Nordstrom’s Shopping Addict Cured by Prepping

From Nordstrom’s shopping addict to a Prepper addict?

What do you get with a young and vain generation that has had the major part of society telling them there self worth comes from how they look or appear to others? You get a person who was addicted to shopping, in a lot of debt, fighting with her husband about buying MORE CLOTHING because of her shopping addiction, because she is allowing others to determine her self-worth based on what they think of her!

Fast forward to when I got pregnant and realized I was responsible for my child’s life and decided it’s more selfless to plan and prepare for my families future than to use my current resources wastefully that could be used for a time in the near future that would sustain our lives! I don’t make much money so years of devoted preparing, sacrificing, and being frugal has prepared my little family with the peace of being self reliant! My self esteem no longer comes from caring what others think, but comes from helping prepare those around me and peace of being self sufficient and the knowledge I have gained from my experience gives me self esteem that I never knew I could have!

And yes, I have sacrificed shopping at Nordstrom’s for 3 years to attain my preparedness goals, and you can do it too; it’s all about priorities! Thanks Kellene for your help in attaining my goals!

S.E. UT

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