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I'm guessing the folks who've been here regularly are amused by the people finding their way back!
I joined back in 2011, when I got "the prepper bug". I started with stocking a pantry, buying some "home defense items",
gathering a lot of survival information and joining several prepper and survival websites, such as this. This site answered
many of my questions about weapons and ammo, among other topics. Since joining almost 10 years ago, I've maintained
my "preparedness", adding items, rotating my food stock, getting my concealed-carry license, etc.
I use to check in here quite often, but frankly, it's been going pretty good for us the last few years - the job market, the stock
market, housing market, etc. A false sense of security, you might say. It was easy to think "What could possibly go wrong?"
Regarding our supplies, my wife and son know what we have here, but I've not really talked about it with friends and family,
because I know the response I'd get. It's like "What are you preparing for?? Everything is just fine!!" Even my own mother
(In her 80's) was laughing one day, when she told me about her neighbor who was storing buckets of food in his basement.
And then, BAM...... Look how fast everything turned to Sh-t.
Today, I was finally able to find my folks some toilet paper, after checking 8 stores in the past 3 days. I just happened to be at Walmart when they got two pallets in. There was an employee at each end of the aisle, controlling the growing crowd of
people waiting in line, for friggin' toilet paper. They let one person at a time go down the aisle - limit of one pack of paper towel, and one pack of toilet paper.
Who would have thought, on New Years day, that this was in the cards???
When I dropped the toilet paper off to my folks, I mentioned the limit. My mom said, "Gee, don't you need some?"
I said "No, mom... I stocked up a while ago."
I joined back in 2011, when I got "the prepper bug". I started with stocking a pantry, buying some "home defense items",
gathering a lot of survival information and joining several prepper and survival websites, such as this. This site answered
many of my questions about weapons and ammo, among other topics. Since joining almost 10 years ago, I've maintained
my "preparedness", adding items, rotating my food stock, getting my concealed-carry license, etc.
I use to check in here quite often, but frankly, it's been going pretty good for us the last few years - the job market, the stock
market, housing market, etc. A false sense of security, you might say. It was easy to think "What could possibly go wrong?"
Regarding our supplies, my wife and son know what we have here, but I've not really talked about it with friends and family,
because I know the response I'd get. It's like "What are you preparing for?? Everything is just fine!!" Even my own mother
(In her 80's) was laughing one day, when she told me about her neighbor who was storing buckets of food in his basement.
And then, BAM...... Look how fast everything turned to Sh-t.
Today, I was finally able to find my folks some toilet paper, after checking 8 stores in the past 3 days. I just happened to be at Walmart when they got two pallets in. There was an employee at each end of the aisle, controlling the growing crowd of
people waiting in line, for friggin' toilet paper. They let one person at a time go down the aisle - limit of one pack of paper towel, and one pack of toilet paper.
Who would have thought, on New Years day, that this was in the cards???
When I dropped the toilet paper off to my folks, I mentioned the limit. My mom said, "Gee, don't you need some?"
I said "No, mom... I stocked up a while ago."
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