Prepping used to be fringe, viewing mainstream culture as something that conspiracy theorists and survival nuts did.
But as trust in governments decreases, and general awareness grows around the fact that most government structures are corrupt due to growing incompetence and the prioritization of DEI over competency, Average-Joe’s are starting to realize that the government is not a powerful big brother that will look after the in times in dire emergency or catastrophe.
Scenarios where people may need to rely on themselves for electricity, medical care, and food are no longer fringe ideas—they seem highly likely. But here’s the catch: in prepping, you’re either ready, or you’re not. Not being fully prepared means you may have spent a lot of time and money on half-measures that will only take you part of the way, eventually leaving you high and dry, possibly at the cost of your life.
In this article, we will examine what it truly means to be prepared and assess whether you are taking prepping seriously. It’s important to note that doing something is better than doing nothing. This article will help you gauge if you’re equipped to face all potential challenges and identify areas for improvement.
Limited Food Storage and Production:
Ample food storage and production capabilities are essential aspects of serious prepping. Signs that one might not be taking food preparation seriously, include minimal stockpiling of food for extended emergencies and the absence of food production plans, such as gardening or raising livestock.
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Neglecting these aspects can leave individuals vulnerable during prolonged crises.
Lack of Skills Development
Acquiring relevant survival skills is a fundamental aspect of serious prepping.
Signs of inadequate skills development may include ignoring opportunities for survival training and a limited focus on developing practical skills for repairs or improvisations.
Serious preppers recognize the value of being well-equipped with a diverse skill set for coping with challenging scenarios.
Neglecting Medical Preparedness
Medical supplies and readiness are critical components of prepping. Inadequate first aid kits and a lack of basic medical procedures or CPR training may indicate a failure to prioritize medical preparedness.
Serious preppers recognize the importance of comprehensive first aid supplies and invest in acquiring the necessary skills to handle medical emergencies effectively. Find out here which medical supplies will vanish first in a crisis, when professional help is no longer an option, and stock up while you still have the chance.
Over-Reliance on Short-term Solutions
Relying solely on short-term or unsustainable solutions will leave you hanging in the long run.
Focusing only on short-term survival solutions and neglecting sustainable practices like renewable energy or water conservation may indicate a lack of foresight and long-term planning.
You must plan to survive the first 24 hours, then the first week, month, year and decade. If society collapses hard, it will not return to where it left off quickly.
It will take decades, if not centuries, to retrain enough individuals to get society back where it is now. Serious preppers have three distinct strategies, short-term, medium-term and long-term.
Failure to Secure Supplies
Securing prepped supplies from theft or damage is paramount for serious preppers. Poor security measures, such as failing to secure storage areas or stockpiles, can compromise the effectiveness of prepping efforts.
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Additionally, the absence of backup plans in case of supply loss or damage suggests a lack of thorough preparation.
Disregard for Continual Education
Staying informed and updated on survival techniques is crucial to serious prepping. You need to stay updated with new equipment, skills, and knowledge of developments within prepping.
This may sound counterintuitive, as many see prepping as preparing to live as the folks in the 1800s did. Trust me, you need to learn a lot to know the ins and outs of how they are managed.
Serious preppers understand the dynamic nature of survival strategies and prioritize staying abreast of developments and advancements in the field.
Ignoring Communication and Planning
Effective communication and planning within families or groups are crucial for comprehensive prepping.
Signs of insufficient commitment to this aspect include a lack of family plans for emergencies and the absence of evacuation plans, such as defined routes and meeting points.
Serious preppers understand the significance of clear communication and well-defined plans in ensuring collective resilience.
Failure to Adapt to Changing Situations
Flexibility and adaptability are cornerstones of effective prepping strategies. Not adjusting plans based on new information or changing circumstances and ignoring potential scenarios that could affect prepping efforts may indicate a failure to embrace adaptability.
Serious preppers recognize the dynamic nature of emergencies and continuously refine their preparations to align with evolving situations.
In summary, taking prepping seriously is essential for bolstering survival and resilience in facing adversities. By assessing the signs discussed in this article and making necessary adjustments to their preparedness efforts, individuals can enhance their readiness for any situation.
It is crucial to prioritize structured preparation, comprehensive food and medical readiness, security measures, effective communication and planning, skills development, long-term strategies, continual education, financial preparedness, and adaptability to embody the ethos of serious prepping.
By recognizing and addressing these signs, individuals can ensure that their prepping efforts are thorough, robust, and geared towards enhancing their capacity to weather unforeseen challenges.
