I started doing all this stuff long before I ever heard the word “prepper”. I grew up with family doing all this stuff. It's a way of life to me - people without a lot of money doing what they need to do to protect their family and survive whatever hard times might come their way.
If they want to call me a prepper for that, it's ok. I am just a country gal trying to survive in a subdivision in rural America. If I ever get a fall out shelter built in a corner of the basement, then I'll be a real true prepper.LOL
—I started doing all this stuff long before I ever heard the word “prepper”.—
That’s me, I had never heard the word till a few years ago on FR. Before moving to Texas, we lived in hurricane country where we were threatened usually several times a year, most years, and suffered hits quite often, four times in ‘05. Smart folks kept canned food, batteries, candles or oil lamps, gas cans, duct tape, plywood, generators, and such stocked up long before someone yelled “hurricane” and the mad rush to clean out the stores began. All I had to do was make a trip to the gas station and we were ready. We keep enough food on hand to feed us for about two months, which is more than plenty.
With all that being said, I don’t consider us to be preppers, at least not in the typical sense. Without access to a pharmacy, all the other preparations would be useless anyway for us.
I guess I will now incur the wrath of all the real preppers now :)