Preparedness Website Q&A Crossover begins today……
Today begins a multi-part series of Questions and Answers involving several websites who each take one simple question…..and answer it. This Q&A will continue through Friday.
Seasoned Citizen Prepper Executive Editor Bev will be answering questions this week. The other participating sites are as follows:
Today’s Question: When did you start prepping and why?
I started prepping in 1975, a year after I got married. It wasn’t called prepping then, it was just called “good housekeeping” by the neighbor ladies in our church. We were out in the panhandle of Idaho and as a young bride I trusted my husband to make good decisions and provide for us–NOT!
Although we had had a profitable summer logging, he had spent all the money and put nothing aside for winter. Well, after living on elk and pancakes all winter, and barely staying warm, I decided I needed to prepare for… winters, illnesses, injuries, job loss or layoff, electrical blackouts, volcano eruptions (yes, we went through Mount St. Helen’s blowup), blizzards, tornadoes, drought, excessive heat, excessive and extended cold, flooding, locusts in the garden, family upheavels, what have you!
Being frugal, learning basic survival skills, and stocking away food has always been of help both in good times and bad!
- Bev
Your Turn!
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Always prepped a bit. Never had any income in the summer so always stockpiled food for 3 months to get me thru the summer to cut down on expenses. I had 3 kids to feed. About 3 years ago I woke up one morning after having a nightmare about a massive earthquake and immediately jumped on the prepper bandwagon. I researched everything I could on the internet and tried talking friends into it also. A couple of weeks later, there was a massive earthquake in Haiti and I thought about what the same kind of event would mean here in SoCal. I have stopped talking about it to friends in terms of prepping and now if it is brought up, I say I am preparing for retirement. Didn’t learn about the importance of OPSEC until later.
Thanks for your comment! You no doubt have lots of valuable info to share having raised three kids! SHARE! Bev :)
We began to be aware of the need for preparedness when my husband was in the Army. The military encourages it’s people to “be prepared”. When we were stationed at Ft Leonard wood there were floods, heaps of snow, and even a unexpected tornado. We began to keep an emergency stash with fresh water and food, flashlights, warm waterproof clothes. We had camping gear with reflective blankets and good sleeping bags. I think it’s always a good idea to be prepared.
I started prepping after going to infowars.com and shtfplan.com. I woke up to what was happening and started “stocking up” on anything that was free, as I just lost my job and was going to day labor. Matches, wipes from KFC, anything to make me feel like I was preparing my new family for the fall of babylon.
2 1/2 years later, I’m better off than 99.5% of the US population.