I don’t have any friends among Preparedness fans and I know that none of my own friends are even remotely interested in reading this post. However, that said, I sincerely hope that the message I want to share will help validate and reinforce the belief among those who understand the Read more…
In the summer of 2002 my family moved to south Texas. My husband was working across the border in Mexico everyday. Our daughter was about to turn 3, and I was very pregnant with our first son. The news was full of reports of potential dirty bomb attacks and I Read more…
It seems everyone is joking about zombies these days. Having avoided horror movies most of our lives, we must admit we’re still not exactly sure what zombies are. We are not worried about preparing for something that doesn’t seem like reality though. What we do worry about is not having Read more…
I grew up in a small town in Minnesota where nobody seemed to have their own name until they were an adult- and until that time, you were “John Olsen’s boy,” or “Jean Brown’s eldest daughter.” With the older generation, you were “Gertrude Johnson’s grandchild,” even when you were an Read more…
My husband and I often are asked about why we would need to be prepared more than minimally. We share with people how it has benefited us personally. When we moved out of the city and into the country, we chose to live away from nosy neighbors and have a Read more…
My brother has been prepping for YEARS! Long before it was “‘cool” and before it even had a name. (We just called it being prepared and being smart.) My husband and I didn’t worry too much about it all until he ended his time with the US Navy and we Read more…
At age 55 I have a new love in my life, it is prepping. My husband of 36 years is in love with it too, so there is no jealousy on either side. We started a home group, we call ourselves “THE GLORY DAY PREPPERS.” We all have the same Read more…
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 and talked on the phone for too long. Hard work 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 was harder to find the budget to stretch and cover 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 changes taking place. (didn’t you ever hear of ROSE COLORED Read more…