What bothers or frightens me the most about prepping.

[Sourdough]

Everyone is an "EXPERT". It is not like there are people still studying.

"NO".......everyone is an "EXPERT".

No one tries to discover a better way, a way not currently known. Everyone believes the exact same "system". The exact same (Prepackaged) prepping theory.

 

[RJ2019]

I never once claimed to be an expert

 

[Binky]

I never once claimed to be an expert

I, on the other hand, often claim to be an expert about many things.

 

[Magus]

I'm an expert in certain areas but by no means all! not even half!

 

[Haertig]

I am an expert on the specifics of my personal situation and desires/wants. Given that, and my propensity to research everything to death before making a decision, I feel good about the decisions I make for myself. But my expertise ends there. There's always someone more knowledgeable than me in other specific areas. I am not "the world's expert" on anything - except my own personal situation. This is probably true for 99.999999% of the people out there.

 

[lonewolf]

I am an expert on my personal situation and how I will go about doing things post SHTF, I have personal experience of living off grid, no electricity, no computers, no mobile phones.
how everyone does it is up to them, I just do it my way.

 

[Pearl]

Everyone is an "EXPERT". It is not like there are people still studying.

"NO".......everyone is an "EXPERT".

No one tries to discover a better way, a way not currently known. Everyone believes the exact same "system". The exact same (Prepackaged) prepping theory.

@Sourdough, Most people will buy something premade instead of making it from scratch! BUT, when you make it yourself, you can make it your way, put into what you want, like, and need! The more you make it, the better it becomes! But most people will settle for the easy premade route! Close enough!! None of that time consuming practice, hand it to them, it's easier!

 

[Magus]

BOT:
"What bothers or frightens me the most about prepping."

The fools that don't.

 

[lonewolf]

BOT:
"What bothers or frightens me the most about prepping."

The fools that don't.

thats their problem, they wont survive for long post SHTF.

 

[Sourdough]

BOT:
"What bothers or frightens me the most about prepping."

The fools that don't.

What is the distinction. What is the distinction between "fools who don't" and those who do.......?

 

[Mountain trapper]

I don't care if someone preps or not. And if they don't prep for a disaster, well that's their problem.

 

[Binky]

What is the distinction. What is the distinction between "fools who don't" and those who do.......?

Experience.

 

[montanabill]

As I see it the problem arises when something like a electric grid shut down occurs and those that don't prep will come for the supplies and assets that those who do prep.

You can't sugar coat human nature and the burning desire to survive.

 

[Magus]

thats their problem, they wont survive for long post SHTF.

They will live long enough to make trouble and form gangs.

What is the distinction. What is the distinction between "fools who don't" and those who do.......?

A guy with six months' worth of food isn't likely to snipe you for yours.

 

[Sourdough]

A guy with six months' worth of food isn't likely to snipe you for yours.

Not till six months, and one week.

 

[Haertig]

As I see it the problem arises when something like a electric grid shut down occurs and those that don't prep will come for the supplies and assets that those who do prep.

Part of prepping is planning how to harvest those who come to take your preps.

 

[Magus]

Amen!

 

[RJ2019]

Idk all... I think that you can stack "stuff" ceiling high across an entire warehouse and not be "prepped". At some point you need to have some semblance of common sense, skills and an ability to create or procure. How far outside the box can you think if needed?

 

[Sourdough]

How far outside the box can you think if needed?

Why wait till it is needed.

 

[Sourdough]

Before SHTF everyone has a bucket full of answers to currently known questions.

After the SHTF they have buckets full of questions about which few if anyone knows the answers, or a SWAG.

SWAG = Scientific Wild Ass Guess.

 

[Hardcalibres]

Before SHTF everyone has a bucket full of answers to currently known questions.

After the SHTF they have buckets full of questions about which few if anyone knows the answers, or a SWAG.

SWAG = Scientific Wild Ass Guess.

That is why it is so important to prep capabilities rather than scenarios.

