Box 

A Faraday boxes reflects the electromagnetic pulse bomb high voltage electrical charge wave that will overload and fry all of micro computer devices even if they are not turned on or plugged in.

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First Year preppers need to create a Faraday box out of two short 5 gallon metal trashcan.  Wrap up in tin foil all your old video games, am, weather and two way radios, old laptops, tablets, ham radios and cell phones with their chargers and cables and place them in the can. Seal the can with aluminum tape. 

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One can should have the games, radios and out date electronics.  Once the can is sealed it should not be opened until the event happens.  The other can should have your back up external hard drive, portable ham radios and any other electronic item that you will training with or using frequently. 
 
Before sealing the can test it by placing your cell phone in it and a battery operated am radio tuned to the strongest signal in your town.  When you place the lid on the can the radio will stop playing and the cell phone will not ring. 

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Second year preppers need to build a Faraday box big enough to hold small TV’s, desk top computers and flat screen monitors.  This one can have a heavy lid that makes a seal when closed. 

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Second year preppers also need to build a Faraday box to protect the generator.

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Third year preppers should Invest in a car cover Faraday blanket to protect the computer and other electronics in your bug out vehicle. 

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Here is a link of a NASA scientist. testing this device.

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                             Prepping Step 20.                                                  Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Business
                                 
Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Business need to ask their backup generator manufacture if there equipment will survive an EMP and would a Faraday blanket placed over the unit help. 

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These institutions also need to have a very large back up natural gas fuel tank installed to switch over when the gas stops flowing. 

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Along with an updated long term power grid failure plan they need to build a Faraday room where they place all of their surplus for the event, new in the box and outdated medical equipment.

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The owners of these businesses need to plan on how to keep employees on site to take care of the patients.  Consider offering employees who live in apartments the option of bugging out to work and providing a room and food their spouses and children.

      Prepping Step 21.    News and Communications
                                 

In a non EMP event cell phones will work. The network will be overloaded with voice calls. Text messages will work better. They have generators at the cell towers.

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If you have a ham radio operator in your compound prepper group.  Support him with building Faraday building around his equipment, putting up antennas and building a repeater station. 

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CB radios are a good way to communicate between compounds and farms

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If you have Sirius satellite radio built into your car I would invest in a stand alone car radio kit to put in your Faraday cage.  This will provide news and FEMA information on evacuations, rescues, shelters and supplies.

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Ask several members of the compound to share the monthly expense of a satellite telephone.

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                Prepping Step 22.     The Outhouse 
                                   

Build an out house on wheels with a regular toilet and a pipe coming out the back turned down into a homemade septic tank which will be a 55 gallon plastic barrell filled with # 3 rock and holes drilled into the barrel.  Use the outhouse for storage in your garage until the event happens and then roll in out to the edge of you driveway and install your barrel.

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An out house for visitors gives you the option and time to warm up to the idea of strangers in your compound.

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To use the outhouse you have to go down to the creek or the pond and haul up a bucket of water to flush it with or some other trade.

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It may be years before the event happens. I suggest having your prepper sink, Faraday generator box and your outhouse on wheels.  Roll the stuff out for testing and cleaning. 

               Prepping Step 23.    Training Classes

Invest time and money in the Patriot Nurse class, Herbal medicine training class and police / military firearms training.
 

                               Prepping Step 24                                                           Religion, Politics and Social Issues  

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The best way to prepare and get through the event is to set aside the subject of religion, politics and social issues until the power comes back on.

To do this you have to lay on the table the possibility that you have work to do when it comes to your mental maturity.

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Maturity is defined by the ability to delay pleasure and to do the hard work of opening your mind to the possibility that a hundred years from now when you are in heaven and God walks by you ask him technically speaking which political philosophy conservatism or liberalism best served the people of United States in my lifetime ?  God shrugs his shoulders and says "Either way is fine." 

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I believe the only way to open your mind to this possibility is to corral the emotions of mad, sad, glad, fear and the two types of shame which is being embarrassed or felling that you are a bad person.  

