I woke up one day and said to myself, "Crutch, you should have everyone look down their noses at you. You should be the acceptable scape goat, and demonized monster both your Current Government and Liberal media loves to hate."
So because I'm not Jewish, I decided to be a Survivalist instead.
I want to be able to rely on myself when things take a turn for the worst. I will have nobody to blame but myself.
When I watch what the government is doing to my great country. The fear of what is to come from disasters, natural and man made. The knowledge that I will be able to adapt, adjust, and overcome is why I am a survivalist/prepper.
I'm pretty sure I was a prepper before I knew it. At an early age I mean. But i really started to prep over a year ago. It's been fun. plus I love this site. Also helped when I bought paracord last year and i found this site. Survivalistboards has really helped me.
When I was young I saw Red Dawn....scared the s**t outta me. I was 8 or 9, the news was full of cold war terrorist crap, and I remember crying myself to sleep thinking the Russians were coming to kill us all.
Then, 30 years later.
BAM.....I had 3 kids in one day. I realized their happiness, life and death were a direct result of my "responsibilities" I told myself that I would not let anything bad happen to them on my watch.
Moved out of the house got snowed in for 2 weeks with little food. Shazam never again. Ohh and that winter kill deer was not my fault I dont know what happend. Ummm but it was good.
I had my electricity turned off in July and didn't get it turned back on until the following January. I slept on the back porch for 3 months and then in the front seat of my car for the next 3 months. Thankfully I had a heater when the cold fronts came through. It was a Geo Metro and I am 6'4". But it worked. I survived.
But i really believe i became a prepper way back when I was a teenager. Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Dad had gone through repeated layoffs and he and I really relied on what we could catch and shoot for meat. Not only that...he drove a Ford F250 4WD and had to wait in gas lines. While dad was at work, I pedaled my Huffy bicycle around town and filled up gas cans for his truck....1 or 2 gallons at a time. Then I did my chores...::thumb:
Doing some reading about the "state of our nation" and the financial condition our government and how we produce money. Listening to experts and what they have to say. Seeing small town America nearly disappear right before my eyes. I saw the house of cards nearly fall over in 2008 and came to the realization the cancer wasn't removed but was given a giant pain killer to cover up the bleeding and pain.
I know the next large "crisis" will be a financial one, and there will be no more bail-outs, no more 2nd chances because there is no more money or even credit to put a band-aid on the problem (aka: kicking the can).
Just some of why I became interested in survival and self-sufficiency
one morning a few yrs ago i woke up to our city water supply contaminated by an accident and we couldnt use the water not even to bathe. it took 3 days for them to clean it up and get the water flowing again. but there i was with no water. I ran to the store but it was too late, by ten AM that day, the stores were all out of bottled water. it couldnt be found anywhere in the city. just a few hours and the stores were stripped of water.
a friend got me some water from a nearby city but other wise i would have been in trouble cause i had none.
well that got me thinking. I began storing water, then after a while, I thot about food, and began storing food also.
now i store food water and other supplies because i dont want to be left sitting here with nothing when disaster happens.
Always loved the pioneer idea as a child, plus my Dad was often unemployed. I remember when my Mom, with nothing in the cupboard the night before payday but a few potatoes, saw the family cat coming back from the field with a quail in her jaws. She ran out and pried the quail away, and we had some thin gravy on the mashed potatoes. I will always remember the miniature drumstick which was my share (5 kids.) So then came the Cuban missile crisis, Y2K, and now the whole world is reeling, unstable. It will not continue as we know it... so my husband and I decided to do some prepping.
I guess it stuck with me that my Dad pooh-poohed having a garden and refused to hunt. He didn't want to hurt wild things but it was OK for us to go hungry. Strange... Survival has always been strong within me. Glad I found a husband who thinks in the same vein.
I posted several years ago about this but in short, I was born into a survivalist family. Both my parents and my grand parents were preppers/survivalist. My parents and grand parents all carried guns on them all the time. They had food stores from gardens and products they raised. We had chickens, cows, goats, horses, rabbits, and hogs. the family was very close knit and lived within a hundred yards of each other. We learned to make our own soap, cheese, butter etc. I still have my grand mother's butter molds. I have grinders that belonged to my great grand mother from the reservation. I loved the lifestyle. We did not have a great deal but we loved and cared for each other.
I am fortunate today in that my kids all live within 20 minutes of me. We shoot and prep together. I let them make their own minds up about prepping. I don't believe that I can make someone else get ready. I was lucky to have had a family so big and so loving a people.
One of the things that is fun for me is to look at my library of materials on surviving and see things my father and grand father had in their stuff. too many people in the media portray people like us as paranoid nut cases. the truth is most of the people into prepping are just the opposite. they pray for the best and know that they have to prepare for the worst.
If you read the Bible, you go to one scripture that is so often mistranslated. In most Bibles it reads that "the meek shall inherit the earth." When you speak to a scholar of ancient Greek you find out the translation can be read like that but in reality it reads "the Prepared shall inherit the earth." this came from a doctor of divinity who got his degree in ancient Greek studies. Does this mean that everyone should go out and get food? No it more likely meant that prepared referred to study and to understanding God's word. It was just a fun fact that few really know.
Would I do it differently if I could go back. Sure I would. i would still be a survivalist. I love what I am. I don't plan for myself but for my kids just like my parents and grand parents did so many years ago. My prayers go out to you. GB
I woke up one day and got tired of people telling me I was a paranoid nut for believing the government was out to get me. So I figured if I became a right-wing extremist they really would be out to get me and then people couldn't call me a paranoid nut any more.
You must admit right-wing extremist has a much better ring than paranoid nut :
For me I've always been a sort of prepper. I've always known that its easier to prep for something than to put it off and get caught off guard. Ounce of prevention ya know. Also to me it's fun and reassuring to know should stuff fly sideways I have more chance to survive than most. Stuff happens. Look at history.. it's not an if but a when.
I lived through the '89 Loma Prieta earthquake. That was enough to convince me.
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