Life has made me a Prepper. Many years ago I was raising 5 children with no child support. I worked 2 jobs but it was never enough money to support us. At one time we were homeless. We lived at a state park in a tent with Vienna sausage being Read more…
Prepper Outreach Contest Submission My husband and I worked hard several years ago to make sure that we had a year’s supply of food and household products to take care of ourselves. And there are many times we have relied on those items to help us when work was thin Read more…
Yeah I said it and it may be gratuitous use of the word or it may be real. Read on to find out. From a very young age there are so many things that we prepare for in life. We prepare for our first day of school by shopping for Read more…
Okay, you guys have made me feel guilty. I had no intention of writing this but feel since I have read your stories and enjoyed them so much that I should contribute something back. I hope my prepping journey is helpful to someone, it all began a while back and it started Read more…
Prepper Outreach Contest Submission A few years ago I just got a feeling….a feeling that something is coming. I talked about it with my husband, who, of course, thought I was crazy….at first. But he supported my effort and we starting collecting items and becoming more organized with the emergency Read more…
Prepper Outreach Contest Submission 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? Read more…
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 Read more…
Prepper Outreach Contest Submission 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 Read more…
Prepper Outreach Contest Submission 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 were always summer vacations and camping Read more…
Prepper Outreach Contest Submission 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 Read more…