So I've read that you can grow food without spending a lot of money, I wanted to try it in hopes it's correct. I just put one tomato seed on the container and I saved the rest, and I put the container on my backyard where it's receiving sunlight. I know it needs fertilizer too but I don't know if it's too soon to put it. Anyway, this is a test to see what happens, I hope I learn something.
I just had an interaction with an user when I went to a subreddit to ask for advice on how to adapt to the coming crisis due to the Iran war, and his comments annoyed me.
I told them that I was learning how to sew and crochet in hopes to have a useful skill for barter, and I put an example of barterning sew skills for water. With that little information this user just confidently assumed that I lived in the middle of nowhere with no resources and that I should move to a big city with resources and start to plan on getting an education and start a business based on how things are gonna be in the next 5-20 years.
I already live in a highly populated area with available resources.
It's the part of planning for the next 5-20 years that makes me roll my eyes, cause I know this person is talking about studying a career to work in an office or a soulcrushing job for an enterprise, or "start a business", thinking that those systems are gonna exist forever.
I don't even know if I'm gonna be alive by the end of this year, let alone in 5-20 damn years, maybe I'll be gone by then or society would already be gone or maybe we'll be fucking extinct, with this climate I don't know anymore. These people are living with their head buried on sand.
Sorry for the rant, it just left a bad taste in my mouth.
Ok guys I don't wanna get political here, it's not about that, but I believe we all acknowledge that this current war is gonna cause rise of prices and likely shortages. I live in North America (Mexico) and I've read that North America is a bit more shielded from the crisis, but yet I highly doubt that "nothing's gonna happen", even if it takes more time i believe is likely that we'll be having problems here.
I don't want to panic but honestly I don't know what to do, I live with my parents and I depend on them, I don't have a job and I'm not a very smart person I don't have useful skills, I'm currently trying to change that and I'm learning how to sew and crochet, and I'm looking to start a cheap garden cause I researched you can make one without needed to buy expensive goods or anything, I'm stockpiling canned food too. I'm not a hardcore prepper I just want some sense of security.
But I feel helpless, I don't know how bad is gonna be or if I'll survive it, I don't have money to buy solar power or get a bicycle (things I would love to have) my family doesn't know anything and I feel like I'm on my own on this without having much power. Part of me feels like I'm not gonna make it and I'm gonna die or some of my relatives are going to die. But I don't want to panic cause I know it's not useful either.
Can you share what are you doing to go through this? I would love to read some of what people have been doing even if I can't apply it to myself lol.