What Is Your Opinion On Prepping And Preppers ?

[Nekoborg]

Preparing for hard times or an outright disaster.

What have you done to prepare or does prepping seem too difficult and useless?

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

As long they have the decency to not just stockpile an insane ammount of food that is just gonna spoil away before they even have a chance to eat it I don't mind.

Wasting food just because you think that something might happen is not cool.

[craigsters]

Far Cry 5 has prepper bunkers in them with crafting materials, money and perk magazines, the keys can be a challenge to get to at times, lot's of climbing and jumping etc

[TV-MA]

Escrito originalmente por craigsters:

Far Cry 5 has prepper bunkers in them with crafting materials, money and perk magazines, the keys can be a challenge to get to at times, lot's of climbing and jumping etc

Your point here? We should all be like farcry 5 npcs?

[craigsters]

Escrito originalmente por TV-MA:

Escrito originalmente por craigsters:

Far Cry 5 has prepper bunkers in them with crafting materials, money and perk magazines, the keys can be a challenge to get to at times, lot's of climbing and jumping etc

Your point here? We should all be like farcry 5 npcs?

just a point of interest about whats in that game

[Lilly]

Prep cooks are alright.

[Raelic]

Escrito originalmente por Nekoborg:

Preparing for hard times or an outright disaster.

What have you done to prepare or does prepping seem too difficult and useless?

Good practice even if nothing happens. Everyone should know survival skills. It doesn't hurt anyone.

[Kobs]

I have everything I need to survive at least a month... food in 5 gal pails, (flour, dried goods, pasta) 55 gal of drinking water, gas for a camping stove, candles, first aid kit complete with suture needles and threads etc. etc. even guns and ammo and a complete bug out bag ready to go in case I have to leave the compound

[kilésengati]

I generally don't see a problem. Many governments actually recommend people to prep to a certain degree.

However, things go too far when people start prepping with canned ravioli. Those are public enemies.

[Kobs]

The thing is most peoples will go friggin crazy after only a week if sh** hits the fan cause 80% of them are not prepared, they are used to get their food from the store turn the tap to get water etc but when that stops ... total chaos

[Grimmz]

never thought about it but i guess i have been doing it. i'm just constantly hiding weapons in my house and the most obscure places. also my cupboards are always stocked with dry foods and canned goods, i hardly ever buy anything fresh. have my bags always pre-packed even tho i know i'm not going anywhere.

maybe its just because i've been homeless for many years. i just like being ready for anything.

[Nekoborg]

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If you eat your prep food when it gets closer to expiring and get more. Its not really a bad idea, since your prepared for bad times and not wasting much.

That is what I do; rotate my older nonperishable foods stored with new ones.

I have enough stored to last 3 years minimum (maybe 5), provided I supplement with my extremely large vegetable garden / greenhouse, current livestock, fishing / hunting and trapping.

My biggest preparation is attaining knowledge and practice. All from canning foods with pressure cooker / mason jars to curing meat with salt and smoking it.




Lucky for me I was prepared and had access to resources that aided me from being as dependent on businesses and shopping as many others were long before Corona / Covid-19 existed.

1. I started being a prepper 7 years ago

2. I have 7½ aches land (15½ total if one counts in the land on my 2 other properties ) and a old farmhouse with several buildings associated with agriculture

(since Corona ended I bought 2 more farmhouses with plots of land 3 and 5 acers that I rent to 2 families.)

3. I hunt, fish, trap, grow vegetables, tubers, herbs, berries, fruits, nu-ts, have hens + rooster, and 2 goats. I soon plan on buying a few piglets and fatten them up. Maybe allowing one of the sows to live and mate with one of my neighbors boars. I will buy those piglets from him next month.

4. I home-brew beer, apple cider, fruit and berry wine

5. I craft many items in my large tool shed

6. I repair many things instead of throw them away before they are totally worn out

7. I have private water well

8. I have solar panels

9. I have a social network of others like me.... not friends but people who are still important to me

0. The drive to liberate me from "polite society" whom I view as authoritarian sheep


Corona tested me and it was very unpleasant and uncomfortable to distance myself further from society than I already was.

I became more self sufficient than before Corona.

There were months that I refused to leave my property.

Lucky the internet and my Rottweilers kept me company., they had puppies 3 times which I sold. Now I have 5, puppies expected in 1½ months. $$$

I managed to live of my savings and an inheritance using net banking.

For 2½ years I chose to be unemployed to limit my contact with outside world. I have since started my own landscaping company that also contracts smaller construction jobs. I employ 3 people and even on occasion get my own hands dirty.

My hobby vegetable garden became very large to sustain my needs.

My hens and rooster = chickens and eggs. Goats = milk.

I traded with my neighbors.

Hunting, fishing and trapping also help me reduce the need to go shopping.

My prepper nonperishable food storage was useful but I tried not to plunder it out of fear that Corona would last longer than it did.

[Raelic]

Escrito originalmente por Nekoborg:

9. I have a social network of others like me.... not friends but people who are still important to me

0. The drive to liberate me from "polite society" whom I view as authoritarian sheep

Could have stopped before this... this is where ya'll get into crazy town.

[Raelic]

Escrito originalmente por Nekoborg:

That is what I do; rotate my older nonperishable foods stored with new ones.

And this is fine, but what I've experienced from preppers who do this is that they do it once and either don't get through it or never do it again.

While it sounds well and good to prep and then rotate said prep so you always have the prep on hand... it's not as nice as living in "polite society."

There's a reason society evolved to where we are.

I'm all for prepping. Yay prepping. But it sounds like you moved to crazy town.

[steven1mac]

Preppers are fine, when a SHTF moment finally happens, they will live about 6 months longer than the non-preppers, assuming they were smart enough not to tell anyone about their preparations.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

They are all in crazy town, it becomes their reason of living and single-minded obsession.
Usually bunch of anti-social paramilitary yahoos who can`t function normally in the society, acting like dogs who think that everyone is out there trying to take their food bowl away so they lash out at everybody who comes near.