We've Entered Into The Greatest Depression Ever Known & There's No Getting Out Of This; Prepare.

The banks aren't exaclty honest are they? :( Link for info on this topic https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-28/capital-one-cuts-card-limits-amid-u-s-impasse-on-jobless-aid I've been reading about this for a bit, rather obscure, and the small banks/card companies, obviously not wanting to alert to a problem Stay safe sir! :)

SilverbladeTE

Hello Chrisna, we do have a discord, but i'm not very active on it which should change when the winter months set in. https://discordapp.com/channels/679761803323899936/679761806713290961

Alaska Prepper

Yes, I called my credit card bank and flat out asked them if they were going to be cutting my limit down because I use my card for everything; they told me that my credit was good enough that they would not be cutting my limit but for some reason I don't have too much faith in their answer..

Alaska Prepper

BANKS ARE STARTING TO CUT CREDIT CARD LIMITS! sorry for caps, this is serious, some small banks had been doing this for over a month, more are starting to and larger ones, this is serious See "Capital One Cuts Borrowing Limits" on "ibtimes com"

SilverbladeTE

We need a forum

I'm really sorry man, that's a really rough deal silverblade.

Cheryl, if I had said anything to offend you, I apologise. That wasn't my intent at all. I'm becoming passionate about erasing this idea that hard times equals misery. I do live in a special place however, and so do you. I recall that you live within a few counties of me and I don't want someone that close to be mad at me! ☺️😉

My intent was to compare today to the great depression. Things available now weren't even invented at that time. I can remember my grandmother telling me about how Sunday was such a special day because they were able to sprinkle a little sugar on their bread. That was a fatherless family of eleven, ( my great grandfather was killed working on the Rural Electrification Program), plus she had adopted two more children after that. Great grandma took in sewing and really any work they could get to make it by. A term they always used when telling us stories was" When we made it through the great depression". There were some mighty rough sacrifices, but they made out through, not moaning and crying and wallowing in misery, but with a sense of accomplishment. They were proud of their stories. They had no advantage of mega stores to acquire preps, no eBay, Amazon. They didn't even know anything bad was coming to prep for. Didn't need solar because only a few places had electric and that was in town. My point is that we have so many things to help us survive, yet there is such an ugly attitude about everything. No hope that we'll ever make it through the hard times that are coming. Surviving sounds worse than dying if you listen to some YouTuber's. You bet AP has done a great job, that's why I'm here

That's excellent Cheyrl. I hope you didn't think I was criticizing AP as being pessimistic. He's just presenting reality. I don't think people's moods lately have anything to do with him. We need the facts, the true information, so we can make the right decisions. But people are human and are going to be emotional sometimes, even Rudy, so that's why I wanted to comment and let him know that we all love and appreciate him. For myself, I just realized that I have to add a little bit of something right now for my current life, and future life as well. But you know, after I decided I can allow myself a mere $30 a month for supplies I went on Amazon to look around and I bought NOTHING, LOL. I will, but I don't feel like being irresponsible and wasting my resources, and prices were too high. We've got to make the best choices we can right now, and use what money we have wisely. I feel better today though, for although the future looks bleak, I am more prepared than most and I feel comfortable now in giving myself permission to try to enjoy life a little more, within reason.

Planning it out ahead is ALWAYS the best policy

I am a farmer plus full time professional nurse. I grow most of my own food plus raise crops. Maybe that's why I can't see a bit of pessimism as being bad. Some people need a bit of prodding, or maybe a LOT of prodding. I am a senior citizen, but there's very little idle time for my hands these days. Probably why my point of view is different than others.

I think there's a reason why!

I have noticed the general population does NOT respond well to flowery, happy news! Just like the way good news doesn't sell newspapers, most people won't respond to anything like what is going on now, unless they hear the bad parts. A hella lotta folks need waking up! AP has woke many of the otherwise complacent people up, and let them see some possible interventions for things like grid down, no grocery stores,etc. Those "tools available to connect like minded people"?? Right now, ask the folks who stayed behind in Louisiana. Didn't evacuate.. NO cell towers are working, all there is is the occasional satellite radio. Not many have those! Food available like never before?? Why are SO many grocery stores shelves empty? They sure are HERE.. You must live in a special place..I sure don't.

yeah, it's literal grief :( I understand, got crippled by ME/CFS after a viral infection ages ago, ruined my life made me bitter and hurt as hell, sigh took ages to come to some terms with it

SilverbladeTE

Interesting points, especially about the busy hands. The work that we do to acquire our preps these days is different than days gone by. For the most part, all we do is plunk down some cash for stuff. Until someone gets to homesteading level, there isn't very much for a person's hands to do to keep busy. More time to worry. Good thoughts😊

