Once you have your list and you know where you want to go, where do you begin?  So much pressure!  So many options!  For me, it’s better for my motivation to feel little successes.  If I have a few of those it keeps me feeling like what I’m doing is achievable.  For instance, if my first goal was to have $1000.00 dollars in cash in my house and it took me several months to get it, I’m the type of person that just may give up on the whole dang project.  Judge how you wish, I’m just keeping it real.  With that in mind, I would recommend starting with something small and achievable.

For me, I started with food.  It was a simple plan that I found called “squirrel it away” that added $10.00 to a weekly grocery store budget that provided at the end of this year long plan, a 3 month food supply.  There were some snafu’s in the plan, and I adjusted them as I went, but at the end of the year, with not a whole lot of effort, I had a stockpile of a decent amount of some food. Several months in, I decided that I was going to add a $50.00 per month budget to start acquiring different tools, light, shelter, etc. needs.  The process over the year was a learning experience that I will detail in another post.  The following year, I decided to dedicate a portion of our tax return to the purchase of a “big ticket” item.  The first year we did a year supply of freeze dried meals for 2 people to give our food storage a major jolt.  The following year we purchased several water storage barrels.  (Again, the water…more on this later.)  The point is…pick a category and start to accumulate in that area week by week, month by month, whatever works.  Choose one of the food storage plans linked on posts on this website to try and start there.  Or, begin by putting together your 72 hour kits.  You get the idea.

I think once you start feeling like the wheels are moving and you’re gaining some momentum, you’ll get excited about the project as a whole and see it all through.  JUST START!