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  • Rikkrack

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    I cannot take credit for this, although I did post some of these. I consolidated from another forum I belong to and thought people may be able to add to it.

    · If you have more 5 gallon buckets in your house than the local hardware store, you might be a prepper.
    · You might be a prepper if ... the local LDS church thinks you have too much food stored.
    · If you have more fresh water stored than the city, you might be a prepper.
    · If you have more rice than the All You Can Eat Chinese Buffet, you might be a prepper.
    · If you know what Mylar is, you might be a prepper.
    · If you have more than 6 pallets of Ramen noddles and you aren't a college student, you might be a prepper.
    · If you have so many guns that you pull one out and say "When did I buy this???" you might be a prepper.
    · If you have at least one cookbook with an entire chapter that is totally devoted to Spam, you might be a prepper.
    · If you start your kids out with "A is for Apocalypse, B is for Bullets," you might be a prepper.
    · If you believe that the best way to sterilize water for consumption in an emergency situation is to brew something alcoholic with it, you might be a prepper...or a college student. Either way, good for you.
    · If you know how to make "chicken" parmesan with squirrel meat, you might be a prepper.
    · If your basement looks like a flea market gone mad from all the crap that you've storing, you might be a prepper.
    · If you know what Mylar is, you might be a prepper.
    · If you know how to use mylar you might be a prepper.
    · If your house is so packed with stuff you MIGHT need and with what you WILL need when SHTF that you barely have room to actually live in it any more, you might be a prepper...
    · If you giggle when your brother tells you he bought 5lbs of rice "to stock up" because you have a pallet of rice in your basement...you might be a prepper.
    · If you own a grain mill and know the difference between "hard white wheat" and "hard red wheat"...you might be a prepper.
    · If you look at a "weed patch" and can not only identify all the plants, but you know which ones are edible and have recipes for said plants...you might be a prepper.
    · If you know the B in BOL, BIL, BOB & BOV alll stand for a word often used to describe many types of insects, but has nothing to do with them...you might be a prepper.
    · If you have a BOL, BIL, BOB and/or a BOV...you might be a prepper.
    · If you're reading this, you might be a prepper...
    · If you look at a nice lawn, and imagine how much food you could grow there, you might be a prepper.
    · if your mom brings back souviners from a construction work trip in Tahiti, and you are the most excited about yours: 20 empty pringles cans to use as soap molds!
    · you almost get in automobile accidents drooling over someone's berry patch or raised-bed
    · You send your kid to school with a bug out bag with MREs for lunch... and they're only 7 years old
    · If you spend more time in the garden than in the grocery store . . . you might be a prepper.
    · If one of your three pumpkin patches is in your front yard, you might just be a prepper.
    · If you not only know what biltong is but have made a batch, you could be a prepper.
    · If you buy something because its the right size......and that size is a #10 can.
    · Paracord is on your Christmas, Birthday, and Anniversary wish list
    · You spend you breaks at work (official and unofficial) reading the TSP Forum
    · when faced with a tough situation, you start asking yourself, WWJD, and it means What Would Jack Do.
    · If you look at a beautiful produce display at a grocery store and think about how fragile the just-in-time inventory system is, you might be a prepper.
    · If you have actually muttered under your breath "grasshopper" to a person, you might be a prepper.
    · If you have planned a weekend around catching up on The Survival Podcast episodes, you might be a prepper.
    · If you start your kids out with "A is for Apocalypse, B is for Bullets," you might be a prepper.
    · if you think "Red Dawn" is the only worthwhile thing Charlie Sheen has done with his life
    · If you look at a beautiful produce display and think about how much more delicious your heirloom varieties are compared to varieties selected for their durability during shipping... You might be a prepper. (You might also be a grasshopper organic hippie food snob too... But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.)
    · If you've ever had your friends in customer-service hot-swap pre-1965 dimes and quarters for you while on shift...
    · If you've rejected tire-disposal service so that your old tires could be used for yet another stacking potato-bin and tree-rings...
    · If you volunteer for extra yard-work just to test another theory about composting, mulching, or harvesting...
    · If you plan your meals based on the expiration dates on the ingredients... you might be a prepper.
    · If you have at least one cookbook with an entire chapter that is totally devoted to Spam, you might be a prepper.
    · If you have at least one cookbook that is entirely devoted to Top Ramen, you might be a prepper.

    o And if your other cookbook is The Victory Garden Cookbook...you might be a prepper.
    · If you use the term"Ass-Clown" ......
    · if you buy ammunition in 500 round bricks minimum size. and own at least 1 rifle chambered to a military surplus round. ::)
    · if "appleseed" means a weekend of sniper training.
    · you can't wait for your wife/husband to finish the last of the laundry detergent in order to claim the HUGE bucket that the detergent comes in for use as:
    o food storage
    o ammo can
    o dry can
    o BOB
    o etc, etc, etc
    · If you have already checked off which family members are going to be useless in an emergency, you might be a prepper.
    · If you have already checked off which family members are going to be useless in an emergency, you might be a prepper.
    o egads... I have already compiled that list... now if I could figure out how to keep them away WTSHTF...
    · In this day and age if you actually know what a victory garden IS...you might be a prepper.
    · If you know what water you can drink out of your toilet . . . . you might be a prepper.
    · If your grocery bill is larger than your county taxes . . . you might be a prepper.
    · If chicken S%$T gets your excited about spring planting. . . . your might be a prepper
    · you spend your Friday night cruising survival forums.... And can't wait to cruise the cereal and soup aisles on Saturday morn . . . . you might be a prepper!
    · If your friends make fun of you becuase you still have a "diaper" bag for your 4 year old . . . You might be a prepper.
    · You might be a prepper if your car always looks packed for a weekend.
    · You might be a prepper if you ...Hear of another prepper and his name is BOB and you chuckle
    · Your spouse rolls their eyes when you tell them its time to do a drill
    · You know of at least two dates that might be the apocalypse
    · Have ever been arrested for suspicion of arson based soley on the amount of fire starting equipment on you.
    · Left communications for your family in Morse Code.
    · My wife just said you might be a prepper if you're going to the grocery store and your 5 year old says "Mom, did you grab my bug-out bag?"!
    · if going to the grocery store squats the pickup truck
    · you might be a prepper if you buy canning supplies in bulk. enough lids for 840 (70 dozen) jars is not too much.
    · If you base your new gun purchase(s) based on interchangeability of parts and/or commonality of magazines and ammunition you might be a prepper.

    · If you think having more ammo than the local gun shop is merely a nice starting point you might be a prepper.
    · If you know what a threat probability matrix is you might be a prepper.
    · If you know what TEOTWAWKI is you might be a prepper.
    · If you know as many acronyms as your average military veteran even though you never enlisted yourself you might be a prepper.
    · If SHTF is more than just a funny line from the movie Airplane, you might be a prepper.
    · If your idea of a family vacation, is spending a week in the woods building gardens,........you might be a prepper.
    · If Burt Gummer and Heather Gummer from the movie Tremors are your favorite movie couple you might be a prepper.
    · If you knew who Burt Gummer and Heather gummer were before reading the movie title in that last one you might be a prepper or you might have watched Tremors a few to many times. ;D
    · If you own more books on self sufficient living then the local library you might be a prepper.
    · If you read dystopian fiction and you use plot points as a check list of things you are or are not prepared to deal with you might be a prepper.
    · If you read dystopian fiction and it results in additions to your shopping list you might be a prepper.
    · you have propane in 3 different size containers.
    · you know what liquid wax parrafin is for and have at least 5 gallons.
    · you bought one of your dogs based on breed, size, and guardability.
    · you are well pleased when the cat brings you the best cuts of the latest moouse or rat kill.
    · You might be a prepper if; you own more than 1 generator
    · You have more garden seeds than the local Wal-Mart
    · You have more than 100 rolls of TP
    · You know the difference between dehydrated and freeze dried
    · Your friends call you an apacolyptic thinker and you smile with pride
    · You save dryer lint
    · You might be a prepper if you have 84 Gallons of Coleman fuel...
