From ModernSurvivalBlog:

Grocery Store Sale Items Cleaned Out

Only because I was driving right by due to another errand, that I decided to stop at one of my usual grocery stores strictly for some sale items. I wanted to share this trip with you to heighten the awareness that inflation is now being recognized by the masses.

I have noticed people taking advantage of sales for a long time now, stores placing ‘limits’ on how many items you can purchase, expiration dates on rain checks when there were none just a few years ago etc. These are just a few examples of our changing times. This grocery store experience will shed some more light.

The first sale item I went in search of was the 40 oz. bottle of Heinz ketchup. The limit was 2 with the coupon. Well, guess what, it was all gone! There was a shelf space of almost 3 feet long completely empty, where the Heinz 40 oz. ketchup used to sit. Oh well, I thought, I’ll get a rain check.

Next item, yup, that same mayonnaise I tried to get in my Grocery Store Rant post. The 30 oz. jar of brand name mayo on sale for $2.99. I pull up to the shelf…..yup, they were almost all gone, only 6 left, so I grabbed them all. The expiration date is not until December of this year. I figured with summer around the corner, potato salad will abound. Not to mention that I’m making potato salad for 40 people this Sunday.

The last sale item I’m looking for was some sugar. The 4 lb. bag (no longer a 5 lb. bag by the way), on sale for $1.59 a bag. Oh, yeah, limit 2. As I pull up to the sugar, I notice a woman standing there looking at the sales flyer. I look at the sugar and I get a little confused because there is no price posted.

The woman must have detected my confusion because she said “That is the sugar that’s on sale. They just don’t have a price posted.” She shows me the sugar in her sales flyer. I thanked her and bent down to get the sugar which was on the bottom shelf.

Guess what? There are only 3 bags left. I immediately knew the right thing to do. I picked up one bag, obviously deferring the other two bags to the woman who was there before me. She smiled at me and bent down to get her two bags. Just then she said, “Oh wait, there’s one more here in the back.” She literally crawled, upper torso in the shelf, to reach against the back and get the last bag of sugar for me.

I thanked her. We smiled at each other in a knowing sort of way and walk our separate ways. On my way home I thought of this woman who was obviously thinking and shopping the same way I do. People are getting scared and they only want to continue to feed their families.

Oh by the way, today was the first day of a 7 day sale.



Survivalists Motto

A survivalist motto could read, “If you don’t prepare, you could lose everything. If you prepare for the worst and nothing happens, you’ve lost nothing.”

These two sentences actually are credited to Gerald Celente, words that he spoke during a recent interview. It really does sum it up though, the logic behind a survivalist mindset.

Are survivalists becoming the new trend-setters? Survivalist-preparedness type of talk is being heard more and more in casual conversations amongst friends, and even during other surprising conversational circuмstances. More people are ‘getting it’. They are becoming more aware of an impending economic catastrophe as most all signs point towards the end of the road from massive fiscal irresponsibility and the thievery that has been taking place at every level of government and financial institutions.

The survivalist minded will not go through the future blindly, not requiring to be led, but instead leading themselves and thinking for themselves.

In America, the power structure knows that most people have lost their backbone, remaining passive while the two-headed one-party system keeps the swindle going as long as they can. The swindle has been the largest transfer of wealth in human history – unknown Trillions from the working middle class straight to the power structure of the global institution.

The survivalist knows the price that will be paid, including what has already begun, the rapid devaluation of the dollar which is happening right in front of our eyes.

The survivalist takes charge of their own future. They commit the time to learn the truths beyond the main-stream-media, allowing precious time to prepare before an unsuspecting public catches on.

Staying one step ahead of the pack can not only reap financial rewards but will reap an emotion that is little known to many – one of fulfillment knowing that you are prepared, you can make it without the support of the system. It is a feeling of freedom. At least as free as freedom can be within the system we currently live within.

By not preparing, you are preparing to fail. By not preparing, you could lose everything.

By preparing though, not only will your life be with less pain after a collapse, but if there were to be no collapse whatsoever, you will have lost not a thing. You will have gained a spirit of liberty and freedom to depend on yourself instead of being enslaved by a system that is designed to enslave you.

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Hmm... Matt- did you really get anything good or beneficial from this? What's the moral of the story? If there are 4 sugar packs left you better hurry up and get as many as possible? I'm not trying to sound condescending, or disagree with being prepared. But it seems like there was no real substance to this article. I'm not against being prepared either. Maybe you can enlighten me as to what you got out of it.

