Prepping « Robin Writes

Okay, perhaps I’m jumping the gun a bit here, but in the next couple days it’s supposed to hit 50 degrees, and then—up to 60! CanNOT wait!

My garage is a mess—time to clean up and reorganize my supplies. And get rid of “stuff.”

My inside cabinets need to be checked against my list; I know for sure that I’ve used a few things over the last month or so. Yes, even since my last list!

And the woodlot? Yikes. Still have stuff to chip, not to mention chop.

The gardens are a wreck, but it’s almost time to fertilize and till. At least, whenever this damn snow finally melts which, according to the forecast (bwhahahahaha!) will be in just a few days. Right now, the only things poking out of the ground/snow are those little yellow flags for the water company while they work on the main here on our street.

I guess it’s SOME color . . .

And, too, we’re having to re-do the inside of the house, because we’re moving a lot of stuff back in from the bookstore. Sigh. It’s always something.

But I’m getting excited! It’ll be great to be doing something productive, instead of staring outside and the flippin’ snow. Like everyone else, I’m SO OVER winter!

Hey, SHTF peeps – it’s been a while, huh? Well, I’m a little busy with a lot of this-and-that going on, but I’m back now, and posing a question:

If you believe that a collapse (fill in your preference) is imminent, would you start a business? Would you continue to run your own business – probably yes, considering you know, income and all that? But most importantly, would you try to increase and build that business?

Okay, that was more than one question, but seriously – what I want to know is why, if you believe civilization as we know it could come to an end, you’d continue to strive to reach particular goals.

We opened our bookstore almost two and a half years ago, and now that we’re facing closing up shop in the next few weeks, I’m trying to pull together those two things: why struggle to stay open, if SHTF is coming? I mean, books aren’t going to be a priority right after an apocalypse, although I can safely say that E-books are going to disappear as the grid goes down and “charging a device” becomes obsolete. All those folks who proudly disdained paper books are gonna be really, really sorry!

Now, depending upon how long the immediate crisis lasts, and for many people it will be an ONGOING crisis, just to obtain food, water, and shelter – not to mention medical care, self-care of course – and others will work long, hard hours just to survive, but eventually books will be back in vogue.

And needed. After all, I doubt school will be session, right? The schools we have now, that is. And kids will still need to learn, adults will still need entertainment as well as lifelong learning. And new skills.

So at some point, books will be back, and popular, and necessary.

In the meantime, how do you reconcile what you do now with SHTF? If you work for someone else, obviously it’s a paycheck. Which you can use to prepare for the future. But a business? What’s the point?