Prepper Outreach Contest Submission Japan Tsunami. Hurricane Katrina. Iceland Volcano. Minnesota Earthquake. Chernobyl. Gulf Oil Spill. Leak at Prairie Island MN Nuclear Plant. Sure the Minnesota ones aren’t in the same league as the more well known world wide ones, but the fact that I can list them at all, Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Prepper Outreach Contest Submission 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 Read more…
Prepper Outreach Contest Submission 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. Read more…
Prepper Outreach Contest Submission 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 Read more…