Off The Grid Living: The Essential Item You Probably Don’t Have In Your Survival Preps

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The Essential Item You Probably Don’t Have In Your Survival Preps

Written by: Off The Grid News Staff Extreme Survival  Article

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Anyone who has been around the survival and prepping community for long has undoubtedly viewed and read countless videos and articles concerning bug-out bags and supply caches. The one thing that almost all of these have in common is a peculiar air of darkness and gloom. Perhaps rightly so due to the serious nature of such content, but there has been one serious item of note missing from the vast majority of such content.
Don’t know what it is?
Consider this list of basic survival, and see if you can spot the missing element:
Have the necessary supplies to survive for three days, then one week, then one month, then six months, then one year, and then beyond.
Have adequate stock of drinking and cleaning water (1 gallon per person per day) and the means to purify your own water.
Have adequate stock of preserved food, and a means to get more food in a self-sufficient system (gardens, livestock, fishing, wild game, etc.).
Have a 72-hour bug-out bag of basic survival gear (knife, hatchet, maps, MREs, rope, duct tape, flashlight, two ways to start a fire, two ways to purify water, two ways to construct adequate shelter, first aid kit).
Have guns in common calibers and with high availability of parts — and be proficient with each of them
So what’s missing? Entertainment. It is a wonderful thing to be able to provide shelter and food for yourself and your loved ones when the need arises, but consider the effect of entertainment loss on even the smallest assembly of people.
Laughter, as they say, is the best medicine. In a time of harsh trials and tribulations, such medicine is as essential to survival as food and shelter…..MORE HERE