SO YOU THINK ANYONE WHO HASN’T PREPPED IS JUST STUPID?

I have seen way so many comments and threads on GLP about how stupid people are for not prepping and that it’s their own fault if they don’t have enough to get through a crisis. They should have planned better, or they didn’t know how to handle money, and on and on…

I spent almost 8 years working for one of the largest storable food and emergency preparedness companies you have no doubt heard about, and I can tell you first hand that:

Most families are just getting by and MIGHT have a months worth of savings if they are lucky.

People WANT to prep but are extremely limited and have to choose what they can afford at that moment.

Every day you are served by people who can’t prep and every day you expect them to proved food, and other services to YOU so you can. Let’s list a few:

Restaurant staff like waiters and waitresses, cooks and hosts. Dishwashers too. Sandwich shop employees like Subway and all fast food workers.
Hotel staff like from the front desk to the maids who clean your room to the laundry department who handles your nasty lines when you are done with them.
Cashiers who have to listen to you complain or handle and touch the same shit a bunch of other people touched and place it in a bag for you.

Landscaping and lawncare crews who mow your yard and trim, and weedeat for you.

Car wash people who work their ass off to clean YOUR dirty ass car.

Construction workers who sweat balls working to build and repair houses and businesses everywhere. This includes roofers who sweat nails in the summer.

Trash collectors - Oh here is my pet peeve…these guys are up and down, on the truck and off the truck in between hoisting your nasty ass trash cans into the trash muncher machine, in sweltering heat, storms, sleet rain and ice cold winter. They don’t get paid near enough.

Pool techs who keep your pool sparking so you can soak your ass in the crystal clear water and relax.

Customer service people from banks, hotels, car dealerships cell phone service, utility companies, retail store of every kind, do you think they can afford to save three to 6 months worth of savings for hard times?

That’s enough for now. Use your brain and THINK for one minute not EVERYONE is in a position to be ready for these tough times, so be easy on them. Share if you can and don’t belittle others because they are material poor. They have lives and families too.

Both my parents worked in the hospitality industry for most of their lives and died with nothing in the bank and nothing to account for it materially. That’s the way the high majority of us are going to die too. But we still serve each other the best we can.

Entry level service jobs do not pay well because they are mainly staffed by young people who A) live with parents or B) share with roomates and have lower over head to cover. They are ENTRY level jobs and the reason you don't pay 50 dollars for a car wash.

Most of those other jobs pay fine IF everyone in the family does not have to have the latest cell phone, and IF credit is not extended to the max to buy a car/house that they couldn't afford, and IF they don't eat out all the time, and IF they don't go to the salon, and IF they don't always buy the premium package for whatever new thing they purchased.

If you are a grown ass adult and beyond your 20s and living paycheck to paycheck you earned that situation by spending more than you should. Fucks given = 0.

I prepped and warned everyone in my family to prep as well since Jan 1st. Even told everyone on my Fbook. Lots did what I told them too. Those who didn't can suck it.

Your part of this site....YOU HAVE ZERO EXCUSES! Grow up. Sorry if this offends you, and I only say sorry because I'm Canadian and it's expected....but not really sorry!

The day I got out of social programing school (best known as indoctrination camps for youth) I got a job on Oil rigs where money is. Unlike a tonne of my friends who decided to go the customer service route of no pay. I remember the year after my job going in to buy a vehicle and my principal was there as well looking for a used car....I was on the Newer side of the lot. It felt good buying a truck that was way newer than his beater car he bought. It was kinda fun telling him all about the money I was making, which was more than his meager lifetime achievement award of a salary.

We all make choices every day in this world. To say your not Prepped and others blame you for being stupid is really the easy way out for you to explain your current situation. In reality there are many reasons why. Like being lazy, having addictions, believing someone will always be there to give you hand outs, trusting the MSM, or being disabled in some way.

We all have and had, a choice. FFS anyone who didn't prep after Obama or Trudeas leadership really must trust incompetent people and governments a whole lot....What would you call that OP?

That is right, BeelzeBob. Be the biggest POS you possibly can be. I am sure the poor people you blindly and foolishly hate upon will take you in after all hell has broken loose nationwide. Pfft!

Not sure where all ya'll live but, before anyone gets any bright ideas to go out and hep themselves to someones livestock (cattle) go get you some venison.

That's right, I advocate poaching when in need.....God put the animals and the fishes of the sea here for us. Man put the seasons on them, with that said if you kill a deer try to kill a buck this time of year.

SO YOU THINK ANYONE WHO HASN’T PREPPED IS JUST STUPID?

Lmao.

This thread is a joke.

NOBODY is prepared for what’s coming.

I think there would be a lot less animosity for them if there wasn't such anger coming from the folks who didn't, or couldn't, prepare, directed at those who did. I have no problem until someone calls me a selfish hoarder for trying to protect my family from starvation.

Maybe. Every hard up person I know with only a couple exceptions is....or was...buying cigarettes,beer, lottery tickets, and fast food. Going to bars. Wasting money like never seen a generation ago. No interest in any prepping at all. About to learn the hard way.

I haven't prepped and have no desire to.

I live, I live, I die, I die. I have no interest in either outcome.

I think there would be a lot less animosity for them if there wasn't such anger coming from the folks who didn't, or couldn't, prepare, directed at those who did. I have no problem until someone calls me a selfish hoarder for trying to protect my family from starvation.