The Cost of Survival VS Paying the Price.

The COST of SURVIVAL is PRICELESS right?

Making it through a disastrous situation, sickness, or life-threatening medical issues / surgery(s) and emerging out the other side can be extremely costly ask someone who has or has had a family member who has battled a life threatening if not terminal illness, devasting hurricane or tornado, or even a loss of home due to fire or flood.

Sometimes the cost of having proved yourself and earning the title of survivor could be astronomical.

SURVIVAL GEAR ($2,500)- Now we all know we may have expensive backpacks and multi-purpose shovels that attach via alice clips and molle straps not to mention all the other survival gear we may own. The expense we incur for knives, tools, bedding, hammocks, tents and any other special or specialty equipment we choose to possess could make the expenses add up pretty quick.

In today's society with the state of affairs of the world at large one would almost bet that at some point you have thought about gardening, hunting, and possibly canning or meat preparation. Let's say you want to buy a meat grinder or build a smoke shack you are also going to need to learn butcher skills. Gardening may have crossed your mind now you need to know what you want to plant and the time to sow your seeds and when the proper time to harvest is. Then once your harvest is in you will need to know how to can maybe even pickle and you would have to know the process in order to be able to do it properly.

In today's society let us remember we have city ordinances and may have to retain a permit for many self-sustaining ways of life. The added cost of permits as well as not offending neighbors or warding off complaints all so you can have a little garden and maybe a few chickens so you can combat the rising cost of groceries makes the self-sustaining life itself become a little costly.

SURVIVAL CLASSES AND COURSES ($1,500)- Chances are if you're reading this post at some point, you have probably also watched a video or television show on a survival skill or technique. There are a few very popular survival instructors who need very little or no introduction. Then there are people like myself who may be only known in a small town or even within just a state and if known in a few states it's more than likely by just a few people.

In the Survival Instructor World, I myself have offered classes and visited someone or been visited and given one on one instruction. Having spent any serious time in the world of survival you may have taken a course or attended a class where the price you paid was minimized by the knowledge you gained.

Courses can range from as little as $20 dollars up to $120 dollars. Simple instructed 2-to-4-hour classes could go for up to $250 dollars if not more. Should you have a survival instructor who offers a weekend getaway with specific skills classes they can range up to $600 dollars if not more especially if accommodations are included.

Please understand the cost of the course pays the instructor for the knowledge they possess and possibly the many years of application and learning through trial and error that they are saving you.

BEING PREPARED AND ABLE TO SURVIVE (PRICELESS)- Let us agree that survival is just not limited to being stranded on an island. Survival often comes with regret, remorse, and through tragedy and even loss. We all must endure many things that affect us all on different levels and to varying degrees and in order to survive what life throws at us we have to be able to ADAPT.

Let us all agree there are many things we would have to adapt to. Wherever we are in the world when the times comes that we have to Bug Out for better lack of terminology are we going to "Be Prepared"?

Yes, we may have a Bug Out Bag, have taken classes, studied fire start methods, and even have a handle on water purification. We may have attended seminars or taken classes we may have even practiced the applications of many skills; however, the question remains could you adapt enough to survive?

You never know when or if the day might come when you find yourself in a situation where you do not have the ability to get to your backpack or gather tools. You may or may not be able to get to your bug out bag. You might find yourself in a situation where you just have to go. This will be the time your knowledge and skills will truly come in handy and in order to survive you will have to OVERCOME, IMPROVISE, and ADAPT.

Until next time "STRUGGLE TO MAKE PUDDING".