The supermarket near me when they raise the price on
certain items, they call it a special.

Matthew is more or less saying something I too have observed: people are freaking out (rightfully btw).

8-9 years ago I was still keeping a modest larder (I was a single guy in an apt back then) and prep stuff like candles, batteries, flashlights, waterpure tabs, MRE (for short periods) etc. So for a decade plus I've been into this, and I *never* saw 'competition'

I was the only guy taking buying in quantity on certain items (separate from my normal groceries if I saw certain items on sale etc I'd stock up, but my stocks were small because I didn't have a family, now we have kids and I'm married), but even my modest prep the shelves were always teeming with goods. Now, a sale is clean shelves same day.

It's a good point.

I think it's

A)the prospects for a Depression are so tangible and real you can feel it. Some think we're already there, but that's just untenable IMO. Anyone who thinks we're already 'there' has no idea how bad it can get yet. So 'crazy talkm like a protracted economic downturn or the 'end' of the current economic world order as we know it, martial law, whatever, doesn't sound so crazy now.

Put it this way, I never talked about such things 10 years ago, but now most people are quite interested in 'prep talk' and certainly don't look at me like a madman.

Good thing is, more people are prepping. Bad thing is more people are prepping

B)secondly, 'end of the world' scenario or not, the economy is *awful* and people who weren't high on the hog before, but working class with kids are now even more strained.

I specify the working class because the welfare class w/kids nothing has fundamentally changed. Its the people that work and always have that, being who they are, are becoming more resourceful, necessarily, to make ends meet. Before there was a little gravy in the paycheck, more hours etc, but now one working family member might be on unemployment, or unemployment has run out. Food costs and now gas (to get to work, another thing that doesn't affect welfare recipients) are higher, and there's less income.

Since working people aren't about to head for the handout office, they're cooking, preserving, sewing clothes, buying food in bulk.

So, working people squeezed, plus more preppers. Some families fall into both categories.

My .02

This is typical. It doesn't represent people stockpiling as much as it represents shortage of certain foodstuffs, imo.
And that "extreme couponing" phenom. It is a sport.
Nonetheless, stockpile.

Gov says two weeks. But at least 1 month and some to spare for charity.

And that "extreme couponing" phenom. It is a sport.

I'm sure there are some who do it for the sport, but I'd add that it would have never become a sport if the economy didn't make it necessary for so many people to learn how to save money when buying necessities.

Is there a current exodus from FE?

Is there a current exodus from FE?

Actually I'm not aware of any actual 'exodus.' I just read a thread here that mentioned something to that effect (that people from FE had been migrating for some time, slowly), but I'm not sure I've observed anything like that first hand. Surely, lots of people left FE or stopped posting, but I don't know that they necessarily ended up over here. Some people were certainly banned over there and ended up here too.

I actually stepped in here and tested the waters some time ago, when I initially registered here, and just didn't have time for 2 forums (I hardly have time for one). Cathinfo seemed like a wonderful place, but I just didn't have the time.

I definitely will have a hard time in either forum, perhaps any forum, as I think both that some people can be impractical, scrupulous, and near jansenist in their approach to the Faith, and such people do indeed seem to always be trying to persuade others that such an approach is the best approach. FE certainly does not have this problem.

Others however decry attempts at holiness, mock certain virtues and what they percieve to be sanctimonious, as well as espousing wordly viewpoints. Such mockery can be and usually is, vicious and meanspirited, which is definitely not Catholic. FE certainly has this problem.

I'm not saying I live a holy life or am a very good Catholic, but I do believe we should strive to be one, and mockery of holiness or attempts at holiness makes me feel extremely uncomfortable, so do vicious unceasing personal attacks. That's the kind of thing I'm used to seeing in secular boards.

It's possible this board will be 'too much' rather than not enough (such as FE), and I will not fit in here because I don't attend a trad chapel (after a bad experience with the one we can drive to) and because I am unsure, even doubtful that the SSPX is 'the answer' or helpful anymore, etc or that I am not a sede but do sympathisize with sedevacantism and may yet become one, or am not a cradle Catholic, or numerous other non-'trad' things about me, but I definitely do not fit in the NO Church, I recognize there's a crisis and am not sure we'll see any of this get better in the Church (it may continue to the End). I feel the NO should be completely abrogated etc. So in this regard I'm a 'trad' but I think Traditionalism is prone to fundamentalism, is fractious, and reminds me deeply of my upbringing as a protestant in this regard.

Anyway...I ramble