My mother was brought up during the depression, so with 5 brothers and 3 sisters, I was brought up to pinch and save also. We did not have a bathroom till I was 6 or 7 years old. We had an outside pump and an outhouse. We raised sheep, chickens, Read more…
Seven years ago my husband and I moved to the Big Island of Hawaii. We had both spent the majority of our lives on the mainland and were used to the convenience of living there. One day, I went down the yogurt aisle and found it void of yogurt. When Read more…
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, Read more…
Hello prepper community! I just want to put my two cents worth in because I feel that this is such a worthy subject that leads to a total lifestyle change. My husband and I have been prepping for sometime now, but the program on nat-geo called “doomsday preppers” really Read more…
My family and friends call it my obsession. I call it my passion. What it really is is part of our everyday prepping. It’s been almost 50 years now since I first started knitting and sewing. At first it was just because I wanted to do everything that my older Read more…
Since May of 2011 I have thrown away several no longer needed prescription drugs, and I have lost 40 pounds, because of things I learned and practiced while prepping. I learned a lot of great stuff from Kellene. I learned about the right oils to use, including essential oils. I Read more…
Things growing wild in my garden: Purslane (an edible weed); calendula (used to make an ointment for minor skin ailments), and raspberries (just yummy). Prepping for hard times is nothing new. Like a lot of people who live paycheck to paycheck, I know what it means to be on a Read more…
TEOTWAWKI??? I call it preparing for lifes curveballs When I was a child living in Oakland, California, my daddy was a truck driver. The Longshoremen went on strike in the mid 70’s. Since my Daddy hauled off the docks he could not get loads. He could not cross the picket lines Read more…
My wife and I made the decision to begin prepping in one day. That is the point that I feel really needs to be made, it’s a decision that can be made in one day at one moment and the impact can affect hundreds, if not thousands. We have been Read more…
Okay so I admit it. I’m a left leaning, Feminist, Democrat,science believing Liberal Prepper. Ah, I feel so out of the closet here. How could such a thing happen? Come TSHTF and TEOTWAWKI when the Zombies go after the Mormons, NRA’s and Preppers to steal all the goodies. Hopefully my Read more…