re: What do you think of "Doomsday Preppers"

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Doesn’t really bother me but I don’t want to spend my life worrying about things that might happen.

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I think the stuff you see on TV is just over sensationalized. I'd bet there are way more people with stockpiles than you think and there are probably a couple of people you know with some kind of stockpile and you just don't realize. If you stockpile slow and steady, it doesn't take a terribly large amount of time or effort to build up a stockpile and it sure as hell isn't interesting enough for a TV show. When you go to the store, if you need two cans of corn for dinner, you buy three or four cans. If you need a bag of rice, maybe you buy an extra. The extra goes into the pantry for a rainy day.

The space to store everything properly is really the hard part for most people. Otherwise, it's just buying a couple extra things every trip and slowly building up over time.

My mom and dad used to do it on a small scale when I was growing up. They weren't preparing for armageddon, but when I got older I realized that they were making sure we were ready for hurricane season by buying a little extra here and there during the winter. We never went out and bought stuff when a storm came. We just busted out the camp stoves and cooked what they'd already put up in the pantry. Between the pantry and the freezer, I can't remember going through a hurricane and having to eat milk and bread sandwiches instead of regular cooked meals. If a hurricane didn't come one year, we'd just eat through the stockpile until it was time to start building it back up to keep it fresh and rotated.



Sounds like a wise way to go about things to me.