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Your Unemotional King / Queen has to be in charge of researching and making your projections / judgments on these issues. 

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Only your unemotional King / Queen can separate facts from opinions of the wild horses in your emotional corral and work with / help people who you judge to be poor and people you are jealous of because they have more money than you do.
 
We must be more concerned with saving the lives of children and special needs children than getting in the last word in on political or social issues argument.

 For those of you who claim to be atheist I judge the majority of you say that because you were not raised with religion as a child and you do not want some unseen authority telling you what to do or not to do. 

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Practice avoiding the subject of politics with people that share your views.  Prepper Networking is with the whole family and there spouses may have different political and social issues views.

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When you have a work project at your house or when you are teaching a prepper class say no political or social issues conversations while we are working together.  You could also exaggerate and say at my Grandma's house on Thanksgiving her rule was no political talk.

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                               Prepper Step 25.                     

                   Networking with your Neighbors

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Spend the first year privately prepping and working on having a mature mind, body spirit and bank account and your bug out / shelter in place plans in place.

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If you live in the suburbs or the country and have crazy neighbors you may have to fix up your house to sell for a better shelter in place home.  When looking for a new house ask someone in the neighbor which houses have crazy people in them.  Sit down with a talk therapist, clergy or wise elder and ask them if you could be the crazy one who dose not know how to be a good neighbor. 

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In the second year of prepping join nextdoor.com.  Start visiting with your neighbors and have a once a month prepper bonfire where the guys sit outside drink beer, tell lies and talk about there mechanical preparations.

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The Ladies could sit in the living room drinking wine and disusing current events in neighborhood and discussing their mechanical and nurturing plans.

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Men and Women need to be cross trained on inside and out outside operations.  I believe there are guys and gals who are ready to switch seats. They should organize and drag each other to cross training prepper compound classes.  

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I want women shooting the guns and men inside the house cleaning, changing diapers, doing the laundry, cooking and teaching the children.

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While networking with your neighbors use your four directions unemotional critical thinking skills to evaluate their gold and shadows.  

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Are they reliable, do they have a substance abuse problem, what skills do they have, what problems will be made worse by the stress of the event ?

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Keep a note book with one page for each house in the neighborhood.  List what they do or did for work and there hobbies.  List there children's ages and your judgement of their gold and shadows.   Unless you spouse is a gossip you should discuss your judgement to weed out your own shadows and projections.  

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People are who they are and do not change.  The goal is to set boundaries against their bad behavior and put them in places where they can help the compound the most. 

Below is a article from Ready Man Prepper Supply on how two prepper guys put together an Emergency Preparedness Fair for there neighborhood with great turnout.

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                           Prepping Issue 26.                           

               Bugging Out vs Sheltering in Place

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Weather you live in inner city or the suburbs sheltering in place for a month before you roll out is a safer plan because the gas stations will not be open, Street light on the highway will not be working, Broken down trucks and cars will be blocking the road and stranded people will be asking / demanding that you help them.  

Give FEMA and the National Guard time to clear the roads, rescue stranded people and open gas stations along the evacuation route with generators and fuel trucks standing by.

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                           Prepping Idea 27

     Your boat as a bug out vehicle and destination

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For families who are medium income or wealthy, one idea is to use your house boat or cabin cruiser as a bug out vehicle in the warmer months.  The bug out destination would be a empty cove on a river,  lake or coast line a few mile away from your launching spot.  If your house boat is more than an hour drive or you will be towing your boat to the water you will have extra problems to deal with. 

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This option helps the family work through there fear of what other people are going to do the first and second year of becoming a prepper.

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The first year of prepping could amusingly be called by the third and forth year preppers as the zombie stage where you believe that everybody in the county is going to have mindless energy to walk for miles and miles without food or water to your house and kill you because zombies know where all the preppers live. 

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Zombies in prepping is a metaphor for your fear of what every body inside and outside your neighborhood is going to do. The first year you can not imagine that they are not going to have any gasoline, food or water to come to your house in waves of desperate hungry people / zombies.

