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Ok, I have and am doing that, I have found it. So what, I should stop purchasing food? Stop paying mortgage.
I'm prepared for going to work in the morning and I am prepared for an ice storm if it comes. I'm prepared for a loss of electricity whether it be a few hours, few days, few weeks or a few years.
I don't spend “extra” money prepping. When I purchase food I try to purchase twice as much as I need. I eat one and the other goes to storage. Next time I do the same thing only now I have two in storage. Soon you have 20 in storage and when you go shopping it all goes in storage and you use the storage to keep it rotated. It is like having a grocery store in your basement. It saves a ton of gas, you aren't constantly having to go out to get something, you already have it. When there is a special sale or special purchasing opportunity I take advantage of it, if it is something I can use I get it perhaps many of whatever it is.
My solar electric cost money but it pays for itself over time. Gardening is a pain but it produces good food and keeps the knowledge base up. I plan for living every day but don't plan on changing much if shtf except for more security.
When others come to my door and want to eat they will IF they have something I want or are willing to work for it. I will not be a soup kitchen.
There was a book that came out a few years ago called “The Host”. Aliens took over the world and there were a few remote groups of humans left. In the story there was one older guy that had a pretty neat cave that he had worked on prepping for decades and now there were about a hundred others that were staying with him. Each had to pull his weight in order to eat.
If you want my food you better have something pretty good to trade or be willing to work.
Prepping saves money.
I think you’re doing very practical prepping, much like my household does.
If you’ll read my posts on this issue, you’ll see that I think it’s very important to prepare for disasters and emergencies. My problem is with the people who seem to live in the sure, powerful - and frequently very paranoid - belief that disaster and the destruction of our Country is surely coming, even imminent; and then get sort of ‘lost’ in that imagining.
I don’t think it’s healthy. We all buy auto, home, and health insurance, but we don’t go about thinking that any day we’ll have a crash, a tornado, or contract a disease; we just buy it, and put it away. I think prepping should be the same - and it always was, for our agrarian ancestors, before we became so comfortable with modern convenience.
-JT