survival chic wrote:I am not going to bother discussing prepping with my family as there is no point at the moment, they just think i am mad. i am slowly and quietly prepping each week, gathering up things and placing around the house as my husband is not a fan of me prepping.
But if there is a emergency i will have prepped extra food and supplies for when mine and husband's family come knocking but only if they chip in with the work duties.
Just get them to do the work duties while you sit there with a smug 'not so mad now?!' look
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just a number, nothing to see here, move along now..
Opening up this thread again because the problem is always there, isn't it?
"Slowly, slowly, catchee monkey" is the old maxim that fits here.
Keep showing family your new toys and telling them why you like them, (wind up radios etc.)
Play a few tricks...my favourite game with a new load of Guides was to give each one a stick of spaghetti and tell them to tie a knot in it...without using the kitchen.
One or two of them never figure it out!
Don't try to be too sincere and serious about it...that puts folk off.
Tell by word of mouth only and give them a map ref (not the actual BOL) to make for in an emergency...disguised as a phone number or postal code.
I know someone who gave small bug-out kits for Christmas gifts one year, with the message, "I hope you will never need this, but don't give it away."
It all hooks up with them in the end.
Above all, don't forget to look after yourself!...I so often get that one wrong.
Just keep prepping for you because thats what keeps u happy etc. When the time comes they will ask so break them in slowly. They will A, start to see what ur doing or B, not care and carry on. You cant force them to like ur ideas.
If you want you could do a start kit for them something simple easy to get at with instructions, gives them an choice. When time comes and world go upside down be sure of one thing they will be looking to you for guidence. So work on ur skills and preps. Other than that just do what you enjoy and if they get involved great
I don't use the word prepping. It's got connotations now that are just too much hassle to get past. My approach is to say that, given the way food prices etc are rising, I've decided that the best pension plan isn't a financial one, it's a good, renewable stock of food and a decent off grid house to eat it in! It's an approach that is met with thoughtful looks, followed by acknowledgement that it's a sensible idea.
Where we are is where we stay; it's a good, safe location. And I know that if it all goes pearshaped, then my family would head in this direction. As would, so it happens, a fair few of the members of the message boards I run - bringing with them skills we don't have right now, but which would be very useful.
You have car insurance just in case
You have home insurance just in case
You have life insurance just in case
You have a full stocked "pantry" , with alternative cooking, heating and lighting sources just in case
Simple, but you just have a rather large stock in your "pantry".
J
Be Prepared.
Plan like its the last loaf on the shop shelves.
Plan like its the last beer in the fridge.
Of course you can also just wait for weather like today's and point out that the media are saying that we need to have a bit tucked away for such situations (Emergency declared in the snowy areas because deliveries are going to be difficult this week)
I've point out all the doom and gloom that's on the news then expand on it. My wife has slowly seen the sense in what I'm saying and is now on board. I also talk about copping with power outages rather than all out survival. So you preparing. To make all your family comfortable if there was power electrical power or water.
