75 Signs That You Might Be One Of Those Preppers!
Jan 10, 2015 9:26:08 GMT 10
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30 SIGNS THAT YOU MIGHT BE ONE OF THOSE CRAZY PREPPERS
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45 MORE SIGNS THAT YOU MIGHT BE ONE OF THOSE CRAZY PREPPERS!!
These articles are by Daisy Luther who is a freelance writer and editor. Her website is The Organic Prepper.
www.theorganicprepper.ca/30-signs-that-youre-one-of-those-crazy-preppers-06242014
www.theorganicprepper.ca/45-more-signs-that-you-might-be-one-of-those-crazy-preppers-11122014
With all the recent talk in the news about “Doomsday Preppers” and the demonization in the media, you have to be aware that you’re considered a little….different. The fact that you are self-reliant is such an oddity to most that, frankly, they find you to be either nuts, a little bit scary, or both.
30 Signs:
Pantries are so mainstream…you have food stashed in strange places in every room of the house.
You have enough toilet paper to get through a year of uncomfortable digestive upsets…occurring with 6 people simultaneously
Speaking of which, you possess at least 3 different ways to use the bathroom, only one of which is an actual bathroom.
Your kids know what OPSEC means…at the age of 4.
You have topographical maps of your area…plural.
When you’re forced to interact with “the others” you feel like you are awkwardly censoring your true opinions
You think nothing of treating an injury or illness yourself because “what if there was no doctor?”
Paintball is no longer just a fun way to spend an afternoon – it’s called “training”.
With every major purchase, you contemplate going for the off-grid version.
You have more manual tools than power tools.
You’ve washed entire loads of laundry by hand for either necessity or practice. (And not just your dainties…we’re talking about jeans and stuff!)
Your kids are not afraid of guns…or fingers pointed like guns…or pastries in the shape of guns…or drawings of guns.
When house hunting you look for multiple heat and water sources.
You store food in buckets…lots of buckets…like, maybe even a whole room full of buckets.
You garden with a determination and time commitment normally reserved for endurance athletes training for an Ironman triathlon.
If you don’t have a water source on your property, you have put in miles of footwork searching for one nearby, and have mapped multiple discreet routes to and from the source, and figured out how to haul the water back to your house on each route.
Your first instinct when hearing about some event on the mainstream news is skepticism. (False flag event, anyone?)
You believe that FEMA camps are real and that you are most likely on “The List”.
Instead of CNN, you have alternative news sites bookmarked in your favorites on your computer.
You have enough coffee/tea/favorite-caffeinated-item-of-choice to last you through 3 apocalypses.
You have enough over the counter medications stashed away to outfit a small-town pharmacy.
You have an instinctive mistrust of most cops or anyone working for an alphabet agency.
You could sink a ship with the weight of your stored ammo.
Looking for a fun weekend outing with the kids? Forget amusement parks – the shooting range is where it’s at..
When the power goes out, you calmly light the candles and proceed with whatever you had been dong previously.
A longer-term power outage is called “practice”.
If a like-minded person comes over to your house, they’ll realize you are “one of them” by seeing your reading material. Other folks won’t even notice. The FBI would call your copy of The Prepper’s Blueprint and your James Wesley Rawles fiction “subversive literature”.
Your children carry a modified bug-out kit in their school backpacks.
You can and dehydrate food with the single-minded fervor of a Amish grandmother facing a 7 year drought.
Calling 911 is not part of your home security plan.
+ 45 More Signs:
A while back, I wrote an article called “30 Signs That You’re One of Those Crazy Preppers.” Lots of readers got into the spirit of things, since it was pretty darned relatable. We all know these are actually signs of sanity, but we’re used to being misunderstood by the unprepared and sometimes it’s fun to have a good laugh about their misconceptions of what we actually do.
Then Ebola happened, here on American soil, and a lot more people jumped on board the preparedness bandwagon. To welcome the newbies, here are 45 MORE signs that you might have crossed over to the “prepped side".
Many of these will be things that non-preppers just can’t understand, but they’ll probably give you a warm glow. Feel the prepper solidarity!
You spend your days off digging an underground bunker in your backyard.
You have more than a thousand cheapo lighters that you purchased in bulk, stashed away in the back of your linen closet. Oh…and you don’t even smoke.
You eat a lot of ‘survival food’ now, so there is no ‘system shock’ when you are forced to eat only the items you have stocked (or that you GROW – hint hint).
You stock alcohol in mass quantities so you can stay drunk after the SHTF.
You stock alcohol in mass quantities – and you don’t even drink. (Barter, baby!)
You know what? Forget stocking alcohol. You have your own still. You’ll make alcohol.
You have enough salt to create another Dead Sea.
You have a forest’s worth of firewood cut, stacked, and seasoned.
You purchased 50 of these already for stocking stuffers for your friends/family/workmates/neighbor/random stranger.
Speaking of Christmas, you gave Conflicted to everyone last year.
When your friends ask about your favorite authors, instead of Hemmingway, Tolkien, or Kerouac, you get a blank stare when you tell them it’s John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman.
