Where Did I go?

By invitation I have moved my posts concerning prepping and survival to Nevada Prepper Network! You can find posts of self reliance, and current events there! I will continue to post here matters of life. religion, health, and family!

The Moment we knew was coming: Swine Flu

As we prepare for food shortages, Government crisis, financial meltdown why not add in a global pandemic? Is all the abounding crisis coming to a head at once seem a little fishy to anyone? Well we could discuss conspiracy theory's all day but that is not what we are here for.

With the WHO announcing that the Swine Flu has been upgraded to a Level 6 Pandemic we all need to take notice, and prepare for quarantine. Some of us are blessed to live in the sticks and breathe a little easier, but we all need to know the facts. My new friend at Kelleene Bishop @
Preparednesspro has written a fantastic blog digging into what you really need to know about the Swine Flu and I am happy to share it with you along with some other information of interest.

http://preparednesspro.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/the-real-face-of-the-swine-flu/


http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/swine-flu/DS01144

Masks along with immune system enhancers can be a helpful tool in this situation, they are good to have on hand. A lot of us take medications that lower our immune systems ability to fight by lowering our white cell count. Do you know if your medications do? A call to your Pharmacist or a look-up of the medications side effects should give you the information you need.

Ignorance is bliss but knowledge is pure power.

Stocking up!

Just when I thought I was paranoid, maybe a little crazy ..or both, I find that I am not only the one preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. There is a whole world of people who believe in preparations such as this. Where have I been and why didn't I follow my instincts sooner? Maybe living in ignorance as bliss, or believing those who thought I was a little overboard.

So now I see that not only was my gut feeling right, but that regardless of the state of the Nation this should be something more families should have in place. Just like the emergency evacuation plan that families and schools have in place, this is something even more important. The ability to feed our families in times of strife. To have the tools for first aid as a 8 hour ER wait is all too common.

So I took the steps at long term storage, made some purchases that will ensure my families well being from The Ready Store, but I also found a site called www.https://shelfreliance.com which sells not only long term food storage, first aid, and the like, but the site includes tools to help you calculate what you need for any specified time and number of family members you have. You can pay as you go, and it estimates the cost per month. Each can includes not only the contents, but recipes and instructions for storage. They also have solutions for storage of these cans and normal canned goods as well. So I bought a few pouches to try it out. Very simple and user friendly, and wish I would have thought if that idea!! I will definitely let you know my opinion of the products when I receive them!

So how much long term food storage should a person have?? Well financially three to six months of bills in your emergency fund is appropriate. So I would think the same of long term food storage to start with. I am fairly home bound so I have been accustomed to when I am able to go shopping I REALLY shop. So I could easily go three to six months without going to the store, other than for perishables. So this is just an extension of what I already have in place.

So as quickly as one can blow money at a quick mart, or the movies you can buy a can of food that will last 20 -30 years if it had to. A can a month and quickly your safety net will grow!

A Quote frrom the Heritage Foundation got me thinking...

The Heritage Foundation Quote of the Day: "We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong." ~ Calvin Coolidge

This is a profound statement as our Government is growing in size and number by the second. To make our decisions, take away our freedoms, in efforts to "save" us. Yet, as I look around at our present state of affairs it is Governmental actions that have placed us in the mess they are trying to save us from. The changes every day to our Constitution that are shaping our futures in ways we cannot even fathom. When all these changes take place, some slow, some quickly, but it will be too late to understand the consequences and change it.

Think about the state of California, under Democrat power for years, and its policy's and programs to "save the people" are the very thing that have caused the state to go bankrupt. The State of California's GDP should easily sustain itself, and is actually more than some countries. Can you believe that!! It amazed me as well. Which in my opinion in the State of California should be capable of creating a surplus for themselves, not declaring bankruptcy. So why do people think that this model will work for the entire nation?

Now naturally our bleeding heart instincts want to help all people, but it should be on an individual basis not nationally or globally for that matter. If people people every day were the best person they could be, then all this would not be necessary, or would it? Do we need the Government to make our decisions on what we can own, drink, drive, and how we should received medical care? Tell us how many cows we can own, what seeds we can plant, and doctors we can see? Just a thought..

Why Have I Decided to Become a Prepper?

There are several reasons why I decided to become a "Prepper". The most important is to help my family be prepared for whatever life throws at them. To have the ability to help other people achieve the same. When my Mother was asked what her daughter did she said matter of fact "She is a people person, she loves to help people." At that moment I knew I had to redirect my efforts to achieve exactly that. Up until that moment my "helping people" entailed me lending a hand, always wanting to help people in times of personal crisis.

It's true, I hated to see people hurting, in any kind of situation; physical, emotional, financial, usually resulting in too much help, too much advice, and possibly enabling that person to continue to make poor decisions. I just want to fix things, and make people happy. The end result is my frustration when I could not understand why they were not better prepared or allowed their situation to get to it's current status.

Facts are, my generation (Generation X) has had a pretty easy laid back life, living paycheck to paycheck and moving home when things got tough. We were not taught that credit was bad, in fact collages across the United States had an applications for a Visa or MasterCard when you applied for school. Very few of us were taught self discipline and even less taught preparation.

This is something I don't want my family to learn the hard way, I want them to have all the advantages in life they can. Isn't that what every parent wants, the best for their children? It is what my parents wanted for me, to be armed with knowledge to be able to help and think for myself. As I think back some of my family's most cherished moments, they were not moments of financial bliss or going from dramatic event to dramatic event. The opposite in fact, laughter and deep conversation doing things together; canning the gardens harvest, my mother and grandmother going to the laundromat, my father working two jobs to keep it together, my family worked together as a team to ensure that we all were well taken care of....no matter what.

So if I can help someone here, today with a sparkle of knowledge, then I have done something worthwhile. I want to share what I have learned, and researched about financial independence, food storage, uplifting books, preparing for the unthinkable. I want for you what I want for my family. Preparation and peace of mind.