[Cellcounter10]

As the title says, how would you spend 1500.00 on preps? Since inflation is eating it up, would you buy gold or silver? Water filters? Freeze dried food? Ammo?
Let's hear how you would spend it and why. Get creative!

 

[Real Old Man]

Henry McKenna bourbon whiskey

 

[MrLemonade]

Are you starting with anything, nothing, good location, bad location. It's too broad of a question. People make this far far too complicated. Start with the famous Maslow hierarchy of needs and prioritize.

Going in order of priority:

1. Location. This is safe shelter and defendable shelter and community. This will impact your survival more than most things, probably everything. A person living in normal part of LA will likely not survive as long as someone living in normal parts of Kansas. Too many people, too much density, too much crime, too few rights of self defense in LA and if SHTF you're dead. A secure home should be something hardened and defendable in a safe community. A million dollar home should be a reasonable goal.

2. Water and food. Have several months on hand. I assume most smart people do this, but if not it's as important as safe shelter and community. Food and water supplies should have redundancies, including wells, water storage, livestock, food production and processing, etc.

3. A firearm, ammo, and training. Can be basic or advance. Defense, safety needs. Multiple firearms, tens of thousands of rounds of ammo, and significant training is the goal.

4. Medical supplies and training. A stocked infirmary with medical texts, videos, aid kits, medicines and surgical supplies and ample training is a reasonable goal.

5. Power production, tools, vehicles, parts, mechanical and electrical supplies and parts, and so forth to maintain a comfortable and safe power source, transportation, and safety/convenience of electricity, heat, lights, refrigeration, transport, etc. with fuel tanks, oils, and so forth.

These would and should consume huge amounts of resources and I think a person's first $500,000 to $2 million maybe $5 million in preps should be in these categories.

Don't waste your time on PMs until you have millions of dollars into these 5 categories or other well thought out categories. People who don't have all of the above first, investing in PMs, are living in a fantasy of trading PMs for things of value. Not going to happen.

 

[Chipper]

Fill up my diesel storage tank. Maybe couple cans of Spam and a bottle or two of Fireball.

Guess that's all I can do with that little money. Thanks to ole Uncle Sniffy and those stupid dumbocrat voters.

 

[Cellcounter10]

Are you starting with anything, nothing, good location, bad location. It's too broad of a question. People make this far far too complicated. Start with the famous Maslow hierarchy of needs and prioritize.

Going in order of priority:

1. Location. This is safe shelter and defendable shelter and community. This will impact your survival more than most things, probably everything. A person living in normal part of LA will likely not survive as long as someone living in normal parts of Kansas. Too many people, too much density, too much crime, too few rights of self defense in LA and if SHTF you're dead. A secure home should be something hardened and defendable in a safe community. A million dollar home should be a reasonable goal.

2. Water and food. Have several months on hand. I assume most smart people do this, but if not it's as important as safe shelter and community. Food and water supplies should have redundancies, including wells, water storage, livestock, food production and processing, etc.

3. A firearm, ammo, and training. Can be basic or advance. Defense, safety needs. Multiple firearms, tens of thousands of rounds of ammo, and significant training is the goal.

4. Medical supplies and training. A stocked infirmary with medical texts, videos, aid kits, medicines and surgical supplies and ample training is a reasonable goal.

5. Power production, tools, vehicles, parts, mechanical and electrical supplies and parts, and so forth to maintain a comfortable and safe power source, transportation, and safety/convenience of electricity, heat, lights, refrigeration, transport, etc. with fuel tanks, oils, and so forth.

These would and should consume huge amounts of resources and I think a person's first $500,000 to $2 million maybe $5 million in preps should be in these categories.

Don't waste your time on PMs until you have millions of dollars into these 5 categories or other well thought out categories. People who don't have all of the above first, investing in PMs, are living in a fantasy of trading PMs for things of value. Not going to happen.

I've been prepping for 20 years and have my house in order. I was just throwing that out there. I've heard people say that is never too late to prep, but I don't necessarily agree. The time for stocking essentials is drawing to a close. A focus on prepper learning and knowledge is the first place to start.

 

[jimLE]

I'd get work done to the car that needs doing

 

[Kauboy]

$1,500 to throw at anything I might need...
1. Water containers and multiple purification options.
2. Non-perishable food items.
3. Hygiene/sanitation and comfort products.
4. Fuel for heat and cooking.

