Prepper Outreach Contest
11 Apr 2012 by Preparedness Pro filed in
All of our adult lives we insure ourselves. We pay for car insurance, home insurance, life, health, dental and vision insurance. We spend a lot of money on insurance, usually with very little return compared to what we spend on it. Why do we do this? To protect ourselves of course. To protect ourselves, our families and our way of life.
Yet, when it comes to preparing for potential disaster or societal collapse, most people don’t. Most people do not feel the need to insure their own survival...
11 Apr 2012 by Preparedness Pro filed in
Doing the popular and trendy thing has never been a priority in our lives.
But I must say I am thrilled to see so many people preparing their homes and families for hard times.
Notice how so many of them can recall relatives that lived through the depression...and the things they absorbed from their actions? That is really the starting point of my story. My grandfather lived an honorable and prepared life because of what his family lived through. I love the stories of the whole family...
11 Apr 2012 by Preparedness Pro filed in
I have always been of the prepping mindset, but recently with events happening in the world, I feel an urgency to get my house in order. We don't have a lot of space in our house (with 5 kids) so we started putting our food storage under our house. We are finally getting to where I don't feel so helpless if something were to happen. I have learned to can chicken, beef, peaches, pear sauce, and applesauce to name a few. I feel so prepared to know that I have the equipment to can my own food and...
11 Apr 2012 by Preparedness Pro filed in
I grew up in the Golden Days. We never had to "want" for anything. Shopping for clothes was seasonal. Food shopping was from local community grocery stores. Freezer and pantry was always stocked with garden goodies from Mema's garden.
There was always summer vacations and camping trips...with and without electricity. I have had a camper or tent in my life since I was 5. Latrines and outhouses do not scare me.
Survival and being Prepared learning came from being a Girl Scout and a Uncle who was...
11 Apr 2012 by Preparedness Pro filed in
Okay, you got me. I’ve been excusing myself from writing a story for the Preparedness Pro contest on the basis of being too busy. I mean, hey, the piles of food storage recipes stacked around my office and upstairs in the kitchen are annoying everyone and must get punched and put into the binders I finally made time to purchase and label the other day. Too bad the dining room table is covered with my gardening binder with all its plot maps and plant information, pencil crayons for color-coding...
11 Apr 2012 by Preparedness Pro filed in
Good Morning Preppers to Be!
I am a 63 yr.old grandmother and I have been a 'prepper' for years. I always aspired to be self sufficient and I'm still working on getting off the grid. That being said I feel that everyone is looking for some way to get out of debt and out of the fast lane. We all complain about stress but, are you doing anything to reduce your mental stress of everyday life?
I never realized that I like to garden and grow my own food till a few years back and now we have a...
11 Apr 2012 by Preparedness Pro filed in
Frugal Self Reliance is the Goal
Being raised in the 60’s by frugal parents created a somewhat frugal ME. I had no idea that I was a prepper, though. That label feels a bit weird, even though I have stepped up my home food store tremendously. I’ve just always done what I felt best financially, buying food and necessities ahead as sales came up, making Christmas presents, buying from thrift stores, any way to save money.
Around 1998 the big Y2K preparedness thing came into my view, and I...
11 Apr 2012 by Preparedness Pro filed in
This is my story of how I became a Prepper. Let me give you a little history here. I’ve always been a country girl and I grew up being the only girl in a family of all boy cousins. I can remember learning to skin squirrels and rabbits by tying their legs onto my swing set. I loved running the woods, I played softball, I did every event a girl could do in a rodeo (and I worked the chutes for the guys events) and I loved riding my horse and pawpaw’s 3 wheeler. I didn’t get to hunt, guns were a...
10 Apr 2012 by Preparedness Pro filed in
I really don't remember when it began, I was a kid. Born and Raised in the U.S. Air Force, everything we did had to fit the Military income and Lifestyle. I was Born in Massachusetts, but never lived there, and My sister was born in Hawaii. I went to school in Both Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan, Junior High in Selma Alabama (I'm an Eye witness to M.L. King's March from Selma to Montgomery), and I graduated from High School in Miami Florida, class of 1970. The schools I went to...
10 Apr 2012 by Preparedness Pro filed in
We started prepping in 1967 when our children were small and so was the pay packet.
Our start was a vegetable garden that grew in size as our children grew, and fruit trees, bushes and plants to provide fresh fruit every month of the year – we live in a temperate climate – Auckland, NZ. At present it is mid Autumn and we have figs, Feijoas(pineapple guavas), yellow guavas, apples and grapes, fresh off the trees/vines. Our fruit trees are mainly self sown seedlings, cutting grown or bought...
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