Back to figuring out how to take my $150 per month discretionary cash I use for food, and get myself out of this pallet grinder called life.)  

Shoving furniture, pets, kids, food dropped, roaches, whatever.  

I have a lot of anxiety about clean food so he can wash all my food for me before I eat it.Service hamster?

I am quitting my job and going full time but have a some other income to keep food on the table.  

And the BIG glue traps with food in the middle .   

has thrown me into meditation zone to the point I have a new reason to break my desperate need for just $500 per month to never again need to ration food from the 15th to the 3rd of the next month;  in afew weeks I should be able to have in print the format of a Corporation for Financial Assistance for those who Really are down and out- broke and truly suffering as a result, turned away from being Truly Assisted in obtaining their own financial means.  

I spent a lot of time as a kid with my grandfather, a depression-baby, and incredible maker of things.  

Up keep and other expenses, which you have deferred on your home, are a major part.As a renter you would obviously not gain equity in the property you are renting but you would grow equity in the income property you invest in along with the income you receive from your renters.Since you can not put food on the table from equity being a renter yourself will put you farther ahead financially each month than living in a home you own.  

I'm curious as to what impact this will have on the economy and how to plan for it in a way that doesn't involve stockpiling food and bullets (not that there's anything wrong with being prepared!)

We are working on baby step two.