Compared To 10 Years Ago...

[SoCal92057]

Compared to 10 years ago is your personal safety and that of your family greater or less? My personal safety is greater due to my preps. On a U.S. national level, violent crime is down except for in many of the larger failed cities such as Chicago and Detroit.

Remember, you are never prepared, but always working towards it.

[cpslashm]

Safer.

I used to live in a city where teenagers would bomb around in 100hp cars.

Now I live in the countryside where teenagers bomb around in 1000hp tractors

[featherstick]

Ten years ago I was contemplating marriage and lived in a little house on crappy street in a run-down part of Britain. Although I've always had the prepping gene, I didn't have any real preps to speak of other than some extra food and water stocks.

Now I have a wife and 2 children, and live in a bigger house on a nicer street about a mile away from the first one.

On the minus side:
- My mortgage is bigger and longer
- Our outgoings are higher
- Our responsibilities are greater
- As I move on in my job the stress and responsibility levels increase, as does the amount of time I need to put in
- We're well into a game-changing economic paradigm shift with everyone hanging out for a "return to normality" that just ain't coming

On the plus side:
- We don't have any debt apart from the mortgage
- We have an allotment and a great garden
- My wife is very resilient and has come around to the prepping mentality
- The boy has promised to look after me when he's grown up
- We live on a nicer street with nicer neighbours
- Our stocks of food, water, basic preps and other equipment and tools are good
- We are adapting the house to be a low-key prepstead
- Both our skill-sets are improving and we are trying to pass some of them on to our children

So on balance we are safer, happier, and better prepared, but that could all go pear-shaped very quickly.

[SoCal92057]

Safer.

I used to live in a city where teenagers would bomb around in 100hp cars.

Now I live in the countryside where teenagers bomb around in 1000hp tractors

You got a smile out of me with that one.

[jansman]

Ten years ago I was contemplating marriage and lived in a little house on crappy street in a run-down part of Britain. Although I've always had the prepping gene, I didn't have any real preps to speak of other than some extra food and water stocks.

Now I have a wife and 2 children, and live in a bigger house on a nicer street about a mile away from the first one.

On the minus side:
- My mortgage is bigger and longer
- Our outgoings are higher
- Our responsibilities are greater
- As I move on in my job the stress and responsibility levels increase, as does the amount of time I need to put in
- We're well into a game-changing economic paradigm shift with everyone hanging out for a "return to normality" that just ain't coming

On the plus side:
- We don't have any debt apart from the mortgage
- We have an allotment and a great garden
- My wife is very resilient and has come around to the prepping mentality
- The boy has promised to look after me when he's grown up
- We live on a nicer street with nicer neighbours
- Our stocks of food, water, basic preps and other equipment and tools are good
- We are adapting the house to be a low-key prepstead
- Both our skill-sets are improving and we are trying to pass some of them on to our children

So on balance we are safer, happier, and better prepared, but that could all go pear-shaped very quickly.

I do like the phrase, "prepstead".

[ForgeCorvus]

I do like the phrase, "prepstead".

Me too

Shows one of the fundamental differences with UK preppers

[cpslashm]

I do like the phrase, "prepstead".

Me too - I think I'll adopt it!

[pseudonym]

Safer..........



















10 years ago I was in Afghanistan

[SoCal92057]

Ten years ago I was contemplating marriage and lived in a little house on crappy street in a run-down part of Britain. Although I've always had the prepping gene, I didn't have any real preps to speak of other than some extra food and water stocks.

Now I have a wife and 2 children, and live in a bigger house on a nicer street about a mile away from the first one.

On the minus side:
- My mortgage is bigger and longer
- Our outgoings are higher
- Our responsibilities are greater
- As I move on in my job the stress and responsibility levels increase, as does the amount of time I need to put in
- We're well into a game-changing economic paradigm shift with everyone hanging out for a "return to normality" that just ain't coming

On the plus side:
- We don't have any debt apart from the mortgage
- We have an allotment and a great garden
- My wife is very resilient and has come around to the prepping mentality
- The boy has promised to look after me when he's grown up
- We live on a nicer street with nicer neighbours
- Our stocks of food, water, basic preps and other equipment and tools are good
- We are adapting the house to be a low-key prepstead
- Both our skill-sets are improving and we are trying to pass some of them on to our children

So on balance we are safer, happier, and better prepared, but that could all go pear-shaped very quickly.

Yes, I noted the use of "prepstead" also. I like it.

[Scablifter]

Ten years ago, I was so wrapped up in worrying about the next ten years that I forgot to enjoy life. I will not be making that mistake for the next ten years. Whatever happens will happen, but if it does I'm ready as I can be.