- A Power outage is viewed as an adventure!
- You eat leftover collard greens for breakfast...and enjoy it!
- You have snares AND Texas Pete in your car!
- You recieve more than 5 seed catalogs each month!
- You have more totes of *prep* food than real day to day food!
- If you are incapable of buying *just one* of anything!
- If you have 20 bottles of aspirin because they were on sale for $.88 at Walmart!
- If you have more bullets than there are armed people in your state!
- If you see canning supplies and get physically aroused!
- You have a solar powered well pump with enough water to last ten years even AFTER that fails!
- Solar powered dehydrators....enough said!
- When a Zombie Apocalypse movie starts to look like an awesome vacation or life goal....and you see nothing wrong with that. :)
- When you go to the store for a box of ammo and walk out with a case...knowing your spouse will be angry.
- When you spend more time debating what the 'group' should have or should not have done on The Walking Dead, than watching the show.
- If you understand *2 is 1 and 1 is none*
- If your home fire drill includes picking up your *go bag*
- If you go home for a visit 90 miles away and your *overnight* bag contains 200 rounds of ammo, 2 handguns and a long gun.
- When you have more caches on your property than people in your neighborhood.
- If you know more about native plants and their uses than your child's middle school science teacher. (and he is a biologist)
- If you convert at least one closet into a food storage pantry in your home and hiding under the bed isn't an option anymore either.
- If you are ordering antibiotics online at an exotic fish store and don't own any fish.
- If your store room has a bigger variety of supplies than walmart.
- If you have more than 30 bars of soap and 50 rolls of toilet paper sealed in a vacuum sealed storage bag.
- If you think having night vision is a huge asset but live in a subdivision in suburbia.
- Night vision? What about Thermal imagining rifle scopes? (enough said lol)
- When you live just outside of a major city and you require to have at least 1 vehicle be a 4x4 with decent ground clearance and 300 miles of fuel at all times.
- When on Christmas morning most of the presents under the tree are made of steel and polymer and are on most soldiers wish list.
- When at least one of your caches is actually an underground fuel tank that can hold 10,000 gallons.
- When laying out your "flowerbeds" you fill them with herbs/flowers that have medicinal/food storage benefits, not because they are pretty.
- Holy crap! I'm subscribed via SMS (text) and this thread is blowing up my phone!!!
- When re-doing landscaping at your house you plant thorny rosebushes under all the windows as an extra layer of security.
- The letter S*H*T*F are worn off your keyboard.
- When you have a booze cabinet that is the envy of all your friends and you don't drink. (barter/medicinal)
- If you can bake bread, cook steak and bake a cake while camping
- When you know the routes around your town that don't have "big brother" cameras on them. (okay is that one only me?)
- When your garden/kitchen has absolutely nothing to do with Monsanto.
- When you look at your prepping inventory spreadsheet and no matter how much is listed there is always room for more
- When you have a minimum of 10 locations to weather the big one.
- When every tool has a minimum of 3 uses
- If you have ever considered buying a waterbed just so you could use it to store wheat. (or water)
- When your dog tries to run and hide under your bed to avoid a bath only to realize you have crammed 14 cases of #10 cans under it : )
- If you BOOOO the prepping experts on Doomsday Preppers after their *assessments*
- When you have to move the guest bed out of the guest bedroom because you need more space for shelving units.
- When you have more preps in your closet than clothes. ;)
- You trade in your apt for an RV and are ready within minutes if anything should come
- You dehydrate left overs. hehe
- You scout for where all the solar panels are located in your town
- You get excited when you get 5 gallon buckets and bags of rice for your birthday (or Christmas)
- You fantasize about bug out locations
- You decorate your bug out locations lol
I will be adding to this frequently!!! If you would like to add one to the list please leave it in the comments section and I will post it. :)
Thanks To; Shawn Smith, Kris Kauffman, Holly Rosintoski, Johnny Greene, Stephanie Dayle, Ren Wench B, Ian Stermer, NeGa Preppers, Tracy Miller, Kevin L, McFarland, Rose P.
LOVE this. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteMy Pleasure!! thank you for your input!
Delete-You scout for where all the solar panels are located in your town
ReplyDelete-You get excited when you get 5 gallon buckets and bags of rice for your birthday (or Christmas)
-You fantasize about bug out locations
Thanks Rose!! I added your comments.
DeleteAwesome! I really hope I'm not the only one who scouts for solar panels though...lol
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