New to the "prepping" scene. I didn't even know there was a name for something a bit less extreme than the wilder-eyed "survivalist" until I saw the Channel 4 show Hunted last year, where one of the participants identified themselves as a prepper (IIRC, they didn't do outstandingly well).
So any progress to date along the route to being "prepared" is mostly accidental! Or based on geeky wannabe "paranoia"
I'm a gamer, roleplaying (live and tabletop), computer and the rest of the gamut, and have, in those environments had to consider some of the scenarios that preparedness as a lifestyle hopes to address or mitigate. The family has always camped (civilised style) and I love lists. My first EDC (though I didn't know that was what it was) was back in the 90s: a "shoulder-holster" style manbag with a SAK, a leatherman, a zippo etc to go along with wallet and keys. In my LARPing, I'm often cooking over open fires for a dozen or more people. The thinking through "problem" scenarios, from getting stuck in town without a lift via going off the grid to evade government oppression to the total, persistent collapse of civilisation as we know it has leaked into daily life.I believe there is a small, non-negligible chance that I and/or mine will be caught up in some excrement/air circulation device interaction and I'm looking to be prepared.
Oh, and I'm a bit of a kit junkie, and a lot of a list junkie.
Comes from prepping my characters for all those Dungeons/Shadowruns/spec ops/space adventures in the last 35 years or so!
