Not all Preppers are crazy like you might think

I admit I do watch Domesday Preppers, but I don't take to heart all that they say.  In that I am not one who thinks the word is going to end.  Yes I do believe life has many up and down moments and I like to be prepared for those moments as much as I can.  Do I tend to go over board sometimes, well yes but who doesn't.   But lately all these preppers you read about paint a picture to make everyone that is a prepper out to be a nut case who eats bugs, stock piles food in bathroom doors, or makes their homes into a bunker.  Not all of us are like this or go to this extreme of prepping.  I believe you can prep for all types of events that my come your way. For my family we prep for all kinds of reason.  Unemployment is at the top of my list.  I hate the feeling we cannot pay a bill or I have to figure out if buying milk or shampoo is more important.  So, I prepare my home for these type of events so I don't have to make decisions like that.

 So I stock pile what I can so we can make it when we need to.  I am not saying I have 200 cans of corn or anything, but I do have a few that will for sure make sure that my family is well fed in any event that might come our way.  I love to can food for my family.  This way I know what they are eating, what is in our food, how much of an item is in it an so forth.  We grow a garden every year to add to our assortment of items we already have.  Now don't get me wrong I do buy canned items from the store still and if it is cheaper to do it that way I do, but not all things are worth that cut in price to me.  Making our own bread is something I do regularly, why because we love the taste much more than store bought and for use it is a huge savings.


I also believe that keeping life simple helps.  If my family is so wrapped around electronics and all things that come with them then when we cannot afford them they won't know what to do.  So we try not to rely on the Internet for everything, we go to the local library often.  We learn things by good old fashion trial and error instead of taking what the answer I got from googling something as fact.
One of our goals right now is to get a small piece of land so we can have a few laying hens and such for fresh eggs.  Right now we live in town limits so we cannot have any type of farm animal. We wish and try for a simple life, like going back to basics with a modern twist.

So to some I may seem crazy, but to me not all of us preppers are crazy.  We are not all preparing for the end, but a lot of us are preparing for what we cannot control at times.  Like unemployment, loss of savings, inflation etc.  Because those types of events we cannot control, but we can control how prepared we are in our homes to make us through those times.