I'm marginally prepared for a disaster, but not a prolonged one or a complete EOTW scenario. I'd love to tinker with some of this stuff as it's interesting to me and who knows, maybe I'll start selling EOTW Soap at the local craft fair.

If modern society breaks down these will become niceties as wars over water, food, and energy kill off a lot of the ones who survived the incident. Humans lived for years without much of this, but they also lived in what we would call comparable squalor.

Oh, and I have my zombie shotgun ready to roll! ;-)