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Not preparing for one’s family is a different issue altogether. I will repeat my earlier point. When a person takes it upon himself to hoard enough supplies to last through, what? Armageddon - a year, or whatever, then he better be prepared to turn away the many who will come to him for help and I would not want to be in that position.

It’s better to learn how to hunt, fish, and cook from scratch and very few people today even know how to do the third, at least the young people I meet.

When a person takes it upon himself to hoard enough supplies to last through, what? Armageddon - a year, or whatever, then he better be prepared to turn away the many who will come to him for help and I would not want to be in that position.

Your options are pretty dismal. Don't store up any food for my family on the chance that someone might come for help, and we might not be able to help them? That's not even logical. That's like the time my dad told me that if a bad guy ever broke into my house and my kids and I were in danger, I should first consider that he might have a wife and kids at home before I tried to defend ourselves. My job as a mom is to provide for my family, and that's what I do every day. Buying extra groceries is just insurance against a job loss, a disaster, hyper-inflation, etc. It's the smart thing to do. Also, since my husband's side of the family is oblivious to any sort of future problems, we would probably end up sharing at least some of our provisions with them.

As far as hunting and fishing go, that would only apply to people living in rural areas. I wish we had the means to buy something out in the country that would make that a feasible option for us, but right now we can't.

Yes ma’am, you are right on “being prepared” instead of trying to stockup until a crisis is over. Was just tonight having a conversation about the difference of stockpiling food and what if no electric power. I prefer to know how to do things the way my grandparents had no other choice than do - grow you own, dry and can and one prep many will not be able to do is draw clean drinking water from your own well “by hand”. My guns will be to feed and protect my family and possessions just like back when.