Originally Posted by
dilligaf
we homestead.. i dont consider that prepping.. although it all goes pretty much hand in hand..
I think we're more in this category than any of the other answers in the poll. We first started seeing disaster on the horizon about 1988. Since then, we have mainly either been living in a bus or camper traveling the country trying to warn others to get right with God, or living in a homestead situation. Much of the time we've been homesteading we were living off-the-grid, although we're not right now.
None of the answers on the poll fit us. We are more mentally and spiritually prepared, I guess, than we are physically prepared. Main reason is we've been unemployed or underemployed for the past 4 years, which limits our resources. We don't eat out, because we can't afford it. Can't plant a large garden where we are because the topsoil is too thin. I have a small garden up next to the house. But we have some really good dairy goats, livestock guardian dogs, and chickens, which I see as a major "prep." Animals reproduce.
Dh buys and sells guns and radios. He's good at that, and it brings in a little side income. It also means that most of the time we have guns and radios....although not all the time.
I also have maybe 2 months' food stored (if we ration it). The only alternate sources of water we have are a wet-weather pond and buckets under the downspouts of the house.
As I said above, we've lived off the grid before, and we're presently working toward getting there again. But as far as "prepping" in your terminology -- buying up guns and ammo, years' supply of MREs, etc., we don't do that.
IF you are willing & obedient , you shall eat the good of the land: But if you refuse & rebel, You shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. Isaiah 1:19, 20