    · if you buy ammunition in 500 round bricks minimum size. and own at least 1 rifle chambered to a military surplus round. ::)
    · And you have at least two bricks in your glove box...
    · If you have a O.D. green paracord bracelet, and know exactly how much footage of 550 in that bracelet...
    · If you have ever googled opossum recipes . . . you might be a prepper.
    · If Burt Gummer and Heather Gummer from the movie Tremors are your favorite movie couple you might be a prepper.
    o "Penetration, or rate of fire?" If you know the answer to that question, you might be a prepper.
    · Buried guns and ammo hundreds of miles away, just in case...
    · Buried guns and ammo hundreds of miles away, just in case...
    o Then reburied them because you think "they" might know where you put them originally.
    o If your mobile phone ring tone is 'Another day, Another dollar....' - you might be a prepper!
    · sneaked into neighbors cow field to rustle his cow pies for your compost bin..
    · If your idea of a good time is reading about what is the perfect survival calibers, and survival gun.
    · If your wife says isn't 20,000 rounds good enough, and your first thought is, tip of the Ice Berg....
    · If you think Soldier Of Fortune magazine has nothing on you..
    · If you have had to rotate some stock and found a recipe to make brownies from applesauce and black beans . . . . you might be a prepper.
    · If you're extra nice to the wife because the contents of one walk in closet in the spare room is grounds for divorce in some states.
    · If you have ever turned off the power to your house for 5 hours For The Fun Of It, you just might be a prepper.
    · If you've ever drank from a mud puddle that the cows are standing in, just to test out your Frontier Straw, you might be a prepper.
    · If your idea of (reach out and touch someone) is with a 308 bullet..
    · If you had to break Granny out of the nursing home because ya had a lot of canning to do
    · If you keep on forgetting that camo is not a color..
    · If your retreat has a sign that reads ( Go ahead see how far YOU GET)
    o and 2nd one says ( I double Dog Dare You )...
    · If you think all three Rambo Knives are kinda small compared to yours..
    · If you think that "saving for your child's future" means planting a few extra hardwood trees for valuable barter someday.
    · If you can find useable stuff in your "environemental" neighbour's garbage.
    · If you've bought 20 yards of cammo so your family can blend into the woods
    · You have sampled various mountain house individual meal packages and rated the flavor so you can decide what you like to buy in bulk and then you buy cases of number 10 cans of what you like.
    · ...you are excited because your wife has started cutting your hair so you can spend the money on supplies for the vegetable garden.
    · if you constantly worry that you don't have enough canning jars.
    · if you see the news and hope that things hold together just little longer cause the harvest is not in yet.
    · You have a mild case of insomnia, so you turn on the TV at 3am and some stupid travel show is talking about 5 million dollar luxury houseboats and your very first thought is, "I wonder if that roof would support a garden." ???
    · your neighbor calls YOU and asks if you want some lard from her freezer. when you show up to get the (what you think is a couple pounds of) lard, she hands you 5 5-pound buckets. suddenly you need to find room in your freezer to store it, or re-find that web page about someone bottle-ing their lard for shelf storage.
    · Your kid finsihes your sentence every time you say, "two is one," she says, "and one is none."
    · You might be a prepper if you have ever thought about adding an underground storm cellar with an emergency exit to your existing basement.
    · you opt for a wedding band instead of a diamond set so you can put the down payment on your BOL that you want to be your BIL.
    · You save your skinny clothes because, optimistically, you think you'll lose weight when things go bad.
    · if you have ever seriously researched tunneling. (not a lot out there actually)
    · You save your 2 liter plastic drink bottles and wash them out and refill them with water.
    · When you tell your wife to "budget additional gas money and some for miscellaneous stuff" in the weekly budget. She always answers "yeah for your guns!"
    o Specially when she's trying to budget to get her hair done.... LOL
    · If your wife is worried cuzz the "pantry is low".
    · The kids get new M4 carbines and battle packs in ready to go BOBs for Christmas.......
    · If you use the word sheeple in daily conversation, you might be a prepper.
    · If the people at work come to you for advice in food storage devices, you might be a prepper.
    · If you pass out flashlights to your co-workers, you might be a prepper.
    · If you notice that, for the first time in your life, you're actually reading the farm supply store ads in the newspaper, you might be a prepper.
    · If you seriously consider getting Lasik eye surgery to shoot better and not have to worry about losing your eyeglasses if SHTF, you might be a prepper.
    · If the wife sees and ad in a magazine for "yodders bacon" and says "honey you should get some for your stash". Almost brought a tear to my eye. The wife is slowly becoming an ant.
    · You kick your addiction to caffeine because you know that if SHTF, you'll need to be shooting zombies instead of having caffeine withdrawal headaches.
    · ...if your wife comes home all excited because she just picked up two more silver rounds at the coin shop for spot price.
    · ... you notice things like this on your way to work, snap a picture on your phone, and share it with your TSP homeys:
    · If you contact the department of game and inland fisheries to apply for an exotic species permit. for your aquaponics system.You just might be a prepper.
    · ...the most romantic thing your fiance said to you today was, "there's a thrift store with 500 mason jars and he wants 10 cents per jar OR best offer"
    · Your 8 and 10 year old daughters get disgusted with Hollywood gun handling.
    · You think Major Payne would be a great nanny, and would tell wonderful bed time stories to your children.
    · The wife says " I found a bunch of candles to add to your stash".
    · You are using scrap wood from one DIY project, to build square foot garden boxes, to give out as Christmas gifts to the other prepper's in the family.
    · Your idea of a great Friday night includes frozen veggies and a dehydrator.
    · If you have ever considered or actual taken a sharpie to the garden center for the soul purpose of crossing off ant and replacing it with grasshopper on all the pesticides. you might be a prepper.
    · if your wife gets worried when she sees you in the closet with a Sawzall you might be a prepper.
    · The best surprise when you came home from work was that your wife picked, skinned, and canned all the fresh tomatoes in the garden.
    · you just snookered the electric company out of 1700 bucks by finding a repeating 15 dollar error for the past five years on your bill.
    · You engage into a lively debate with the Walmart employee over the tue definition of "six box limit" as it applys to just the individual package of ammo or to the entire case.
    · If you have a 5 year old daughter who loves all things pink..but her favorite blanket is a milsurp poncho liner....
    · If you have ever bought flat OD green spray paint to give your jerry cans a fresh coat.....
    · If your wife wants to paint her jeep OD Green.....
    · If you have more lake city brass than the military....
    · You are contemplating the project of putting a modern VW diesel engine (from a rear-ended and totaled Golf) into an old VW microbus (perfect body, frozen engine).
    o You're a prepper if you do that. You're a true survivalist if you toss a couple of turbos on
    o tip: don't trash the exhaust heat exchanger - or get a new one - and put a tank in the back for on board domestic hot water!
    · When while reading these, you think "Hay that reminds me of me" on every one of them.
    · your fiance might be a prepper when she gets that excited gleam in he eyes when you tell her that the 10 cens a piece mason jars she sent you to get you only paid 7 1/2 cents per jar.
    · ....if you look at all the trees on your property as if they are a new house, cabin, chicken coop, barn, shed, wood shed, and wood heat.
    · If you look out the window at the neighbors who are clearing out trees and leveling land behind the house and say "I suppose the jerks are going to plant grass!"
    o And then go and ask if you can have those trees.
    · If you think lead is one of the precious metals, like gold or silver.
    · you got 7 UNH students to add TSP to their iTunes podcast list last night
    · If you constantly nag your wife to finish eating the pickles so you can use the jar for storage.
    · your idea of home renovation is adding solar panels, a root cellar, and a rain water tank.
    · if......you go to the grocery store because potatoes are .99 cents for a 10lb bag and come home with 50 lbs. I canned 35 lbs and dehydrated 10 lbs. - we ate some of the rest ;D


    · you have worked in IT for way to long. realise that all the fancy gizmos's on your desks and in your racks won't do you a bit of good in a SHTF so you decide to pick up some books on AC power and analog DC circuits.
    · You might be a prepper if you sign up for a class on being a PV installer so you can learn how to do your own pv system w/o paying someone to do it and learn how to maintain it.
