Submitted as a comment by Snakepit Kansas.
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Have six months of food and water on the shelf. Maybe more. 50lb bag of Thai rice from Sam’s is not that expensive. Neither are pinto beans, cans of tuna, tubs of peanut butter and macaroni/cheese. Plenty of ammo. If things go to shit, ammo will be the new currency. The most common currency will be .22long, 9mm, .223 and 12gauge. You already have gobs of ammo? You do not have enough ammo.

Pay off your mortgage now. Get a second job at a liquor store of something and make extra payments. Do the math and figure out how quick you can pay it off. Quit paying the bank and pay yourself. I took a picture of myself some years ago as I dropped the last mortgage payment in the mailbox. Smiling so hard my ears hurt. I do not work at the liquor store any more either.

I am still heavily invested in the stock market. It goes up and it goes down. The trend over time is that it goes up. How much money did I lose last week? None. Why? Because I did not sell. You only lose if you sell low. Do not sell low. If there is a huge dip then that is time to buy. All kinds of folks panic and sell low and that is how some smart wallstreeters make their money, on other folks fear.

God is in charge and we do not get out of this alive. Some day my wife and I will pass. Maybe someone will think we were odd for having so much peanut butter and 9mm shells. What anyone thinks at that point, will matter no more.

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