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it’s an interesting thing what some people call prepping or stockpiling others call a way of life. Where I live a trip to town happens maybe once every two weeks or even a month. We make daily lists of items that are required to restock and come “shopping day” it’s a major trip and we pack a lot into the truck.

But I still don’t consider that a lot, when I was much younger I had the privilege of meeting an old light house keeper in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He told me of how they only made two trips a year to town for supplies and the most important one was in the middle of winter when the ice was thick enough to hold the weight of the dray wagons. Two days to get to town and three days there getting supplies, then when they were done they would need four or five wagons and the teamsters to drive them. Then they would make their way back to the light house. And be in solitude for another six months.

Imagine how the Government would look at a “prepper” who bought in quantities like that? Ease of transportation and same-day stocking have really wrecked the formerly independent lifestyle of Americans.