Age of Preppers

[rice paddy daddy]

Wife & I are 40-45 group

Welcome, gundoc.

[gundoc]

Wife & I are 40-45 group

[MustangGal]

Interesting, I'm seeing the general average age group is between the ages of 40 -50 with a few alittle younger and a few alittle older.

A few more questions to try to get a general overview of the prepper attitude.

One question is what part of the country are you living in? The other qestion is what got you into the life stile of prepping? It seems to be alot of different levels of prepping, and the type of work people are doing.

Thanks
Tank

We are in the Ozarks. We are homesteading/prepping. Trying to be as self sufficent as possible. Wow! it is a big job.

What got us into prepping? I had to read "One Second After" for my Comp II class. I couldn't imagine telling my hungry son there was nothing for him to eat. As a parent, it was horrifying and something I hope I will never have to do.

[SeldomSeenSlim]

Interesting, I'm seeing the general average age group is between the ages of 40 -50 with a few alittle younger and a few alittle older.

A few more questions to try to get a general overview of the prepper attitude.

One question is what part of the country are you living in? The other qestion is what got you into the life stile of prepping? It seems to be alot of different levels of prepping, and the type of work people are doing.

Thanks
Tank

I'm under 40, but I can see it from here and it's coming up fast. Too fast.

I got started down this path in my early 20's. I spent a number of years in a cubicle that felt like a prison cell. Went through the .com boom and the .com bust. Then the housing boom and housing bust. In my adult life I've never seen a stable economy. To me retirement plans based on collecting money is a gamble. So instead of investing in some fund run by some random person I don't trust, I invest in myself. I figure it's better to buy water, shelter, food, etc. that is sustainable instead of just hoarding money in the hope it's still there later and that it's enough to support myself.

Zombies and disasters happen, but I'm mostly just preparing to keep living even after the paychecks stop. The more I can provide for myself, the less money I need to keep up my quality of life, the less money I need to retire and the less risk I have when the economy has another heart attack. At least that's the plan.

[BioG8r]

continuation of life more or less like it is now,
Catastrophic Outages Leading to Mobs Overrunning the Lemmings Left Incredulous, Inept, and Naive,
As was stated on another thread; Secret Acronym for all things possible....!

[JUSTIFIED]

We fall into the 30-35 range. Got into prepping in '97, the focus of our preps has changed drastically over the years. Started out with a very niave red dawn/mad max type focus to more of a COLMOLLIN/homestead approach.

Mjollnir what's "COLMOLLIN"?

[Mjollnir]

We fall into the 30-35 range. Got into prepping in '97, the focus of our preps has changed drastically over the years. Started out with a very niave red dawn/mad max type focus to more of a COLMOLLIN/homestead approach.

[JUSTIFIED]

Yep. And the coveinence store/gas station at the cross roads has a Subway sandwich shop in it! Wonder of wonders!! We actually have a fast food joint!!!!!!
And the hardware store sells guns-n-ammo and live stock feed..:cool:

Isn't that all we need? Subway and ammo?

We've got a Jiffy Trip convenience store/gas station in our town of 800 that serves a pretty good hamburger and fries but you'd better have an iron gut for the fried food they put out! We've got two mechanics, a small hardware and automotive shop, a tire shop, Billy Bob's Bar, motorcycle shop, Cowboy Church, and the newest business is a lady who is a masseuse! I'm pretty sure Patriot Lady isn't going to let me get a back rub there!...chuckle...

[rice paddy daddy]

We're jealous! You've got a stop light in your town!....chuckle....

Yep. And the coveinence store/gas station at the cross roads has a Subway sandwich shop in it! Wonder of wonders!! We actually have a fast food joint!!!!!!
And the hardware store sells guns-n-ammo and live stock feed..:cool:

[tank]

consider all of the things you use daily and how many of the things you use. you can not take every thing with you. maybe I woa good reason to bug in and hope for the best. I guess i'm thinking what is the difference of my wife and I going to a bol and be by ourselfs or bugging in by ourselfs. I can't see why I would want to spend that extra money and have the same thing.

today this mornin the water presure decreased to a trickle, and then this afternoon the power went out for about and hour and a half, with no back up I need to do some work on our utilities.

every day is a learning experence.
Tank

[JUSTIFIED]

Maybe we just need to get together, pool our resources, determine a bol central to all of us, go ahead and move to that location. That way we're working together to prepare one location for the group. Having said that, I'm moving into a new home (new to us) Tuesday. I'd like a few months to enjoy it before I move to a bol! LOL

[tank]

Ok, what about the sand to fill them, and the time to do it.

[protus]

i keep a case or two of sand bags ..but then again..for those who know where i live at this time, know why LMAO

[tank]

Well, I have been thinking about the same thing, how about sand bags under the windows and some sort of shutters over windows and doors. Maybe some tangle foot in the yard. No booby traps at least just not yet, that would depend on the problems you have at the time.

[tank]

Ok, let's hope we never have to use our prep's.