I added this comment on YouTube, but I'll add it here too. Opinions welcome. I have 3 lists that I'm working through, checking things off. One is food and grocery, one is needs other than food and grocery, the other is expensive items (read $50 or more per item.) I get paid every 2 weeks, my husband is weekly. On my pay weeks, I try to to take at least $200 worth of items off the expensive list. Every week, I add $30 to my grocery list. This week's expensive item was my Berkey. My $30 allotment for food is going to go to peanut butter and probably dehydrated potato products unless I see a good deal on something else. My other needs purchases are B12 vials for my husband and a solar generator. Keeping my lists itemized and separated like this allows me to quickly look and pick off priorities based on how much available money we have whether I can only swing $50 or $500

Ok, I started to write a comment earlier and it morphed into something so depressing that I deleted it, not wanting to bum out the world! But hours later I see that others are very moody tonight as well. I don't think it has anything to do with your videos AP. I've listened to tons of bad news over the past months and not completely sunk into a hole like tonight. Actually, having preps and having a plan helps enormously. Here's what I think it is. I started lamenting the loss of my life today. People can face hard times, but people have never had to face them in such isolation before. They still had things to do, probably more to do when times were bad. I know now that I have to let myself have something good. Some small amount of the energy, focus, and resources I have put into prepping these last few months have to be allocated to life if possible. It's good that I doubled down on the preparing these last 6 months and I will continue to prepare. I want you to continue to inform us and encourage us AP, and maybe part of preparing is finding a way to do what we love as well. I am an artist, hence the profile picture, and until around 6 months ago I spent most of my days watching YouTube artists and socializing there, creating, posting my work to online galleries and talking to my artist friends, creating jewelry for my friends and others. Now I don't let myself buy supplies and I don't check in with my friends, and I am too overwhelmed to create beautiful things. Perhaps the other people commenting tonight are experiencing the same thing. We really can't socialize. There's nowhere to go. And perhaps we feel it foolhardy to waste time and money on anything but getting necessary supplies. But today I think we should budget just a little for joy and life, regardless of the chaos that rages around us like a howling storm. We'll prep, we'll help each other with our knowledge. We'll reevaluate what we really need and I think we'll get through although it won't be easy. But I know today that I won't get through without work, and meaning, and hope, which I lost for a while today, but I am going to make a conscious effort to reclaim. I think I will allow myself $30 a month for life. It's not that much. And organize my work area again, and start checking in on the things I love. Those of you feeling depressed tonight, see if allocating some time for your life, whatever that entails, will help you feel better.

history rewrites...sort of looks like "Bleeding Kansas" again :(

SilverbladeTE

the rich will get VASLTY richer, by buying up thousands of "tax liens" in the wake of all this folk can't pay taxes, land/property gets seized, you can buy the tax lien for a fraction of the value the elite have enough to tide them over disasters, so each era of chaos, the emerge with MORE it's like the "carpet baggers" after the Civil War...and how the nobles stole all the land in my country though they also used swords etc read up on the "Plantation of Ulster" and what really happened King James rounded folk up, the "Border Reivers" and others, some genuine criminals, many just unlucky dropped them in Ireland to cause havoc there, sold/gave their property to his favourites caused havoc for the Irish Catholics and the Irish-Scots got disenfranchised (those who lived there and those who were exiled) by William of Orange, the king some of the twits lionize nowadays who was a total git. so only English Episcopalians or nobles had full legal rights or got government jobs so, the Scots-Irish left for America and got screwed again out of their land there in various ways, hence the start of some of the "rednecks" Sigh

SilverbladeTE

Oh, to be clear, you aren't always negative, I didn't mean that. But lots more than you used to be. Our other favorite channels have gotten way worse.

Rudy, I wish you'd talk about some good things, not just always negative. For example, never before has there been so much food available to us, even now. Never before has there been so many tools to help us survive (solar, freezers, long term food storage, internet, self defense, etc.). Never before has there been such a long warning before the upcoming trouble. Never before has there been the tools available to connect with like minded people. The same with information available. The fate of people in too much debt has always been the same and no one is owed a job. A hard worker is never out of work long. Rudy, people in the great depression survived with out any of these advantages we have. They had tenacity, resilience and grit. Be a prepper and get all the things and stuff, yes, but you need to share hope. It's gotten to the point that my favorite YouTube/patreon people make me feel miserable to listen to them. Never any hope. I've been an off grid prepper for nearly 35yrs, and it's never been more miserable than now. People starting now have so much available, but cry and moan so much, that I don't know how they'll make it. Survivors in any crisis are the same. Tenacity, resilience, and grit. Give people hope, my friend, tell them something inspiring. Stuff is good, but not enough. Hang in there AP 😊😉