[foodzwhat]

For me, it sort of happened by accident. I've always liked camping. I don't mean fire up the RV and head for the campground near a national park. I mean camping out in the woods and enjoying the solitude. Anyway, I was on Facebook one day and there was apost about some company giving away free backpacks to the first 500 people. They, also, said that they would be giving away 5 "special survival" packages. I clicked on it and filled out the info and just forgot about it. 6 weeks later, I came home from work and there was a good sized box on my front porch. I had completely forgotten about the backpack. When I opened the box, there was a good sized pack from LA Gear, but there was, also, half a dozen MOLLE pouches that attached to it, three shemaughs, a good machete, a large Bowie knif, and an assortment of other stuff. I took a pic and sent it to my brother in California.

He texted me and wanted to know if I was going to turn into "one of those prepper people". That Christmas, he sent me a copy of the SAS Survival Handbook. I read it and it got me thinking about what I would do if there was a SHTF event. So. I started collecting gear for anything that I could think of for some event that could happen around here. That was about ten years ago.

Now, he has started to call me and ask my opinions on gear that he's gathering together.

 

[Spenser]

Well I am not a prepper, but a Survivalist, but to answer how I became that, I was bred to be one. Stepfather was a prepper & former Navy officer, mother's father, Gramps was army, my father was army, and his father, my Grandpa, was army ( in the same CIA training facility as Henry Kissinger ).

For the record, I have lived with just my father, belated mother & stepfather, and Gramps in my life. All 3 of the male military figures in my life taught me some sort of aspect of survival, or military training, and being in the outdoors was something I was brought into at the age of 6 in the middle of nowhere in the Catskill mountains.

Over the decades I endured earthquakes, blizzards, hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, blackouts, heatwaves, & civil unrest, and with each disaster I became more informed, and sought out more knowledge of how to endure & survive those conditions.

Who would have imagined that my major SHTF was a divorce, lol ok so that one I was surely not prepared for, and I can tell you she won the battle not I.

 

[Chipper]

Normal way of life for us the last 50 plus years. Only thing that changed is now it's popular and called prepping.

 

[Back Pack Hack]

Grew up with it, so I thought it was 'normal'.

 

[Sourdough]

I started being trained in 1951 it got serious with punishment for failure in 1952. Training lasted till 1955 or 6.

In 1969 I departed for Alaska to homestead "FREE" Federal Land under the "1883 HOMESTEAD ACT". I gathered up everything I would need to survive remote Alaska. Spent the first winter alone with no human contact. It was very spiritual experience. (and COLD) I wrote this about that winter alone.

"The wilderness can change a man"

There is a real transformation that can metamorphose within a man who is alone in the wilderness. He can exit the wilderness fragile, very fragile; he is no longer sure where that which is himself ends and that which is not himself begins,

Everything is kind of fuzzy, and has a softness about it, all things appear slightly blurred to the eye, like after one has been crying, and it can be hard to distinguish where one object stops, and another object starts.

He feels weak and vulnerable but centered. In fact, he is stronger, but the feeling of weakness, and vulnerability comes from the loss of arrogance.

There is a clarity about the perfection of everything. Sounds are crisper, colors are different, there are so many more (new) colors now.

He feels as if he is looking through things and through people, this is a very uncomfortable experience, he tries to focus, but he just looks through everything.

Part of him wants to go back to the way it was, before being alone in the wilderness. But he also enjoys the bliss of how it is now. He wants to weep for no reason, but for the perfection of everything.

He has change, and can not change back to that which he was before, being alone in the wilderness.

I know not of drugs, but being alone in the wilderness, for long periods will change your perception of the universe. The universe is the same, but you have shifted to a place where you can see, with new eyes, a new heart, and a new empathy for all life. You have been born a second time, and are a child of the wilderness.

There was a time long ago, that a man was encouraged to go into the wilderness alone for a extended period, (40 days and 40 nights in the time of Christ) so that he might find wisdom about life. Sad it is discouraged today.

 

[NMPRN]

Had a psycho Nam vet teacher in high school who got me into survival in the late 70's, married a homesteader a few years later. We met in the middle and started prepping with just a case of MRE's that were 'on loan' from the Marine Corps.