You know exactly how many Mountain House buckets it takes to make a base for a single bed.
You don’t stock up on milk. You get an actual cow.
Your family doesn’t dare take something from the food stockpile without marking it off the list.
Your kids know how to don a gas mask in 30 seconds.
It’s not laser tag or paintball…it’s tactical training.
Everyone in your survival group carries the same firearm so that ammo is standardized.
You have non-electric versions of appliances like wheat grinders, washing machines, and coffee makers.
You yell at the TV every time a commercial for Doomsday Preppers comes on. Oh. Wait. You don’t have a TV. But if you did, you’d yell, because you know how positively ridiculous and unrealistic that show is.
Your family is no longer surprised when you announce, “Hey, we’re going to learn how to make (insert anything here)!”
You have more how-to books stored on hard-drives than most public libraries have on the bookshelves.
Your children have a plan to bug out from school.
Alternatively, you homeschool and bugging out is part of the curriculum.
You have more than three ways to cook dinner if the power goes out: a woodstove, a barbecue, a sun oven, a fire-pit, and/or a volcano stove.
First Blood and Red Dawn are basic training films for your family.
You have long since accepted the idea that if you’re not on someone’s list, you’re probably not doing it right.
Your 7 year old knows Morse Code.
You’re secretly disappointed when the electricity comes back on after only a few minutes.
You know more ways to make a homemade knife than the entire population of your local prison combined.
You don’t just rotate food, you rotate ammo.
You know the distance from your door to your front gate is precisely 207 yards.
Moving to a new house is no longer “moving”, but “strategic relocation“.
You have mapped out at least 3 different routes by car and 2 different routes on foot to get to your bug-out location.
You know the difference between “Tyvek” and “Tychem” suits, and in which instance they should be used.
Ditto the finer points of N-95 vs. N-100 masks.
You watch The Walking Dead in order to critique their survival tactics. (And you were secretly delighted to see Beth building a fire in a Dakota pit.)
Speaking of fire, you can start one in at least 3 different ways, and you always carry a lighter, a fresnel lens, and a magnesium firestarter.
You have two (or more) of everything important, well, because “one is none.”
You have a decoy food supply.
Your kids think it’s a fun game to see who can find the most potential weapons in a room.
Even your dog has a bug out bag - which she carries herself.
You have elected NOT to purchase greater armament, because you plan on upgrading with your future assailant’s weaponry.
Your EDC includes a knife, firearm w/extra mag, flashlight, mylar blanket, Chapstick, and an ounce of silver — and that’s just for when you’re walking the dog.
The trunk of your car has enough supplies to carry you through an entire week during a major blizzard.
One criterion for your new winter coat is that it fits over your body armor.
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45 MORE SIGNS THAT YOU MIGHT BE ONE OF THOSE CRAZY PREPPERS!!
These articles are by Daisy Luther who is a freelance writer and editor. Her website is The Organic Prepper.
www.theorganicprepper.ca/30-signs-that-youre-one-of-those-crazy-preppers-06242014
www.theorganicprepper.ca/45-more-signs-that-you-might-be-one-of-those-crazy-preppers-11122014
With all the recent talk in the news about “Doomsday Preppers” and the demonization in the media, you have to be aware that you’re considered a little….different. The fact that you are self-reliant is such an oddity to most that, frankly, they find you to be either nuts, a little bit scary, or both.
30 Signs:
Pantries are so mainstream…you have food stashed in strange places in every room of the house.
You have enough toilet paper to get through a year of uncomfortable digestive upsets…occurring with 6 people simultaneously
Speaking of which, you possess at least 3 different ways to use the bathroom, only one of which is an actual bathroom.
Your kids know what OPSEC means…at the age of 4.
You have topographical maps of your area…plural.
When you’re forced to interact with “the others” you feel like you are awkwardly censoring your true opinions
You think nothing of treating an injury or illness yourself because “what if there was no doctor?”
Paintball is no longer just a fun way to spend an afternoon – it’s called “training”.
With every major purchase, you contemplate going for the off-grid version.
You have more manual tools than power tools.
You’ve washed entire loads of laundry by hand for either necessity or practice. (And not just your dainties…we’re talking about jeans and stuff!)
Your kids are not afraid of guns…or fingers pointed like guns…or pastries in the shape of guns…or drawings of guns.
When house hunting you look for multiple heat and water sources.
You store food in buckets…lots of buckets…like, maybe even a whole room full of buckets.
You garden with a determination and time commitment normally reserved for endurance athletes training for an Ironman triathlon.
If you don’t have a water source on your property, you have put in miles of footwork searching for one nearby, and have mapped multiple discreet routes to and from the source, and figured out how to haul the water back to your house on each route.
Your first instinct when hearing about some event on the mainstream news is skepticism. (False flag event, anyone?)
You believe that FEMA camps are real and that you are most likely on “The List”.
Instead of CNN, you have alternative news sites bookmarked in your favorites on your computer.
You have enough coffee/tea/favorite-caffeinated-item-of-choice to last you through 3 apocalypses.
You have enough over the counter medications stashed away to outfit a small-town pharmacy.
