How My Husband Got Me Interested in Prepping

Before I met my husband I was not a prepper.  Growing up we did have a garden each year and Dad hunted and we fished and put that up in a freezer, but that was to save on groceries.

I remember my Mother being afraid of canning because a pressure canner once blew up in her home as a child –in the1930s. We also went camping but that was just a hobby not preparing for anything that was ever said. My Dad had grown up very poor and this was what he could do to save money.  The evenings that we sat outside in the front yard and shelled peas and lima beans and snapped green beans to put in the freezer are now fond memories.

On the other hand maybe that was a part of prepping that was just normally done back in the 60’s when I was growing up. However, after my husband and I got married, and it did take years, but he finally convinced me that prepping was a way of life, and oh how that way of life has blessed our family time and time again. There have been many times that one or the other of us got sick or hurt or as a family we moved and because we had food storage, we did not have to worry about being hungry.

Our daughter moved away from home and got married we would take her food from the storage at least every month.  When she moved back into town she said she really missed the food storage because there were times when she went hungry because they did not have enough money.

I’ve talked to many people that said they did not have enough room for food storage and I told them if it was important enough to you, you would find the room.  Just from a money standpoint food storage makes sense.  You buy food when it is on sale for the times it is not on sale.  It is not that you have wheat, honey, salt and powdered milk in bulk in the basement and you say I have my food storage. Food storage is all of the food you have in your home, even what you are eating on at the time. It is going to Farmer’s Markets and buying in quantity when food is in season and in bulk and putting it up for a rainy day.  I say the squirrel is “coming out” in me, it’s a natural thing to do.

When most people used to live on a farm they put food up when it was time for harvest.  During the fall the stores will put baking supplies on sale, you just purchase enough to last you till the next fall when it goes on sale again.

The final straw was when my husband asked me what I would do if I had to take the mark of the beast or whatever the government would hold over you, or not be able to feed our children. How could I look our children in the eyes and tell them we do not have any food.  We provide for our children in every way we can, if we hear of food shortages all over the world and not have food storage already put aside, what are we telling our children?

The way I look at it is we have food storage FOR our children more so than for ourselves. And that goes for the rest of prepping; their safety, heat, lights, health, clothes, hygiene, education, spiritual health and anything else that they would need.

Prepping is not a quick fix, but a way of life that we are thinking about what to do next, to provide for our children.  And with us it has not only provided for our children but now for our grandchildren and are they not worth everything we can do?