For my Threadlings, and anyone else who stumbles across this:

First a bit of information about myself to provide a bit of validity to the document below. I’m not a prepper in the sense I don’t stockpile weapons, have an underground bunker, radical spiritual beliefs, etc. (I think those are survivalists)

However, being prepared is a must for me.

Everyone’s PRIMARY PLAN should be to hunker down, that is, stay at home where you live for as long as possible and only leave if the situation no longer allows you to stay (out of resources, no longer safe, etc.).

My dad was in the military. Which in my family meant there was always to be a level of preparedness. I was raised in the time of nuclear war then updated to *EMPs before I left home.

Growing up my family would often go camping. Family vacations were travelling by car, pitching a tent, cooking over a fire, with little ‘home’ amenities. We were lucky if we had a cooler. My dad would hand me one match for the fire. If I didn’t light the fire with that match on to another method.

I hated it a lot as a kid.

I lived in the way south for a number of years. When tornado season came along one would get their BOB (Bug Out Bag) out. In the BOB one would have what they would need to survive for 24 hours if the home was demolished by a tornado. Help should arrive within that time frame.

You would keep your BOB by the door you were going to exit. When the sirens sounded you grabbed it and went to the cellar/basement/wherever.

Currently I have my tornado BOB, a 72 hour one, and one in the trunk of my car for winter emergencies, then the gear that I can put together to survive a week in about twenty minutes.

In the document below are some suggestions for being prepared. I’ve seen posts on the costs of being prepared. I call those “professional preppers”, which I am not.

Being prepared means you have planned ahead. Not spending gobs of money at the last moment, trying to find things that are essential, and working on being ‘grey’. (Unnoticable)

I’ve gathered things over the years. Shopping at yard sales, and using what I’ve learned camping.

This is a basic overview. I encourage you to talk with friends and family about joining together to share supplies and finding a place to go to in the event you need to ‘bug out”

Please let me know any conundrums/suggestions/feedback/ you may have. Contact