Life or Death Choices: 35 Excuses That Will Doom The Non-Prepper

SHTF Plan ^ | 5/5/13 | Be Informed

[Kartographer]

1. Oh come on, it is never going to happen, my area is safe, I am safe.
2. I am convinced that everything is recoverable and my area will get back to normal quickly.
3. No matter how horrible it is, help will eventually come, I just have to wait it out.
4. Even if something happens, there are plenty of food and supplies for everyone in my city.
5. My state government, my community, my neighbors will not abandon me and let me starve.
6. I have a 3 day supply of food, the government and others tell me that this is plenty.
7. I have lots of credit cards, I will purchase anything I need in my city or nearby cities.
8. My water faucets will have water, even if it is temporarily shut off, they will not let us go thirsty.
9. There is no room to store supplies that will never be used anyway.
10. I can’t rotate supplies, everything will get old and have to be thrown away.
11. I don’t have extra money to store up anything for disasters.
12. It is too much work to bother with.
13. I have absolutely no idea what to store or how much.
14. I don’t need any protection after a disaster, the police, national guard, military will protect us.
15. The power grid will come back on, until then I have LED flashlights that last forever.
16. Again and again I hear these fear mongers exaggerate the threat level, another false alarm.

[Kartographer]

17. I have a good car and family in other areas, if anything happens I will just go stay with them.
18. I work all week long and I am going to spend my extra money on fun rather than fear.
19. Survival supplies taste bad, I can’t live on this for long at all.
20. If a true catastrophe occurs we are going to die anyway, besides that I don’t want to live through it anyway.
21. Survival and prepping for the worst is negative, as long as I stay positive, only the positive will happen.
22. Preppers/Survivalists are radical, paranoid, conspiracy driven out of touch with reality, I don’t want anything to do with them.
23. I don’t know why everyone is so worried, times are better and safer now than ever in human history.
24. There is so much to prepping, I’ll take my chances that nothing will happen.
25. All my investments go right into what makes me money and gives me security for the future.
26. Why bother storing up that much food and supplies, mobs will just come in and take it.
27. I have a refrigerator and a cupboard full of food, 2 cases of water, a 12 pack of toilet paper, I am all set.
28. If something happens I will just run to the grocery store and stock up before it closes.
29. If we become sick after a disaster we have good medical treatment centers that will care for us.
30. Nothing is as bad as it ever seems, stop overblowing everything as doomsday.
31. If disaster strikes everybody will band together and save the day.
32. People have become way too civilized to wage a world war and take what you have and act like savages.
33. There are food banks and emergency preparedness places nearby to me, they will take care of us.
34. FEMA , the Red Cross, and other government agencies are huge and have the whole country backing them.
35. I can always wait until tomorrow to start prepping, there is always time.

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

[Kartographer]

A good article that ties into this thread:

Lessons from Katrina

https://sites.google.com/site/southernbelleprepper/lessons-from-katrina

[Ellendra]

36. I’ll just stock up on weapons and take what I need from others.

[The Duke]

I'm buying my first silver this week to give to my non-prepper family members. They think it's some sort of "family heirloom" I'm giving them - little do they realize that my intent is to give them a fighting chance to barter their way to safety when SHTF.

I will instruct them to consider each ounce of silver to equate to a half-tank of gas, which is a good approximation and a good way for them to make reasonable barter deals when the bottom falls out from under the greenback.

[bobby.223]

Good choice on the silver. Duke, if you have not already, look into the 1 ounce pre-scored ‘divisible’ bars. You might find that style to your liking as it gives a lot more barter room for the holder. (Sometime only maybe a 1/4 or 1/2 ounce piece might be agreeable to your seller depending on your transaction).

[greeneyes]

I just live my life prepared as possible for the most likely contingencies. Then I get to thinking about what if the worst thing imaginable happened, and prepare from there.

Some of the stuff on this list is just so hard to understand attitude wise, that I often think I must be living in some alternate universe to the country I grew up in.

I am wondering, if instead of giving people a hand out, you ask them to pay or trade for it. With some people that might work. If I was traveling, I sure wouldn’t pull into some rest stop. I’d have people with me who could drive, and we’d just rotate drivers till we got where we are going.

I do think that the rural areas of the midwest will be better to deal with than the entitlement crowd of some of the large cities. People tend to be kinda independent, helpful, and most households have guns, so it kinda makes any riff raff behave as long as people are in their homes.

[Secret Agent Man]

you don’t want to be that guy. we’ll shoot that guy for being a criminal a$$.

[Blueflag]

Unless your name is Adrian Hunter that is a three week plan before you’re dead.

[cuban leaf]

From The One Hour Meltdown:

1.Your family is trapped inside your vehicle in a traffic jam that is grid-locked and, although you don’t know it yet, the cars in front of you and behind you are not going to move one-inch for the next several years.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Exactly why our #1 plan is to bug in. I-75 would clog up ina matter of minutes. Shoot, even when there’s a simple accident it jams up bad for an hour or more. I can’t imagine what it would look like with many thousands of people all trying to get to TN or OH.

[DCBryan1]

1) “but but but I voted fo Obama yo”!

[thesearethetimes...]

BTTT

[thesearethetimes...]

You had me going there for a second, but I got it. FRiends, her post was Item #36 on what WILL get you killed.

May God guide our course.
Tatt

[SampleMan]

37. I can prep enough food to last the rest of my life.

People should not think of prepped food as anything by a lifeboat. Also, people should not rely on hunting, because edible game will be hunted into extinction within six months of a collapse in food distribution.

Eventually, people will require agriculture and the means of protecting there crops and animals.

[The Duke]

...if you have not already, look into the 1 ounce pre-scored ‘divisible’ bars.

Thanks for the recommendation ... will do! :)

[FatherFig1o155]

For later...

[CodeToad]

Simply put, “It’s too hard! Waaaa!”

People are lazy. They won’t get off their butts or learn and do. It is easier to be dismissive and say “the government will take care of things”, or “it won’t happen”.

[Blueflag]

#99 We’ll survive the walkers, gangs, plagues AND the general die off that kills 97% of the masses ... and THEN learn how to survive, sustain and thrive. Practice, rehearse, learn, do, do well.

[yorkiemom]

I do think that the rural areas of the midwest will be better to deal with than the entitlement crowd of some of the large cities. People tend to be kinda independent, helpful, and most households have guns, so it kinda makes any riff raff behave as long as people are in their homes.

That's why we're looking into Tennesse or Kentucky to relocate to. Not only the attitude you're talking about but weather than can be survived w/o electricity. I also want to stay as far from the border as possible. Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming would have a similar mindset, even moreso. As long as one had a good supply of wood for heating!