Prepper Outreach Contest Submission Preparedness started slowly with me. Actually, it more or less crept up on me. Here is my story. I used to be one of those individuals that only bought what they needed for the next week or so from the store. (gasp!) Perhaps an extra box Read more…
Prepper Outreach Contest Submission I became interested in preparedness in 2002. At that time, I would store a little food or medical supplies, only for it to be used up a few weeks later because we needed it. It never really crossed my mind that true preparedness is more than Read more…
Prepper Outreach Contest Submission “To Prep or Not to Prep . . . That is the Question.” My sincerest apologies to Shakespeare for mangling his quote. I do hope he isn’t spinning in his grave! My aim in using this title is to encourage non-preppers to think about how our Read more…
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…