Why Prep?

For us the reason to prep is quite simple.  We have house insurance down to and including earthquake insurance (yes we have them, just not like in cali).  We have car insurance including uninsured motorist.  Life insurance, health insurance. 

And with prepping we have society insurance.

And you know what the best thing is about having society insurance, if you plan it right you pay for it once and re-up every few years for a minimal fee.

Once you've got your year+ food supply cached away using 30+ year foods and storage methods you're done with food prep unless you just want to add some variety to it over time.

Once you've got your water supply set up, you're mostly done with it.  Just purge it every few years and refill it to insure you have sweet water.   And luckily, in this country right now, you can store 50 gallons away for a few pennies.

Once you've got your bug out bags set up?  You're mostly done.  Just swap out your food preps in the BoB every 5 years give or take to make sure they're tasty and nutritious.

Once you've got your means of protection (and please don't be so naive as to think you won't need it or so stupid as to think using it is your food prep) you're done.   Modern weapons and ammo properly stored lasts a life time.

Once you've got your alternate energy prep's stored away?  Done.

There's no recurring monthly bill like you have with every other type of insurance.

And the best part of society insurance?  It's not ever truly wasted.  If you one day decide that the world has no chance of ending, no pandemic, war, hyper inflation, solar flare, super volcano, world storm, alien invasion, whatever your end of the world flavor might be, you can sell your preps, eat the food and use the water to wash your car. 

And quite likely by that point the year of eating that food you'll save a ton of money.  Our food preps have cost us about $2000 to provide over a years worth of food for our family.   That's less than we spend normally.  And we've locked that price in.  No matter how much food prices continue to go up, we can avoid a years worth of high prices at some point if we need it.