What bothers or frightens me the most about prepping.

[Aerindel]

we won’t be the first target which should theoretically buy us a little more time to assess the situation and develop a plan.

In many ways, you can boil down at least half my prepping strategy to this.

Because I think I'm fairly smart.....I think as long as I'm not the FIRST target, I will have time to figure out what to do, even if I didn't see it coming years in advance and was able to perfectly prepare for it.

Nothing I do I think will make me perfect.....I'm just trying to buy time to do what I do.....figure solutions out when faced with the problem.

 

[Dave2001]

Bless your heart.

My Sheriff and I are good friends, he told me to call him and he will send Coroner to pick up whats left if i have a problem!

 

[Sourdough]

As one "Spawns Out" there as fewer options available. At some point there is only one, when fully "Spawned Out".

 

[elkhound]

As one "Spawns Out" there as fewer options available. At some point there is only one, when fully "Spawned Out".

keep spawning !

 

[Steve_In_29]

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

Unless they are your neighbors. Then it's something you will have to deal with one way or another.

 

[Steve_In_29]

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.

This is key.

Too many younger preppers have their knowledge base stored on electronic media or the cloud. Some have never read an actual book to look something up in their lives,

 

[RJ2019]

This is key.

Too many younger preppers have their knowledge base stored on electronic media or the cloud. Some have never read an actual book to look something up in their lives,

If given the choice between an ebook textbook or a hard copy I always choose the hard copy if the price is doable. Some of my textbooks are crazy expensive though. This quarter I got a shiny new hard copy of my agribusiness management book.

 

[EastenerWesterner]

I can prep for what life has thrown my way. Snow, Ice storms, Power outages, Atmospheric rivers with mudslides,Wildfire Evacs (5). I know what I did or didn’t do right for each of these.
If something comes my way that gets me, so be it. I know I can’t or wont be perfect. But I am am probably better off than most people,

 

[Morgan101]

There is probably only one subject where I would consider myself and expert, and that subject is meaningless in the prepping realm. One thing I have learned over the course of my adult life is how much I DON'T know. On more than one occasion I thought I knew a lot about a subject, but when I was really immersed in it, I found out quickly how much I didn't know, and how much I had to learn

That said I was fortunate to have the mentality to always want to learn, and always want to improve. I will watch everything I can find on prepping and survival hoping to catch that one nugget I might have missed or overlooked. Much of what I see is repetitive at best. I don't see much new info, or find things I haven't done, but I always keep am open mind, and try to learn. We all run into situations every day where something happens that we have not experienced; something new from which we can learn.

I go back to a quote from Abraham Lincoln that has become a true guiding pronciple in my life. "If you are going to be something, be a good one." IMHO that applies as much to prepping as it does to the rest of your life.