Great, We’re Trendy Now
Doing the popular and trendy thing has never been a priority in our lives. But I must say I am thrilled to see so many people preparing their homes and families for hard times. Notice how so many of them Read more…
Getting My House In Order
I have always been of the prepping mindset, but recently with events happening in the world, I feel an urgency to get my house in order. We don’t have a lot of space in our house (with 5 kids) so Read more…
Think Like an Ant
I grew up in the Golden Days. We never had to “want” for anything. Shopping for clothes was seasonal. Food shopping was from local community grocery stores. Freezer and pantry was always stocked with garden goodies from Mema’s garden. There Read more…
Cause That’s What Preppers Do
Okay, you got me. I’ve been excusing myself from writing a story for the Preparedness Pro contest on the basis of being too busy. I mean, hey, the piles of food storage recipes stacked around my office and upstairs in Read more…
Prepping Really Is SIMPLE and Cheap
Good Morning Preppers to Be! I am a 63 yr.old grandmother and I have been a ‘prepper’ for years. I always aspired to be self sufficient and I’m still working on getting off the grid. That being said I feel Read more…
Frugal Self-Reliance Reality
Frugal Self Reliance is the Goal Being raised in the 60’s by frugal parents created a somewhat frugal ME. I had no idea that I was a prepper, though. That label feels a bit weird, even though I have stepped Read more…
From Sheep to Shepherd
This is my story of how I became a Prepper. Let me give you a little history here. I’ve always been a country girl and I grew up being the only girl in a family of all boy cousins. I Read more…
An Earnest Plea From The Preparedness Pro
Hey you awesome Preparedness Pro readers!
Some of you have been wondering why you’re getting all of these different e-mail notifications as subscribers to the blog. Some of you, perhaps, have felt a bit inconvenienced in your reading habits with this temporary change. Or perhaps you’ve felt uncomfortably inundated with the words of someone other than what you “subscribed to.” Well, this change of pace is because of the MEGA contest that we’ve got going on right now, The Preppers Outreach Contest. We have a specific tab on this site that reads “Preppers Contest Entries” where you can go and read the various entries and vote for your favorites. But what you may not realize is really the big WHY–WHY have we put together the Preppers Outreach Contest?
Prepping–Old School Style
I really don’t remember when it began, I was a kid. Born and Raised in the U.S. Air Force, everything we did had to fit the Military income and Lifestyle. I was Born in Massachusetts, but never lived there, and Read more…
The Kiwi Prepper
We started prepping in 1967 when our children were small and so was the pay packet. Our start was a vegetable garden that grew in size as our children grew, and fruit trees, bushes and plants to provide fresh fruit Read more…