I've been properly prepping for 6 months but have been preparing to prep since I was about 16 by making bugout plans. At the time I didn't know I was prepping though. I recently found out that I'm a true prepper when I started massively stock pilling non parish able foods and medical supplies. I was called a hoarder but I refused to get rid of it. I want to expand my security, weapons knowledge and safety, I really want to be a police officer, but I don't see that happening, I have planted a garden, but my resources are limited so 80% of my preps are things I've accumulated for free by using my resources. I hope by the time I'm able to really put a lot of cash into my prepping it isn't too late..... I believe in God and Jesus and hope that then end times don't come in my life time, but I do believe that our country is in so much debt that it will bite us in the butt sooner than later, I live on the west coast and we just had a huge 6.7 earth quake in sanfransisco. My mother is a prepper, I am a prepper and I have a network of friends who are medium preppers. They don't want to invest in serious prepping items. I have written my own prepper bible, and told my husband that after he retires we will be moving and getting a very rural piece of property so I can have natural resources. I'm am a skilled archer, and I love to make weapons that can be set on fire to make them that much more deadly. Hence my name and the tattoo I have down my arm. Pyro Virus. Fire will always be my choice to make a weapon deadlier. I think guns will be useless because once you run out of bullets you defenseless unless you can make bullets, but what happens when the fun powder runs out? I could go on and on and on but I will leave it at this. thanks for reading! And if anyone has any good advice to give a young Prepper like me, it would be much appreciated and I will share what I learn! :3