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PREPPING
Want to Survive Shortages? Learn from the Poor
This could be far worse than Covid
You’re about to experience what poor people already know: what it’s like when you can’t buy the thing you need.
Trump’s tariff tantrum is about to empty store shelves. The slow pace of cargo ships coming from China is such that even if he called off tariffs tomorrow, we’d still have a shortage of imported goods for several weeks.
It’ll be March 2020 all over again, except with everything, not just groceries.
The poor are experts at this
I’ve spent years stretching dollars and making do. I can tell you how to deal when the thing you need is simply not obtainable. I am used to solving this issue because I’ve had so many times in my life when I lacked sufficient funds to just go buy whatever it was my family needed.
If you are quite wealthy, none of this is a concern to you. You will find ways to pay for whatever you want. That is the way of the world.
But if you are not wealthy but also not poor, you may have no experience in dealing with this, so read on.