    · your kids are exciting about making quilts for gifts this holiday season
    · You work super hard all week (so you can't listen to TSP daily) and on Saturday morning, instead of whining to yourself about how tired you are, you realize with a smile, "Sweet. I have a bunch of episodes to curl up on the couch and catch up on."
    · If you have had to rotate some stock and found a recipe to make brownies from applesauce and black beans . . . . you might be a prepper.
    · You look at your neighbor's tree and think "gonna have to cut some of those limbs over my property, my garden isn't getting enough sun."
    · You look at your own garden and think "crap, I've been gardening for pretty, and these plants are dang near useless"
    · You read this string and start singing "I'm a prepper, you're a prepper, he's a prepper, she's a prepper, wouldn't you like to be a prepper too?"
    · You look at your garage and think "need to have a garage sale to get rid of this junk so I can store more preps"
    · You wait until your dog starts shivering to turn your oil heat back on.
    · Every time you do the grocery shopping somebody says "oh, looks like you're going camping"...
    · Your kids favorite toys are from your prep's.... a 5 gallon orange bucket, and the food inside will keep my two busy for over an hour, pack, unpack, pack, unpack..... or flip it over an let them drumming begin. This week, I pulled out an old EMS LED camping lantern, so now they keep asking me to turn all the lights off, and then they wander around with that.
    · You take the leftover Halloween candy and vacuum seal it. Yep.
    o I have been known to take the 4th of July parade candy (yes, some of our small towns 'round here still throw BUCKETS of candy), vac seal it, and pass it out at Halloween.
    · You might be a prepper if you sign up for a class on being a PV installer so you can learn how to do your own pv system w/o paying someone to do it and learn how to maintain it.
    · When your daily routine is going on the Craigslist/Freecycle Farm+Garden and Free boards...
    · When family automatically sets things like canning jars aside for you...
    · When your idea of a quality time with your partner is yet another DIY project...
    · When you spend an embarrassment of time on Instructables.com...
    · When you look at a stack of old newspapers and think of all the wonderful things you could manufacture with that...
    · ... the chandelier you just bought has 5 halogen bulbs in it AND 5 candles
    · ...you get excited when your wife finally bought that pistol she has been wanting and starts looking into getting a CHL.
    · You bought a pair of shoes on clearance for your daughter to grow into....'bout 5 years from now.
    · You made your shopping list for Thanksgiving and realized you already had most of the stuff you needed. ;D
    · you seriously consider a trip to Texas to attend a Roadkill class! :o :D
    · ......if you laughed when you read on the forum about someone (sorry I don't remember who) that stopped and picked up pumpkins from someone's trash pile to make into pies as you are driving by a house that still has 3 good pumpkins on their porch. You consider ringing their doorbell and asking if you can have them!!! Ah - preppers are such a strange and wonderful group but Morning Sunshine I'm not too sure about roadkill unless I'm the one driving and it's fresh. LOL - TBM
    · Your kids point out bags of leaves two blocks away for the compost pile!
    · your FIL and a SIL arrive suddenly (2 hours early) just in time for breakfast the day of your son's baptism, and there is no panic; just crack a few more eggs, pull out more hashbrown's and muffins from the freezer. Voila, no one even knew there was a crisis averted!
    · You go out in freezing weather just to test your cold weather gear.
    · If your 3 year-old daughter has a BOB for her favorite doll (and she calls it her “baby BOB”).
    · If you count the calories of the food in your pantry, but you’re not on a diet.
    · If you watch syfy flicks like Terminator Salvation and the Matrix, and think critically: Sure, machines getting you makes for good drama, but how far are they gonna get without a good garden?
    · If you think the monetary value of your stored ammo should be at minimum equal to, or greater than, the value of the guns it is designated for.
    · If you have ever gone to the grocery store and had to pack the groceries you just bought into your back seat, because the trunk of your BOV is already full of provisions*** and it dawns on you that you have more days of sustenance in your trunk than you just bought in the store.
    · You might be a prepped when you can indentify another prepped/survivalist by his paracord bracelet. (this actualy happened to me)
    · You might be a prepper if you get the Cabela's Christmas sale flyer ... and you don't need anything in there. A few wants, yes, but no needs.
    · you only need more ammo if you buy a weapon that uses different ammo than all of your current weapons take.
    o LOL The monetary value of the ammo you have stored is equal to or greater than the house it is stored in.
    o You might be a prepper if, when you're meeting new neighbors at your BOL, you ask them what they do (or did if they're retired) to see if they have any skills you'll need if SHTF.
    · ...you see the commercials for tomato and pepper plants and say..."bet they're either GMO's or hybrids where I can't save the seeds...dangit, I'll grow my own from seed."
    · ...your hubby asks you what you want for your anniversary, and you point to a rolling composter barrel, NOT jewelry. (and yes, he got me the composter!)
    · ...you look at the "rasied garden" kits being sold and your jaw drops because you KNOW they can be made for a fraction of the cost.
    · ...your hubby mentions taking a vacation somewhere, and you respond "where did we want to start looking for a BOL? Let's take a vacation THERE."
    · If you have a solar array, drive a clean burning diesel vehicle, and yet don't believe in global warming...you may be a prepper.
    · If your will contains a "treasure map" showing the location of each child's share of the PM's.... you just might be a prepper.
    · If your idea of a fun experiment is to see how long you can grow last years pepper plants in a five gallon bucket in your living room.
    · You see every little thing around you as a potential resource. The power cable to that old computer, the wooden desk you no longer use, the glass from the picture frame above the lobby of the hotel your staying in. :)
    · The guy in Home Depot looks at you like you have 3 heads when you say you refuse to use the cheap $6 "full sunlight" fluorescent bulb, you only want the $10 plant light.
    · If you had a 42 lb survival backpack ready to go, 20 years before you heard the term “prepper”, you might be a prepper.
    · You're the only house on the block with Flax, Rosemary, Lilac, chives, and thyme planted in....
    · you count a hare and a goatdog as wise elders.
    · you just MIGHT be an overly dedicated prepper if you just spent two hours redoing the math on a hand-wound 1200 turn SMPS toroidal transformer for version 2.0 of a power supply, because off-the-shelf components didn't quite fit the design requirements.
    · You might be a serious prepper if instead of just buying solar panels, you stockpile the raw materials required to manufacture your own.
    · ...you have bolt cutters in your car just in case you have to escape town using an electrical easement.
    · ...you have bug-out SOPs stashed under the seat of your wife's car and she doesn't know it.
    · ...you have "urban camouflage" for your BOV.
    · You might be a prepper if you see the only difference between a flood and a bath as being the water temperature and your proximity to a bar of soap.
    · ...you think that the Friday before Easter is primarily for practicing bugging-out. (Think it through...)
    · ... if you start stockpiling cans of food at work under your desk for 'lunch'...
    · ....you have emergency rations stashed for your pets...and you consider your pets to be emergency rations....
    · You have reached the point where every time you meet someone for the first time, you size them up and try to find out if they are a ant or a grasshopper.
    · You might be a prepper if you heard the result of the vote on Sunday and....
    o ...Started stockpiling Locust-effective insecticides
    o ...picked up some Simple Green for long term storage for when the water turns to blood
    o ...put in a fish pond to attract egrets to help ward off a frog infestation
    o ..stocked up on flea and tick powder for the pets
    o ...looked up the price of unblemished lambs
    o ...started scouring acts of congress for budget line-items involving contract payments for horsemen, or purchases of large quantities of sulfur...
    · ... you judge your neighbor's front and back yard by the amount of broad leaf grazing available. clover vetch etc.
    · you are invited to a "tupperware-type party" for Thrive food storage stuff (THRIVE Food Storage (THRIVE Food Storage)), and the hostess says "I know you are really an expert on food storage, but I hope some of this is helpful to you anyway!"
    · ..... after 12 hours of strong winds, your kids have decided to prepare for a power outage (in their defense, the power does go off after prolonged wind around here), and have started gathering flashlights, cleaning the house (so no one steps on stuff and gets hurt) (and mom isn't going to complain about that "game" hehehe), and planning "power out" activities.
