NOTE: I thought this might help some people with families survive these times we are in right now! It could help literally anyone survive these economically and militarily perilous times we are in right now! end note.
However, there wasn't a war then that the U.S. was involved in except the Iraq Iran War that the U.S. helped Finance against Iran by Proxy which lasted from 1980 to 1988. Neither side prevailed because the U.S. CIA didn't want either side to win just to knock them both down as far as possible which they did. Saddam Hussein in Iraq used Mustard Gas and Sarin Gas and other chemical weapons against Iranian troops then also which is something to think about now for example with what is going on for all of us.
However, I was just remarried and we wanted to remove ourselves as much as possible from cities and civilization. I think today we might have been called "Preppers" but then we were just called "Survivalists". But, I wasn't into guns because that wasn't my thing really like some people were then. I was into Food Survival and owning land and being able to feed my family. So, the most extreme thing I did was to buy Non-perishable food and put it in a 50 Gallon Drum, seal it and bury it underground on my 2 1/2 acres of remote land on the side of Mt. Shasta with a spring of water on the land.
Why did I do this?
BEcause at the time I believed that the U.S. was going bankrupt from the Viet Nam War. What I didn't understand then was that because we had financially helped so many nations after World War II we had made good friends from financially saving all their asses from starvation and worse. So, what happened was instead of the U.S. going bankrupt then around 1980 other friendly nations lent money to the U.S. so it wouldn't go bankrupt.
However, at the time I didn't understand all this and simply wanted to protect my family from starvation if the country went bankrupt.
Would I bury non-perishable food in 50 gallon drums on my land now? Probably not.
But, if I was young and not as financially well of as I am now I likely would now also.
We went to a food co-op and got food by (Group buying) organic non- perishable foods and relatively low prices like Organic brown rice, Organic Pasta of various kinds, 25 pounds of peanut butter, 25 pounds of Maple Syrup and canned goods to survive whatever came because it was my then wife and her two children from her first marriage and my son from my first marriage who were then 5 to 9 years of age.
So, when we bought this remote land we built and A-Frame because at 4000 feet and remote we could then get 7 feet of snow at a time during the winters. Of course this has all changed now mostly.
However, it is also true that a couple of years ago one neighbor who still had land out there a few years ago had 12 feet of snow that stayed on his land until April or May so he couldn't even see out his first floor windows until June or July of that year.
So, there are still fluke years where you might get 12 feet of snow at 4000 feet elevation on land if you own land their on the side of Mt. Shasta.
But, the main advantage of buying land and building an A-Frame was that it saved us then from 1980 to 1985 about 60,000 dollars in Rent and this allowed us to save enough money to go to India, Nepal, Thailand and Japan from December of 1985 until April of 1986. by then the kids were 10 to 14 years of age when we all went to Asia from December to April.
So, saving money on food and living expenses can allow you to live the life you want to so you aren't so enslaved by things like a Mortgage which is really like a ball and chain until you are pretty wealthy.
By God's Grace
Oh by the way I just realized we also bought ORGANIC powdered Milk from the Co-op too which is also another non-perishable that doesn't need refrigeration. Also, at that time there was no power at our land just water and so we bought an antique Wood Cook Stove so we could bake cakes and cookies and casseroles and anything else that needed baking. Also, in the winter it helped heat the A-Frame which we also heated with a Cast Iron Stove that my father welded up from a Water pressure tank that we used building my father's house in the desert before he got county water piped into his Section of land near Yucca Valley on the high Desert of California. We used to have in Yucca Valley 2 1/2 acres of land my father owned and then we had a 1200 Gallon water tank and we would buy water from a tanker truck until water was available to be piped in locally from the water company. Many people did this then and so there was a water truck company that brought us potable water and my father put the 1200 gallon water tank above his Tool shed that he reinforced to carry the weight of that much water. So, even before we had the water pressure tank system we had gravity feed water from the height of the 1200 gallon water tank above the ground on top of his reinforced tool shed into his 1946 Spartan Aluminum Trailer as we built his retirement home from 1968 to 1980 on weekends. My mother and father retired there in 1980 when my father turned 65.
So, I had been building houses with my father including Electrical Contracting since I was about 10 or 12 years old. So, by the time I was 17 I pretty much knew how to build a house from scratch including electrical and most plumbing and framing and pouring Cement for a Slab foundation. Then in 1980 my father helped me build (along with many of my friends) our A-Frame on the side of Mt. Shasta which was very helpful to me and my wife and children at the time since he had retired so he had the time to do this then.
By God's Grace
No comments:
Post a Comment