How to be a prepper

[Kev]

Hello everyone, I am doing a research project on prepping and have some questions that I was hoping you could answer! There are kind of a lot of them but I appreciate any answers:

1. What are you prepping for? Why?
2. How much money have you spent on prepping?
3. What are the most important items in your bug out bag?
4. Should you need to defend yourself, how would you do it?
5. Do you prefer to prep alone or with others?
6. What skills do you think are necessary to have in order to survive a catastrophe?
7. What special survival skills do you have?
8. What is the best way to build a shelter?
9. What is the biggest threat facing the world? Why?
10. What would be your ideal bug out location?
11. What would be your ideal bug out bag?
12. How do you learn new survival strategies?
13. How many days worth of food and water do you think is necessary?
14. How soon do you think a disaster will occur?
15. What items do you stockpile?
16. How prepared do you think you are should a disaster occur today?
17. How many bug out locations do you have?
18. Would you call your prepping extreme?
19. How often do you practice bugging out?
20. Where do you think is the safest place to be during a crisis?
21. What type of bug out vehicle do you have?
22. What advice would you give to someone new to prepping?
23. What drove you to start prepping?
24. How do you think the world views preppers?
25. Do you think shows like Doomsday Preppers gives preppers a good or bad name? Why?

Thank you for the help!

[PJ]

Sure Kev, I’ll bite:

1. What are you prepping for? Why?

Life in general? Why does one have car / home / life insurance? In case sh*t happens.

2. How much money have you spent on prepping?

Enough to buy a brand new truck, maybe more.

3. What are the most important items in your bug out bag?

Water (and purification devices), food, shelter.

4. Should you need to defend yourself, how would you do it?

Depends on the situation. From a toy poodle or 3 year old? With a pillow. From a grown man with intentions on harming my family? By any means possible.

5. Do you prefer to prep alone or with others?

Define others. Family? Yes.

6. What skills do you think are necessary to have in order to survive a catastrophe?

Mental strength and adaptability. People think they have both until they are tested.

7. What special survival skills do you have?

Not many.

8. What is the best way to build a shelter?

To not have to build a shelter, but find one that is already made (existing).

9. What is the biggest threat facing the world? Why?

Gluten.

10. What would be your ideal bug out location?

5 star hotel with room service. You mentioned ideal correct? However most probable is a cabin somewhere off the grid.

11. What would be your ideal bug out bag?

One with all of the things I packed in it.

12. How do you learn new survival strategies?

Read, learn, practice, repeat.

13. How many days worth of food and water do you think is necessary?

6 months to 1 year.

14. How soon do you think a disaster will occur?

Disasters occur every day, just depends where you are in this world.

15. What items do you stockpile?

Anything and everything related to survival.

16. How prepared do you think you are should a disaster occur today?

Depends on the disaster. Short term power outage? I’m good. Nuclear war? None of us are good.

17. How many bug out locations do you have?

Wouldn’t you like to know.

18. Would you call your prepping extreme?

Would you call those who completely depend on the government for assistance extreme?

19. How often do you practice bugging out?

It depends.

20. Where do you think is the safest place to be during a crisis?

The place where the crisis is not.

21. What type of bug out vehicle do you have?

Truck, SUV, motorcycles, etc.

22. What advice would you give to someone new to prepping?

Read before you spend money.

23. What drove you to start prepping?

Making sure my family was taken care of.

24. How do you think the world views preppers?

Extreme, crazy, over the top.

25. Do you think shows like Doomsday Preppers gives preppers a good or bad name? Why?

I’m impartial. It’s entertainment and the people who go on the show are desperate for attention. Whatever.

[Kev]

Thanks so much 🙂

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