Like minded people

Help Please.

My wife and I have only really broken the surface on getting prepared for SHTF, TEOTWAWKI, or whatever disaster that may be coming???

My question to all of you is how do we find like minded people without being the "crazy one's in the room" although it maybe us "crazy people" still around. We are finding it hard to stay on track without some acountability.

 

I was worried this would be the response, I had basically already answered my question but I guess I needed to hear the hard truth. It would be alot easier if my family did not thing I'm cray.

 

I've been "crazy" for years. Interestingly, my parents were visiting about 2 weeks ago, and my mom asked, "Are you a prepper?". I didn't answer, I just smiled. Later, she started asking about what they should store. It took my wife about four years to wake up (those were hard), so you have it pretty good if your wife is on board. It just takes time, but that isn't always sufficient. My 5 siblings all think I'm nuts, but my 5 kids are fully involved with "stockpiling". When push comes to shove, I endeavor to be able to help my siblings, but my parents and my family will be taken care of first.

 

At this point I have decided that if or when it all does happen I should have enough to share with my mom and dad and siblings, guess thats alot better than nothing huh?

 

Rusty,

You are a better person than I. I told my folks and siblings that they really shouldn't spend every penny on immediate gratification.

Instead, buy and put away some food, clothes, water, batteries, candles in case hard times come.

Their response, our power grid never goes down, it's hydro. there is always gas and plenty of stores. No need to prepare.

I'm glad they live 500+ miles away. I'd hate to have to turn 'em away if'n they got here.

God helps them that helps themselves.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink.
Best plan of action when you have found yourself riding a dead horse: Dismount.

 

It's an ambitious goal. I would feel pretty crappy, but I would starve my siblings before my children (fortunately for me, I'm pretty sure they would too. Also fortunately, I have way more firearms and ammo than all of them combined). Prepare as much as you can, and pray even more. Remember to endure. If you commit to this, it is a lifestyle until you die. If you aren't going to commit, just throw a few cans of beans in the pantry and go back to watching DWTS.

Honestly, I don't recommend prepping to many people. It's so much easier not to. Commitment to prepping will result in late nights, early mornings, extra aches and pains, and generally a pretty dour disposition. On the other hand, it might keep you alive.

 

Leaving all togther would be a great idea but turns out my parents have the best place to run to in the event. Large lake less than a mile away, lots of deer and wild hogs, as well as good land to grow gardens. Biggest problem out of potentialy 10-12 people my four will be the only ones half ready.

 

Then try to convince your parents first. Then work on the others.

 

Monkey Nature....

One preps for a basic disaster scenario of short to modest length and severity in the beginning. It is then that he discovers among his friends, neighbors, and family members just how populous are the head-in-the-sand ostriches with zero survivability in their mentality.

After achieving one's basic prepping response position for the initial scenario, he gradually branches out to cover other more extreme happenings, building supplies and capabilities along the way.

This is where most of us Monkeys are right now--continuous improvement. Whatever level of disaster each of us has prepped for, we are better off than we were when we started, but not yet as good as we want to be. Where each of us will be satisfied is an open question.

Human (err Monkey) nature, I suppose.

 

I think I'll catch up with prepping about six months after I die.

 

Piles of good advice so far, here's my two cents worth:

If your parents place is where you plan to go, then you definitely need to get them on board, at least in some manner. You might do it from a standpoint of not "prepping", but just from a more simple living lifestyle....a "return to the olden days" if you will.

Those deer and hogs aren't gonna last long enough to talk about, believe it or not, if things go south for a good while. What seems like abundance NOW will disappear WAY quicker than you think when everybody and his brother decides to take up hunting......waste from sloppy butchering and preserving alone will be unfreaking real.

And "we could grow a garden" is a sure invitation to starvation if you've never grown a garden. The time to grow a garden is NOW, while there is still a grocery store to back you up when you make the inevitable newbie mistakes, or just suffer from conditions beyond your control ( blights, bugs, weather ). I've heard a lot of folks talk over the years about "I've got seeds and we'll put in a garden" and think "buddy, you ain't got a CLUE what it takes to raise food in the quantity to FEED YOU AND YOURS"....much less preserve it, and do it again next year, and the year after......and after the SHTF ain't the time to be learning.

 

You may not want to try to contact/convert many folks as an OPSEC issue... those same folks that you tell now will also be the ones at your door step when SHTF... if it's family give them prep items for christmas and birthdays... then they will have some basics when they need it...

 

That's what I was getting ready to say, by attempting to locate others you could be giving yourself and family's preperations up and become a target. As time goes on you will start to pick up on little signs that will tell you that a person is of like mind. There are alot of people out there that feels they don't need to prep because when SHTF they will just take whats need. Because the L.E.O.'s will be tied up or non existant plus it's cheaper to take it. I know people the only thing they sock up is ammo and gun that will tell you their SHTF plan is to go take whats needed when everything is going to hell in a hand basket and people are running scared. So just be careful

 

Dealing With a Reluctant Partner - Blogs at Chris Martenson

 

Im the crazy one at work but found two other who are quite about it. Find you local ham club. I was already prepping and got my ham ticket most of the teachers were preppers.

 

I have noticed that when someone come's to me asking about a Gen.conversion that they in fact are prepper's of sort's...However the level which or how far they are into it..I will not say...
But...The Give Me Free S**T Society...Has never ask about a conversion...
Color me suprised...!!!