You have an instinctive mistrust of most cops or anyone working for an alphabet agency.
You could sink a ship with the weight of your stored ammo.
Looking for a fun weekend outing with the kids? Forget amusement parks – the shooting range is where it’s at..
When the power goes out, you calmly light the candles and proceed with whatever you had been dong previously.
A longer-term power outage is called “practice”.
If a like-minded person comes over to your house, they’ll realize you are “one of them” by seeing your reading material. Other folks won’t even notice. The FBI would call your copy of The Prepper’s Blueprint and your James Wesley Rawles fiction “subversive literature”.
Your children carry a modified bug-out kit in their school backpacks.
You can and dehydrate food with the single-minded fervor of a Amish grandmother facing a 7 year drought.
Calling 911 is not part of your home security plan.
+ 45 More Signs:
A while back, I wrote an article called “30 Signs That You’re One of Those Crazy Preppers.” Lots of readers got into the spirit of things, since it was pretty darned relatable. We all know these are actually signs of sanity, but we’re used to being misunderstood by the unprepared and sometimes it’s fun to have a good laugh about their misconceptions of what we actually do.
Then Ebola happened, here on American soil, and a lot more people jumped on board the preparedness bandwagon. To welcome the newbies, here are 45 MORE signs that you might have crossed over to the “prepped side".
Many of these will be things that non-preppers just can’t understand, but they’ll probably give you a warm glow. Feel the prepper solidarity!
You spend your days off digging an underground bunker in your backyard.
You have more than a thousand cheapo lighters that you purchased in bulk, stashed away in the back of your linen closet. Oh…and you don’t even smoke.
You eat a lot of ‘survival food’ now, so there is no ‘system shock’ when you are forced to eat only the items you have stocked (or that you GROW – hint hint).
You stock alcohol in mass quantities so you can stay drunk after the SHTF.
You stock alcohol in mass quantities – and you don’t even drink. (Barter, baby!)
You know what? Forget stocking alcohol. You have your own still. You’ll make alcohol.
You have enough salt to create another Dead Sea.
You have a forest’s worth of firewood cut, stacked, and seasoned.
You purchased 50 of these already for stocking stuffers for your friends/family/workmates/neighbor/random stranger.
Speaking of Christmas, you gave Conflicted to everyone last year.
When your friends ask about your favorite authors, instead of Hemmingway, Tolkien, or Kerouac, you get a blank stare when you tell them it’s John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman.
You know exactly how many Mountain House buckets it takes to make a base for a single bed.
You don’t stock up on milk. You get an actual cow.
Your family doesn’t dare take something from the food stockpile without marking it off the list.
Your kids know how to don a gas mask in 30 seconds.
It’s not laser tag or paintball…it’s tactical training.
Everyone in your survival group carries the same firearm so that ammo is standardized.
You have non-electric versions of appliances like wheat grinders, washing machines, and coffee makers.
You yell at the TV every time a commercial for Doomsday Preppers comes on. Oh. Wait. You don’t have a TV. But if you did, you’d yell, because you know how positively ridiculous and unrealistic that show is.
Your family is no longer surprised when you announce, “Hey, we’re going to learn how to make (insert anything here)!”
You have more how-to books stored on hard-drives than most public libraries have on the bookshelves.
Your children have a plan to bug out from school.
Alternatively, you homeschool and bugging out is part of the curriculum.
You have more than three ways to cook dinner if the power goes out: a woodstove, a barbecue, a sun oven, a fire-pit, and/or a volcano stove.
First Blood and Red Dawn are basic training films for your family.
You have long since accepted the idea that if you’re not on someone’s list, you’re probably not doing it right.
Your 7 year old knows Morse Code.
You’re secretly disappointed when the electricity comes back on after only a few minutes.
You know more ways to make a homemade knife than the entire population of your local prison combined.
You don’t just rotate food, you rotate ammo.
You know the distance from your door to your front gate is precisely 207 yards.
Moving to a new house is no longer “moving”, but “strategic relocation“.
You have mapped out at least 3 different routes by car and 2 different routes on foot to get to your bug-out location.
You know the difference between “Tyvek” and “Tychem” suits, and in which instance they should be used.
Ditto the finer points of N-95 vs. N-100 masks.
You watch The Walking Dead in order to critique their survival tactics. (And you were secretly delighted to see Beth building a fire in a Dakota pit.)
Speaking of fire, you can start one in at least 3 different ways, and you always carry a lighter, a fresnel lens, and a magnesium firestarter.
You have two (or more) of everything important, well, because “one is none.”
You have a decoy food supply.
Your kids think it’s a fun game to see who can find the most potential weapons in a room.
Even your dog has a bug out bag - which she carries herself.
You have elected NOT to purchase greater armament, because you plan on upgrading with your future assailant’s weaponry.
Your EDC includes a knife, firearm w/extra mag, flashlight, mylar blanket, Chapstick, and an ounce of silver — and that’s just for when you’re walking the dog.
The trunk of your car has enough supplies to carry you through an entire week during a major blizzard.
One criterion for your new winter coat is that it fits over your body armor.