    · You might be a prepper if you think the Survival Podcast makes a good bedtime story.
    · You might be a prepper if the last thing you do every night is download the latest episode while listening to that aforementioned bedtime story.
    · ...you cannot understand why your friends and colleagues are spending their extra money on jewelry and pocketbooks when they could be developing their food storage and/or food production and/or general preparedness.
    · ... you estimate the amount of Mtn House #10 cans you could buy when you hear the ladies at work brag about buying a $2000 handbag. ... you shake your head at the waste of buying a $2k handbag.
    · My version of the same - planning a road trip and saving all the recent podcast's to listen to in the truck so you won't be bored driving 1200 miles. And making sure you take the laptop so you can download all the new episodes while you're gone to listen to on the way back. :D
    · your wife might be a prepper if her favorte day and place to shop is goodwill on the first saturday of the month (1/2 off everything in the store)
    · You had to replace the 4gb micro sd card in your smartphone with an 8gb to fit more survival pdfs on it.
    · You make the same 3 hour trip you've made down the interstate 100 times, and for the first time you don't look at the houses, businesses, river, or boats. You look at what the people have done with their land; what's the lay of the land, the drainage, what's planted, what kind of sun it gets, etc.
    · Every time you look around you, you get disgusted by all the waste and decadence. I don't see the overpriced clothes and the disposable everything stuff anymore. All I see is the waste. How I strive for simpler more self sufficient times to avoid as much of "That" lifestyle as possible.
    · you just opened a bottle of EVOO that you put in a cool, dark storage area in 2002 and are dancing around the kitchen cause it's still as good as new. Eight years, YES!
    · ...if you talk your 1st grader out of spending his hard earned allowance on a cheap chinese toy and into buying his very own watering can for his garden box, and then he thanks you for the idea! ;D
    · You are driving through Las Vegas (on the way home from California) and one one side of you is a fancy Rolls Royce and on the other a stretch limo with a very scary looking driver and your DH says, "Wow - look at that - does that impress you?" and you say "Nope - give me a guy with a gun on his hip, another in his truck, a stash of prepped food and I'm good." We laughed! Blessings TBM
    · the only reason you bought the locally sourced sawmill wood is that you are too cheap to buy the homecenter's 16X16 shed for $6,990.99 when you can build a 16X24 for under $2,000.00.
    · ...if you've ever said "It needs more MOLLE attachments"
    · ...if your dog has a paracord collar, just in case
    · ...if you've learned more than one way to cook SPAM (mmm SPAM)
    · ...if you've caught your cat with a figure 4 trap, a clothes hamper, and a little tuna (mmm tuna)
    · ...if you've ever emptied a shelf of sale item ziplocks, trashbags, or toilet paper and braved the judgemental looks of store clerks
    · ... if your local home depot was selling 8' 2x4s on clearance for $1 apiece and you caught yourself calculating how much you would need if the world were to end this year.
    · ... if the thing that pisses you off the most about your mortgage being underwater is that you can't sell it to buy a rural homestead when prices are sooooo good.
    · You might be a prepper if you get REALLY Excited when yo open that 1 in a 1000 pack of ramen noodles that has 2 flavor packs in it instead of one. (Then again, you'r probabbly a prepper if you eat ramen noodles anyway). ;D
    · ...... you are driving through your small town and see someone doing yard clean up, slam on your breaks and pull over to ask if you can come back later and gather up all their pine needles for blueberry mulch! (the resultant pine needles give an 18" deep layer around your three bushes)
    · You stop and dumpster dive looking for anything you can use for free....
    · You call your future son-in-law and say, "Hey, I need more cardboard to kill more grass. Wanna go diving with me tomorrow?"... and he says, "Sure, what time you wanna leave?"
    · Had one of those typical office discussions today "If I won the lottery" Oh how my ideas where sooo much different. I was thinking land... lots and lots of BOLs, really well built BOLs, and yes, even a beach front BOL.
    · If you know how many cans of each size will fit in the rows of your can rotator, you might be a prepper.
    · If you buy in multiples of those numbers, just to have extra, you might be a prepper.
    · ..... if you believe in redundancy to the point where you have two similar items in your EDC gear, you might be a prepper. (Fenix LD01 as my EDC light, plus an E01 on the keychain.)
    · if you sit and giggle to yourself as you add more inventory to your food pantry and watch the free space disapear. (Feels kind of like a game of tetris).
    · watching your wife inventory and rotate the canned goods turns you on.
    · You might be a prepper when you start thinking of food in quantities of 12 (Flats) rather than individual cans. (Even my wife now says, "We need another flat of mushrooms, or diced tomatoes etc).
    · It's one of the first beautiful warm days of the year and you think, "Ahhhh..... I can start carrying my LCP in shorts now. I love spring."
    · You might be a prepper when you realize you aren't prepared for "Everything" but you are prepared for "Anything".
    · You might be a prepper when you realize you aren't prepared for "Everything" but you are prepared for "Anything".
    · You might be a prepper if you use the clothes closet for canned food storage.
    · .... Hank Williams Jr.'s A Country Boy Can Survive song sounds like he's been to your house ;)
    · You keep sneaking out of the house to go check on the tomatoes you planted today, 10 or more times. LOL
    · You might be a prepper if you're green and spicy and have a hard time spellin'....
    · If your daily driver is setup to feed and shelter you for several weeks.
    · You put on a t shirt that is a few inches longer than a normal one and think, "This will be great for concealed carry."
    · Your family buys you a cherry tree for father's day!!!
    · You spend the Father's Day weekend at an Appleseed shoot with your 14 year old daughter ( 207 for me and 181 for her- we're getting closer!) and THEN, after the official event is over, you stick around to try out your 6.5 Swedish Mauser and another tricked-out 10/22 that needed to be zeroed in. Said daughter still does not want to go home so we can have dinner with Mom and her other siblings-especially after she gets to try an AR15 and nails the 200 yd steel on the first shot. So, at the end, after almost a 1000 rounds for each of us, I'm thinking "wish we brought more guns and more ammo!"
    · the kids ask you on Saturday morning "can we please go to the farmers' market, please? it's so cool!" :D
    · You give your daughter a Ruger 10/22 for her high school graduation present... and she loves it!
    · If you take an airsoft AR-15 to the car dealership so you can check for ease of egress and length of pull issues!
    · a new neighbor hears through "the grape vine" that you make soap, and calls out of the blue to ask if and when I can show her how...
    · If you take your 4 year old daughter to the local coin shop, and she says in her little voice to the owner "My brother (2 years old) is always saying I need silver, I need silver." She then digs through the bin and carefully picks out a 1 oz. silver coin for us to buy.
    · This happened to me today. It was very hot in our lab and I decided to get a soda. Thumbing through all my coins, I spent the quarters and dimes but kept the nickels because their base-metal value was higher.... Then I smirked when I realized what I was doing...
    · If during a normal conversation your aunt starts a sentence with "Well, Jackie Clay says...." and you talk for two hours about food storage and recipes using it.
    · Someone asks you what movie had the biggest impact on you and you say, "I.O.U.S.A."
    · ...coming back from the pantry, you say, "I've got to get more flour. I'm down to my last 75 pounds," and wonder why people laugh.
    · you might be a prepper if you work for a hardware store (at this point mostly for buying preps at 10% above cost) and your co-workers kinda scratch your head when you have ordered 48 cases of canning jars with 600 extra lids...
    · You look at everyday things and think of how they could be used in an emergency.
    · I have a metal shoerack and have often thought that it could be rigged up in a fireplace to hold pans/pots over the fire to cook.
    · ...if you always look at your wife/husband while holding some sort of re-usable container and say, "Can we use this for anything?". I do this once per week.
    · And if you stash every single reusable (or might be reuseable) container somewhere on the off chance you will find the perfect new use for it. My in-laws showed up at my house last fall needing empty containers to put their shelled pecans in cause they knew I'd have some. Of course I got lots of pecans so a good trade off.
    · You are cutting back on your daily dosage of allergy pills because you don't want to be as dependent on them if you can't get any more during a crisis.
