My husband and I have started watching Doomsday Prepper's over the last year and I have to say I really enjoy it for the most part. One of my gripes would be that overall it isn't targeted at low income family's or family's living on a tight budget. Some of them spend thousands and thousands of dollars, or even more than that.
Now they all have their own reasons for prepping, I agree with some and the jury is still out on other's!
However, I do most of the shopping and meal planning and ordering our medications so Steve didn't realize just how much food has sky rocketed over the years, let alone in this past year. Because I purchase many of the same products on a regular basis I am quick to realize the price's are going up at a blink of an eye. Now I am not talking about a few cents, in some case's dollars. You times that by a carriage of merchandise, that adds up to a lot of money in a year. And to top that off we now have two different taxes on food.
Now last year here in Tn we actually had tornado's and we had no electricity for nearly a week. We had no mail delivery, so we had no checks delivered. All the food in our filled freezers pretty much had to be thrown out. No hot water, phones, nothing! We weren't prepared because we were told when we moved here we would never see snow and never have a tornado. We we saw both the very first year we was here. Luckily we survive because we adapted, but I have to say it wasn't easy.
I want to at least try to prepare the best I can and with what we can afford. So I sat down and made list of every day things we use and all the foods, cleaning products , pet food, medicines, first aide, and I have to say it was a hell of a long list! I kept trying to cut back the list but there was few things I could cross off.
My dilemma ? how do we do this while still staying out of debt. So the last six months or so I have researched and researched ways to stock up on all our needs and where we would store things with in reason. Still keeping out of debt I've managed to get a good stock going so far. The husband is in charge of protection, chopping down trees for heat if needed and taking care of our chickens. He bought a generator so our investment in the freezer wouldn't go to waste. But, we still have a lot of things we need like paper goods, more pet food, batteries, etc. Now that we need a new roof we are going to have to hold off on any big purchases for a bit. I am going to hit the farmers markets and can what I can afford and still try and buy a few cans of freeze dried food every month. You would be surprised how fast it adds up! We are planning to fish to add to our freezer as well. I wish my husband would hunt for a deer this year as well but, we'll have to see.
Now they all have their own reasons for prepping, I agree with some and the jury is still out on other's!
However, I do most of the shopping and meal planning and ordering our medications so Steve didn't realize just how much food has sky rocketed over the years, let alone in this past year. Because I purchase many of the same products on a regular basis I am quick to realize the price's are going up at a blink of an eye. Now I am not talking about a few cents, in some case's dollars. You times that by a carriage of merchandise, that adds up to a lot of money in a year. And to top that off we now have two different taxes on food.
Now last year here in Tn we actually had tornado's and we had no electricity for nearly a week. We had no mail delivery, so we had no checks delivered. All the food in our filled freezers pretty much had to be thrown out. No hot water, phones, nothing! We weren't prepared because we were told when we moved here we would never see snow and never have a tornado. We we saw both the very first year we was here. Luckily we survive because we adapted, but I have to say it wasn't easy.
I want to at least try to prepare the best I can and with what we can afford. So I sat down and made list of every day things we use and all the foods, cleaning products , pet food, medicines, first aide, and I have to say it was a hell of a long list! I kept trying to cut back the list but there was few things I could cross off.
My dilemma ? how do we do this while still staying out of debt. So the last six months or so I have researched and researched ways to stock up on all our needs and where we would store things with in reason. Still keeping out of debt I've managed to get a good stock going so far. The husband is in charge of protection, chopping down trees for heat if needed and taking care of our chickens. He bought a generator so our investment in the freezer wouldn't go to waste. But, we still have a lot of things we need like paper goods, more pet food, batteries, etc. Now that we need a new roof we are going to have to hold off on any big purchases for a bit. I am going to hit the farmers markets and can what I can afford and still try and buy a few cans of freeze dried food every month. You would be surprised how fast it adds up! We are planning to fish to add to our freezer as well. I wish my husband would hunt for a deer this year as well but, we'll have to see.
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