We are semi-fortunate as there is only my husband, the dog and me in the house. I feel for everyone who has whole families to care for and feed.
We have bought so much stuff from Sam’s Club in the past weeks we proably have paid their electric bill.
"We have bought so much stuff from Sam’s Club in the past weeks we proably have paid their electric bill."
Me and four dogs. Ditto on the electric bill...My neighbor picked up their (Sam's) mtg payment, LOL.
Do you own your home or have land that you own? Foreclosures, insolvent business, etc. and unemployment will continue to grow. It will move to municipalities who will increases costs and/or cut services. Can you hold onto your home if you do not own it? Will it make sense to hold on to it if your balance sheet looks like the banks and business. In other words. Banks make decisions based on what is good for them and their stockholders, business makes decisions based on what is good for the business (and lays off people if need be), do private citizens make decisions in the same manner when they find themselves upside down in mortgages they will never recover the lost equity in? There are good people paying their bills that will fall if the worst is to come.
The best way to survive is to have land in an rural area, know all your neighbors, and above all have enough hands to man a defense 24/7. You’d do well to invite some friends or close relatives over to stay with you in things get hairy.
After a while you and your husband will get tired and fall asleep. At least with a big family you can set a watch, and the older kids could learn how to handle firearms and use them if necessary.