Survival Prepping on a Budget: Adding to Your Arsenal of Supplies a Little at a Time

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It’s true that we often have an all-or-nothing mentality. When it comes to making sure our needs or the needs of our loved ones are met, we want to go all out. With survival prepping, being fully prepared can be expensive.

But fortunately, you really don’t have to buy every one of the supplies that you’ll eventually need all at once. Buying what you would need to survive for the first 72 hours is a good start and you don’t even have to buy all that at once.

Channeling Your Spending Power

You can start by focusing your spending power on getting enough water and food for everyone in your household for one day. Then stock for the second day and so on.

Once you’ve reached your store of three days’ worth of supplies, then you can start adding to your arsenal – hoarding enough for a week, a month, three months, and finally, a year and more.

As you start your supply, look at it like you’re going grocery shopping. Get the items that you would normally buy at the store but buy them in bulk. If you don’t have a food warehouse membership, that’s not a problem. You can just buy what you need online.

How to Stock

And you don’t have to stick with one supply at a time, such as buying several bags of 25 pounds of rice until you have a supply. You want to concentrate on getting some of each category of the supplies and then rotate back through it again.

So you would buy your staples during your shopping one week, making sure you get a large bag of rice. Then the next week, you would buy the flour, then after that the sugar, and within weeks, you would have your staples knocked off your list.

That’s the way that you could handle every category. It’s probably wiser to buy your hygiene items while you’re buying your staples because you’ll need those things.

Preparing Your Supply List

When you write your list of supplies, put a heading for each area you’ll need to cover for your survival. After food and water, you should have areas marked as tools, shelter, communication, purification, heat, and so on.

Under the heading of tools, you’d want to start stocking up on items like knives, self-defense weapons, multi-tools, an axe, binoculars, shovel, paracord, flashlights, fishing gear, fire starter, manual can opener, cast iron pans, and more.

For shelter, you would want to make sure you have a supply of Mylar emergency thermal blankets, sleeping bags, a good tarp, and tents.

Weather gear can go into that category as well. This would be items like a poncho, rain boots, etc. Purification methods are needed because if you find water, you can use that if needed. Some methods used are filters or water purification tablets.