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Bugging out on the boat should only be attempted by spouses who know everything about the boat, were raised on boats, do not have young children and can both operate and repair the boat if other spouse is injured. 

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Everything on the boat has to be in great shape repaired or replaced and have spare parts available on board.  Install and test your TV, satellite radio and Internet deices on the boat.  These devices will keep you updated on the burying of bodies, the establishment of a FEMA camps and the relief agencies bringing in supplies and services to your area. 

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Research information and practice becoming your own meteorologist.  There will be no weather channel.  Pick a flat cove where you can tie up with several ropes and be able to abandon the boat if a violent storm damages the boat. 

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As you work the four stages of prepper denial and start working on your sheltering in place plan. Lay on the table establishing a compound at your house or trading with other compounds.  In your house install a 12 volt battery lighting system and run a line from your battery bank inverter to your wood stove and furnace. In the middle of January shut off your electric power and water service to practice using your generator, water and food stores for a week.  This practice run will show you what problems need to be addressed in the house and on the boat.

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Purchase a small used pontoon boat to pull behind your boat to hold your extra water, gasoline and other supplies.  If some ask why do you have two boats the same size.  You can tell them some of you friends want to swim and fish and others want to go the marina for dinner.  This extra boat can also be motored out to fish or be use as a life boat if the main boat sinks or capsizes 

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Your self defense, first aid and cooking arrangements will use the same material, training and supplies as you would at the compound or on the boat.

Other boaters will also try this. 

On your pontoon storage barge you can have pasta, sugar and flower which weighs less than can goods to trade with other bug out boaters. 

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If someone does get hurt then you can motor back to the dock where you left your car and put the battery back in that you took with you.

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River boats are going to have the trouble with the current pulling them south and the locks will not be operational.  Boats operating off the coast will need a water maker machine.  River and lake boats will have to have a water filter system for fresh water to drink.

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                             Prepping Step 28.

               The Compound and the Mini FEMA           

                    Camp at the Church / School  

I am asking people in their 50s who have been prepping for a few years and have overcome there paralyzing fear of what other people are going to do who own a large house, garage and barn to answer the call of the compound.  To set up their house in a way that can accommodate women and children in the middle of winter.

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I am asking theses families to start networking with special needs and single parent families in the neighborhood to protect them from looters from outside the neighborhood and drug seeking addicts from inside the neighborhood.

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Special needs children / adults, regular children and senior citizens can be cared for during the day at the home or the church compound while others work at there houses, work on firewood, grow food or hunt and fish.

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The compound can provide two meals a day and wash clothes in exchange for guard duty, food, water, firewood and other supplies.

The shift from being a private person to welcoming people into your house will take some time.  Stretch yourself by hosting the monthly prepper bonfire and organizing the preparations for the compound at your church and school.

Leaders of the Church, mosque and Synagogues with no school cafeteria need to bury and bless the bodies of the senior citizens and bad guys.  90% of theses people will be dead in 30 days.

The Mega church should help with this by buying a small backhoe and a 500 gallon diesel fuel tank.   

I am asking every school and every church, mosque and synagogue that has a cafeteria to gather up supplies to establish a mini FEMA camp after the event happens. They will need twenty-five 55 gallon drums of water, a truckload of canned goods, two generators, 200 gallons of gas, medical supplies, propane tanks and grills. 

These mini FEMA Camps need to paint in bright orange " HELP “ on the parking lot.  This will help our National Guard, Red Cross and relief agency from around the world to see where to air drop and deliver supplies.

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                            Prepping Subject 29. 

               Who is going to be in Charge of this 

                              Mini FEMA Camp

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Every church mosaic and synagogue that has a school and the public schools need to make plans to keep the students warm and feed until there parents come to get them. Children whose parents do not make it to the school alive need to be taken to the mini FEMA camp.

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Every principal and pastor of schools and churches needs to be a saver of lives as well as educators and saver of souls.

