Do you know any preppers?

[Anonymous]

No one I know. Heck, my mother won’t buy a whole weeks worth of cat food because “the cat could choke tomorrow and then I’d be stuck with all that food!”

I do buy almost everything in bulk, so have plenty of everything on hand — non perishable food, paper products, soap, shampoo, etc. but I just find it easier— if I can do one big order from Target or Amazon rather than having to make a dozen trips, I’ve saved a lot of time and effort.

I also can and freeze food because I like to use fruits and veggies when they are at their peak. So I could survive and jams, pickles, and applesauce for quite some time in an emergency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mother became a Prepper a few years ago, and I’ve joined a few Prepper groups on FB and Reddit, just to try to understand the mentality. However, outside of my mother I don’t know
of any other preppers in real life. Do you know of anyone who is relatively “normal” who lives in a suburban area who is a Prepper? And by Prepper, I don’t mean just prepping for a hurricane or blizzard, but prepping for some kind of nefarious end of civilization type of scenario.

Yes, but the ones I know are more left-leaning politically or from countries that have collapsed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know a lot of LDS/Mormon families who are prepped without the prepper label. It takes so much storage space.

Is anyone a prepper who doesn’t have a garage or basement and lives in a smaller house who can give me tips? We struggle with having enough space to store supplies as well as timing rotation of stuff in and out.

I mean…but that’s a basic requirement as part of the LDS doctrine. It’s not an inherently bad thing to take precautionary measure to be sure you have a supply of sustenance for your family in case of unforeseen adverse conditions. In fact, some would consider this to be a responsible thing to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are preppers and I know I'm insane.
If I don't have it you probably don't need it. I have extra in case family ends up here. Our garage freezer is full and so is our in house freezer. We are not religious or end timers, nor paranoid hermits. Just regular people that saw the writing on the wall during the covid hysteria. There are only two things we need at the store at any given time, eggs and milk. Other than that I do think we could last a month or two maybe more if we had to. Even if we share. If we go down we all go together.
I cleaned out our hall closet and put a rolling metal shelf in there. All paper goods are stored there along with storage bags and garbage bags. Paper bowls, plates, plastic utensils, napkins.
I put another metal shelf in my walk in closet, double wide rolling shelf and filled that with long shelf life foods. Our bathroom cabinets have quart size containers filled with medications we buy regularly. Enough to last many many months. Every time I ordered any I always bought one extra.
Same with food. I buy two at a time of everything when it needs replacing. I don't let food go bad. New goes in the back shelf and older goes up front to use. Our walk in pantry had wasted space up top so my husband put up extra shelves. I keep a crockpot, electric skillet, mixer, blender, extra pet food up there and use the other shelves for can goods. Buying bulk is the way to go. Keeping a list of things helps too.
No one I know in my family does this and I do not tell anyone what we do except here. Anonymity is important. Not that the government or stores don't know because they do, sorry ass spies, but I like keeping my s... close to the vest KWIM ? If I showed family I think they would laugh or be scared. But really I don't care. It's my hobby right now.

It does not take a lot of space. A blank wall, a metal shelf in a bedroom, works. Those plastic shoe boxes are cheap and great for bandages and small food storage, batteries and flashlights. Cereal keepers and bread keepers are great also. Anything stackable works. We have a garage, no basement. We have an outside freezer. Huge water jugs for the toilet should we need and propane bottles filled are stored in the garage. Couple of Mr. Heaters just in case. Last year our power was out so we slept in the living room and lit the fireplace. We cooked and heated water in the garage. We're all electric so prepping helped. it.

Hope this helped. To make it all work you have to be committed but it is worth

Really enjoyed this post.
Particularly the self-awareness to know that others outside your family and even extended family would think you are bunkers for doing this. But w that’s the harm?
If you never need it for emergency, then fine! And if you do need it well then you will have it!

One of the reasons I enjoyed this post is because about a year into Covid I decided that I didn’t want to repeat the whole shortage of items panic that happened during Covid. So I quietly started buying extra everything, including tp, and non-perishable canned goods, just to have in hand. I didn’t even tell my husband why. Because I think he might think I had lost my mind. But it’s the opposite. It gives me a little comfort and sanity. Relieves a little anxiety to know I have extra supply of basic needs in case stores are closed or supply chains are backed up during an emergency situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I recently procured iodine tablets

Why would you want to live in a radioactive hellscape? Just curious.

[Anonymous]

I have about a 2 month supply of freeze dried food and drinking water + own a few guns that I regularly practice with, and enough ammo to last a pretty long time. I camp a few times a year and have done a few backpacking trips. I don’t have any delusions about surviving ww3 or anything civilization ending, but want to have the ability to weather any acute disasters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recently procured iodine tablets

Why would you want to live in a radioactive hellscape? Just curious.

DP
Because it’s better than dying?

I’m not really sure you really understand what being dead, means. You don’t re-spawn like a video game. You don’t become a ghost and visit friends or family and play little pranks with the lightbulbs and silverware drawer.

I’ll take a radioactive hellscape over being dead any day of the week.


Besides, anyone who bothers to read the widely available information on nuclear war survival tips understands that the “radioactive hellscape phase” doesn’t really last that long. It would be pretty stupid to die when all you had to do was stay hunkered down for a couple weeks.

[Anonymous]

I have spent some time thinking through how we could last for days to weeks in our house if various utilities (electric, gas, water, sewer) were unavailable in various seasons, and made some strategic purchases to make those scenarios more tolerable.

Other than that our primary approach is keeping the gas in the cars topped up and cash on hand. We are not going to be shooting at people around here.

[Anonymous]

I have a prepper neighbor. They have five kids and they are nuts. But, generally likable overall. A PP mentioned eggs and milk as being their weak link. My neighbor is thinking of getting chickens to remedy that. We can have up to five hens in our town.

[Anonymous]

I have a lot of post-apocalypse currency: booze!

[Anonymous]

I had n95 masks stocked pre-2019. DH thought I was crazy until the pandemic hit. I’m working through using up my paper goods and trying not to have too much. It’s a fine line between hoarding. I refuse to own firearms and without a gun this stuff could be looted in truly desperate times. If you need to move quickly due to a climate disaster, it would be impossible to take it all. You cannot plan for every scenario.

[Anonymous]

I recently procured FDA approved iodine tablets, too.

I had n95 masks pre pandemic.

Purchased modera stock at the IPO.

Water in basement.

Etc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recently procured iodine tablets

Why would you want to live in a radioactive hellscape? Just curious.

They are only helpful if you are below a certain age anyway. We do have them for our teens. DH and I are too old.

[Anonymous]

What is the point of stockpiling food when radiation fallout would kill you? Not trying to be snarky. I just watched “Testament” so it’s on my mind. Unless you live somewhere very far from a city, there’s no chance of survival.

[Anonymous]

We are preppers. We now live on land that is mostly off the grid. (Well water, solar and wind)

We have septic and can power the house using solar and sell back to the electric country. We have guns and practice using often. We grow much of our food and have chickens, cattle and other livestock.

We have underground living facilities for humans and livestock.

We have a room where our electronics are surrounded by a Farraday cage. We have two cars with no one modern electronics and in case of an EMP. We also have bicycles. The farm equipment uses a bio fuel which we have several tons in storage.

We are also well protected from intruders with several visible and invisible security measures.