    · ...you wake up early on a Saturday excited about hitting the farmer's market....so you can get back home early enough to get some canning done
    · you see multiple uses for other people's junk!
    · ...if you spent a HALF-HOUR reading all twelve pages of the "You might be a prepper" thread!!!
    · ...your bird sings along to the TSP theme music while you eagerly wait to hear the call in questions to get ideas from today's podcast
    · As you drive around you actually look at all the trees and shrubs to see if they are edible and wonder where you can park your car to get to some of their fruit and if they're on public property or not. I blame Jack for this weird behavior and of course and Keltikkat who posted this thread:
    · If you sharpen your spatulas. Either that or I'm just weird.
    · if you a 'friend' bought two coffee percolators in case of a power outage because 2 is 1 and 1 is none.
    · Even though you he can't figure out what could go wrong with a percolator now that you he got them.
    · ..if you scored a bunch of free MRE's and made the wife one for dinner.
    · ..if yoiu've converted every spare closet in the house to a pantry
    · ..if nearly all of your yard has been turned into food production
    · ..if you have more oil lamps and coleman lanterns than you do actual electric lights
    · ..if your Xmas gifts all come in Emergency Essentials boxes
    · ..if your house first aid kit is a 3x5ft steel cabinet
    · ..if you have your morning coffee with the TSP forums
    · .....when you take your adult child to health food store, tell her buy salt and yeast in bulk for storage................she says, "Mom you are weird, why do I need that?" and I say, "You need to listen to Jack." I thought she was on board................*sigh*
    · ... If you text your sister to see how her family is doing and she replies: "We're busy canning jalapeño jelly, apple sauce, tomato sauce, corn relish and salsa right now" and your reply is:"YOU F****NG ROCK DUDE!"
    · You might be a prepper if you receive something like the following (daily) text message from your wife, quoting something your 3 year old daughter just told her regarding one of her stuffed animals: “This bunny rabbit’s feet are broken, so I was thinking about skinnen it to eat it while we’re camping”. My reply, “Hahaha! Atta girl!”
    · If the same wonderful little daughter asks you, while you are putting her to bed at night: “Dad, if you shoot a bad guy*** can we eat’um?” Reply, “No we can’t sweetheart” “But dad*** they might taste good with rice and cheese on them.”(Ugh, I guess the “waste nothing” philosophy might need some more explanation.)
    · If you're excited about going to the grocery store since they have coffee beans buy1/get1
    · if you circle things in seed catalogs, Lehmans, Emergency Essentials,Dillon, and Palladin Press and leave them in obvious spots as "christmas hints"
    · if you search Craigslaist "free stuff" 3-4 times a day
    · if you see propane cylinders at the local stores "75% off seasonal items" area and buy all they have left
    · if you realize you have windows open for Craigslist and TSP at the same time :D
    · When you find a leaky outdoor faucet or hose, you try and figure out how to geurrilla garden that spot.
    · You start sneaking some of the "weeds" in the garden into the salads of your unsuspecting guests. ;D
    · If you have a "fermenting closet", you may be a prepper.
    · if your 6 year olds christmass list starts with ammo, a pink rifle and a new bow.
    · if your friends show up at all hours to look in your garage (better than the hardware store) i need?
    · if they need to fix a fosit you hand them a bucket of washer contaners.
    · when some one braksdown on the road and they wish you were there," we'd be home by now".
    · You dont mow your lawn because of the wild edibles that will overtake it eventually.
    · ...a Foodsaver infomercial comes on and you ignoe everything else.
    · Your girlfriend's daughter asks for help writing a paper on what you could buy for $500 today that would make your descendants wealthy in 200 years. You suggest buying heirloom seeds! The cool part is that she likes the idea and that you can support your position, then writes the paper.
    · In the spirit of it: If the plans for your new storage shed include a basement shelter, rainwater
    · You can't plug anything in because the Sylvania emergency lights that Jack mentioned were on sale, you had a coupon, and you bought 5 sets of them.
    · If you seriously consider getting Lasik eye surgery to shoot better and not have to worry about losing your eyeglasses if SHTF, you might be a prepper.
    · Your co-worker laughs at you when you forget your bic lighter, but you have 3 flashlights, 4 packs of handwarmers, flint and steel, 6 ibuprofen, 3 dayquil tabs, 6 heartburn tabs, 6 anti-diarrea tabs, 4 bendaryl tabs, 2 pairs of gloves, 1 hat, 1 hood, 3 knives, a multi-tool, about 20 foot of paracord, a pack of gum, and your employee swipe badge all in your duty jacket pockets. (and then realizes that you have more gear in your B.D.U. pants pockets.)
    · If you are to busy to water your small indoor garden experiment because you are forever taking extra shifts too pay off the debt Jack keeps telling you to get out of.
    · When you mention to your fiance that you want to try and catch a raccoon with the expensive engagement ring you bought her just in case SHTF.
    · You try and figure out how to keep an aquaponics system going in an underground bunker without surfacing to get more soil and water. (and start a new thread to get further ideas for it.)
    · When you're a new prepper and you determine that co-worker "John" can teach you how to hunt and "Jill" can teach you how to can, and you dislike both of them, but they require the skills you need to learn.
    · When your fiance stops thinking you're crazy and actually cleans out the closet to make room for the extra t.p. and canned goods you are going to buy at the store later that day. (Also stops making fun of you're paracord projects and no longer talks about your man crafting.
    · when your kids' piano teacher brings you saffron bulbs from her thinnings so you can grow your own (who knew you could grow that here?)
    · when your idea of a date night with hubby is going to a gun range and learning how to shoot
    · You might be a prepper if you have a 2 week supply of food at work and you think it's time to go shopping.
    · You just might be a prepper when you travel in the new parts of the European Union and look with envy at the nice gardens, and a few chickens in almost every yard.
    · You might be a prepepr if you are considering buying your 3rd spool of certified type III 550 para cord for the year.
    · You might be a prepper when you actually test the type III paracord to make sure it does meet the 550 lb breaking load. Parachute cord - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Parachute cord - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
    · You might be a prepper when you ask for bob / go bag additions like a metal spork for you own Christmas gifts.
    · You might be a prepper after reading all of those pages of "you might be..." and add a few more items to your normal monthly bulk item shopping list.
    · P.S. You might be a prepper when you check your posts for OPSEC violations.
    · you pull a 2" pocket knife out when cutting tape from boxes and your sister-in-law says "you would have a pocket knife on you. that is such a [Morning Sunshine] thing to have!"
    · Along with Morning Sunshine's post above - you can't understand why any grandkid over the age of 13 DOESN'T have a pocket knife, why their parents (your kids) object to your getting them one, and why your SIL, a 20 year Army vet. asks you to sharpen his knives.
    · You live on prime hunting land...have your house filled with full gallon water jugs, MREs & long shelf life food, candles, sterno...stocked up on silver, gold, copper, wood, firearms, and ammo...both tanks on the pick-up are always topped off with fuel...you and your kids have BOBs at the ready 24/7...your best friends are all in your local prepper meet-up group...The SPLC has declared you and all your friends members of an "Anti-American Patriot Group" and posted you on their online watch list...and the local grasshoppers all think you're nuts.
    · Yes if, all the teachers at the grade school want you with them on all out doors fieldtrips.
    o I didnt know there were that many classes ?
    o Show one class a few things on 1 little fieldtrip and baam .
    · The folks at Cabela's know you as "That Flashlight Guy"
    · You can afford a new vehicle, but you keep your old Jeep
    o Also paid cash, another sign of maybe being a prepper
    · ... you make "field chopcticks" to eat with when you find a wild snack while hiking.
    · you stop to get gas, and you leave the station with 2 quarts of locally produced honey, and 12 bic lighters that were on sale.
    · because in the back of your mind you are always thinking about what else you need to stock up on.
    · you decide that your children need to be eating beans more so that their bodies are used to them in case we need to eat beans a lot in an emergency situation.
    · If your company sends you on a road trip to deliver something 2 hrs away and you take your BOB with you... YMBAP (you might be a prepper) "Yim-Bap" - hmm, reminds me of the old Hanson song "Mmm-bop" :D
    · ...you come home from a couple of days at the BOL only to find you wife has inventoried all the LTS and written a list on the white board by retail outlet name, of all the things that need to be replenished and/or increased.