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Most people start with good intentions , then as time fades we become discouraged and loose heart in the process . then as time goes on and things dont happen , like we thought , that s when it happens
we stop being prepared , stop prepping , start living as though we see no end in sight
well as the bible says : stay alert , stay prepared , and keep watch for you know not the day our savior returns
rest assured , it will happen when all are unaware , not expecting it , and going about business as usual
as the bible says : as a thief in the night , RAPTURE , those who have trusted, believed , decided no matter what to follow Jesus christ , and turn away from lust, sin, greed, selfish ambition , self centered direction to ones pride, conciet, haughty ness .
This is why we read, pray so we are forgiven , we are prepared , are ready to go when call ed out .
Remember YOU cannot serve 2 masters , God or money , God or self , God or lust , God or Greed , God or anything you put there as an IDOL which replaces God
Time is close , watch isreal , watch DC , Watch events of mankind
War Machine is not of God , Vengence is not of God , anything which is opposite of God
God is Love, Holiness, Patient, Kind, Giving , Meek , Mild , Forgiving
Funny people will store that information on their smartphones and the smartphone gets wet shorted out, or lost in the commotion of bugging out.
Social media won’t save them either when AI goes fully online, talk about software programmed misinformation from a liberal agenda source.
Yes knowing how to do survival skills is great to point.
Maybe time to fight, fight, fight and make those jerks bug out to foreign countries instead of preppers, average Americans having to live under socialism, get our shit together and stop the prepper panic.
Some people can get stuck on bible verses but you need to also be proficient in skills. Organized religion and politics for centuries has divided and made unnecessary war by elites when most do get along regardless.
Believe in God, Christ and the Holy Spirit but not beholding to organized religion. Neither the religious NGO’s that have funded a lot of illegals in America since Biden, Harris and eventual pip squeak Walz all Marxist mindset puppets.
Who runs our presidential administration today?
Are we no longer the land of the free and the home of the brave. As a song, “The Star-Spangled Banner” or nothing more than words on paper in a song?
True, honest bloggers don’t put ads in the body of their post to get readers to buy a book or other products just to find out INFORMATION relevant to the post! That is what Ask a Prepper has been doing for the past few (or maybe more) posts. Dangling possible important information in front of us without giving that information freely. Stop sending me your posts, I won’t read a blog that only advertises their products instead of giving information freely. There are MANY similar blogs that don’t do this. I do NOT WANT Ask a prepper ads anymore. Unsubscribe me now!
The old prepper crew that was here had good suggestions and did sometimes disagree. They are basically gone, retired, gone to the happy hunting grounds, HEAVEN, maybe?
Now we have bible thumpers, liberal twits, know it all’s, political pundits, links to book sellers and the trolls. Who are these expert authors of these articles?
What happened to this prepper website?
Hey Kamela
Feel sorry for people named Kamala.
Kamala Harris, is a spoiling word salad mess, maybe needs” Mando” a deodorant, for her presidential campaign, it stinks on ice.
To other preppers;
Is Harris going to really give those illegals a pathway to citizenship? They broke our sovereign migration laws in the first place. Ahead of those people that getting citizenship the legal way.
You caused the open border and said you would do no different or change anything that Biden has done
After a while it fell apart because we’d end up with a bunch of loons (or cops) that would slowly earn group respect then morph into one of these political/religious zealots. We’re still here, but we keep our mouths shut.
Preparation is a continuous learning, it is not enough to learn new techniques, but you have to put them into practice, many have a vast library, but how many people built it with their own hands and did not buy one at Walmart or Amazon? Knowledge is important but knowing how to preserve it is also important, book binding and the different methods are as useful as knowing how to repair or make a firearm with scrap metal, but if it is not transmitted, what good is it? We continually complain that the new generations do not have the skills of the previous ones, but how are our grandchildren going to have skills if their parents do not have them, or they never saw their parents make a garden or build a piece of furniture? surely some skeptic will doubt if I have built something, in my defense I will say that I built three libraries, tables and benches, the last ones in wood and metal and the box with tools that I carry in my vehicle was designed, built and painted by my hands, perhaps All this is the reflections of an old mechanic!
The seeds of history are repeating in today’s current events that some people still living understand from the 1970 era. The pioneers understood politics post the Civil War, the survivalist movement understood politics of their time. Preppers are riding on the coat strings of the survivalist living in the same economic patterns of inept liberals politicians as back then.
