I hope this is the right place....

[Deeps]

to introduce myself. I've just recently heard of 'prepping' and realised that I've been a prepper all my life so so had a look around the internet and seen that there is a range of preppers, our Colonial cousins as usual tending towards the more extreme end but now that I know there is a 'category' that I fall into I'm looking to embrace it.

Hello to everyone and I look forward to learning as I spend more time on here. Am I in a minority who has a missus who thinks that the whole prepping thing is nuts ?

[poppypiesdad]

Welcome and no there is a lot of use who prep as a family group .
j

[poppypiesdad]

Welcome and no there is a lot of use who prep as for the family individually within the family group that doesnt know
j

[Bosworth]

My other half thinks I'm nuts. Barely tolerates it but i can do enough to get the basics in place. Luckily it's never about financial choices so we muddle through.

[Wulfshead]

Welcome,
I'm pretty lucky because ALL my family prep even if the elder generation let me buy stuff for them knowing exactly why we do.
I am willing to bet that other halfs that see our prepping as mad will be less anti in 3 or 4 years.
The bonus there is that they will have an understanding of sorts which will elevate their own ability above that of the totally un-prepped if and when the need to go active comes along.

It's like my wife has seen me change a car wheel but never done it, if she needed to she would know how to from watching me

Again, welcome and enjoy the forum,
Wulfshead

[hobo]

Hello!
My wife thought I was nuts then tolerated it. Now she's more or less on board. Both kids (13 and 15) get it.

[AllanM]

Hello

I'm exactly the same (in that i'm a newbie and my Family don' get it but the mrs kinda does)

[tigs]

welcome to the forum

[Deeps]

Hi, thanks for the kind words. I've been busy reading through the 500 odd pages of what preps people have been getting up to over the last 4 years or so
I've a way to go yet but picked up a few things, looking forward to learning as I go, as I said, I've kind of been an 'amateur' prepper since I was a kid so I'm not really coming to it cold but everyday's a school day and all that.

As I've been reading I've noticed that there are a fair number of the fairer sex posting here which surprised me, most of the other prepper types I've known have been guys so I can maybe use this to convince Mrs Deeps that its not just me being mad.

Ciao 4 now guys

[Decaff]

My partner tollerates it to a degree, which is more than in the beginning, he thought I was nuts! (so he doesn't know half the stuff I have stashed away...) but my son is on board and gets it.