Even in this economy, a frugal person can take care of the first three well within a $1,500 limit and be set for a few months.
The last would be a luxury unless you're in a region where fuel is necessary for surviving harsh cold.
This is the order I'd recommend for anyone just getting started.

For anyone well established, looking to fill holes...
1. Ammunition for the gun you already have. (you do have one, right?)
2. Medical equipment ranging from boo-boo kits to trauma packs, and extra medicines.
3. Barter items such as cigarettes, alcohol, and sanitation and hygiene products.
4. Assuming all of the above is covered and you can't think of anything else... precious metals you can bury safely and dig up later when things settle down.

 

[newtopreppin]

I would like to buy about a 10,000 watt dual fuel or tri fuel generator and a transfer switch for the house. That would be priced in that range.

 

[CapitalKane49p]

"An official Red Ryder, carbine action, 200-shot, range model air rifle, with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time."

Godspeed

 

[One Shot]

"An official Red Ryder, carbine action, 200-shot, range model air rifle, with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time."

Godspeed

I don't have my old Red Ryder handy, but I still have my Daisy Trail Boss.

 

[One Shot]

To the OP of $1500, we have a 250 gal propane tank and I'd like to add another so that would be about $790 for propane and if I leased the tank it's around $70 a year. A few rolls of mig wire 5 for $100 and a Leupold VX-3HD rifle scope to have for a backup $499. that should take care of the $1500.

 

[CapitalKane49p]

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I don't have my old Red Ryder handy, but I still have my Daisy Trail Boss.

Just make sure when things get hot that you don't shoot your eye out.

Godspeed.

 

[Maine-Marine]

if I was starting from nothing

Water filters and other water storage stuff
rice, beans, powdered milk, oatmeal, wheat, sugar, salt, pepper, oil/lard spices, canned meats, canned fruit
ruger 10/22 and a bunch of 22 ammo, beretta neos 22 pistol
I have a house so shelter is good
meds, med kits, allergy stuff,

 

[Spenser]

Ok so my kid brother is a blue eyed blond haired guy with eyeglasses. In Short he looked just like that kid from that xmas movie with the Red Rider BB Rifle.

Sure enough, what does his parents buy him for Xmas one year YEP you guessed it that rifle.

So is this $1500 like have to be spent asap like the movie Bruster's Millions with Richard Prior
If so I would get a GSI Aluminum Dutch Oven since I cannot use cast iron ones. I would add a 'portable solar power generator' and a few 100 watt and 3-4 batteries as a backup, and a 16oz propane canister to 20 lb. tank adapter & one that is the reverse

Otherwise I would buy gold.

I think for those of us that are rather prepared in general, it is less about what we may need, but rather what we may desire.

 

[NewRiverGeorge]

Well according to Maslow and his hierarchy and starting from the bottom...

Sex...lots of sex...

 

[AndyFrank]

It was what would you do with $1,500?? Not saying "too complicated" followed by a boring over complicated post showing how professor apocalypse one can be or "with a budget for a kung fu monastery"?
But to the topic:
Drug supplies, plants and seeds. Everybody in our group will stock what is in their realm of experience which is primarily various foods and the first aid stuff they can think of. Everybody expects us to focus on the pharmacy capacity that is trickier. $1,500 is a drop in the bucket, but a good one for a small bulk buy of about anything?

If drugs were full (never will be) I'd look for an anvil if I could get a good one for that? Or some other significant piece of manufacturing.

 

[the_sentinel]

For me personally I would fill any voids in my current preps; which is currently heirloom seeds, water storage, and long term sustainable power.

 

[csi-tech]

I think I'm in pretty good shape overall. Freeze dried food buckets probably.

 

[1themanymens]

I would buy ivermectin, HCQ (if I could get it) NAC, black turmeric, zinc, vitamin c, chlorine dioxide and distilled water to mix it in, zeolite, any natural aspirin I could find, melatonin, fenbendazole, cimetidine, (if I could get it) cbd oil and white pine needles to have on hand for those who may soon regret having the jab.

 

[MGNick]

I would buy ivermectin, HCQ (if I could get it)

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