Sounds like a great way to instill the seeds in them so they won’t be caught off-guard when something happens. But to not cause them to panic by being too upfront if that makes them nervous. I guess a lot of people are like that - they’d rather not think about the worst. For some reason, I get comforted by thinking and planning for the worst that could happen.
I consider myself a prepper by necessity now - but will be a homesteader when I get the right conditions, like you have. Neat to have so much useful land nearby. I guess I’m a prepper when in the city, but in the mountains - that’s just the way of life up there. Simpler, closer to nature, splitting and stacking and using firewood to heat, the power and water outages that occur often - it’s all wonderful, IMO.
Well I grew up in the Ozark Mountains (really just hills LOL), and it is just a way of life. One that I enjoy. We had all this stuff already before “prepping” was a common term.
When people start acting like the world has ended, just because there’s no electricity, I just kinda think, well for most of man’s recorded history we didn’t have electricity so what’s the big deal.
When I was really young, we didn’t even have a refrigerator or freezer. There was no TV, Computer’s, and a lot of people didn’t have phones-and by the way, the ones that did have phones-well they weren’t smart-they were dumb!LOL
For some reason, I get comforted by thinking and planning for the worst that could happen.
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Me too. I don’t deal well with uncertainty. So I ask myself, well what is the worst thing that can happen? Then I decide the best way to handle it.
Once I have the solution, I usually think, well that’s not so bad after all-I can deal with that. Then I relax and go on about my daily life.