I am going to make some big changes beginning next month. This post is to serve notice to everyone.

There is one thing that everyone on this planet does not have anymore: Time. Time to do what is right, time to do what needs to be done, time to do what can be done. I have documented the coming collapse extensively, perhaps more so then anyone else, writing my thoughts and impressions about how this is going to totally destroy our civilization and why this is now happening.

In order for me to ‘gain’ time (which is really just a way of saying exchange time spent on one thing for another) I am going to stop accepting all food orders under $250.

There actually three reasons for this. I need to spend a huge amount of time on my own preparations this year. I will not have the time to keep running this business 7 days a week, or even the normal 14 hours a day I work now with my current order volume and workload. Raising the minimum order limit will cut my orders by 50% or more and will (hopefully) give me at least 50% or more personal time.

The second reason I will do this is because the coming famines are very real, anyone who is not seriously preparing for them in a big way will be too late anyway. I have always been about ‘real things’ and dealing with the real world — and putting my money where my mouth is. I am not profit motivated, the few who have ‘tried me’ have discovered that.

The third reason is order volume is too high. None of my suppliers can keep up and I deal with the largest canneries in the business. Volume needs to slow down or I’m going to work myself to death. I can’t imagine what it must be like for them.

All existing orders in place will be handled just like they always have. As they fill, my backlog will lighten and my work load will lesson and only be replaced by larger orders. I will still be reachable by phone and by email, nothing else will change. The website will carry notices that all new orders must be $500 or more.

I can already foresee where business like this will cease to exist in the near future. I have already had these discussions with the canneries (in general terms) who have wondered the same things. We are all dependent upon affordable food products and transportation. These are both in jeapordy due to world changes and I know it. I expect most dealers to be out of business within 1 or 2 years.

This decision is both economic and personal. My goal was to earn enough income to meet my own preparation needs. But what I was afraid of happening did — the majority of people thought that they could wait until the last minute to buy their food supplies as the world runs out. This will not work for them, for me, for anyone. The canneries will be so severely backlogged that this group of people will simply never get anything.

I did not meet my economic goals, but that can’t be helped. I think it would be sheer suicide for me to keep trying to do so right up to the last minute. This is a dangerous delusion when your personal survival is at stake.

The second big notice is about this blog. This is another huge time vacuum. This will also be reduced on updates to ‘whenever I feel like it’ which I’m sure will be often enough. I’ve long said there is no more point whatsoever to keep on documenting our collapse, nor do I intend to turn this into a survival blog, there are plenty of other places to go for that.

This blog will remain a collapse blog like no other and it will continue to air and discuss issues related to the collapse — as my time permits.

I will drop all of my existing advertisers too (except Google), either right away or within a month. There is little point in advertising when you’re trying to reduce business.

It isn’t money that the future requires (and never was). The future requires humans who have adapted themselves to living in a changed world. This adaption is going to take time and a lot of hard work. I am volunteering myself now for this task, which I do not believe is one bit early either. In fact, it’s overdue for all of us.