 

[AndyFrank]

Im from 1964 and had suburb parents and rural grandparents. Its just normal

 

[bigwheel]

For me, it sort of happened by accident. I've always liked camping. I don't mean fire up the RV and head for the campground near a national park. I mean camping out in the woods and enjoying the solitude. Anyway, I was on Facebook one day and there was apost about some company giving away free backpacks to the first 500 people. They, also, said that they would be giving away 5 "special survival" packages. I clicked on it and filled out the info and just forgot about it. 6 weeks later, I came home from work and there was a good sized box on my front porch. I had completely forgotten about the backpack. When I opened the box, there was a good sized pack from LA Gear, but there was, also, half a dozen MOLLE pouches that attached to it, three shemaughs, a good machete, a large Bowie knif, and an assortment of other stuff. I took a pic and sent it to my brother in California.

He texted me and wanted to know if I was going to turn into "one of those prepper people". That Christmas, he sent me a copy of the SAS Survival Handbook. I read it and it got me thinking about what I would do if there was a SHTF event. So. I started collecting gear for anything that I could think of for some event that could happen around here. That was about ten years ago.

Now, he has started to call me and ask my opinions on gear that he's gathering together.

I started being a prepper as an old Boy Scout. Our motto was Be Prepared. Got super interested in the mid seventies early 80s with a book by a smart Mormon named Howard Ruff called "How to Survive the Coming Hard Times." or similar I got Saved at age 40 and dont worry about prepping too much nowadays..a few decades later. Whatever the Lord is planning we are ready to help if needed.

ABOUT HOWARD — Howard Ruff Legacy

www.howardruff.com

 

[Maine-Marine]

I lived for some time with my grandparents - they went through the great depression...plus we lived 35 miles from the nearest grocery store

21 years in the military

read the bible

watched Collapse by Michal Rupprt

know history

 

[wallyLOZ]

Both parents grew up during the depression and always had the mindset of keeping a stash of essentials. That carried over to me when I got out on my own. I guess what really ramped up my preparedness was seeing hurricane Katrina devastate NOLA. What little help they got was too little, too late. Made up my mind to get, and stay prepared for an event like that, or worse. My wife always thought that I was crazy until the great covid toilet paper crisis. She's on board now.

 

[paraquack]

My parents lived thru the Depression and were farmers. It wasn't called prepping back then. It was call a way of life. When I left home, I fell away from the life. As a paramedic in IL, I knew the government would be there if a catastrophe ever occured. Like wallyLOZ, I was sitting in my easy chair, watching people during Huricane Katrina, when I saw the handwriting on the wall.

 

[bigwheel]

Both parents grew up during the depression and always had the mindset of keeping a stash of essentials. That carried over to me when I got out on my own. I guess what really ramped up my preparedness was seeing hurricane Katrina devastate NOLA. What little help they got was too little, too late. Made up my mind to get, and stay prepared for an event like that, or worse. My wife always thought that I was crazy until the great covid toilet paper crisis. She's on board now.

Same here on being raised by survivors of the great depression. Parents..Grandparents and assorted other slightly older relatives. My Mama often said a person could buy a lot of stuff for a nickle..but not many folks had any nickles.lol.

 

[AndyFrank]

My parents lived thru the Depression and were farmers. It wasn't called prepping back then. It was call a way of life. When I left home, I fell away from the life. As a paramedic in IL, I knew the government would be there if a catastrophe ever occured. Like wallyLOZ, I was sitting in my easy chair, watching people during Huricane Katrina, when I saw the handwriting on the wall.

When mr bush went in office, i left for the forest because i knew killemall time was nigh....it just took them forever to get to it (and screwing it up and not go to plan, like we figured. They fumble and stumble through gates/faucis failure and its gotten GOOFY with the wef and nouvous)

 

[Sourdough]

When mr bush went in office, i left for the forest because i knew killemall time was nigh....it just took them forever to get to it (and screwing it up and not go to plan, like we figured. They fumble and stumble through gates/faucis failure and its gotten GOOFY with the wef and nouvous)

Curious "WHICH" Mr. Bush......??? Some of us were prepping 45 years prior to Mr. Bush "SENIOR".

 

[AndyFrank]

Curious "WHICH" Mr. Bush......??? Some of us were prepping 45 years prior to Mr. Bush "SENIOR".