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There are preppers in the schools and church community who are going to build up the supplies, equipment and training. They will have an action plan for the pastor / principal and any volunteers to follow.  A group of gun preppers can keep the perimeter of the compound secure.  These guys will work shifts between helping the church / school compound and protecting there own. 

The FEMA workers will come from the mature untrained families who have not prepared for the event.  The Pastor will need training in evaluating leadership skill in people who are in shock. The Pastor will tell theses people to snap out of it and do this job to save your own life and others.

You will need drill sergeant people to take charge and you will need hand holding people to calm and process fears.  Theses two types of individual will need to work the following areas, first aid, childcare, elder care, special needs child care, food, water to drink / cook, water for flushing the toilets and running the equipment.

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Take an inventory of peoples skill that they use everyday for work and as a hobby. Assign several to each task and evaluate who is reliable and has the best skills.

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Churches, mosaic, synagogues and the public school corporation for the county needs to have saving the lives of the innocent on the radar screen. The public school corporation needs to have supplies at every school and a plan on which facility would best be suited for the mini FEMA camp.  The site chosen should be near a stream or a lake to use the water to flush the toilets.  This site should be on a high elevation so the waste water from the restrooms will flow down hill.

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The county public school corporation needs to have at every school a whole facility back up generator or a medium size generator and 200 gallons of gas, new medium size deep freezer to preserve the food in the walk in freezer and take care of the student and staff stuck at the school.

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Every principle needs to take responsibility to get those reaming food, supplies and equipment to the mini FEMA camp facility.

Parents, concerned citizens and members of the church need to ask the leaders of the church and the school board to prepare for a long term power outage and be open to the idea of allowing them to place emergency supplies in the public or private school closest to their home and set up a min FEMA camp there to take care of the residence in the neighborhood who did not prepper and the small amount of people who use the last of there gas or find an abandoned car with gas to drive to the suburbs to ask for help. 

While they are warming up to this idea groups of prepper families need to combine there money to buy more supplies and be ready to make a decision on what is more risky trespassing / taking over a church or school building to set up a mini FEMA camp run by mature unprepared families and taking the risk of it burning down and being responsible for that or telling good desperate people that you can not help them.

I have a problem of wanting to ask for forgiveness second instead of permission first. I am working on this by sending letters to the church and public school corporations about being prepared for this event.

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Another saying that I am fond of is “It is better to be tried by twelve than carried by six.”

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A lot of insurance companies are going to declare bankruptcy because they will not be able to cover all the claims when this event happens.  We can not assume that they will be able to collect from the insurance company if the building burns down.  I hope an attorney can argue that we were living in a world without the rule of law and theses organizations will not sue us from a public relations point of view and if we repair any minor damage to the facility.

Ever households needs to start prepping and have the same supplies in place as the church.  There is no exemption from prepping.   I am more concerned about innocent children and special needs children and I want the elderly and middle age people to survive to help save the innocent.  I would rather you be part of your the solution that your dead body being part of the problem

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                             30.  Large Hotels

                and Restaurants Mini FEMA Camp

 
I am asking the hotel and restaurant industry to start making plans to be a Mini FEMA camp when the event happens. 

For hotels the main danger is fire. Children, elderly and special needs children have to be housed on the lower floors.  People who go up to the second floor do so at there own risk.  There will be no fire department rescue. 

Larger Hotels need to install a 2000 gallon propane tank and retrofit there back up generator to run on propane and natural gas.  They need to buy a Faraday blanket to lay over the generator to keep electromagnetic pulse from destroying the controls.
 

Larger hotels could also go to the extreme route of installing a well pump to pump water and a filter system to clean the contaminants if the hotel is in the city.

Smaller hotels need to have 12 volt pumps ready to pump water out of the swimming pool and then run it through a filter sink. 

Large restaurants near a large hotel need to network with the hotel in renting a storage unit to store 300 gallons of gasoline, two large generators, propane tanks and grills.  On the hotel property they will need six 275 gallon IBC caged water tank, a truckload of canned goods and medical supplies.

