Sometimes, being around me and my Bag O’ Tricks(tm) really is like this:
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when everyone is running towards a cliff anyone running the other way appears to have lost their mind
C.S. Lewis
My wife of eight years has never pushed hard against my food and home defense preps, but her eyes weren’t truly opened until the Great Toilet Paper Panic. She was able to stroll into our “deep pantry” and there sat probably 3 of the jumbo “bales” of TP from Sam’s Club plus one or two boxes of the huge rolls that fit dispensers in retail stores. Where she’s going to have a problem is in turning people away, including some relatives, and we share our thoughts on that possibility every so often. That decision needs to be made now, not in the heat of the moment.
Advice: keep quiet about what you have. Give to a relative in need, and pretty soon the whole family is knocking at your door. Encourage your family to prep. Encourage your wife to do the same. Time comes, and they’re not prepared, and it’s on them; not you.
…God didn’t have Noah build extra arks…
my continually broke sister house sits for us when we are away. She used to say ‘…when the apocalypse comes, I’m heading for your house!…’ (she snoops through all my preps while we are gone)
I had to tell her ‘…you weren’t invited.’ She doesn’t bring it up anymore.
Excellent point!
While on vacation @ Disneyland with my 1st wife, one of the attractions broke down leaving riders (not us) inverted in the dark. I said that if need be, I would have freed our family with the multi-tool in my bag and then found our way out with my flashlight. She was upset to learn that I had contingency gear in my bag. I eventually was able to trade her in for a newer model. The new wife has embraced Semper Paratus whole heartedly, to the point that she has a plate carrier in her office at work in case of an active shooter situation and a get home bag in the car. Her OCD kicks in when it comes to logistics and she maintains the spreadsheets for the larder. She is likes to clean, has a master’s degree and she bakes me cookies. She was a multi-level upgrade.
SEMPER PARATUS!!! Coast Guard motto… ‘Guess you might have figured that I’m retired Coast Guard…
My wife thinks prepping is a great idea… I wish she’d do it…
People classes one multi-tool and one flashlight as “contingency gear”? I’d call that a key-ring.
I had a lot more in my possibles bag, but that was all it took to set her off. She was, as one of my soldiers one said, “one uptight white woman”.
Outstanding!
Everyone at work used to laugh at my prepper attitude, but whenever anyone needed anything, be it Crazy Glue, aspirin, batteries, or the like, guess who’s door they were always knocking on. Following the Great TP Panic of 2020, several of my coworkers said outright “I’ll never laugh at you again…” If the Plandemic lit a few fires under a few asses, it will have had value…
The first rule of Prep Club is “Don’t talk about Prep Club.”
Had an occasion a number of years back in which a contractor – whom I knew very casually – noticed a packed-full pantry closet and made the standard “I’m coming to your house” comment.
I asked him if he would like to pass away quietly and gently but hungry at home surrounded by his loved ones or quickly and violently on my front lawn, either was fine with me, and if neither of those were acceptable he should begin filling his own pantry closet.
Last person to say that to me about my pantry closet – and it was just the pantry closet – got very upset when I told them to dig their hole first, as it would help keep the rats down, and it would be very nice if they supplied a body bag to fit. In fact that that was the last time I had anything to do with them.
I just checked my Back back I left by the back door over night and I got a new cammo net and some 90% silver coins. I hope the rest of youse guys put out a bag too cause …YEAH!
Was just a little disappointed that Commader Zero isn’t playing Paratus Music over his WEB site all day….lol
when everyone is running towards a cliff anyone running the other way appears to have lost their mind
C.S. Lewis
My wife of eight years has never pushed hard against my food and home defense preps, but her eyes weren’t truly opened until the Great Toilet Paper Panic. She was able to stroll into our “deep pantry” and there sat probably 3 of the jumbo “bales” of TP from Sam’s Club plus one or two boxes of the huge rolls that fit dispensers in retail stores. Where she’s going to have a problem is in turning people away, including some relatives, and we share our thoughts on that possibility every so often. That decision needs to be made now, not in the heat of the moment.
Advice: keep quiet about what you have. Give to a relative in need, and pretty soon the whole family is knocking at your door. Encourage your family to prep. Encourage your wife to do the same. Time comes, and they’re not prepared, and it’s on them; not you.
…God didn’t have Noah build extra arks…
my continually broke sister house sits for us when we are away. She used to say ‘…when the apocalypse comes, I’m heading for your house!…’ (she snoops through all my preps while we are gone)
I had to tell her ‘…you weren’t invited.’ She doesn’t bring it up anymore.
Excellent point!
While on vacation @ Disneyland with my 1st wife, one of the attractions broke down leaving riders (not us) inverted in the dark. I said that if need be, I would have freed our family with the multi-tool in my bag and then found our way out with my flashlight. She was upset to learn that I had contingency gear in my bag. I eventually was able to trade her in for a newer model. The new wife has embraced Semper Paratus whole heartedly, to the point that she has a plate carrier in her office at work in case of an active shooter situation and a get home bag in the car. Her OCD kicks in when it comes to logistics and she maintains the spreadsheets for the larder. She is likes to clean, has a master’s degree and she bakes me cookies. She was a multi-level upgrade.
SEMPER PARATUS!!! Coast Guard motto… ‘Guess you might have figured that I’m retired Coast Guard…
My wife thinks prepping is a great idea… I wish she’d do it…
People classes one multi-tool and one flashlight as “contingency gear”? I’d call that a key-ring.
I had a lot more in my possibles bag, but that was all it took to set her off. She was, as one of my soldiers one said, “one uptight white woman”.
Outstanding!
Everyone at work used to laugh at my prepper attitude, but whenever anyone needed anything, be it Crazy Glue, aspirin, batteries, or the like, guess who’s door they were always knocking on. Following the Great TP Panic of 2020, several of my coworkers said outright “I’ll never laugh at you again…” If the Plandemic lit a few fires under a few asses, it will have had value…
The first rule of Prep Club is “Don’t talk about Prep Club.”
Had an occasion a number of years back in which a contractor – whom I knew very casually – noticed a packed-full pantry closet and made the standard “I’m coming to your house” comment.
I asked him if he would like to pass away quietly and gently but hungry at home surrounded by his loved ones or quickly and violently on my front lawn, either was fine with me, and if neither of those were acceptable he should begin filling his own pantry closet.
Last person to say that to me about my pantry closet – and it was just the pantry closet – got very upset when I told them to dig their hole first, as it would help keep the rats down, and it would be very nice if they supplied a body bag to fit. In fact that that was the last time I had anything to do with them.
I just checked my Back back I left by the back door over night and I got a new cammo net and some 90% silver coins. I hope the rest of youse guys put out a bag too cause …YEAH!
Was just a little disappointed that Commader Zero isn’t playing Paratus Music over his WEB site all day….lol