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FrankBoss
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I've seen a little of the DDP show and took in a little here and there. not bad but enough to make me want to know more about being prepared. I often think of parent and grandparents.
My Grandmother often often horded can goods and dry goods in the shelves and I as a kid thought it was a waist of money and time. She would go to the store and come back with a can of this and little bag of that. and in the make shift pantry it went. She didn't drive and she would walk to the store and get the goods and walk back home when one of her friends with a car didn't have a chance to take her.
In my twenties I changed gears on the attitude on her quest to stock the shelves with goods was her exercise to be out of the house and with people... And she never complained about being with out. but she always had her stock.
Now for what I wasn't seeing in her method. She rotated her stock... new cans went to the the back and the older product went to the front. If more was used than normal it would be replaced with the exact amount that was there before. if she had too much it was shared with the elderly neighbors or youth charities drives.
She lived through the depression and she lived in a poor little town on the edge of a desert and a reservation. the winters were hard and the summers were hot. and she kept this up till she just couldn't get around any more. it was a method she learned from time past when walmart style stores wasn't on every corner. When times got hard she had enough to feed family. when the weather was harsh(and it did often) we knew she had provisions. Prepping is nothing new... the reasons are different for everyone.
But if you think of the stories than make it sensational rather than the lessons that make it sensible. you probably wont prep.
I asked her once why she had all this stuff.. She told me it was her "providence" so she would be able to spend as much time with her loved ones rather than going to the store when they visited.
Be prepared.
FrankBoss
My Grandmother often often horded can goods and dry goods in the shelves and I as a kid thought it was a waist of money and time. She would go to the store and come back with a can of this and little bag of that. and in the make shift pantry it went. She didn't drive and she would walk to the store and get the goods and walk back home when one of her friends with a car didn't have a chance to take her.
In my twenties I changed gears on the attitude on her quest to stock the shelves with goods was her exercise to be out of the house and with people... And she never complained about being with out. but she always had her stock.
Now for what I wasn't seeing in her method. She rotated her stock... new cans went to the the back and the older product went to the front. If more was used than normal it would be replaced with the exact amount that was there before. if she had too much it was shared with the elderly neighbors or youth charities drives.
She lived through the depression and she lived in a poor little town on the edge of a desert and a reservation. the winters were hard and the summers were hot. and she kept this up till she just couldn't get around any more. it was a method she learned from time past when walmart style stores wasn't on every corner. When times got hard she had enough to feed family. when the weather was harsh(and it did often) we knew she had provisions. Prepping is nothing new... the reasons are different for everyone.
But if you think of the stories than make it sensational rather than the lessons that make it sensible. you probably wont prep.
I asked her once why she had all this stuff.. She told me it was her "providence" so she would be able to spend as much time with her loved ones rather than going to the store when they visited.
Be prepared.
FrankBoss
