Remember the Dr. Pepper advertisement jingle? It works especially well for preppers. “I’m a prepper, you’re a prepper, he’s a prepper, she’s a prepper. Wouldn’t you like to be a prepper too!”
Who would enjoy prepping? Here’s a small list:
Do you enjoy camping? You will enjoy prepping. Prepping is camping with REALLY well conceived gear.
Do you enjoy hunting and fishing? Those are skills preppers need to have. Those of us who don’t yet have them need to learn them. Teach another prepper about cleaning game, and have them teach you about solar and battery backup systems and Faraday cages.
Do you enjoy gardening? Then you could be the best prepper in the neighborhood. The ability to grow food is an indispensable skill that is rapidly becoming lost. Prepping is gardening with a purpose.
Do you like guns, knives and archery? Preppers LOVE all of those things. Forget about gun collections. Most preppers have arsenals.
Do you enjoy flipping through the latest Cabela’s catalog and adding things to your wish list? You will love prepping. There is even more gear you never THOUGHT you wanted.
Do you like wrenching on cars? Hey, imagine building a bug-out vehicle that is the envy of your neighborhood.
Do you fantasize about someday living off the grid in a tiny house? Prepping gives you all the reason you need to do just that.
Do you enjoy home improvement projects? Preppers have lists of things they would like to do to their houses to prepare for any number of situations. Everything from solar energy, rainwater harvesting, building fences and gates, building specialized boxes for their stuff, pumping systems, pond building, gardening, et cetera. If you can think of it, there is a prepper trying to do it.
Do you like to write? Preppers need reliable information about things that get the jobs done better and more efficiently than others. Most preppers don’t have unlimited finances and they want to know how to get the best bang for their buck.
Prepping is fun for those of us who do it, but more especially it is practical. Something will happen that will make you thankful you are prepared. Look at what Hurricane Maria just did to Puerto Rico. Those people have lost EVERY modern system (water, sewer, electricity, roads, supplies, medicine, homes). Look what hurricanes have done to Galveston (8,000 dead), Houston, New Orleans, Florida. Look what tornadoes did to Fort Worth and Moore, Oklahoma. Look at the devastation caused by industrial accidents such as The Halifax Explosion (2,000 dead) and Chernobyl where an entire city had to be abandoned.
These things happen. We can’t predict them. What we can do is prepare ourselves in such a way that we can meet the basic needs of ourselves and families in virtually any circumstance.
This is what prepping is about. We provide for the needs of our families in virtually every possible scenario, and we have a lot of fun along the way.
