Prepper Outreach Contest
04 Apr 2012 by Preparedness Pro filed in
I think being prepared is part of life.
You pack for a trip, you anticipate the things you will need and you acquire them before they are needed. It's a way of life, a way of being responsible for yourself and your family. It's about planning for the future just like you would put money into a 401K. Sure you may not need it but if you do it's there. You wouldn't go to the gas station and get just enough gas to get home so I think preparedness should be viewed in the same way.
My family and...
04 Apr 2012 by Preparedness Pro filed in
I don’t have any friends among Preparedness fans and I know that none of my own friends are even remotely interested in reading this post. However, that said, I sincerely hope that the message I want to share will help validate and reinforce the belief among those who understand the need to be prepared, and maybe even inspire or spur into action those who have yet to make up their mind on this issue. As I have learned from my own experience with harsh reality of life how things can go very...
04 Apr 2012 by Preparedness Pro filed in
In the summer of 2002 my family moved to south Texas. My husband was working across the border in Mexico everyday. Our daughter was about to turn 3, and I was very pregnant with our first son. The news was full of reports of potential dirty bomb attacks and I was anxious and unsettled (and looking back, probably very hormonal), and I felt constant uneasiness. I remembered the scripture in Doctrine & Covenants 38:30 that reads, “but if ye are prepared, ye shall not fear.” I took it to heart...
04 Apr 2012 by Preparedness Pro filed in
It seems everyone is joking about zombies these days. Having avoided horror movies most of our lives, we must admit we're still not exactly sure what zombies are. We are not worried about preparing for something that doesn't seem like reality though. What we do worry about is not having what we need to take care of our family in a basic disaster type of situation. Disasters are a reality.
We began preparing a little over a year ago. The Japan earthquake shook many of us around the world to the...
04 Apr 2012 by Preparedness Pro filed in
I grew up in a small town in Minnesota where nobody seemed to have their own name until they were an adult- and until that time, you were “John Olsen’s boy,” or “Jean Brown’s eldest daughter.” With the older generation, you were “Gertrude Johnson’s grandchild,” even when you were an adult. It was a very tightly-knit community. It had to be, because the winters were filled with blizzards and heavy snows, spring held floods, summers had scorching heat and humidity, and fall brought wicked...
04 Apr 2012 by Preparedness Pro filed in
My husband and I often are asked about why we would need to be prepared more than minimally. We share with people how it has benefited us personally.
When we moved out of the city and into the country, we chose to live away from nosy neighbors and have a place big enough to grow a garden and let our dogs run and bark without someone calling animal control or making a complaint. We wanted to be able to able to control our own lives without having to go through the hoops that cities and HOA’s...
04 Apr 2012 by Preparedness Pro filed in
My brother has been prepping for YEARS! Long before it was "'cool" and before it even had a name. (We just called it being prepared and being smart.) My husband and I didn't worry too much about it all until he ended his time with the US Navy and we moved back to WV to be near family to raise our young children. (Annabelle, 3 - Gabriel, 2 - and God's little surprise on the way #3) We have told my brother, who has (and wants) no children that we are just creating a colony for him. I'm sure...
04 Apr 2012 by Preparedness Pro filed in
At age 55 I have a new love in my life, it is prepping. My husband of 36 years is in love with it too, so there is no jealousy on either side. We started a home group, we call ourselves "THE GLORY DAY PREPPERS." We all have the same goal in mind, and that is to "open minded" and "teachable" to be prepared for any disaster. Prepping with my husband will be a long term relationship, so in this case 3 is not a crowd, and the more in this relationship, the better it is...♥♥♥
C.D. MT
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04 Apr 2012 by Preparedness Pro filed in
am the perfect example of "Generation X". (We were the original generation...before Y & Z followed us).
I grew up in suburbia. We spent more money than we had made in the day, ate microwaved food, watched too much tv and talked on the phone for too long. Hard work was what our grandparents did while walking to school uphill both ways, in the snow. Our reality was a media & consumer fueled world.
Then we grew up...we are the late 20's early 30's somethings staring families, trying to...
04 Apr 2012 by Preparedness Pro filed in
It has to start somewhere. For us, many years ago, it started by buying two cans of vegetables and putting one aside. As a young family with one income we didn’t have much. Then as the kids came along, it was harder to find the budget to stretch and cover all the expenses. The blessing of being able to stay home, raise and homeschool five wonderful people (now adults- but always kids to me) was a first class lesson on frugality and provident living.
Now, many years later. Provident living and...
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