How often do you think about prepping?

[bacpacker]

For us we do a lot of stuff around here in regards to gardening, chickens, fruit, etc. We are also into hiking, backpacking, ham radio, shooting, etc as major hobbies. All these things lend themselves to prepping quite well.

The wife loves putting up produce, so most everything we grow, and about anything we can get at farmers markets or straight from farmers get's dehydrated, canned, or frozen. I enjoy woodworking and spent some time building our new chicken coop and other things around our place.

I also run thru a few forums most every day looking for news, a new way to tackle a problem, or a better way to do some thing. I'm also looking for titles for books, magazines, and our Kindles. I try and download as many PDF's as possible just to gather knowledge I may need at some point.

I don't consider a lot of what we do as prepping. It's more like living our life with an eye or ear out for something useful. Most of the time if we go out shopping for something, we also keep our eyes open for hardware, ammo, or many of the other things we feel we may need at some point. It helps finding a good deal on something.

[eagle326]

I don't consider a lot of what we do as prepping. It's more like living our life with an eye or ear out for something useful. Most of the time if we go out shopping for something, we also keep our eyes open for hardware, ammo, or many of the other things we feel we may need at some point. It helps finding a good deal on something.


This is the crux of living everyday life. Always on the look out for anything that may help you down the road. Such as tools whether they're powered by gas; electric or hand power. It's always the what if's thinking that keeps you in the game and hopefully ahead of the curve.
Long term food storage has always been a way of life until probably 50 yrs. ago when people decided the store bought was easier and less hassle or time consuming than canning or dehydrating. Water sources are another thing people don't think about because they're used to turning on a faucet rather than getting it from a well and hand pump.
For us it's not how often we think about prepping because to us it's just a natural life style.

[LUNCHBOX]

Maybe we should be called "Lifers" instead of preppers. Then things we do everyday are truely a way of life for us now. I have been somewhere completely un-related to prepping and catch myself viewing something I could put to use at a later date. For most of us if nothing ever happens we will just pass on a truckload of items and knowledge to the next life giver that comes along.

If only a group such as ours could really come together, what a village that could be.

[Sniper-T]

For us it's not how often we think about prepping because to us it's just a natural life style.

The quote of the day! Everything I do, everywhere I go, I am always looking or watching for things that'll help, that I need, that might help me later down the line, etc.

[eagle326]

Lifers!
Hell yea i like that term and you get to be the Head Lifer.

[Vodin]

I dont look at myself as a prepper all to often. Rather as a person who is resilient. I have overcome all issues life has bestowed upon me, and I grow from them. I don't rely on a religion or a belief to help get through issues. I look forward to the moment that I am currently in, I don't look back or that far in the future.

I make a complete effort every moment I am able to.

How often to often do I think about prepping? Most times, but its for a different outcome. My 'moment' on this earth will be fast in the big picture. I hope I will be able to cause a easing for others with my actions.

Ego? Not really just a desire to help others.

re·sil·ient (r-zlynt)
adj.
1. Marked by the ability to recover readily, as from misfortune.

[digdug18]

Funny, the more I see this weird weather happening, the more I think about preps or stocking items away.

[Echo2]

It's just a way of life....that is all.

Common sense....is not that common.

Foresight vs hindsight and all....ant and grasshopper kinda thing....

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Old version:

The ant worked hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thought the ant was a fool and laughed and danced and played the summer away.

Come winter, the ant was warm and well fed.

The grasshopper had no food or shelter, so he died out in the cold.

Moral of the story: Be responsible for yourself!

Modern version:

The ant worked hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thought the ant was a fool and laughed and danced and played the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper called a press conference and demanded to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others were cold and starving.

CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC showed up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

America was stunned by the sharp contrast.

How could this be in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper was allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appeared on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cried when they sang, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'

Acorn staged a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations filmed the group singing, ‘We shall overcome’.

Jeremiah Wright then had the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid exclaimed in an interview with Larry King the ant had got rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both called for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafted the Economic Equity and Anti - Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant was fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home was confiscated by the government Green Czar.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ants food while the government house he was in, which just happened to be the ant's old house, crumbled around him because he did not maintain it.

The ant had disappeared in the snow.

The grasshopper was found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, was taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorized the once peaceful neighborhood.

[Taz Baby]

I was raised to prep and take care of myself. But of course at that time I did not know it was prepping. It was just something we were suppose to do. That's how we lived. Grow what you want to eat. Hunt when you want meat you cannot raise. Always give thanks to the earth for providing it for you. Give back to where ever to took. In other words, plant a tree if you take one for wood or building something, feed the wild animals, and never kill anything you will not eat. So I just keep on doing what I have been all my life and now it has a name (PREPPING)

[Dropy]

Well since i decided i wanted to live to see tomorrow i have adopted a mindset of "What can i do today to make this happen".