Well, my bank called me last night and asked about some ‘suspicious activity’ and did I really authorize a $4500 transaction? Checked my balances this morning and , sure enough, $4500 is marked as having gone to Oregeon Freeze Dried (aka MH). So….MH is paid in full and they said it should ship Monday whcih means Im gonna say the stuff should be at the shop by the end of next week. It appears we are quite on track and things are going as planned.
Further updates as warranted.
This raises a bigger issue I’ve been mulling over.
Why do so many people think that preparing is bad. The word “hoarding” has negative implications that trouble me.
I just heard someone say that they think we’re going to have a really rough time of it but they aren’t going to start stockpiling goods, and I wondered why they thought stock-piling was a bad activity that they should continue to resist doing.
In other words, I’m wondering why people think it’s suspicious activity what we’re doing.
It’s called “envy.”
It’s magical thinking, the inverse of “The Secret”. Whatever you think will come to you. If you think about bad things, bad things will happen to you.
I have trouble grokking this concept, but I believe you’re on to something. My MIL said something along those lines when I was setting up her emergency supplies for their first ever Hurricane Season in Florida. She thought that my preparations were going to bring on a Hurricane. (I went out and bought a kind of canned soup that isn’t their favorite “so you won’t eat it unless you have to” and some cases of water and filled their propane tank for their grill and set up flashlights and emergency lighting and programmed their telephone #s for them.) I don’t understand it, but it made her unhappy that I did this.
No, not envy. It’s smugger than that. I think they’re looking down on me for being greedy. If bad times come I should just starve like the rest of them, and the fact that I don’t intend to makes me evil in some way. My feeling is that the more food I’ve got on hand, the less I’m competing in hard times for whatever is available then, so the more there is to go around.
There’s some confusion on what hoarding means. I think it’s bad if you grab more than your fair share of a scarce resource DURING the emergency. But if you choose to spend the fruits of your labor on #10 cans instead of going on a cruise, well, I don’t think this does anything except possibly help relieve overall famine if it comes.