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not even know where to look to find something about yet another new “danger”. Hmm, the Internet is a great place to start! Something tells you the world is changing and NOT for the better! By the end of 1999 you were finally prepared for what the 20 th century had for you but NOT what is coming at you now in the early years of the 21 st century. With “9/11” and afterwards everything came at you so fast you are hopelessly confused! As the I.R.S. says, you are the “Head of Household” even if the household is just one person. This book is written for you, the “Head of Household”.
     
    By the way, don’t let the I.R.S. decide who the “Head of Household” is for purposes of this book. It is whoever is going to be in charge! Decide in advance! And stick to it! If all decisions are “made by consensus, fine. But decide in advance. In my opinion, consensus should be considered but one person always has to be the one everyone else accepts and supports their decision if complete consensus is not possible. If you’ve picked the members of your group well and planned and discussed everything in detail months in advance few awkward situations should occur.
     
    All these technical words the media throws at you you’ve never heard of! You can look each one up on the Internet with a million “answers” for every search but surely there is one book that contains almost everything. There is now. This book is it! Informational books that are mind numbing pages of useless (to you) complex information satisfying a particular author’s personal excitement about solar power, guns, and living “off the grid”, canning, becoming self-sufficient with their own garden, and so on are WORTHLESS to you. If you’re looking for a book with long-winded complex details, this is not it. I suspect you’ve already purchased a few such books thinking you were buying a general “cover everything” book like this book but felt only frustration after reading it. Keep them for those narrow subjects but be aware they are no longer your primary guide to survival.
     
    On the other hand, there are many books about basic survival (mostly outdoor wilderness) skills. “Boy Scouts on Steroids” books I call them. Only with the clothes on their back and armed with a really great survivalist book the fully trained reader heads into the wilderness and emerges five years later no worse for wear! This is NOT one of those books. Do you really want to learn how to trap beavers and skin rabbits? Do you want to learn how to turn grass and weeds into hemp and hemp into clothing, roofs, rugs and all the things you can (much easier) buy at Walmart today? As an aside, Walmart is mentioned as a source in this book. The author believes in “Buy America” but assumes time is short and readers don’t have months finding USA manufactured items that can all be bought at a Super Walmart in a few hours (probably some items from China). Do what you want.
     
    There are also what I call “living off the grid” books where a person once again lives in the woods but, this time, starts with, say, $300,000 of equipment and a well-built log cabin. The person (and probably family) is entirely self-sufficient right down to cooking, growing food, making clothes, (basic) hunting and fishing, (basic) first-aid and everything, and I mean everything, you buy at stores or on the Internet today. Except for a major medical problem they may not see another living soul for years - and prefer it that way! More power to them! In some ways I envy such people but, boy, do they go through a lot of work just to get milk from their cows, darn a pair of socks and make soap from animal fat. Whew! Give me a near-by discount mega-store any day! They may have the personal satisfaction of “giving back to the land what is taken” but have you ever smelled a large compost pile?
     
    Above all, “living off the land” is a lot of work. On the other hand, if your total annual budget is