So I guess even with all of it and his wife being crowleys grandaughter, and the sub-kindergarten obvious "Satan come as lightning" front puppet "obama", theres still people that want to pretend they don't get it?
And yes agreed? My grandparents despised govt and doctors and you could have prepped since china fell or japan because it was obvious then; both had to reject their divinity in terms of surrender. Even "George Washington's vision" (another pure fraud) has the great angel (satan) standing here with an "azure flag".....which is the UN color, not red, white and blue, like ours.
The spanish flu was an identical fiasco to covid and the "vassine" killed more than the disease did. The depression and war will just be larger scale.
The worst thing that could happen is nothing. Then, the worst examples of what were humans just continue to pile up and rot to putrefaction. LA with aids, Vaids, hepatitis, typhus and syphilis is not half as bad as it will get in a couple more years.

But the great battle for a right world is far off and there is still always a reason to be independent and prep. We have had a dozen good reasons in the last century.
Alive on earth is a good reason to prep

Tffwc

 

[Sourdough]

So I guess even with all of it and his wife being crowleys grandaughter, and the sub-kindergarten obvious "Satan come as lightning" front puppet "obama", theres still people that want to pretend they don't get it?
And yes agreed? My grandparents despised govt and doctors and you could have prepped since china fell or japan because it was obvious then; both had to reject their divinity in terms of surrender. Even "George Washington's vision" (another pure fraud) has the great angel (satan) standing here with an "azure flag".....which is the UN color, not red, white and blue, like ours.
The spanish flu was an identical fiasco to covid and the "vassine" killed more than the disease did. The depression and war will just be larger scale.
The worst thing that could happen is nothing. Then, the worst examples of what were humans just continue to pile up and rot to putrefaction. LA with aids, Vaids, hepatitis, typhus and syphilis is not half as bad as it will get in a couple more years.

But the great battle for a right world is far off and there is still always a reason to be independent and prep. We have had a dozen good reasons in the last century.
Alive on earth is a good reason to prep

Tffwc

So.........In conclusion, you actually have "ZERO" idea which Mr. Bush you are ravingly distraught about.

 

[AndyFrank]

So.........In conclusion, you actually have "ZERO" idea which Mr. Bush you are ravingly distraught about.

See? The creature doesn't even know who Barbara bush is....but wants to vote and complains about being dumped off with a shot?
But somebodys "feewings" will block clear intelligent thought and guide the user to be the loser....i dont get all the mind tricks, but they are always obvious.
My family is a thousand years old. What don't I know about this? Its a re-run after re-run, all about gold.

 

[rice paddy daddy]

My wife and I were raised by parents who went through the Great Depression and then WW2.
What people term “prepping “ now was just a normal way of life.
In 1999 when all the “experts “ were freaking out about Y2K, we were already living rurally, growing some of our food and keeping chickens for the eggs.

Today, we are set for years. Got our little farm on a dead end dirt road six miles outside a one stop light town. Everything is paid for. Land, vehicles, equipment, sheds, barns.
We are poor enough ( in money) that we don’t even pay property tax.
Plenty of meat in the freezers, 3+ years of non perishable food put back.

If this country goes into another Great Recession, please let us know.

 

[rice paddy daddy]

So I guess even with all of it and his wife being crowleys grandaughter, and the sub-kindergarten obvious "Satan come as lightning" front puppet "obama", theres still people that want to pretend they don't get it?
And yes agreed? My grandparents despised govt and doctors and you could have prepped since china fell or japan because it was obvious then; both had to reject their divinity in terms of surrender. Even "George Washington's vision" (another pure fraud) has the great angel (satan) standing here with an "azure flag".....which is the UN color, not red, white and blue, like ours.
The spanish flu was an identical fiasco to covid and the "vassine" killed more than the disease did. The depression and war will just be larger scale.
The worst thing that could happen is nothing. Then, the worst examples of what were humans just continue to pile up and rot to putrefaction. LA with aids, Vaids, hepatitis, typhus and syphilis is not half as bad as it will get in a couple more years.

But the great battle for a right world is far off and there is still always a reason to be independent and prep. We have had a dozen good reasons in the last century.
Alive on earth is a good reason to prep

Tffwc

Huh? What?

 

[AndyFrank]

Huh? What?

I don't see how people can be proud of it, but its always the parting memo for me -
I check back every few months or if something significant happens. Best wishes for big gardens and remember "the simple pass along and are punished" - bible

Incidentally, so is "bar avk v bama" (satan come as lightning)...always makes me laugh every time i see the thing