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How do I motivate my family when they think I'm a 'conspiracy nut' just for being on FR?!

Tell them what I am, should something like a meteroite, earthquake, power outage, something plausible, should it happen here is what we should do. No need to tell disbeliever's why, just to be prepared and do!

Tell them what I am, should something like a meteroite, earthquake, power outage, something plausible, should it happen here is what we should do. No need to tell disbeliever's why, just to be prepared and do!

Good approach...I started this - gingerly - with my s-i-l today. Seemed to work pretty well. I asked about the school lockdown and she kinda' realized she needed to be more aware of the plan in case any emergency should occur. One by one, I'll try to get each of us up to preparedness!

"What to tell the family about being prepared".

Tell them that the cost of food is going up and your money in the bank is not drawing enough interest to pay you to leave it there.

You might tell them, that during the early 70's, Bill came home and woke me up, an hour after leaving for work with the statement "Would you take me to the hospital, I think that I am having a heart attack".

He was, and it was over two years before he was able to work.

Then there is Gloria, whose husband lost his job almost a year ago, when the factory closed and her food supply is about used up.

Then there was Ruth in later years, whose LDS friend moved from the area and gave me her food supply, some 20 years old and not as good as todays dried food. I was to feed it to the animals, a pickup load of it.

But my health failed and I lived on it for a year, till I could sell my place in the hills and move back closer to town.

Or about Dena, who lived on her Y2K food, after her husband was badly injured in a motorcycle accident.

I can't tell you how many times, I have heard other versions of how the Y2K food was used, but all will fall into the above classes.

And if they still don't listen or like a brother of mine who says that he won't need to store food, cause Ruth has it already and he will come here.......then you store more food, because the one thing that is sure, is they will arrive.

Be safe and happy.

Ruth