also - live in a burned out shell of a house because if people think you have something to protect, their going to come after you
Yep.
If you let people know you have something they might want, don't be surprised when someone comes to try to take it.
That goes double in these SHTF fantasies. I especially love the ones where old, sick, worn-out, or constantly traveling dudes with pretty wives and/or daughters think that they are going to hole up and "defend the Alamo" if SHTF. Yeah, right. You've got something "wanted", and if it's just you, then someone is going to come take it. The ones where they'll have the wife/daughters engaged in daily outside the house chores fetching stuff, or where they'll bundle everything up and set out with them into the wilderness alone is even more hilarious.
