am the perfect example of “Generation X”. (We were the original generation…before Y & Z followed us). I grew up in suburbia. We spent more money than we had made in the day, ate microwaved food, watched too much tv Read more…
It has to start somewhere. For us, many years ago, it started by buying two cans of vegetables and putting one aside. As a young family with one income we didn’t have much. Then as the kids came along, it Read more…
A New Jersey Prepper? Now you’ve heard it all! Who would have thunk? We’d be preppers… Certainly not us! What changed you asked? We’ll to be quite honest, life is always changing, but we were ok with ignoring the Read more…
I guess I have always been interested in preparedness but usually I was regarded as kind of a nut. Well the past couple of years have really become a wake up for a lot of people including me. I had a Read more…
How much do you love your family? I am sure your thinking what kind of question is that there is no way to measure the love one has for their family( wife -kids -husband etc) well then let me ask Read more…
About the middle of last year (2011) I told my husband I needed more room for food and that he needed to “build me a pantry!” At first he looked at me a little oddly, then he said, “Well, I guess Read more…
I moved to Utah about 8 years ago. I didn’t know anything about being a prepper, had never even heard anything about it, to be totally honest. I heard from a few newly made LDS friends about how they always Read more…
Thirty six years ago our lives changed. We didn’t have a big bank account but we had discovered wheat. Driving home from our “pick up point” with our two little boys, we felt blessed, protected and, yes, prepared. This was Read more…
Let me start by saying that , I was born in a small town in Northern California 63 years ago, There were orchards and farms everywhere you looked in this pristine valley. Everyone knew their neighbors, not only next door folks, but everybody Read more…
I don’t think it really matters what you are prepping for; it’s the why that matters! We have always had extra food on hand for snow or emergencies but when we realized we would have a major decrease in our Read more…