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When you get the prepper bug ask your employees who live in apartments to bug out to the hotel with there families when the event happens.  Make up a contract that they will work 8 to 12 hour shifts while the other parent is watching the children for a certain amount of compensation.  

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Send your gun prepper employees to training and buy the ammunition.  Ask them to put together a plan and shift rotation to secure and protect the perimeter of the hotel compound from anxious people and the surviving bad guys.

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Take an inventory of your prepper employees.  You will need drill sergeant people to take charge and you will need hand holding people to calm and process fears.  Theses two types of individual will need to work the following areas, first aid, childcare, elder care, special needs child care, food, water to drink / cook, water for flushing the toilets and running the equipment.

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If we are lucky the terrorist will only knock out the power to a major USA city for one year.  This will cause every one to become preppers.  Before this happens and after I am asking hotel and restaurant mangers to use there management and engineering skills to set up supplies and training for when they hit us again. 
 

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                           Prepping Subject 31.  

                        Katrina, Harvey and Irma

Hurricane Katrina give us lessons about state and local officials being unprepared and expecting the government to rescue them quickly. FEMA and the state and local government's of Texas and Florida did a lot better job preparing and responding to Hurricane Harvey and Irma in 2017 than Louisiana did with Katrina.  

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I believe the people who tried to ride out the storms do this because they live paycheck to paycheck.  They do not have $1000 minimum emergency fund.  With that they could leave their house with there pets and go to a motel room and have money to buy clothes and food.

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FEMA had several days to stage resources, evacuate and get people into shelters.

When the grid is knocked out FEMA with all its best intentions can not quickly get into states where the power grid has been attacked.

                              Prepping Issue 32 

                       Social Chaos and Looting

The term social chaos is Rudely lumping together peaceful protesters with out of town paid protesters and local bad guys looters.

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For people to do any of this they have to have a good night sleep, water for a shower, clean clothes and food.  

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The attack on the utility grid remove theses luxuries. There will be looting of closed stores and unoccupied homes for drugs and items that can be sold when the power comes back on. The energy and gasoline in theses bad guys tanks and stomach will not last long.   

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New Preppers often start out prepping from a place of fear of what other people are going to do after the event. This comes from hyped up local new coverage for ratings of bad people doing bad things and from watching prepper movies and TV shows.  In these fictional stories the writer creates a very strong super human villain bad guy for our hero to overcome.  I believe that that when you prepare from a place of fear you automatically believe that these characters are real. 
 

             Prepping Subject  33.  The Inner City

If you live in the inner-city or a working-class neighborhood with a lot of houses close together you have to move because of the danger of bad guys the first month and decaying bodies the next.

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I am encouraging the churches, mosques and synagogues in the inner city and the suburbs to get with the Mormon church on how they are prepping. 

   

I am asking these churches to be ready to bury the bodies of bad guys, unhealthy middle age people and senior citizens who only have a months worth of medicine and are in poor health.

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I believe that Gang Members / Drug Dealers who live in the inner city are addicted to cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana and other drugs in a functional way.  They are sober when they do there illegal business. They sell drugs to the street addicts who do drugs every day.

Both groups will start to go into withdraw when they see that the grocery and liquor store has been looted and their expected shipment of illegal drugs dose not arrive. The people bringing the drugs will have turned around and traded the shipment for gas to get back home.

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With out food, water, clean clothes and a cool or warm bed to sleep in these guys will be losing strength fast in addition to the withdraws.  Without electricity the gas stations will not be open.

The Majority of theses Bad Guys will not be able to travel any farther than the gas they have in their tanks.  They could find a car that has gas in it from someone who has died an use 1/2 that gas to drive as far as they can to do bad stuff and then drive back to their familiar neighborhood.  

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Most of theses bad guys have guns and can use them in a surprise attack. They do not have any police / military training or equipment. They do not know how to clean their weapons or clear jams. There may be one bad guy in the city that sells bullets and repairs the guns.  How many bullets does this guy have ?  Bad guys will be using up the bullets they have to kill rival bad guys and killing severe drug addicts who believe the dealer has drugs and is keeping them for himself. 

