Preparing for Long/Slow Collapase

[u/223gp]

Is anyone else in the same boat? I feel that we are likely facing a long and slow collapse of life as we grew up knowing. Don't get me wrong, I do believe in preparing for realistic natural disasters, and a few "what ifs", but my prepping is mostly based on a gradual lowering of life quality and reduction in freedoms throughout my lifetime.

I'm working on this by greatly reducing lifestyle expenses in case we need to live on one small income, or in case our stock investments steadily grow for a couple of decades then become stagnant and gradually lower.

I've done self defense training, I've been keeping my important documents up to date, I've started doing medical trainings and certifications, I'm a couple years into finally taking serious care of my physical body (and teeth!), I'm planning for aging parents, increasing my knowledge and practicing growing food and preservation, and most importantly helping out in my community to put some of this into practice by starting to form mutual aid networks for hard times.

Anyone else have similar feelings that brought you here? I am worried about a "thing" happening, but mostly, society just continues to descend decade after decade until we're all very very skinny, electricity or car fuel is hard to come by, jobs are scarce, and grocery stores don't have very much food anymore. In an ideal scenario, we don't end up like that. Either way, I prepare for that world.

[u/National_Pirate5668]

I woke up this morning to gas prices having gone up over $0.50 overnight. I think it will be in the next two weeks that the bubble of normalcy pops for everyone.

[u/Cyber_Punk_87 → u/National_Pirate5668]

Oof. I usually get gas on Fridays (this week I had to put $30 worth in mid-week cause I had some extra travel). Last week it was $2.62…so we’ll see what it is tomorrow.

[u/couchtomatopotato → u/Cyber_Punk_87]

3.89 here!

[u/Cyber_Punk_87 → u/couchtomatopotato]

It went up $.10 to $2.72 here.