How was the year 2021 for you?

[Swing]

Please tell us about it just very briefly.

 

[KateMTx]

Prepping-wise the main thing I have accomplished is paying off debt. I had hoped to be debt free by the end of the year, and while that did not happen, I have added significantly to my savings and paid off more than half my debt. At this point, if all goes to plan then being debt free will be an easy and realistic goal for 2022. (My next step after that involves more debt however as I really want to buy property and/or a house in the next few years.)
Work has been very crazy this year (most weeks I have worked every single day with the exception of a few weeks when my grandmother was in ill health and eventually passed away, and then towards then end of the year when we changed up a few things.) This means that I have had plenty of money to put towards my debt but not a lot of time to work on other aspects of prepping.
In some ways it seems like it has been a long year; there are things I realize happened in March or April yet they seem like a lifetime ago, but it also seems like no time has passed since March 2020 when everything health-care related (including my job) got a lot more complicated.

 

[DrJenner]

@KateMTx Congrats on almost being debt free and I'm sorry to hear about your grandmother.

 

[EastenerWesterner]

If you compare it to 2020, it was an easy dream.

In 2020, I was evacuated twice and lost all 2 fridges and a freezer of preps. I built back better. I may lose that much again, but I have twice as much in reserve.
Mentally, the second year of this crap is tougher on a person.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Other than getting a POS communist in the WH, 2021 wasn't too bad. Due to the drought we had to sell our cattle, but the wife retired. Financially our investments did very well. The worst part of 2021 was our dog died on October 8th.

 

[jontte]

lots and lots of work, but I met this lady at work and I finally grew some balls to pop the question during our summer holiday

prepping wise,stuff I get is way more thought out,than before, 'cause I have two to think about, 2021 was a roller coster ride,

 

[user 7368]

The year 2021 was positive for me only in one respect: I found a new job that is very good.
Otherwise, I found the year worse than 2020 in terms of development, to see how a model democracy in our country was destroyed within a year, so to speak, and how the population was divided and one group now has no rights and is excluded from various things.

BUT new starting position creates new facts, I do not let myself break by that but adapt.
At the moment I am completely rearranging my material for the new starting position, starting position blackout or civil war, everything else is secondary for me at the moment. I expect it very soon bangs here, and if that happens I also expect that I must flee here after 1 to 2 weeks in the mountains. An escape is the last option, that because the area in these mountains is extremely hostile, one has there the greatest chance if one has closed with everything, that is with me as good as the case.

I wish you all good days in the new year and that you are ready for the next year and what it will bring us.

 

[kenv1950]

I live in NYS , need I say more ?

 

[KateMTx]

Other than getting a POS communist in the WH, 2021 wasn't too bad. Due to the drought we had to sell our cattle, but the wife retired. Financially our investments did very well. The worst part of 2021 was our dog died on October 8th.

Sorry about your dog and having to sell the cattle. I'm glad your investments are doing good.

 

[Proud Prepper]

I was a mushroom in 2021. People who was supposed to represent me and protect my constitutional rights, instead kept me in the dark and constantly fed me a bunch of ****!

 

[Dani]

Got to say that other than my health care thru hunny's past job insurance went way upand then I took a full time position so have a greater income now. On the down side is I am not here to do the garden like I normally would and HAVE to do a major down size to just have a kitchen garden. Really dont think my hunny would keep it up, even if I took my vacation to do raise beds and plant. I let him plant the onions this year to keep up. All I see are weeds. . . And now we re once again masked mandated at work no matter what your vaccine status is.

 

[Acdoctor]

If 2021 did anything it should have proven all the weak points in our preps.
it should have in lightened us on the ones we can count on as well who the weak ones are in you group.
all in all 2021 only sucked because of Covid-19’s grasp on the world and just how crazy our politicians are.
im hoping for a more prosperous 2022 for all of us.

 

[Mountain trapper]

2021 certainly had its issues, but it was a great year financially. Could have been better under Trump, however the markets still hit many new records.

My 2 cent prediction for 2022, which is worth less than 2 cents, is for more good news in the markets. Of course inflation will continue to go up. If the Repubics win big in 2022 it could be great for investments, and if they can take back the WH in 2024 we could be looking at 6 to 10 years of good economic times ahead.
No doubt the worthless democrats, Leftists, deep state and weak Repubics will do everything they can to bring down the economy, so nothing is a sure thing. But many people are starting to wake up and see whats going on, so I am optimistic about the year ahead.

 

[M0del_31]

In 2021, picked up a JD 1025r 4wd w/loader, MMM, fork bracket, pallet forks and a 16' tandem axle trailer. Its small enough for my current plot with a functional 3pt hitch and pto. Also picked up a FT-DX3000, my extra license and figured out how to send emails around the planet without an ISP when the power is out. Put back 12,500 gallons of water. Picked up a wood burning stove on the cheap, debt to savings ratio went the right direction and I didn't die. Pretty decent year.

 

[Amish Heart]

2021 saw me recovering from covid for the New Year, then shingles a short time later. Pneumonia in August. I didn't die, and feel pretty good now, so there's that.
It was a good farm year. Our first full year on our farm and we accomplished alot. The garden did better than expected.

 

[Schattentarn]

We got paid by insurance for our house that burned down in 2020 in a forest fire. We found a new cabin which we love. So I would put 2021 as an improving years but certainly not a 1963 or 1969.

 

[user 6493]

I had a good year,,, more money and less work,,, I am looking forward to the midterms when the Democrats will be ousted from the House and Senate