I have exactly six four three packages of the Steel Lips 10/22 mags left. Still have plenty of the Hot Lips, but if you’re after the supermegawesome deal on the Steel Lips, there are six four three sets of 10 left.
Thought for the day
Article – The Gun Guru of YouTube
And, interstingly, it isn’t Ian.
Nothing terribly noteworthy, in my opinion, here except that it’s not the usual my-side-or-their-side article about guns and people.
Craigslist shelving
Looking through Craigslist for a particular item is like shopping for hookers… there’s a lot of scary, weird, scuzzy choices but once in a while you find Julia Roberts.
As I mentioned a ways back, CostCo has replaced the wire shelving I normally buy with, what is to me, an inferior replacement. Specifically, my main criticism is the lack of reinforcing rib running the along the center length of the shelf. The shelves I have can get loaded down with some heavy goods pretty quickly…I don’t want substandard shelving.
So, I trotted over to Craigslist and found someone selling four of the shelves (not a complete unit, just the shelves) for twenty bucks. And they had the reinforcing rib. And they were willing to deliver! (I had them drop it at a neighbors place a few doors down from me…y’know…PerSec). Score!
So for $20 I got enough shelves to allow me to use the S-hooks and a couple leftover uprights to add another column to my existing run of shelving. Go me!
Moral of the story: sometimes you can find exactly what you’re looking for on Craigslist.
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And, just for the sake of consistency, I shall continue to flog the 10/22 mag deal until someone cleans me out on these things.
Magapalooza reminder
Still a few of the 10/22 mag bundles on hand. If you already bought some, you know what a smokin’ deal you got. If you haven’t bought any yet…well…all the cool kids are doing it. And they make awesome backpack-stuffers for the upcoming Paratus holiday.
Speaking of Paratus, I better start thiking about what to hand out this year……….
Get poor quick schemes
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I had an idea for a mobile oil change service that would serve self-proclaimed Patriots, Three Percenters, and Sheepdogs. I’d call it “Molon Lube” and the slogan would be “Come and change it!”
Paratus approaches!
Paratus, the holiday of preparedness, approaches! It falls on September 21st this year. Everything you want to know about the Paratus holiday can be found here.
You know that there is a gift-giving component to Paratus, right? (In fact, it was created specifically to provide an excuse for gift giving.) And what better gift than Ruger 10/22 mags at wow-those-are-cheap prices.
By the case? Buy the case….Pt IV
About 18 months ago my local Albertsons had a good sale on pasta and I took advantage of it like Bill Clinton takes advantage of interns. Well, that sale came back and I decided i could use a few(!) cases of rigatoni.
Shopping carts are for amateurs. When the Zero stocks up, he goes deep.
Savings? Well, according to my receipt, what normally would have cost 238.80 came out to sixty bucks. (Got careless, forgot to ask for the 10% case discount.)
The apocalypse will be a fairly carbohydrate-heavy experience what with all the rice and pasta in storage, it seems.
In actuality, this is mostly my desire to have a large amount of day-to-day use items on hand in case some sort of financial donkey punch occurs. When you show up at work one day and your boss says “We’re being bought out by another company. This office will close in three weeks. Good luck.”, you really want to have some of the expensive niggling details (like food) locked down. Also, I just feel calmer and more at peace when I look at the shelves and see boxes and cans of food, racks of toiletries, paper towels, soap, detergent, and all the other consumables that keep my quality of life above that of some Third Worlder.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to stockpile the cash instead of the food if I am worried about such things? Well, yes…except for that part about the fabulous sale. Lets put it this way: You have $60 cash in hand..save it or buy food? If you’re worried about a job loss, for example, and you’ve tied that $60 in food, then you only have that one thing (food) covered. But if you keep the $60 in cash, you can use it to buy food..or fuel..or electricity. So does that mean it makes more sense to stick that $60 in the bank? Nope.. heres why: I didn’t buy $60 worth of food. I bought $240 worth of food and paid $60. Or, put another way, if I stuck that $60 in the bank, when I used it in the future I’d get only $60 worth of food. In this particular case, my purchase power today was 4x what my purchase power would be with that same $60 later. (Disregarding inflation, which would actually make todays purchase more than 4x the purchasing power.) The more clinically minded of you will say “Wait, we’re drifting into Time Value Of Money country..” Yes. Yes we kinda are.)
This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t put money away as part of your preps…it just means that you need to think about things past the obvious. Maybe you already do that..I didn’t used to. Preparedness is really about resource management in regards to risk reduction – we try to get the most for our money when we take steps to protect ourselves from future problems.
Regardless, I’m pleased with todays purchase. It’s more food on the shelf and one less thing I have to worry about acquiring when/if I hit an economic rough patch.
Article – Can a Harbor Freight Generator Really Beat a Honda?
Mmmmm…mags…mmmm
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Maybe it is. Maybe it isn’t. But for mission-critical gear I’ll spend a few extra bucks and have confidence (and perhaps better customer support) in my purchase.
Any generator is probably better than no generator, but I would choose the Honda. However, if all you can afford is a HiPoint Harbor Freight………
In None We Trust
Well, it’s a sentiment I can certainly understand, but it’s not terribly practical in the real world. True, more often than not someone you put some trust in will wind up proving to be unworthy of that trust….at that point your only recourse is damage control of the highest order.
But trust, like virtue, has degrees. For example, Tony at the corner pizza place trusts you enough to let you slide when you order a couple slices and discover you forgot your wallet. Rather than demand you leave your watch or cellphone with him as collateral, he trusts you to bring him a few bucks the next time you’re in there. But Tony ain’t gonna trust some mook like you with, say, the weeks cash receipts getting deposited at the bank. Tony has a scale of trust and you, paisan, are at the bottom.
So, trust has degrees…. it’s easy to trust virtually anybody when the stakes are so low as to be immaterial. It’s when the stakes get higher that we start getting mighty picky about who we trust and how far.
As survivalists, we have a few things going on in our lives that we’d rather the world at large not know about. But, at the same time, we can’t go 100% solo or we’re going to have some really bad moments.
It’s depressing, but true… you’re on this planet for a finite amount of time, with a finite amount of resources, and you simply don’t have room in your life for people who are, passively or actively, damaging (or at least not contributing) to your life.
If you haven’t already done it, you may want to think about people you know and evaluate their position in the hierarchy of trust. And, naturally, you may also want to think about contingency plans for when Cousin Bill or Friend Steve violates that trust (or becomes a non-asset to your life).
