How I Came To The "Prepper" Mindset

I hope you will all bear with me. I've been completely unable to log in to my original blog that was hosted on another site, so I've moved over here! I'm going to copy and past my old posts here just so that they are all in one place.

This blog entry was originally posted on July 1, 2011

Hello Readers,

So, like many people out there, I always watched those “doomsday” shows on the history channel along side of my husband (an avid “prepper”) and thought, those people are crazy, nothing like that is ever going to happen. I think that I preferred the ostrich belief system, which was that if I simply buried my head in the sand and refused to see what was coming, then it would never happen.

Then, about a year or so ago, I read the book One Second After by William R. Forstchen and it really forced me to contemplate what our world would be like without power. Now, I don’t have the most faith in the human race to begin with, 8 years in a civil service job will do that to ya, so I really started to consider what people would do in the case of no electricity, no food, etc. I decided that I didn’t want to be stuck in a chaotic world, unable to defend or provide for my family.

I’ve recently, in the past six months, also begun using coupons when shopping. I never used to shop sales or use coupons, but when I realized the amount of money that I could be saving, I decided that it was worth a few hours of my time a week to devote to saving my family hundreds of dollars. This couponing has also led to my full-fledged devotion to prepping. By combining the “prepper” belief system with my ability to stock up on items at a very low cost, my husband and I have started quite a nice stockpile for our family in the event that we will ever need it.

The shopping and stocking have only continued to snowball into other ways to save money and prepare ourselves to be self-sufficient and reliant. We started a garden this spring, and have recently begun canning our own food. I believe that these are just two of the important skills that one would need in post-SHTF situation.

So the purpose of this blog? I suppose I’d just like a place to record my thoughts, trials, etc. as we go through the process of preparing our family for when the SHTF. I’ve also found so many other blogs helpful, and I’d like to do my part to pay it forward (if there is anyone out there even interested in my humble ramblings.)

Happy Prepping 
– A Prepared Mom