TIRED OLD PREPPER PURGING THE CRAP FROM MY HOUSE – SHAME ON ME ALL THESE YEARS!

well my stored water got me thru nearly 3 years ago of 6 days with NO water at all. Damaged plumbing cause...

And 24 hours of NO electricity in the bitter cold this winter caused me to prove to myself how good my stores and plans actually were.

Right now I am having an issue with my food stamps and using some of my stored food. I haven't found any I need to toss because of condition really.

I had been freaking out for the past year that I was running out of time to prep...Trying to gather as much food stash as I could a little at a time. Over the past month, after further study and reflection, I almost think we'd be better off stocking a good bag and taking our chances out in the woods. I know there will be crazies out there, but I think I'd rather risk being on the move than being ambushed for my stash.

just a hint of advice for you: you can more easily be ambushed in the woods. Chances are you're going to get ambushed anyway unless you're heavily armed and you have some expert marksmen in your sphere of influence. Shelter in place. Unless you live in a big city. But being out in the woods will cause you to be in the exact same situation but instead exposed to the elements to add more insult to misery.

Just saying.

By the way, I have counseled and spoken the people in that freaked out state of mind for years. My job was to help people get prepared for whatever potential emergency might be coming down the road. Back in the day, I made a living off of helping people prepare. Pretty scary that I'm at a no shits to give point.


So no more freaking out my friend, be levelheaded and don't be like me and be stupid and hoard bunch of things that you don't need.

A PACK RAT PURSUING A HOARDER STRATEGY HAS ZERO TO DO WITH PREPAREDNESS. YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN ROTATING YOUR STOCK ALL THESE YEARS AND THEN NOTHING WOULD HAVE GONE TO WASTE, YOU'D HAVE EATEN THE OLDER SUPPLIES AND ROTATED IN NEWER ONES. KEEPING SEEDS FOR A FUTURE THAT MAY COME WHILE NEVER ACTUALLY PRACTICING GARDENING ALL ALONG ISN'T A STRATEGY, IT'S A MONEY PIT.

YOU'RE LIKE THE TRIBAL LEADER IN AFRICA THAT AMASSES A HUGE LIBRARY OF BOOKS TO IMPRESS VISITORS BUT DOESN'T BOTHER TO READ.

A PACK RAT PURSUING A HOARDER STRATEGY HAS ZERO TO DO WITH PREPAREDNESS. YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN ROTATING YOUR STOCK ALL THESE YEARS AND THEN NOTHING WOULD HAVE GONE TO WASTE, YOU'D HAVE EATEN THE OLDER SUPPLIES AND ROTATED IN NEWER ONES. KEEPING SEEDS FOR A FUTURE THAT MAY COME WHILE NEVER ACTUALLY PRACTICING GARDENING ALL ALONG ISN'T A STRATEGY, IT'S A MONEY PIT.

YOU'RE LIKE THE TRIBAL LEADER IN AFRICA THAT AMASSES A HUGE LIBRARY OF BOOKS TO IMPRESS VISITORS BUT DOESN'T BOTHER TO READ.

Yeah, you do have a point there. Lately, I suspect that most people will stay home and wait for the government to come in if anything ever did happen. I've been worrying more about learning how to do things "the old way" rather than accumulating things.

Doom comes in many forms. If I hadn't of prepped ahead of time, when I got injured, I would have immediately had to go on publik assistance. Instead I was able to live for close to 4 years without financially burdening anyone. I was fortunate to have the foresight and grateful for being prepared.

I'm older now, paralyzed and don't care so much that all my preps have been used. If real broad-scale or local doom happens, I've not a strong enough will to survive to care all that much; just make it quick.

Yeah I’m more into establishing a self sufficient lifestyle as opposed to buying and storing it all. Like you said I do have some stuff laid by, it to me it’s more important to learn how to be more self sufficient if shit really goes south.

Permaculture

Permaculture

IF THE SHIT GOES south.. so will your gardens beloveds... People will raid them..

We've got a community wide garage sale coming up and I'm unloading a lot of stuff I haven't used in the last decade. All the boating equipment must go. 100% pure lana wool coat goes. military surplus gear goes. Buck Pathfinder, 5", new goes. and on and on. minimalism is good....

I have zero desire to live like Mad Max. Not living to me. Peace

YUSSSSS Feels so good, doesn't it??

I’ve been going through my home with a fine tooth comb the last couple of days, getting rid of everything and anything I can that I simply have no use for anymore. Crap, junk, good things that are completely useless to me. Giving away, selling, going in the garbage. A huge portion of this is my emergency supplies. Yep you heard me. I’m done with it.

For 20 years I have been stashing, storing, accumulating, collecting, studying, living, working, the emergency preparedness lifestyle. I have hundreds if not thousands of packages of seeds, long-term storable foods, and lots and lots of peripherals. Now mind you some of it I’ll keep because I live in a hurricane state. But you would not believe the amount of shit that I threw out yesterday.
I have been waiting for doom for 20 years. It will probably come one day but I’m at a point where I just don’t shiv a git any more.

I remember back in 1999 it was India and Pakistan, then 9/11, then operation shock and awe, and you know the rest. From Y2K to the 2005 polar shift. Hell I used to teach a class on earth changes, helping everyone else prepare for the flip-flop the earth was going to do.
In 2004 Aussie Bloke made his appearance here on GLP. We packed the cars and headed for the mountains. Nothing happened. It was a great trip!

In in 2011 I found myself in an interesting situation helping a young man packaging seeds for an emergency preparedness company that was about to be created. But I didn’t know that at the time. I ended up working for this company for about eight years, getting company discounts on my emergency supplies was a great thing. I bought food, seeds, water purification, lighting and solar power things, and I cannot tell you how much more because it’s still stashed and buried. I’m going to dig it out today and throw out what I don’t want and keep the rest. Bottom line, there was no doom. There is no doom.

I have read countless books, listened to lectures and attended tradeshows and self-reliance expos on emergency preparedness. I made a decent living over the years, and couldn’t believe all of the useless crap I had accumulated with the money that I made working for this company. It’s going in a yard sale this weekend. I am literally ashamed of myself for wasting all of those resources. I bought things I didn’t need but wanted and now I’m tossing them out, selling, or giving shit away.

I’m keeping most of my guns, some storable food and definitely my water filtration system. As far as I give a damn, this world could flip-flop now. I had enough.

So who else on here has spent tens of thousand dollars on supplies they never needed?

I did two dump runs with food my husband bought for 12/21/12....

Did the exact same thing about a year ago. If the SHTF tomorrow, I'm going to take whatever I want from whoever I want. Fuck it.

don't forget your Y2K Yoder's chicken chunks...

Oh heck yeah, 2012! The BIG one.

Every freaking prophesy that was set in stone..melted.

Now mind you thats all fine and good, but I wonder how well life would have unveiled itself if we didn't have a constant blanket of doom hanging over our heads.

I could name a long list of people that have come and gone with their failed prophesies. Thank God they failed, but whats the point if it just makes them all liars!!

Real prepping is mastering the skills to stay alive outdoors with little more than a knife. How to make shelter, clothing, fire, purify water, hunting, trapping and foraging - those things will ensure your survival when no amount of spare batteries and canned Hormel chili will.