    · And... YMBAP if you spent a half hour on a hot afternoon yesterday in the Target parking lot rearranging your kit in the trunk of the car because they had tons of prepper items on clearance due to a store remodel.
    · The number of backpacks in your house exceeds the number of people by double. Even the dog has a backpack go bag.
    · You look outside and see a blue sky and think how much your AGM deep cycle battery will be charged up at the end of the day.
    o You cuss yourself for leaving the inverter on the previous night even though all the devices were off and disconnected.
    · You might be a prepper if...... everytime you go someplace - mall, restaurant, visiting, etc., you automatically check for a second or third way out.
    o and.... you insist on good visibility to doors, large windows, and potential security risks.
    · You might be a prepper if you happy to say "I have worms."
    · YMBAP if your other half says "got everything on your 'bat belt' ?" before you leave the house.
    · You see somebody else's tax return as a grain mill and dehydrator :)
    · You surf ebay looking for "military surplus" bargins.
    · You see an attractive and slender woman and think, "She'll never make it through a SHTF winter" because she has very little body fat.
    o Then you continue to look at the attractive and slender woman because, well, SHTF ain't happening right this second and she is, well, an attractive and slender woman.
    · YMBAP if before you go to bed, you take both the wife's car and your car out to the gas station to make sure they are full of fuel. And you get home and continue reading TSP forums.
    · you have one or more piles of johnstone on your property...
    o because, you never know when you might need to make your own knifes, arrow heads or spear points.
    · . . . if you relish the small box delivery of 2000 worms, and the agrarian act of dropping them handful by handful into your garden. . .
    · You might be a prepper if by chance a student mentions that it looks like you guys are preparing for the apocalypse (meaning because we had 8 officers in the office during shift change.) and the officer standing next to me goes well only one of us. And everyone proceeds to look in my direction.
    · I guess talking about storing food if by chance at minimum you lose your job or need surgery, starting a garden to get organic vegetables because its cheaper than the grocery store and healthier than the gmo crud, and having an emergency bag in the car that will allow me to survive for 3 days if the car breakes down makes me "CRAZY."
    · You might be a prepper if you watched the new show on TLC about Extreme Couponing to get ideas for getting $600.00 in groceries for about $25.00. Also an awesome side affect of that is finding clever ways to store everything.
    · ....you own your weight in beans
    · Is that pinto beans, red beans, pink beans, black beans, white beans - don't seem hard to do, does it?
    · you have your FAMILY'S weight in beans.... :P
    o and twice that in grains ;D
    · You know you might be a prepper if during the Red Cross shelter in place briefing you think that they don't take 1 is none and 2 is one approach. And a 3 week supply of food & water is not the goal but a bare minimum.
    · You know you might be a prepper when hearing someone talk about having back up plans/kits as a "n00b" when they indicated they had never heard of the term BUG out bag.
    · YMBAP if during a local disaster drill, while everyone else is making lists of what they might need, your spouse is just crossing off items as already Done!
    · ymbap if..........at church someone breaks a zipper and you reach into your purse for a multi tool AND a sewing kit.
    · when some thing happens ,everyone there looks at you and smiles.
    · If anything needs cut , they all know who has a knife or two on them.
    · If the idea of caching and killing your Dinner is (just fun) no big deal .
    · YMBIP if you just spent an hour reading all 15 pages of this thread going, "Dang it, those are all good ideas, and I'm SOOOOOOOO far behind..."
    o *but at least I know which thread to look at when making plans!*
    · YMBAP If you go to the store, and hear the infamous "cash or credit" and say "I don't have credit cards, cash of course" and everyone (cashiers, patrons, managers, kids, EVERYONE) looks at you like your from another galaxy. Then comes the "oh, poor guy" looks, you pay the bill and head out with a big cheesy smile on your face ;D, then you get the "poor guys" :( look on your face... if they only knew...
    · YMBAP If your best friend asks if you have any ammo cans, and you reply "what size?"
    · YMBAP If your Bow and arrow is the only weapon you own that doesn't take military ammo.
    · YMBAP If you had to give your Mom a copy of the TLA list so she could decipher what you were talking about.
    · YMBAP If your Mom thinks your crazy, but everytime you need to know something you go to her, and her response is "hang on, I think my Mom had that in her cook book, we used to do that when we were kids...oh yeah, I remember now...."??? :wtf: ??
    · YMBAP if you take pictures of your kids on your smartphone before you go to town so you have the most current photo of them if they get lost.
    · you recognize a guerrilla garden outside the local Papa Murphy's, and wonder if it is kosher to harvest from someone else's guerrilla garden ???
    · You go to a farmer's market in Blairsville Ga. Buy a $3.00 pumpkin from a vendor. Ask what type and He says. "I got them years ago from a lady down the street and we have grown them for years. They are great pie pumpkins". So you save the seeds just in case they are worth keeping while your wife bakes the pies.
    · you search through this thread looking for all the great ideas.
    · you have ever stolen your wife's underthings, socks, pants and tops to stow away in a BOB for her.
    · people at church notice that the urinal in the men's room is running and come to you for the screwdriver on your SAK.
    · Your son asks you what your favorite color is and you say, "Coyote brown."
    · When you go through the checkout line at the grocery with less than an overflowing cart and the cashier asks, "Is everything OK?" with a real look of concern on her face. (guilty)
    · When you have the delivery schedule for your favorite 3 grocery stores memorized. (guilty)
    · When you are at the gun shop and the guy behind the counter points at you and says, "Ask him. He knows more about it than I do." (Dad)
    · When you are planning a storage shed with electric, heat, air, and water so that you can expand your pantry. (guilty) The water is for the ice maker in the second frig.
    · When the toilet paper getting below 3 cases worries you. (running joke around my house) (guilty)
    · your 2-yo makes a gun out of baby legos and hands it to you at breakfast. you put it on the floor cuz there is no room at the table, and he has a fit, gets down, picks it up and says "mommy keep gun. NOT on floor." (you are right, son. should never leave a gun laying on the floor! - we do not even own firearms yet, btw!)
    · the local grocery store has scissors on sale for 29 cents, and your 7-yo buys 6 pair "to have around when these ones get dull. then I don't have to buy new scissors at full price." :o (wonder where she learned to say and do such things!)
    · Your 6 year old plans a clubhouse that needs:
    - 1-to be in a tree so the zombies can't reach
    - 2-a pair of canoe paddles so she can navigate in a flood
    - 3-a week's supply of food and a camelback
    - 4-20 feet of rope just in case
    - 5-a neighbor boy to stand guard
    · ...you regularly price shop 3 mil bags in bulk for food storage
    · ...fall chores includes rotating the clothes (and food) in your BOB/GHB
    · ...you have a coding system for your ammo storage and a spreadsheet in case others need to find the right caliber
    · ...you give/get precious metals for gifts
    · ...you go outside when it's 30 degrees out and windy to make sure you can boil enough water for a meal on your esbit stove using just 1 tab
    · ...you sleep with your BOB and shoes next to your bed, cell phones plugged in within reach, and your clothes in reach
    · ...you have a personal first aid kit for each person in your family in each vehicle
    · ...you have a family first aid kit at home and in each vehicle
    · ...you have a document package on a thumb drive (in each BOB), encrypted, and photos of everything your insurance covers if your house burns down/is robbed
    · Ymbap if when entering your normal stores you get an oh great look on their face,and they call for bag help when they see you coming..
    · When the stock kids come up and tell you of what's is the back yet to be brought out...and you never asked Hahahaha
    · When one store who used to have every other week cheese sales put a limit of two loafs and you ask why and they reply..ma'am it wasn't fair to others how much "some people were buying" I.e. me it was 2.99 a loaf so ha ya I'm a rack clearer..
    · If you spend more time on here checking "replies" than you do "notifications" on facebook Hahahaa..
    · If your kids spit out store bought bread(was flattered by that)
    · If every antique store in a 50 mile radius has your number incase something you need comes in(each have a printed list of about 20 items)
    · If you prefer had operated kitchen tools over electric...
