What makes someone a REAL prepper?

[elkhound]

clean up on isle #987

 

[Amish Heart]

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Boy, I just can't get anything right, can I!

 

[Supervisor42]

I'm out!! I'm laughing SO hard it's hard to breathe!!

...I'm out of popcorn , can you send me some?

 

[Pearl]

Boy, I just can't get anything right, can I!

Guess you'll have to find something to fall back on, lol

 

[Pearl]

...I'm out of popcorn , can you send me some?

Sure, I have plenty, I'm prepared!!

 

[Swing]

Sure, I have plenty, I'm prepared!!

Does that mean you are a true, authentic prepper?

 

[elkhound]

Dang, Preppers wear underwear??

one word for you...chaffing.....you will want some of cabin fevers famous monkey but powder....daisy dukes wear the hide offinya.

 

[Pearl]

Does that mean you are a true, authentic prepper?

I hope we can get this thread back on track!! Thank you for swooping in @Swing !!

 

[Cabin Fever]

You can live absent access to fuel? We have fuel all around us and about 7 years worth already cut, split, and stacked.

Electricity for food storage? Don't need electricity for food storage it you know how to can and dry food.

You make your own clothes? From cotton, wool or leather you raise and process yourself? We easily have enough clothes for the rest of our lives. Besides, my wife is a spinner, weaver, and knitter and she has too many raw fleeces stored in the basement

You find and forge the iron to make your wood stove and cooking pans? Again, we have two woodstoves and enough cookware to last us the rest of our lives.

Even many who raise their own chickens, pigs, etc depend on store bought feed for the animals. We don't feed the deer, bear, turkeys, grouse, etc. that cross our front yard. No need for a feed store.

 

[Haertig]

Man, right before posting I saw that Swing was the most recent poster. I thought I had missed out.

But yahoo! I'm in before the lock. +10 points for Haertig!

 

[elkhound]

@Cabin Fever thank god you showed up...you the man with cases of monkey butt powder as we all march to the gulag .

 

[Amish Heart]

@Cabin Fever thank god you showed up...you the man with cases of monkey butt powder as we all march to the gulag .

He has monkey butt powder?

 

[zoomzoom]

Hey @Steve_In_29
I was the biggest a$$ hole on the forum this week until... Thanks man, you took the spot light off me.

 

[Amish Heart]

Hey @Steve_In_29
I was the biggest a$$ hole on the forum this week until... Thanks man, you took the spot life off me.

Actually, no you weren't.
There are bigger.

 

[elkhound]

He has monkey butt powder?

he is first person i ever heard/read about it from years and years ago in a land far away from here....20 years ago actually now...wait maybe more.

 

[EastenerWesterner]

I am a prepper, not a survivalist.

I started upping my game from a month’s supplies in 2020 with all that year’s BS to the level at I am at now.

Since my wife bought in to this lifestyle 3 years later and has been upping the game with home canning and freeze drying I am not sure how many more years or months I have since she bought in

I know in most cases I have a year’s worth of fuel.

I have way to provide heat and cooking beyond that.

If I have to become a survivalist, I have 40 years of hunting experience and more ammo that I have ever shot in my lifetime.

I think we will be good for a while.

 

[Caribou]

Dang, Preppers wear underwear??

They do in Alaska, I want to keep those babies warm.

 

[elkhound]

if you get run over by the hoard and you have to hit the road,woods or water....well prepping items to have in that preppers road rucksack is bluestar ointment(for being gaulded...put it on at end of day and be ready for a burn),desinex,monkey butt powder etc. whatever is your tried and true item...being sweaty for hours hiking is going to get many...few march,hike,walk all day long like when you might be trying to miles between you and a threat.

 

[elkhound]

Does that mean you are a true, authentic prepper?

no but she has a donkey that can find water....#1 most needed item...unless you in a snow storm in alaska with sourdough then its a teton -35f sleeping bag.

 

[Cabin Fever]

What's Monkey Butt Powder?

 

[elkhound]

What's Monkey Butt Powder?

oh dear lord...have i got it confused....i am sure it was you that first mentioned it....wasnt it...you know right? have i gotten older and senile this early?

 

[elkhound]

oh goodness i left out the word ANTI monkey butt powder...lol

 

[Amish Heart]

Better than getting a monkey butt

 

[Cabin Fever]

After I asked the question, I was wondering if it might be a question that I did not want to hear the answer for. I can honestly say that I have never used any Monkey Butt Powder, nor have I ever used any similar product.

 

[elkhound]

After I asked the question, I was wondering if it might be a question that I did not want to hear the answer for. I can honestly say that I have never used any Monkey Butt Powder, nor have I ever used any similar product.

i could have sworn you posted that product way back when at single place...probably wrong....lol...i slept since then.

 

[Cabin Fever]

i could have sworn you posted that product way back when at single place...probably wrong....lol...i slept since then.

Single place?

 

[elkhound]

Single place?

pm sent

 

[Neb]

After I asked the question, I was wondering if it might be a question that I did not want to hear the answer for. I can honestly say that I have never used any Monkey Butt Powder, nor have I ever used any similar product.

I have!

Story time

My son was about 5 or 6 when he and I drove my pickup with plastic seats and no AC for 3 hours on a hot summer day to visit the future in-laws cottage. Not fun. The next morning my son woke up the neighborhood singing...

(Think the song I like short shorts)

I've got crotch rot...

The in-laws never did accept him after that.

Ben

 

[Hardcalibres]

I'm curious, because a while back, someone stated that we are not preppers here. So I am curious. Do you consider yourself a REAL prepper, and why do you not consider someone else to not be a REAL prepper?

Prepping is about making yourself independent of outside help and resources, during a crisis.......and indeed just normal life.....aging.....illness.....

Some crises last hours.....some days....some weeks....some months.....some years......and some last beyond the rest of your life expectancy (which can sometimes be determined by your preparedness). We know these things can happen....because they already have happened to millions of humans through world history.

I am prepared to be quite independent of the support systems of a modern world.

But getting prepared first requires the mindset to even understand/comprehend what crises can be like. I have seen real and very severe crises first hand....and I don't have the common affliction known as normalcy bias.

Normalcy Bias is the main reason people disagree about what preparedness looks like and how it should be defined.

People with normalcy bias fail to comprehend very different and abnormal situations and then dismiss the idea they need to be any more prepared than they already are.

When the world provides them with hints about what a severe crisis would be like, they dismiss those too.......and often turn the crisis into a blame game or change the context to something political or perhaps ideological. In that new/artificial context, any lessons that could have been learned about improved preparedness get lost.

When you have a survivalist mindset, you are drawn to interests, experiences, occupations and lifestyles that fit that mindset. It becomes very much who you are.......or perhaps it is who you have always been......and always will be.

People should also understand that there are no moderately severe crises. Most crises are mild.......but when they get beyond that, they trigger cascading failures that will lead to a severe crisis.

Prepping for mild crises is easy......but 99% of people don't even achieve that.

Prepping for severe crises is very, very difficult......and so an extremely small proportion of people ever achieve that.

So just based upon that statistic, it is most likely that most of the people you interact with.....even on a web forum about prepping or independent living, will not be prepared for very severe crises.

 

[elkhound]

done best i could with resources i had...your corral cost more than my home i am sure...lol