Gun store will not be open or be able to be looted.

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If they see somebody that has a generator, food and water they may kill them, eat up all the food and when they fall asleep the neighbors will come in and kill them.

With no electricity there will not be any streetlights or lights on in the houses or business. I believe the majority of bad guys going through withdrawal will not be able to travel at night.  They will be not be wasting their gasoline and energy attacking compounds far away, they will be attaching houses closer to home.

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Due to their addictions I do not believe the majority of bad guys are going to survive more than a month after the event.

Con artist, jerks and thieves that do survive are going to be on their best behavior because they know they can not call the police to rescue them if they make someone angry.

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             Prepping Subject 34.   The Suburbs

The problem of the Suburbs will be living in a ghost town. The people who do not prepare will drive out of the area when the power dose not come back on, become stuck on the highway and taken to a FEMA camp.

The elephant in the room that the new preppers do not want to talk about is the fear of everybody in the area coming to your house asking for food, committing strong arm robbery or worse.

The average person only has a half a tank of gas in their car.  They will use it to get home, to warm up, charge their cell phones and drive around looking for a pharmacy or grocery store that has not been sold out or looted.  Some gas stations will have back up generators and will run out of fuel very quickly.  The Internet Banking Grid runs off electricity.  ATM's will not work.  The banks do have battery back ups to do transactions if they open and they will quickly run out of cash.   In a week everybody will be stuck where they are at with no cash or gas.

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The people you need to be most concerned about are the people in your neighborhood.  Unhealthy senior citizens over 65 will be dead within a month or sooner when they run out of prescription medicine.   A shotgun blast over the head of middle-age people who are addicted to alcohol and drugs will move them along.  Tough decision will have to be made for the adults who have run out of there psychiatric medications and are in a delusional state running up to the house.  The people that I fear and want to help the most are the Moms and Dads of young children.  They will kill for food for their kids.  Here is how you can tell the difference between a looter / addict and a Mom and Dad ready to kill / die to save their children.  They do not run off with a shot gun blast over there head or a bird shot blast that knocks them to the ground they get back up and charge forward.

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The solution is to prepare for the event with a one year supply of food, water, medical supplies, equipment, fuel, guns and ammunition.  While working your preparations visit with your neighbors starting with the parents of young children. Tell them you do not want to die at their hands and ask them to prepare.  Visit with the middle-aged and seniors after that.

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 Help will get to everyone in the country within six months. Use your extra six months of supply to trade and save the lives of innocent children, special needs children / adults and their parents by setting up a compound at your house or supporting the compound at the closest church or school.

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               Prepping Subject and Question 35

                 Senior Citizen Death Patrol and

           In the long run who has more resources

        The isolated farmer or the Inner city family ?
                 
In the short run a prepper farmer in the country does not have the problem of people asking for help. In the long run they may run out of supplies or get hurt.  

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In the inner-city you are going to have lots of people with different skills.  If the churches and older families without young children create compounds, they can send out crews of men on the death patrol to bury the dead bodies.

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Crew of Women can visit with the older people who are about to run out of medicine and ask them to get their wills together and find their good Tupperware container to bury their drivers license with them and then take all their valuables and put them in one room and nail the door shut.

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These people are wise elders and they should be brought over to the compound for the nightly fire and should be used as teachers for the children.

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The death patrol should visit these people daily and as soon as they pass away get them in the ground quickly and then take all their medicine, cleaning supplies and clothes back to another compound or incorporate there house into the compound.

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Take care of that house, when the government comes by with extra gasoline pump the water out of the basement to keep the rafters from molding.  When the power comes back on paint the walls a neutral color to bless and honor the people who live and died there and for the donation of their house / belongings to the compound.

