How are you going to prepare for the Depression?

[Xenotime]

Do you have a checklist?

Do you have a timeframe if it lasts 5 years? 10 years?

Will you flee and go somewhere else?

Do you buy gold and keep it at your house?

How do you store food?

What do you do for security or if there is a panic outbreak?

Do you have a generator?

Are you learning a skill for fear you might lose your job?

[Earth_First]

1. We will prepare quietly...

Gathering our neighbors in friendship as a means to provide for our community as a whole.

Times will be tough, and only through community will we make it through this calmly and collectively.

[Mike03]

2. The most intelligent strategy, in my humble opinion, would be:

1. To have prepared at least three years ago.
2. To have told no one (but prepared for your friends, loved ones and family anyway)
3. To try to deal imaginatively and or spiritually with boredom.

[Why Syzygy]

3. Isn't the fed supposed to ensure we never have another depression?

Runaway inflation is permitted.

I, too, will count on community. Or I might strike out on my own. There are many variables.
I have assessed my skills. They should be okay for barter, etc.

[chknltl]

4. I hear San Fransisco has hungry folks hunting in it's parks.

My freeper stepkid told me this today. He did not say what they were hunting nor why but all I could think of was that hungry folks will do anything... Possibly another sign of the next Great Depression.

[Lars39]

8. My dad was born in '26.

He talked of the deer and squirrels being hunted down to almost nothing. Took years for there to be enough to hunt again.

[Historic NY]

5. I'm finishing off my 1950's bomb shelter.

[angrycarpenter]

6. No preparations

Can really prepare for such a thing. Learning to be less spoiled more tough is about the only thing that will help someone. Could you walk for a week on short rations? Could you kill and skin a stray wiener dog for food? Could you shoot someone because they were trying to steal your last can of beans? Survival is a skill that many simply do not have and could not learn.

[FirstLight]

7. I wish I had started 7 years ago...

this year, we are growing food rather than flowers...goignt o start seds inside this week, and get a plan for the composting system.

I am telling my parents quietly to think about getting their funds in order, maybe even buying that land they have thought about for our family to Homestead...
meanwhile, I have church and friends who are ready to pull together in our neck of the woods.

I have small kids, and worry about our safety. My teen thinks he will be able to do some of the "warrior" tasks...he is a great fisherman. But we don't even want to THINK about safety from people, just the bears...

-if it lasts over a year, I will have to migrate to a lower elevation, snow and no power don't mix well.

I wish I had a solar generator
I worry about fallout or other variables we can't control...disease, wild animals, crazy govt after us all, you know, worst case scenario stuff...

The worst part is that I definately see the other shoe dropping: war, food shortages, oceans rising - it is going to be bigger than a mere "depression" that's for sure!