What Basic Preparation Is Most Often Missing ?

This part of survival planning is critical yet seldom made provision for in planning nor utilized in preparation activities.

It is SACRIFICE .

Sacrifice is the key element which will come into play before and during any major disaster.

Each time I hear I do not have the funds or I can't do this or that with regards to survival planning and preparation it means sacrifice is not included in one's survival preparations.

The old cliche " Eat Beans " comes to mind when it comes to sacrificing to survive. How about using that approach to planning and preparations before disaster hits?

No matter how prepared one becomes, sacrifices will remain a part of survival.

Going without needs to be used in preparing as well as in surviving disasters. The practice of giving-up items or pleasures in the short run will bring great dividens in the long run of becoming prepared.

It will amaze many at the amount of money one can garner for the goal of becoming prepared by cutting back or eliminating certain purchases and activities in day to day life.

An endless list can quickly be enumerated. For example :

Eating out.

Entertainment activities

Travel

Alteration and changes to the types of food purchased

Elimination of non-essential purchases

Use of re-usable items

In general living a more austere life.



My intent and purpose here is to stir the reader's thinking about achieving what might seem impossible as this will become a frequent activity employed in survival of disasters of many types.

Be creative, think outside the box when it comes to finding and funding the tools of disaster preparation.