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For senior citizens who fear the death patrol will be taking advantage of them now is the time to exercise / eat healthy and take an inventory of the skills you have to offer to the compound.  They should have the same supplies as young preppers and be ready to trade there supplies for hot food and fire wood

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Cruise of men can burn the trash with Coals from the wood cooking fire. In extreme case they can they can hunt rats, squirrels, rabbits and possums to process the meat to eat.

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In a river town they can push a light truck to the river, load up buckets of water and deliver them to the compounds for a trade.

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Living in an isolated area from fear of what other people will do isolates you from FEMA and other relief organizations.

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                               Prepper Issue 36.                             

              Convincing your Spouse that Prepping                                                     is a good idea.

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A very popular question in the prepper community is how do I get my spouse on board with prepping.  

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Read this section below on marriage and the four directions. You need a good foundation of communication and conflict resolution skills in your marriage to talk about these issues.  

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Most marriages are divided into two categories the nerd and the free spirit.  Know which one you are and identify your spouses strengths and your weaknesses and how you can work on this project together.

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Do not being an evangelist on these issues.  Understand that you have been thinking about this for years and your wife is resisting this new idea / hobby of yours. You have done lots of research and she has not move forward on this. You are 10 steps ahead. 

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Accept in your mind and heart that if the event dose not happen your wife may never fully understand what you were preparing for until you are both in heaven where she will give you a big hug and say. "Now I understand how dangerous of a situation we were in and thank you for keeping me and the children safe."
 

When the event dose happens she will not be in shock and will say to herself  "OK my husband was right.  Now what is our plan ?  She will jump into action because she knows what you would do and she see the tools and supplies that you have ready. 

Prepping is not just about the power grid failure, pandemic or natural disaster it is also about preparing for a job loss, becoming injured with lots of medical bills and paying off debts.

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Prepping will pull people and hopefully marriages away from the lifestyle of living paycheck to paycheck.

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Listen to and then ask / trade with your spouse to listen to the podcast below.  These guys are good calm teachers and the message will flow more smoothly into their ears than from you the anxious spouse. 

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Ladies listen to this podcast and then ask you husband to listen.

In the Rabbit Hole Podcast episode 190 from 23:39 to 3:54.

Guys listen to this podcast and then ask / trade with your wife to listen

The Survival Podcast episode 69.

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                          Prepper Issue 37.                                 

             Prepping in Marriage and Divorcee

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The journey for a new private prepper couple through the four stages of prepper denial takes about three years. Our couple starts out with one spouse frozen in fear of how to survive this and other one is laughing and saying “This will never happen.”  At the end of the journey we see a open prepper couple ready to support the compound at the church and or have a compound at there own house.

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A week after the event happens very unpleasant jobs will have to be completed and tough decisions are going to have to be made. 

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Dead bodies are going to have to be cleaned up and buried. Orphans children and special needs children are going to have to be taken in and cared for.

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 Looters will have to be scared off, bad guys will have to be shot.  You may have to shoot your neighbor from down the street who is charging your house with a knife because he has run out of his schizophrenia medication and is delusional. 

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The best type of household to protect the children from the looters and the bad guys for a few months until help arrives is one that has a two parent married couple.  Men and Women bring different, energy, skills and personality to prepping.

In gay couples children pick up on which parent is the kill it and drag it home parent versus a homemaker parent and they need both. 

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Please set aside your differences and put the children's safety first. 

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Have maturity in your relationships with a children first attitude.  Be nice to your spouse and work things out until the children are 18 and out and then get divorced unless there is abuse, addiction or constant adultery.  If you are already divorced you will have to have preparations at your house and at your spouse’s house.   Be ready to have either house be the bug out location.

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To be a mature spouse and prepper is to delay pleasure and set a goal of having a healthy mind body, spirit and bank account.  

This Maturity flows from a foundation of a happy relationship in the home where you eat, sleep and raise your children.  This key to this is stepping into your Unemotional King / Queen and stepping away from and corralling the emotions of mad, sad, glad, fear and the shame of embarrassment and the shame that you are a bad person  Bring your drill sergeant and speech writer into focus along with your emotions to make sure that you are in charge not them.

