Top 5 C's of Modern Urban Everyday Preparedness.

#5 - Coverage and Cover Story

Coverage and cover story.

Your cover story is your identity.

Who are you?

What are you about?

It informs everything from your fashion to lifestyle and taste in art.

This is how people size each other up walking along the street or passing buy in cars.

These are the things from which the perception of your character are based on in modern urban everyday life.

So keep that in mind next time you're thinking about going gray man.

We'll cover that topic later.

It also means your driver's license, identification card and passport.

You want to have all of these 3 things ready to go.

Cover also includes coverage and that is going to be insurance.

You want to be maxed out with your insurance and legal protections.

Anything and everything you can do ahead of time to prepare for the inevitabilities of just random occurrence with rule of law, you need to be prepared for that.

You need to truly be prepared for modern urban everyday life and you're going to do that with insurance.

This is the number one tool for new preppers and requires zero skills.

• Auto Insurance- covers your for accidents.
• Renter's/Homeowner's Insurance- covers your property in case of theft.
• AAA Insurance- for roadside assistance like lockouts, battery replacement, and towing.
• Life Insurance- covers costs for your family in case of serious injury or death.
• Asurion Home- covers you electronic devices other than your cell phone, like laptops or tablets.
• Asurion- cell phone coverage against lost or damage.

#4 - Currency

Currency, cash and crypto.

Cash is king.

Cash moves people.

Cash gets butts out of seats.

It gets you rides across town.

It gets you favors when you don't have any friends.

Carry big bills.

People will feel like they owe you.

You don't have change.

Tell them keep it.

Make someone's day.

You might be paying over paying but that's the point

It's an emergency and value system change.

You need things done.

You need things done fast, and you need things done with care.

Over-paying someone to do the job in an emergency situation to serve as a way to get you in a better spot, to get you out of trouble.

In a modern urban everyday environment, movement towards the cashless society only  progresses further.

Cryptocurrency, whether you like it or not, is a new way to hold and exchange currency in a global market.

This lets you move a lot of money very quickly with little fees.

It can also help you store lots of money with little to no space in a safe and secure way: on a digital wallet, or with a cold storage.

It's not going anywhere.

You need to get yourself some.

Trading cryptocurrencies can keep your cash flow coming.

#3 - Credit

Credit buys things you can't pay for with cash.

Airplane tickets, rental cars, and hotels mainly.

So much of modern urban life is based around travel.

Every day we are commuting by bus, rail, road, walk, sidewalk, bike, plane, trains, and the like.

Freedom of movement informs much of modern urban everyday life.

Movement, therefore, is an essential part of urban everyday prep.

In an emergency situation, a line of credit will help keep your cash reserves untouched.

A credit card will give you the capability to travel and relocate easily for a short duration.

Renting a car or booking a flight and reserving a hotel is a perfectly suitable plan, and the common response for most unplanned events in everyday life.

Having a credit card ready for this type of scenario at a moment's notice should be a realistic preparedness goal for modern urban preppers.

#2 - Concealment

You've got your currency cash credit cards and other things on you.

How much?

Minimum $1 ,000 cash.

Minimum $2 ,000 credit card.

This should be enough to get you out of most pinches.

We combining that with crypto your freedom of movement greatly opens to you.

The more cash, credit, and crypto you have the more freedom you're afforded.

But it also can make you a target.

Concealment and deep cover of these items is crucial to operating surviving everyday urban life.

Concealing these things on you is going to be important for your safety and security.

In a true emergency, your EDC becomes your get-home system.

Passports, IDs, credit cards, cash, cold storage: all of this needs to be on you.

All of this needs to be on you at any given moment.

Yet the dangers of carrying all of this on you, the risk of losing these things at any given moment cannot be stressed enough.

Your exposure to risk is very high.

Our recommendation is a Traveler's Money Belt.

Not just anyone, this one from Bone Tactical.

I've been EDCing this for over a year.

I love it.

Not only is it durable, it's surprisingly comfortable.

I wear it in deep concealment, pressed all the way up against my body underneath both my outer and inner layers in deep concealment.

Now, we can't say concealment without talking about concealed carry weapons.

And for this, we recommend you get your concealed carry weapons permit if it is required.

If you live somewhere where that is hard to obtain, you should still try to both get a license and join the movement towards constitutional carry.

Concealed carry weapon training elevates your preparedness for the modern urban everyday environment to a whole new level.

However, what you realize is how much you want to avoid using it if at all possible.

Also, a firearm restricts travel and many urban areas would be considered "non-permissive environments."

You must be aware and plan accordingly.

As long as we live under the rule of law, you have to play by it everyday.

All of your prepping goes for nothing if you break the law.

If you're going to go the CCW route, prep yourself with prepaid legal services at the very least.

#1 - Communications

Cell phones and computers.

Your smartphone is one of the most powerful tools in the world for helping to navigate and survive modern urban everyday life.

It cannot be stressed enough: new preppers should remain focused on maximizing their preparedness of everyday life occurrences on the grid before preparing for grid-down scenarios.

Prepare for emergences under the rule of law.

Survive everyday modern urban life first.

And there is no bigger, more important tool for that in today's world than your cell phone and laptop.

Most people have their laptop computers for work, or are students.

Some industries use tablets.

Whatever the case may be, having a cell phone and a laptop or a tablet is essential to survival on the grid of everyday modern urban life.

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The bottom line is: a modern urban EDC kit that isn't insurance coverage, currency, credit, a concealed traveler's money belt, and a cell phone is a joke.

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