    · If you can't wait for the next semi disaster to get your other half that much more on board after seeing "why we prep" :)
    · You are actually considering buying a huge pile of feminine products for your BOL. You picture yourself walking into a Costco with enough products to last six months and pray no one you know sees you.
    · You can't wait for the day after Christmas sales to get ... big plastic tubs in red and green (for keeping decorations and lights) that are on sale. You want to get them cheap and fill them up with food.
    · Ymbap if you didn't have time to read the whole thread ::)
    · you watch Glenn Beck's shows about pending disasters and prepping and can't stop wondering why he is being so darn naively optimistic.


    · You are actually considering buying a huge pile of feminine products for your BOL.
    · ...AND you keep coming up with alternative uses for the items: drying pads for just cleaned components; emergency chinking for log construction; field expedient fuses for Molotov cocktails......
    - A friend was horrified as her dad polished his show cars with them...
    - But they also make great dressings for wounds on animals....with duct tape added.
    · The local news reports the police raided a house and found a firearm and 500 rounds and you feel sorry for the guy cause he was almost out of ammo.
    · You have enough knives, flashlights, and first aid kits that you never need to buy another, but you still do.
    · The Army Surplus store calls you when they are having a slow sales week.
    · The neighbors are baffled by the number of blue barrels you have out in the shed.
    · The City skips your neighborhood when picking up leaves on the curb because there are none. (wonder where they all went?)
    · Friends constantly ask what the 'zombie obsession' is all about.
    · You use Google maps to range your entire neighborhood from 3 different spots on your property
    · Ymbap -- if you note the locations of the lights and signs on nearby roadways that are powered by their own solar panels because the panels may come in handy some day, ......no theft contemplated, just you know, after that REM song happens.
    · You find a guy at a gun show selling berkys.... You ask about mylar bags, o2 and such.... And he has cases of them under the table. 2 weeks later, new gun show. Same guy spots you and says he brought more bags, a sun oven and some buckets! Now he gives you a list of all his show for the next 3 months and asks you to send him a shopping list. Btw, he's bringing sailboat first aid kits to the next one and he's sure he'll see you then, so he'll just save you a few.... Or a case.
    · He askes if he can bring you 10 lbs of apples to dehydrate on saturday (since his is messed up) bring them back to him on sunday and he'll give you 50 more qt maylar bags. You think you might be in love with him, even if your husband is standing next to you and paying for all your
    - Also guilty as charged. Also keeping a running tab on those trailored arrow boards that use solar and battery backup. IIRC, they have 6 batteries (some with 3, depending on battery voltage), a 15 or 20 watt array, and a charge controller. They also have 2 mounted tires and a bunch of steel that could be repurposed and several low voltage light bulbs. Just sayin'.
    · If your mother's Christmas present request was help with her bug out bag, you might be a prepper.
    · YMBAP if you come into the house after mucking out the chicken coop, throw your hands up in the air and yell "Done!", and your other half jumps up, takes off running to the bedroom, and comes back with a rifle. "I thought you yelled "Gun!" he says!
    · YMBAPI you are posting on TSP on Christmas Day. Using your phone.
    · YMBAPI if Santa puts ammo in your stocking.
    · ... if you are happy to get used LED Christmas lights and will spend 2 hours plus trying to get them working for your solar power system..
    · ... if you get home with totes of canned goods and your two year old knows where they go, and starts packing them there one by one. ... up a stairway...
    · ... if you are happy to get all the holiday dinner leftovers to pressure can into soups ...
    · ... if you are ecstatic to get used candle stubs to melt into new candles in your 4 candle taper mold. ...
    · ... if you phone rings a minimum of 3 times a day from July to October on canning advice .. from two countries...
    · ... friends give you birthday gifts of duct tape, leathermans, pocket knives or flashlights and you are a chick...
    · ... your friends have you order and pick them up water barrels, as you have the best source and price
    · You might be a prepper if you would rather chat on line with someone like Cedar, than with the curvacious, effervescent and oh so flirtatious bimbo down the hall......
    · YMBAPI if Santa puts ammo in your stocking.
    - and you shake the box, calling out the correct caliber before unwrapping!
    · YMPAPI someone at work is out of gas and you go over to your truck and get a full 5 gal. can out of the bed.
    · You help clean up the MIL's basement and start eyeing the old hand tools and cast iron cookware just sitting there saying "take me home".
    · You get excited about an email from Paul Wheaton regarding a new video of ducks eating slugs.
    · when your sister takes you into her basement and shows you the 18 boxes of cereal on the pool table and says "I wanted to stock up" and you look into the other room asking "Where's the rest of it?", you might be a prepper!
    · When you mention to your husband that you want to pick up more rice the next time you go past the Indian grocery that sells the kind he likes, and he asks "why are we down to 5 pounds now"?
    - And you answer "yes" and he thinks you're joking.
    · If he thinks the 4 lbs of beans in the cupboard is a lot, and he doesn't realize there's 14 more in the pantry (different kinds though).
    · ... if you drool over the seed catalogs and try to pick only a few kinds of tomatoes and peppers and then long for spring; you spend two days inventorying the pantries and wonder if you should head out and get just a few more items; you look through hubby's catalogs to order paracord, steel gas cans, and waterproof storage boxes and then ask him if he needs to order anything too.
    · ...you get a new toothbrush out of you stock and notice you only have 15 left and think it is time to get another couple of 10 packs at Costco.
    · ....if when riding in the truck with DH and he sees a squirrel run across the road and says, "Mmmm, protein". I just shook my head.
    · YMBAP if you read through a couple pages of this after a frustrating day and it makes you feel better ;D
    · If you have a solar powered flashlight in your BOB.
    · If the decision of which new clothes to buy always involves,"Will this properly conceal my firearm or knife" or, " How can I carry 50 ft of paracord in these swim shorts.
    · You have laminated instruction sheets for all the critical systems of your house, ring-clipped to the systems in question.
    · You run drills on how to scram the furnace, kill the power, and fuel and water supply valves in case of an emergency. Bonus points if you run said drills as though you're on a star ship.
    · The frig makes a funny noise and your wife says ,"its alright you have to more in the garage".
    · the thing your kid begs for EVERY. single. time. you are at the grocery store is NOT a candy bar, but a flint and steel kit for lighting fires ::)
    · ...you wife has a foot powered breast pump for feeding the baby.
    · ...Two weeks of no driving for the wife postpartum causes you to dip into the pantry rather than go grocery shopping yourself.
    · ...your daughter has been caching crackers in her car seat before she turned one.
    · ...your daughter eats all but one cookie and insist on another since she wants to eat one more and refuses to be left without a cookie.
    · You might be a prepper if your kid actually knows that fires can be started from flint and steel rather than a lighter and/or matches. :P
    · We just got back from a full weekend scout camping trip, and my boys were bummed they only got to start 2 fires, so after gear was recovered, they practiced with their rods and a magnifier glass for an hour at home, LOL
    · You might be a prepper if you use the 500 dollar price tag of having power run to your workshop to justify another deep cycle battery, inverter, and solar panels instead.
    · Your new coworker comments on the picture of a rabbit you have as the background on your computer desktop, and asks if you have one as a pet.
    - You reply "no I've been thinking about raising them for food if (when) my husband and I buy a house".
    - And she gets an odd concerned and disturbed look on her face and says "Oh...cuz we just got a pet bunny for my daughter...."
    · ...you go on a date with someone you have not even mentioned prepping to, and before the night is over he hands you a survival guide and instructions for LTS!
    · the thing your kid begs for EVERY. single. time. you are at the grocery store is NOT a candy bar, but a flint and steel kit for lighting fires ::)
    - With mine it was always a machete...that, or duct tape. I should have purchased stock in that gray stuff. :rofl:
    - Now that they are older, I've gotten them all machetes. Although they still beg me to buy them more tape...that, or a box of .22 shells. ::)
    · YMBAPI, You just adore this thread... no matter how lame you feel afterwords! ":wtf: is that me?"
    · YMBAPI... friends who are trying to buy ammunition come to you and ask if you want to sell some.
