Five Huge Prepping Mistakes

 5 Big Prepping Mistakes

There are more than five mistakes people can make obviously. These are five of the big ones that I see people make all of the time. I am not going to elaborate too deeply on these at this time to keep the posts short, memorable, and not too boring. Keep in mind that I will expand on these 5 key mistakes and others.

1) Not enough water

Clean water is one of the most important things you can have. No matter how much you have stored, you can only take so much with you if you have to leave your house. Keep water purification and bleach on hand. Do you know how to make a filter?

2) Watch out for what is trendy

Someone will come up with a good idea and suddenly it is everywhere. Read, study, learn. Just because everyone says you have to have it doesn't mean you do. Everyone wants to make a buck, and some will make theirs at the expense of anyone. Research what you are buying and ask yourself how practical it is. Can you take it with you? How much can you take with you?

3) Living off your supply/Rotation

Many will tell you not to eat your food storage. I say that depends. If you have 30 year shelf life storage, then keep it stored. When you are buying rice,wheat,flour in bulk to have storage use it up and keep buying. In other words rotate. But don't eat up your storage. Keep buying what you need to feed yourselves and remember FIFO (first in first out). You don't want to need it and find out it's bad.

4) Storing what you need

Most people store what they need. What about what everyone else needs. This is one of the most important things you can do for prepping. If you want to be able to take care of your family, you need to be prepared to take care of others. This is going to have to be an entire post/subject all on its own (Actually it will be the next post)

You also should be able to protect what you have. (also an entire series)

5) Knot having enough knowledge

Can you tie a knot to save your life?

So many people are storing food/guns&ammo/medicine but how prepared are you to use what you have? Yea, I got a satellite phone. Too bad I can't get a hold of anyone.

Yea. I got 150 lbs of wheat. How do you cook wheat?

I am out of lighter fluid. Now how do I build a fire?

Read, Study, Learn 

A handful of books that tell you how to survive are handy for more than just paper to start a  fire with. There are many good survival books out there. Make sure you are getting one that makes good sense.

Be Prepared

You will notice that there are no ads on my blog. This is not here to squeeze every penny I can out of some dupe who stumbled across my site. Every once and a while I will boost something that I think makes good sense, but you will find most supplies and food local through someone that you know for a decent price.

Emergency Preparedness in the North West Part 2

 I get asked....

    "Are you a Mormon?"
       "Conspiracy theorist?"
           "Are you some kind of Hippie or something?"

   Without sounding too radical, I am a little bit of all of these (kind of), and you should be too if you really want to be prepared. I am not saying that you need to really subscribe wholeheartedly to these practices but they all have areas that they prepare more than others.

Be a BoyScout, Be prepared.

  Hippies (not all of them of course) believe in the end of the world/society and plan on living off the land. Some of them are getting ready for that.
  Conspiracy theorists are getting ready for a revolution or civil war. Some of them are getting ready for that.
   Mormons (and a lot of others), believe in being ready for something. Listen to them. Whether they share your belief system or not, they are more ready than most. You can go to a lot of different sites and blogs where they tell you how to get ready. My brother (talk about Mormon) is starting a preparedness website to order ALL the things you might need.
.  Food
   Water
   Supplies.....   Tip of the iceburg.

 I think I will put an (Occasional) blog out about how and what to prepare, but for the most part this blog in general is about conceal carry, handguns, practice, and safety. How does that go along with emergency preparedness?

Guns. And lots of AMMO.

 You can prepare your whole life. Have all the food storage you need. If you think everyone is gonna group hug and share everything you are crazy. People will have guns. People will be mean. Those who have not prepared themselves will do what they feel they need to survive. People will steal and kill for food for themselves and their families.
  Prepare for your family and prepare to defend your family.
  Do you have somewhere to go that you can protect?


 I will touch on this subject every once and a while. But for now, Buy ammo for the guns you have. Store it in a cool dry place. Add to it when you can.

  Add this blog to your reading list.