Preppers...

ClandestineX · July 2013

I know this is a new 'trend' for the most part. I have always had a prepper mindset. When I think back as a kid and always wanted my own house, I picture myself growing my own garden, hunting my own food, and having an underground bunker as well. Also, being hip... not the hippy type of prepper. (Not that there is anything bad with that).

Now that I own my own house and have a large land, I am going to make a real deep cellar. I still want to build an underground bunker. I have lots of guns/swords/knives. (Don't worry, they are in bank grade vaults.) Not much bullets since the whole bullet/gun thing that happened after Sandy Hook. I have a boxs of MREs.

I am going to start a garden next year, an aquaponics system. We hunt too, so we will have some meat from the wild. I am not 100% used to it and I STILL see eating squirrels as disgusting, but my husband loves it. I hate frogs too... but my husband loves all of that stuff.

I am in the beginning stages of prepping though, besides weapons and the know how to hunt, I need everything still.

If you prep, or are planning to, what do you have thus far, or are you going to have?

wiggles527 · July 2013

You sound like my brother. I've prepped directions to his house

ClandestineX · July 2013

wiggles527:
You sound like my brother. I've prepped directions to his house

Lol...there has to be one in the family right?

wiggles527 · July 2013

ClandestineX:
wiggles527:
You sound like my brother. I've prepped directions to his house
Lol...there has to be one in the family right?

Yeah. He's a former Marine so maybe he knows something we don't

ClandestineX · July 2013

wiggles527:
ClandestineX:
wiggles527:
You sound like my brother. I've prepped directions to his house
Lol...there has to be one in the family right?
Yeah. He's a former Marine so maybe he knows something we don't

Funny that you say that...

mrshall10210 · July 2013

I wouldn't call us preppers but DH is definitely interested in it. We do have guns and a decent ammo stockpile, but we use a good bit of that at the range... when we can go, that is! No room to plant anything but we do plan to start a stockpile of things like canned food, bottled water, beans, rice, etc. DH also has a pretty extensive first aid kit and a "bugout bag" with things to purify water, start fires, a hatchet, I don't even know what all is in there. He got a lot of stuff from cheaper than dirt. I got him a big book on prepping for Christmas last year, but I know he hasn't read much of it.

Eta.. Squirrels are delicious!! Only in WV? ..mobile smiley..

ClandestineX · July 2013

mrshall10210:
I wouldn't call us preppers but DH is definitely interested in it. We do have guns and a decent ammo stockpile, but we use a good bit of that at the range... when we can go, that is! No room to plant anything but we do plan to start a stockpile of things like canned food, bottled water, beans, rice, etc. DH also has a pretty extensive first aid kit and a "bugout bag" with things to purify water, start fires, a hatchet, I don't even know what all is in there. He got a lot of stuff from cheaper than dirt. I got him a big book on prepping for Christmas last year, but I know he hasn't read much of it. Eta.. Squirrels are delicious!! Only in WV? ..mobile smiley..

That is awesome! I am thinking about canning dry things, maybe even make jam sometime when the garden grows. I don't have a bug out bag yet, it is something I am going to get soon though. Also, we did buy the things to reload and we went to the range to pick up shells, but apparently most of them are too bad to use, sucks cause I was at the range scrounging for hours lol.

I told my husband I can live the remainder of my life in WV with him, I will never see squirrels or frogs as food.. I can't, they have always been classified as diseased rodents in big cities, but I get that WV squirrels are way different than Cali city squirrels because they eat nuts and healthy stuff, while in Cali they rummage through trash. Frogs.. they are slimy.. I just can't. I am high maintenance like that. ;D

wiggles527 · July 2013

ClandestineX:
wiggles527:
ClandestineX:
wiggles527:
You sound like my brother. I've prepped directions to his house
Lol...there has to be one in the family right?
Yeah. He's a former Marine so maybe he knows something we don't
Funny that you say that...

Zombie Apocolypse? I knew it!

ClandestineX · July 2013

wiggles527:

Zombie Apocolypse? I knew it!

Lol, that and before I got pregnant, I was doing the paperwork and preparing my body to try and pass PFT for the Marines so I could possibly join ROTC or the OCS program. I still will try next year or the year after. At least for the OCS program, I am too old now for ROTC.

wiggles527 · July 2013

ClandestineX said:

wiggles527:

Zombie Apocolypse? I knew it!
Lol, that and before I got pregnant, I was doing the paperwork and preparing my body to try and pass PFT for the Marines so I could possibly join ROTC or the OCS program. I still will try next year or the year after. At least for the OCS program, I am too old now for ROTC.
Well, good luck to you! My brother was medically discharged and he fought it every step of the way. He loved it and didn't want to have to quit. He definitely misses it

Smartie26 · July 2013

wiggles527 said:
You sound like my brother. I've prepped directions to his house

Lol!! that is awesome

ShellBear+ · July 2013

I guess I'm out of it since I haven't heard of this term. What are you prepping for exactly just curious?

bibliophileemily · July 2013

ShellBear+ said:

I guess I'm out of it since I haven't heard of this term. What are you prepping for exactly just curious?

I'm wondering the same thing...

Side note: my husband says squirrel is delicious, but I can't bring myself to find out if he's telling the truth or not...

ClandestineX · July 2013

Peppers prep for many reasons, from economic collapse to apocalypse. I prep because as fast as this country is going downhill, and i don't mean from the citizens, it is a matter of time before something similar to Greece happens here.Also with North Korea making threats, and China basically controlling the US through finance, nothing good will come out of all this. Those aren't my only reasons.

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