This time the politicians have physically opened the southern border to terrorist, criminals, rapist, murderers and mentally nuts people.
All replacements for the legal Americans who will be shoved out of homes due to higher taxes.
WHO ARE YOU VOTING FOR IN NOVEMBER 5TH, WILL DECIDE IF AMERICA SURVIVES FOR FREEDOM OR ENSLAVEMENT, you decide it is still your country so far.
Illegals are voting in this election despite what the main stream 3 letter broadcast networks fail to tell us.
News for preppers which parts of the preps need adjustments, we don’t prep in a vacuum. Ever since the survivalist movement.
News to vote by:
Obama warns ‘brothers’ who won’t vote for Kamala that sexism could cost her election: ‘That’s not acceptable’
Ex-CBS staffers call for outside probe of ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Kamala Harris amid editing scandal
Top Democrats, Including Election Denier Jamie Raskin, Won’t Commit to Certifying a Trump Victory
Harris on How She’d Differ from Biden on Border: I Have a Record, Will Push Path to Citizenship ‘for Hardworking People’
Kamala Harris Promises Green Cards for Afghans Despite Vetting Failures that Imported Accused ISIS Terrorist
Report: North Koreans Are Using AI and Fake IDs to Get Remote Work in West
Here you see a teacher at the University of Kansas calling for the execution of men who do not vote for Kamala Harris. This is what the Left means by ‘saving democracy’.
NYC seeks 14,000 hotel rooms for migrants through 2025 – with each one costing $352 PER NIGHT.
God bless America, that we vote for freedom.
Dear Claude:
I have Several freezers full to the top, 6 refrigerators with freezers full to the top and I have food saved all over the place. I replace what is used every week but I use what has been used before what I get each week. I have enough for my family and then some especially the foods my husband likes and what other family members like.
it truly takes a community to survive long term
My opinion only … but from the people I talk to, most of the actual people that are prepping, are older baby boomers. Frankly prepping for long term, is kind of a waste for a guy like me, who has already surpassed the life longevity of his family, at 74 … (the longest surviving male for at least 4 generations). Prepping for 10 years? Most of it will go to waste, and the society that results from the SHTF that we are all anticipating, probably will end up as not a society I really want to live in anyhow. I’ve got probably 2 years of food, 6 months of water, pew pews, and seeds. Iodine tablets, gas masks and filters, and seeds to plant veggies. Living on the out skirts of a major city, I can’t have chickens, (frankly don’t want them anyhow) and am well aware that lawlessness, will probably overcome the old man, before my food and water gives out … just being real.
The only thing to add to this wisdom is, have your soul prepared.
Thanks for sharing this interesting information
I am pretty well ready for short and medium-term food storage. I also have some survival skills and know a lot of the foods I can forage in the area. At my age, I don’t worry so much about long-term storage because of my age. I was a Navy Corpsman who trained as “Doc” to go out with the Marines when I was younger and I was also trained as an LPN so medical is almost second nature to me. We are trying to upgrade our heating and cooking systems. We working to have several backups to our backups. Communication is still our weakest link, but I did buy a NOAA weather radio that has several charging options for my husband for Christmas.
My biggest goal at my age is teaching what I know to younger generations. Many of my Christmas gifts are prepping-related.
what about lack of money to buy anything.
I have tried to get the local gov’t to allow for a 35 hour day, and a 9 day week, but they have said no. 😉
They clearly don’t want me to learn and prepare for the inevitable. So I guess I don’t have the time to prep for EVERY possible issue, especially at my advanced age (60 plus).
I’m ready with most things to last a bit over 18 months if I can KEEP what I have stocked up, if bugging in. I have barter useful skills to offer wherever I am.
If I have to head out, my best place is 300 miles away, with a fairly close family member, with a secondary spot 65 miles with a friend. Neither trip will allow me to transport most of my gear and foodstuffs, I can’t fit it in my current vehicles, nor can I, at this stage, change them out for larger (nor is my plot of land on wheels, wink wink).
So, if I stick around here, I have to hope I can find and meld with others who are open to communal living and sharing skills and equipment. So far, none of my attempts at networking have let me discover trustworthy people I can include in my circle. Between what’s called OPSEC, and political leanings far, far to the left, it’s extremely challenging to find the “right” kind of people for such planning.
There just isn’t TIME for me to learn it all, nor to DO IT ALL. Which goes back to my opening statement above.
Those of you who DO have the time, and who DO have trusted people, count your blessings.