Me too. It just makes sense. Same reason why I keep a generator and gas handy....they don't eat or drink anything. And, the scant handful of times that I've needed to use it (ice storms), we've liked the flexibility.
That having been said..... I’m really not interested in figuring out how to survive in a Mad Max world
Me either. Lots of Freepers that have Armageddon fantasies, though. I think that they believe that it'll be sunshine and happiness, and occasionally manning the walls of their compounds to shoo away rampaging hordes of liberals that are trying to steal whatever they've hoarded.
'Tisn't as much fun as they'd like to imagine, I think. For instance, I've worked on a farm before, and IMHO,it's a whole lot easier to go to the grocery store, than to raise your own food. It's a lot of dammed hard work, just to eat. Never mind everything else that's needed to be self-sufficient. AND, to be well armed (and practiced, and able to walk sentry duty to protect what you've got), so that you can shoo away all of the miscreants.
Nope. No TEOTWAWKI fantasies here. I like modern conveniences.
Me too! And in all honesty my health wouldn't permit me to do what it would take to live in a post-TEOTWAWKI world. Where will I get my Plavix? LOL.
I also love modern conveniences and I live on a farm, I know what it takes to put food on the table and I know how to preserve it. I too, take advantage of stores for most of my food but back in the day I grew and canned all our food and made most of our clothes just because I could, it isn’t that hard to do, my grandparents did it and had a fine life.
Then you run with a different FReeper crowd than the rest of us because I don't know any survivalist type FReeper who has those delusions.
We all realize that all our prep does not guarantee our survival, but we do know that not being prepped will guarantee our not surviving.
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