Rant on Pretenders

[jmc7104]

This is also in the fore-front of my mind. I also feel I won't be around to use my meager preps. But I make sure to let my uninvolved family know where, how, and why to use them. I feel I won't be around due to my family history and their historical lifespan.

I too am concerned about my preps as my wife is in bad health and mine is also medecine dependent ages are 67 for here and in couple month 75 for me. Hopefully our family will find them useful Jim

[Fanderal]

I've only been able to skim most of this thread, but a couple of things JUMP out at me.

Prepping is a LIFESTYLE, it is NOT a kit you go buy. If you are are REAL Prepper, you will NEVER be finished, you will NEVER have ALL the bases covered, there will always be something else on the horizon that you will need to get, do, learn, or master, and IF by some miracle, you do manage to finish, you ill find that you then have a moral obligation to teach what you know.

A bit of my story: 3 years ago, the Mrs. and I had a chance to get out of the city, and we RAN not walked. We live in an old beat up Trailer Home, on a rented acre. (the Landlord is one of US) We raise Goats, and Chickens, and will have Rabbits again soon. Our water comes from a well, and our electricity comes out of a Generator. We are both HAM's, and are active in the local club. Our friends refer to our place as the McGyver mansion. Everything about the place has been sort of cobbled together out of what ever I had available at the time. (I spent less than $7000 getting moved in and set up, that includes buying the trailer) We started with a good deep pantry, and a small herd of Rabbits. I had to kill off the Rabbits or let them die in the heat the first summer. (lesson number ONE, Rabbits need ice, ice requires FULL TIME electricity, or lots of money.)

Our Goat yard and shed, is made out of wooden pallets. The electrical system in the trailer was so bad I completely rewired it and have installed a Charger/Inverter and batteries, so I don't have to run the Genny all the time when we want electric. We use the LLs well, and have to pump water 1/4 mile from to a holding tank by the trailer, and then use an RV pump to get pressurized water in the house. My hot water heater is a $200 2.0 gal a minute Tankless unit that I have mounted inside, and vented through the well.

I'm not really trying to brag, I'm trying to demonstrate that it's not about "knowing it all" or having "all the bases covered" it's about having the proper attitude. The ONE skill that a prepper NEEDS to master first, foremost, and always, is "creative problems solving". Every time you run into a problem even if you can do it the "right" way, or the "normal" way, at least try to think of how you would deal with the problem if you didn't have X or Y.

Here is my real point:
Being a prepper is about having "some" obvious stuff (like a years worth of food) but in the end the people who will pull through, will be the ones that can think outside the box, and solve problems without a lot of "stuff", cause you will never have enough "stuff".


Fanderal

[Briar Wabbit]

Tru-dat !
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