James Henry - Badass Preppers Handbook

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CHAPTER 1

THE FIRST STEP IN PREPPING IS THE MOST IMPORTANT

The single most important step to prepping is to simply start doing it. This may seem easier said than done if you are on a tight budget, but its the truth. The most important and difficult thing for people to do is to just get started doing something.

Many people tend to feel so overwhelmed with the huge list of things that should be done to prepare for a doomsday event that they never actually take any steps to get started. Looking at prepping like this is backwards thinking. Its extremely important that you break prepping down to its individual components and tackle them one by one. Remember that old saying that says the way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time? This is especially true when it comes to prepping.

Even the preppers with the most impressive stockpiles and plans started somewhere. Do you know where they started? They all started at the beginning, just like you will. Its true that some people have more money and resources than others, but everyone started somewhere.

There are plenty of wealthy individuals who havent spent a single cent prepping despite the fact that they have unlimited resources. Likewise, there are plenty of people who barely get by from month-to-month who have a rather impressive stockpile of supplies and well-thought-out and designed emergency preparedness plans.

As you are reading through this book, try to keep things in perspective. You may end up choosing to adopt some of the advice that is given in this book and ignore other parts of it altogether. Remember that prepping is a process and its one that most preppers never actually complete. Were constantly prepping and doing the things that we think will help us survive doomsday.

The bottom line is that doing something to prepare is much better than doing nothing at all. Some of you will choose to only do a few things that are outlined in this book. Others will go to the extreme end of the spectrum and do much more. The important thing is that you do somethingand the goal of this book is to help you do just that!

CHAPTER 2

GETTING YOUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING

One thing that all good preppers have in common is that they have their priorities straight. They have all come to a point in their lives that has enabled them to make a real commitment to prepping. Its one thing to say that you would like to start prepping, but its something entirely different to actually make a serious commitment to start and stick with it.

If you really want to be a prepper, you need to make a commitment to prepping. If youre on a budget, this will likely mean that youll have to make some personal sacrifices. Youll need to take a close look at how you spend your money and find ways to free up money to buy prepping supplies.

Now, before you say that theres just no money in your budget to start prepping, you really should challenge yourself to take a good, close look at your budget and do an honest evaluation. You may need to be brutally honest with yourself and ask some tough questions.

For example, if you think that its impossible to start your day without stopping by your favorite coffee shop for a grande low-fat latte with a double shot of espresso, youre probably not being honest with yourself.

These are the types of things that people can cut out of their budget to free up money that can be spent on prepping. Lets take a closer look at this example. If you spend $3 a day for your gourmet coffee, thats $1,080 that youre spending each year just to feed your morning coffee habit. This doesnt even include how much you spend in gas to make a special trip to the coffee shop every day!

Drinking gourmet coffee may not be your particular vice, but if you take a good look at your budget, youll probably find something that can be eliminatedor at the very least, cut back on. Maybe youll have to cancel your $100/month satellite TV subscription. That would free up $1,200 a year that you could spend on prepping supplies. Maybe you can trade in your huge four-wheel drive Suburban for a gas-saving economy car. You could then use the money that you save on gas for prepping.

The point is that most people arent really being honest with themselves when they say that there just isnt any room in the budget to start prepping. In most cases, with a little creative thinking, you can find some money to allocate to the prepping portion of your budget. It often really just depends on how badly you actually want to start prepping.

CHAPTER 3

HAVING GOOD PLANS IN PLACE WILL PAVE THE WAY TO SUCCESS

Soon well get into the meat and potatoes of this book and share some great prepping tips, but before we do that, lets talk about the importance of having good prepping plans in place.

Its very easy to get overwhelmed with everything that need to be done to successfully prepare for doomsday. Being overwhelmed will either lead to frantic unorganized prepping or doing nothing at all to prepare. Neither of these are good paths to take.

The best advice for now is to read through this book entirely. This will help you become familiar with the tasks that need to be done to prepare for doomsday. Then, take an afternoon to sit down and write a list of all the things you would like to do to prepare for doomsday. Write this list as if you had the money to go out and buy everything today. This will help make sure that youre not leaving items out because youre worried about how much everything will cost.

Once you have this list made out, its time to break the list down into things that you can do right away. There will be plenty that you can do to prepare that wont cost much, if any, money at all. The simple fact that you are doing something to prepare will motivate you and inspire you to continue prepping. Thats why its so important to get started doing the little inexpensive things right away.