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Set a goal to have Peace and Joy in your life by taking a risk to look at the things that make you angry and sad.  A happy, healthy, open mined life makes your work and prepping life much easier.

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Here is an exercise to resolve issues between spouses.
 
When the children are asleep or out of the house sit across from each other at the kitchen table and turn off your cell phones.  In your own mind renew your commitment to the marriage and to resolve the issue by putting your unemotional King / Queen in charge of resisting the desire to win the argument, to retreat or retaliate when you feel you are losing the argument. 

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Choose a flexible object to be the talking stick and the person with the talking stick is the only one that can speak.  The other person can only feedback what is said.  

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Start with stating one of the five emotion that you are feeling right now.  State the data in one sentence. State your judgment.  Do the mirror piece where you can see where and when you have done the exact same thing that you are judging that your spouse has done. This illuminates the retaliation play.   Lastly state what you want.

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While still holding the talking stick ask your spouse to repeat back everything you have said. Following the model of emotion, data, judgment, mirror piece and what you want.   If they miss something then you stop them and say try again.   Once you feel like you have been respectfully heard by them repeating it back to you then give them the talking stick and repeat the process. 

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Here is an example of how this can run.  The wife says "The emotion is fear.  The data is you are speaking to people in the neighborhood about our utility grid down preparations.   My judgment is you are putting us at risk for when the event happens.  I agree with the idea of a compound after the event happens but why would we tell anybody about it before hand ?  The mirror piece is that I allowed a contractor into our house on the recommendation from a friend of a friend and then he turned out to crazy and we had to move our outside hidden key.  

What I want is safety for us and the kids when the event happens."   

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When the husband gets the talking stick he has to corral his emotions and not take anything of this personally.  This is your spouses truth.

Following the model of emotion, data, judgment, mirror piece and what you want.  The husband says.

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"My emotion is fear that my ideas of protecting the kids are different from yours.  The emotion underneath that fear is sadness that I can not connect / network with other preppers now.  The data is I believe networking / trading services with people who are knowledgeable about, guns, operational security, medical and cooking is that we know ahead of time who the experts are and what their personality is.

 My judgment is that your are processing my ideas form a place of fear and not giving my ideas a detailed hearing.  I own that I did the same thing when you planned an out of town overnight weekend activity for the family that I looked forward to and enjoyed after I had time to look at there website.

What I want is to have a slow step-by-step conversation about prepping and I have set a goal to be on the same page with you on these issues. 

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The success of this exercise above only works when you let go of the idea of changing the other persons personality.   People are who they are and they do not change.  They can change there behavior if they are motivated to do so.  A good example of this is a crabby guy is going to be nice when he is stopped by the police for speeding.  He has a 50% chance of not getting a speeding ticket if he is nice.  He will get a ticket if he is his regular crabby self.

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A lot of times in couples therapy you have one spouse that wants to go to therapy, do the therapy homework and read the self help books.

The other spouse has no interest in therapy / changing there behavior.

This shows up by them criticizing the therapist and dismissing the ideas.  In this situation if you have children do the therapy which gives you the tools to be nice and you also set boundaries against there bad behavior.  

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Make a commitment not to fight or debate stuff when you are angry and back each other up when it comes to issues and rules with the children.

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Remind your spouse that you have come more than half way with conflict resolution and that you will not have wild emotional conversations with them.

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To end on a happy note there is always trading. If you want to buy a new Prepper gadget and your spouse who is not into prepping gives you that look.  You could ask her about a trade.  She may want you to fix, paint, re-organize or buy something in exchange for the blessing of the purchase of the Item. 

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My favorite type of trade is that your wife wants you to go to her cousin Gertrude's wedding that is three hours away on a Saturday. She wants you to go there happy and not be your normal dragie self. 

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The trade is a family weekend trip to a Prepper expo. show.  You go to the show during the day while she watches the kids by the pool at the hotel and then she goes shopping at night.

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