"The only thing harder preparing ahead of time, is explaining why you didn't."
Gabe Suarez
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...then you have some extra ammo to play with at the range and food to eat. No loss.
I’m prepared for nothingness. Tales of eternal life seem to be seriously lacking in detail.
It’s just a type of insurance, isn’t it?
Some of those thoughtless people in New Orleans could have used a little of it when Katrina came through.
Many people in the northeast were without electric for up to two weeks last November. Cash purchases only and no ATM’s. No electric to run heaters, well pumps or lights.
Adversity comes in many forms.
I anticipate that the Rapture will take me before I have to use very much of my preps. I only hope and pray that a Tribulation Saint will find them and put them to good use.
The food, the money, the water, gas for your generator, will all run out fairly quickly. Unless you are going to store food & water for at least a year, and the guns and ammo you'll need to keep it, you are wasting the effort.
Get out of the cities. You can't survive there. I can get water from my well, firewood in my yard and beyond, shoot a deer or an intruder whenever I want to.
I don't need the government for anything. I don't need electricity to survive.
All that said, I don't expect anything that bad to happen, so I'm not worried nor am I preparing. Preppers are fools.
I’m aiming more toward homesteading than prepping, although there is a lot of overlap. There’s just a part of my brain that won’t rest easy with anything less than self-sufficiency.
No doomsday scenarios needed for me.
I will tell you my friend who just passed away, @ 101, thought there was some waste to to the preps her husband made every 10 years. She wondered on one hand how it appeared to be waste preparing for a disaster that never occurred answer thinkin “what if if it did happen?”.
She was a Mormon and asked me what I thought.
I told her it was better to be prepared and comfortable than not.
Thwarting reality is that regional disasters happen all the time and I can’t recall all the time being prepared came in handy.
Don’t think water safe to drink will ever be an immediate problem? I think you are crazy.
Don’t think medical issues won’t arise which require immediate care and immediately? you are a victim and maybe dead.
Shelter outside your home will never be problem? You are just plain dumb and maybe not worth my help.
Those things happen all the time. it’s stoopid to to think they never will.
The cost for being prepared costs nothing compared to being a toe tag.
One cannot prepare for every contingency. I do not have the money to buy expensive generators, solar panels etc. So, as a lone woman I decided to stockpile SKILLS.
It is all well and good that you have food stored but if you don’t know how to build a weather-proof fire or how to purify water what good is a years worth of dehydrated lasagne going to be?
I spoke to several men in my local TEA Party group and was amazed at how few knew how to cook over an open fire. They all said, “well I will just cook on my propane grill.” Really? How long will that last?
Basically I am learning skills that would help me survive in almost caveman conditions - so in anything less than total catastrophe I will be OK.
Trapping and skinning animals, how to make lye and render animal fat to make soap, shelter building, self-defense methods and how to grow and preserve food just to name a few. If I never need these skills at least it was fun learning them.
If you have skills then you will not succumb to fear if a crisis occurs.
Well said. If you wait until the disaster happens, then you can forget it. There will be no water and food, so one would have to fight his fellow citizens to survive...If the disaster does not come, then you have enough food for the rest of your life.
It is always prudent to be prepared.
I can see food price hyperinflation in our immediate future (months).
Stock up on non-perishable food now, while you can. And not just a little bit. Set aside a year’s worth of food for each person who will live under your roof.
Food has intrinsic value. You can eat it or you can trade it or you can give it away.
The worst that will happen is that you will have food to eat while the unprepared are looting the grocery store.
Sometimes finances were a little tight when I was finishing up grad school. Those preps I had really came in handy!
Sometimes finances were a little tight when I was finishing up grad school. Those preps I had really came in handy!
I don't think those folks understand prepping.
Rotate out supplies. Use them for camping and other fun things. These aren't just prepping materials, these are tools for FUN.
No, because there are no guarantees. Anyone who thinks that things are going to be continuing on as they are now or get better, are fools.
But because it may be the only way to survive if any of those things DO happen.
Someone will benefit whether 'something' happens or not.
Bookmarked and looking forward to the Friday Prepper thread!!!
If nothing else, if people pick up some survival skills from this, it will be worth it.
If we ever lost electricity for just 72 hours, all of civilization would crumble apart very quickly, because people won’t know how to cope......the ‘technology trap’ gets tighter with each passing day.
As my good friend in the mountains always says “When the ice storm comes you either be at the top of the hill or you be at the bottom of the hill” We plan to be at the top of the hill and prepared to stay there for an indefinite time period.