    · YMBAP if.... your 3-yo was given a play-do multi tool, and he insists on carrying it with him everywhere - to the store, around the house, and even sleeps with it under his pillow.
    - (btw - he is very creative in its uses, as only a 3-yo can be LOL; also, we do not have play-do in this house. it is messy and stinky and I HATE it)
    · YMBAPI... A friend invites you over to look at the latest crop of buckets!
    · YMBAPI you're kids beg for fishing and camping gear and bullets at the store, instead of toys. ;D ;D 8)
    · YMBAPI:
    - you get a live animal trap for Mothers Day and are excited about it
    - you call a buddy to pick up the coon you caught so he can train his coon hounds
    - said buddy plans to come over after dark, so he calls first to avoid a ballistic incident
    · The company truck needs a fire extinguisher, flares and a first aid kit to pass inspection...........and you can lend all from your vehicle till they can get their own.
    · "...... regular PAINFUL contractions.... we are headed to the midwife's. wish me luck " is your last TSP post before heading out..... Congrats, MS.
    · YMBAPI... you go on vacation with your family and your first thought is, "If SHTF hits while I'm on vacation, I won't have any of my guns, gear, food, radios, etc. Please, God, don't let SHTF while I'm on vacation.”
    - You know it's true. That's why it's funny.
    - I feel that way every time I have to leave the state!! So True!
    · YMBAPI... you can find an American speaking prepper in the Dominican Republic where 1 of 100 people speak english, (which means what, one in a million would be an english speaking prepper?) and you strike up a conversation with someone that happens to be a prepper. 5 min. later you are handing him a piece of copper... :) We are not alone... ANYWHERE!
    · ...if you're playing a zombie game that tells you how many zombies are left, and keep reloading when it says zero, just in case.
    · ......if you look at your neighbors dandelions and wonder if they'd think you were crazy if you ask if you can pick them to use for salad or making wine (I blame Jack for this!)
    - i want to find a large patch so i can make dandelion wine
    - um... guilty. I found a nice dandelioned lawn and asked the owners if they spray, and if I could gather dandelions. he looked at me like I was crazy, but they gave permission. we made dandelion jam. tasted like sugar. too much work for that.
    · ...you've ever made bacon jam.
    - http://www.marthastewart.com/326881/slow-cooker-bacon-jam
    · YMBAI...you discover you only have 800 rounds of 9mm self defense rounds and think to your self "that just isn't enough."
    · YMBAPI you search CL ever hour for free stuff in hope you might be able to use/reuse it.
    · Then the home boss says that you do not need any more free stuff until you use the free stuff from last week. YMBAP or a hoarder.

    · YMBAPI when you go into a store, you bring in a shopping cart/buggy, or three, to make sure you have one when you get in there. Kinda funny when people who walked in ahead of me, pass the empty buggies, are waiting to get one I bring in, including the one I intend to use.
    · YMBAPI... you start getting ready for a great weekend by charging your ham radio batteries.
    · YMBAPI you make a fresh fruit salad to go with lunch (peaches, strawberries, grapes, pineapples, bananas) and there was no "fresh" fruit anywhere in the house.
    · I felt like a bad mommy the other day. We were headed out, and the 3-yo had an armload of stuff that he wanted to take to the van. To reduce the clutter in the vehicle, I told him he had to pick only one thing. He fussed, then dropped everything except two items: his above-mentioned multi-tool, and his baby doll (yes, he has one. Don't knock him. He is doing what he sees his daddy do - take care of a baby!). He looked at his baby, and this multi-tool and back to his baby and back again to his multi tool. I could see his mind "Take care of my baby, or the multi tool to take care of business." I was about to say he could take both of those things - after all, a good Daddy has the tools necessary to care for his family! - when he dropped the multitool and chose the baby.
    · Your neighbor MBAPI if she contracts with a peach and a pear grower to buy 100+ bushels every year for the town and everyone gets a screaming deal on local produce. When I went to pick up my 6 bushels of pears, I thanked her for doing that for everyone. her response "oh, it makes me happy to know that my neighbors have food in their storage and pantries." Then we discussed what kind of dehydrator I have, and if I could have the just fallen-down branch from a mighty tree for my hugel bed garden.
    · The day before, I was swapping peach syrup recipes with another neighbor; and yesterday I was discussing chickens with another neighbor - she needs them for grasshopper and box elder bug control.
    · Yup, I live in a prepping community. And I love it. :)
    · ...you go to Costco and don't buy anything because you already have what you need and don't see a sale worthy of buying what you want.
    · You may be a woman pepper if:
    - Your Friends have discussed if you can deduct the entire cost of the toilet paper in your attic off your taxes as insulation.
    - You won’t let your fiancé buy their first rifle in a caliber you don’t have ammo and reloading supplies for.
    - You get chocolate, wine, ammo, Home Depot gift cards, new heavy duty sewing machine and gold bullion to make in to a pendant for your 40th birthday party.
    - Canning equipment, riffle bags, and gardening tools were some of your bridal shower gifts.
    - Your father in law buys you power tools for Christmas presents.
    - You get together with your girlfriends to go shooting, build garden beds, and teach each other to can.
    - You have a ladies support group set up for when any of the members need help in a time of need or to go and do social things with.
    - You get asked to help friends shop for their 25th wedding present. His and her shot guns, a safe to store them in, and a diamond anniversary ring. They are awesome friends.
    - You go camping with the same group of 50 to 60 friends each year for a week and group campsite is referred to as “the hotel on the grass”.
    - Your ladies shooting group does a show and tell fashion show on carry holsters every Mother’s Day.
    - You and your girlfriends pool a large seed order with Fedco to save money on seeds each year and have a dinner party to sort out the order when it comes in.
    - Friends call you because they have found a deal on one of the items you are looking for and want to know how many they should pick up for you.
    · YMBAPI... you call your prepper buddies (instead of texting them) and they all call you right back, saying, "What is happening? Has SHTF?"
    - They all thought I had super secret inside knowledge of a collapse happening.
    · Back to the topic: YMBAPI... You go to visit a prepper friend and then meet his neighbor. At the neighbor's house, you notice a single spent 5.56 and 9mm casing on the ground and your first thought is, "Great. We have standardized calibers."
    · When in a wood shop you dig cut scraps from the trash because they'd make good firewood...YMBAP
    · At work you look in the trash cans for two liter bottles...YMBAP
    · YMBAPI somebody rags on you about "dehydrated spaghetti with meat sauce" ;D ;D ;D ; and you think it would make an interesting afternoon project....
    · YMBAPI.... You wake up a 3:00am and 5:45am to check on and stir your simmering tomato paste for canning tomorrow. Man I am tired.
    · Actually checking all the states that I will be traveling through CCW laws before going on vacation.
    · YMBAPI you ask for bulk, they proudly bring out the 25 lb bag, and you ask 'got anything bigger?'.
    · YMBAPI..... For your birthday present, your bf sends you to a workshop on Swine Reproduction & Artificial Insemination and you are ecstatic about it.
    · YMBAPI…you copied this entire thread and made it into bullet points to send to all your prepper friends
    - Then they ask for the link to contribute their own.
     

    Molly Belle

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    I admit, I didn't make it all the way through, but I love it!
    I may be guilty of a few. lol
    And you really can replace the fat in desserts with beans. My kids can't tell the difference, even with pancakes, and the oldest is a picky eater. I did use white beans, though. Cheaper than butter or oil, and healthier!
    Great post, you had me laughing out loud!
     
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    I admit, I didn't make it all the way through, but I love it!
    I may be guilty of a few. lol
    And you really can replace the fat in desserts with beans. My kids can't tell the difference, even with pancakes, and the oldest is a picky eater. I did use white beans, though. Cheaper than butter or oil, and healthier!
    Great post, you had me laughing out loud!

    I use lentils.
     

    Indy60

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    This seemed to be an appropriate enough thread to post my thought in avoiding starting a new thread. I was watching the shows Doomsday Preppers and then Hoarders, Burried Alive. Is a hoarder just a unorganized prepper and a prepper a organized hoarder?
     
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