anyone used their preps?

Yup I felt like a douche tradin in the coat but at the time I was unemployed, and the size of my rebates has been in the triple digits for more than a few years, I need fewer hobbies lol. A friend worked there and people would buy gear and return it at the end of the season, talk about taking advantage. I thought they were still a co-op though.

When we set out on prepping I tried to buy as much stuff as possible that we normally use. So flour rice ect comes from a bucket with a gamma lid and when empty the next bucket gets opened and the old one refilled, marked and stored.

I've dug into the stash before, but never because of a real emergency and never for anything critical to survival - a roll of aluminum foil once, a bottle of whiskey more than once, and some hygiene items every now and then - soap, toothpaste, etc.

I have a self-imposed rule that I tend to follow - when raiding the stash, always replace what you took with 2 of the same thing. My reasoning is that if I allow myself to run out of something in my normal daily life, it's because I have either overlooked it, or misjudged how much of it I would need or how long the amount I had on hand would last - and if I did it once, there's a good chance that I'd do it again and run out of it in a "situation", so I take it as a sign that I should be keeping more of it.

in 2011 i was without power for about 12 days..people laughed at my trangia burner not a week before...wasn't so funny when they wanted hot coffee lol

Used ours last year during our week long ice storm that shut everything down including power, grociery stores and most gas stations. We did well when most of our neighbors evacuated for services at their families or other areas that still had power and heat. Had a good list of needed items for our prep's afterwards, call it lesson's learned.

tard dart wha kinda things were u short

We rotate foodstuffs and paper products...on a yearly basis we use some of pretty much everything of that sort that we store. We have only in the past few years started storing freeze-dried foods , mostly staples that we like, and I make it a point to include them now and then (I make a great TVP taco...).

As far as other stuff, pretty much everything I own is a prep...for something. I needed some motor mounts done for my car last week and dipped into the store of flat stock I have "just because".

As far as actually needing to use my preps, no...but they sure make it handy to do stuff without running to town for the stuff I need. (or did before we moved to town)