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.