'Preppers' and Survivalists

i fall into both categories i think. but i always have prepped for uncertainty mainly because of my time in the army. i was a infantry boy who stayed in iraq and afghanistan and i didn't want her to have to worry about shit if i died. so i have always had at least a year supply of food, tons of first aid stuff, water, warm clothes ect. i am still that way to this day. even if i got laid off today i could sustain for at least a year no problem and in this day in age i love knowing that
 
Horn Dog said:
"Be Prepared". :D
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This what I call it, I have a slogan I use alot "Stay Alert & Stay Safe!"

This goes for everything, end of the world, end of society as we know it and even just walking into a store or fast food place. I'm always looking, watching and adjusting. you never know what your going to walk into or be faced with.

2 times that I can remember I saved our behinds because I saw something happening or going to happen and got us out fast and safe. she doesn't question anymore when I say "get up and move to the door" or "stop what your doing and follow me now"...
 
I came here for the knives....All of a sudden I feel surrounded by paranoid geeks.....


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I suck at prepping, we are down to 3 cases of tomato preserves from the fall....WTF! Gotta triple the output next year.
 
^ no Canadian bacon?

i feel for you, left with nothing but tomato preserves......no bacon, no maple syrup, ....man ...thats ...just ....sad...

should i mail you some applewood smoked thick cut bacon?

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It's the same thing the L.D.S. (Mormon) church has always taught. Extra food, consumable goods etc for a rainy day or longer. Some people have paid more attention to to this way of thinking since the Y2K scare. There is comfort in knowing that you can withstand future uncertainies (whether your man made or not) for at least a short period of time. I compare it to wild fire readiness (we have evacuated off our property twice do to lightning started fire). Either you have cleared the brush and landscape on your property in case a fire comes your way because theres little you can do to prepare or protect once it starts. A country boy can survive.
 
stories in the UK media about 'prepping' are, to me, suspect.

Only 18 months? Oh my. What did they call what I have been doing for better than 40 years then?

Prepping, or becoming more and more prepared for eventualities, is more of a mind set, than a group of actions. I'd have to say that my desire to be prepared came from growing up poor in the rural South.
Every day was an exercise in adaptation, perseverance, planning and yes, prepping.
 
I think the point isn't that only in the past 18 months have people ever thought about the potential for a disaster- that's sorta ridiculous.

The term itself- "prepper" is fairly recent. I actually ran into it through Hood and then spirko with the survival podcast and his forums.

I remember survivalism going from a sort of extreme cold war anti-invasion preparedness to a more or less radical anti government black helicopters and white vans tinfoil paradise at one point (well, some of it).

I identified as a survivalist for a lot of time, and I've started gettign familiar with the term Prepper recently. I don't dislike it, and it doesn't yet have the extreme connotation that survivalist eventually acquired.
 
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