When you are preparing for anything that may come your way that leaves a really big area to cover. Well for me I want to make sure my family has all household items needed for day to day, food, hygiene items, first aid, survival gear (if ever needed), and tons of other items. So, honestly I cannot give you an exact on what to stock up on. I do the food, home/house items. My husband does the survival gear and other items.
Now we live very close to the mountains and well in the case as people say if the shit hits the fan type event we would take to the woods. Our favorite place to be anyways. So as of now he has been gathering items like water purification items (tablets, filters, straws), fire starting items, different types of fuels needed, ropes, outdoor gear, tools, etc. He has bug out bags for all family members ready with items to help anyone of us on our own if needed. He is the one who decides what weapons are needed and what needs to be stocked up on those. I don't have a problem with this, since whether or not something happens we will still use these items anyways.
I read today on a blog somewhere I cannot seem to remember exactly where it was. But anyways I read that she could not understand this whole prepping idea that to her it seemed as if these people (me included I guess) just seem to have an endless amount of money and space to devote to our prepping. Which took me by surprise. Honestly I have never looked at it that way. Nor have I met anyone who does. Prepping doesn't happen over night, stockpiles don't build up in just a week. This is lots of time and effort put into this. From taking only $50-100 or if you have more then wonderful if not it is okay to devote to your stockpiles. You watch for sales on stuff that you want to add. Well that is what I do. Say like Dawn dish soap is on sale that week I will buy some for normal household use and buy an extra 4 or so for my stockpile. Then next time it is on sale I add more to that and keep adding. I rotate when I need more. So like when I bought one for the house I would actually put that one in the stockpile and pull an older one from the shelf. If I use from my stockpile I constantly replace because if I did not what would be the point of stocking up and preparing for something if I keep using up my items. I do the same for food items if the item has a long shelf life I for sure get more of it. If it is a fresh veggie or fruit and I can can it, I grab a case or so of it. You just never know so why not grab it when you can.
Now as far as space well I run into that problem and I am still trying to fix this. Right now I have lots of shelves in my laundry room area that serves as storage and such also where our main door we use is. Then there is a storage building out back that we have and the top area of a garage which I am in the process of clearing out to put items like toilet paper, paper towels, etc. Now my main problem I run into is we rent our home so I cannot really redo the house to what I want and what works for me. We are presently looking to find a mobile way to store our items in the case we might have to move. Probably will end up being a cargo/utility trailer that we will insulate, build shelves etc.
So no not all of us have tons of money and space, we just choose to do without other items at times to add to our prepping. Like for me I don't need the new trend of clothes all the time. I am very happy with my jeans, carpi's, t-shirts, sweatshirts and Keens (yeah love my Keens). But still that saves us a lot of money. I buy clothes when we need them not when we want them. I am happy with gently used clothes from thrift stores it doesn't bother me one bit. Nor does it bother my kids or husband. We also don't always have to have new vehicles we care content with the ones we have and don't need new ones just because we want it. I guess it is all about what you need vs want. We still get wants but our needs over weigh most of them.
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