No one can guess the scenario with any acceptable reliability.

But guessing the right capabilities is doable.

 

[lonewolf]

They will live long enough to make trouble and form gangs.

maybe in your country, here people are reliant on the system of food delivery, that system fails and so will they.

 

[Canon29]

Most are trapped in a box that box is made of what currently is not what may be.

Too often people cling to the way things are, instead of fostering the abilities to adapt what will come to pass. They try to maintain their current way, instead of innovating new ways, better ways.

A survivalist should be inventive, not just materially provisioned.

 

[Pearl]

Too many are Preppers or pretend to be Preppers! And it's fine to be prepared for lock downs, weather disasters, and such! But look at North Carolina, how many watched their homes and preps wash away?!! VERY FEW people are survivalists! When the poopie REALLY hits the fan, how many will ACTUALLY make it as hunters and gatherers??

 

[Magus]

maybe in your country, here people are reliant on the system of food delivery, that system fails and so will they.

Let me guess, no firearms where you live?
You know. it takes very little to grow mushrooms and sprout beans and wheat. Most of the common knuckle draggers won't even recognize it as food. Everyone needs a weed garden, such as Polk plants and blackberries.

 

[lonewolf]

Let me guess, no firearms where you live?
You know. it takes very little to grow mushrooms and sprout beans and wheat. Most of the common knuckle draggers won't even recognize it as food. Everyone needs a weed garden, such as Polk plants and blackberries.

there are firearms we just have a better licencing system. of course "weapons" dont necessarily have to mean firearms.
most people dont grow their own food and dont know how to , they rely on the supermarkets and panic when the shelves are empty.

 

[UrbanHunter]

I have a small library of Prepping Books, and I find myself constantly reading and re-reading them. I compare what they say with what I have experienced, I make notes about where I feel that they are in error. I have gradually become a closet prepper (because of security concerns) and I have developed my own opinions about prepping and what worries me the most is our reliance on the internet, today everything is distributed through the internet including our telecommunications. People assume that they can look up anything they need to know (including the news) or order what they need on Amazon, but if the internet should ever actually crash, many would be totally clueless.

 

[RJ2019]

I have a small library of Prepping Books, and I find myself constantly reading and re-reading them. I compare what they say with what I have experienced, I make notes about where I feel that they are in error. I have gradually become a closet prepper (because of security concerns) and I have developed my own opinions about prepping and what worries me the most is our reliance on the internet, today everything is distributed through the internet including our telecommunications. People assume that they can look up anything they need to know (including the news) or order what they need on Amazon, but if the internet should ever actually crash, many would be totally clueless.

Yep, I've kept a lot of my old textbooks for the same reason. Livestock production, soil science, horticulture stuff. I'm not going to remember everything I've learned off the top of my head when I need it.

 

[UrbanHunter]

Yep, I've kept a lot of my old textbooks for the same reason. Livestock production, soil science, horticulture stuff. I'm not going to remember everything I've learned off the top of my head when I need it.

Yep, I have shelves on gardening, small animal care, hunting, butchering, cooking, gun maintenance/repair, solar energy, small engine repair, old car repair, household construction/repair, finance, engineering, some military manuals, and a bunch of old scout manuals and field books.

I do need to get some more reference materials on small food animals and fowl, or maybe I should bribe @Amish Heart into letting me take a crash course on raising fowl on her farm. Sometimes I think that developing a network of experts who are willing to train us less educated types, would be a great asset to the community.

 

[Morgan101]

"What bothers or frightens me the most about prepping?"

In a word FIRE. I believe I have done as much as I can to prepare for what may happen, be that man-made or what Mother Nature decides. I have tried to think the scenarios through thoroughly and have plans A,B, and C. One thing for which I have found no solution is fire.

How do you prevent fire? How do you stop fire? As well fortified as you think you may be, could you stop a group from burning you out? Fire is one of the few things that would make me bug out. What solutions do you all have?