To be disturbed by the "Prepping" board.

[TheoriginalLEM]

Is this a thing now?

Is there really a need to be stockpiling food, medicines and creating a bolt hole?

Am i missing something? Seriously (this is not a light-hearted thread), i suffer from anxiety and this is really disturbing me.

Hopefully people have just been watching too much walking dead.

I think it makes sense to have a well stocked larder as part of sensible housekeeping. However I think that the prepping rethoric tends to be a bit paranoid and 'look out for number one' like don't, which makes it all rather off putting. They say that social capital is very important for people's health and wellbeing and possibly survival and the prepping attitude seems to be all about hoarding and 'mine, mine mine'.

I am also at one poster upthread saying that they change the prescribed dose of the antibiotics they have been given just because they are feeling a bit better. That's the way superbugs evolve, seriously. Also there are different types of antibiotics for different things, it all seems a bit ignorant.

To all those who have a oh fuck rucksack, where do you store it gets sucked in? In case of a fire you wouldn't know which exit you would have to use depending on where the fire is so i don't quite understand how that would work. Interesting thread though.

Enjoirass I don't disagree with your approach at all, I myself have things in the house/my handbag in case I might need them. Paracetamol, spare toilet roll, anti-histamines, a bit of store cupboard food, candles etc. I take some first aid stuff when I go on holiday and a needle and thread. But this is just normal life, we don't call it prepping surely. It is being prepared for minor life happenings.

I personally think its a bit weird for people to self-identify as a "prepper" this is when to crosses over to being unhealthily anxious IMHO.

My OFRS is in the porch and I have one in each car. In the event of a fire if I didn't use the front door I'd probably still be able to get to it once I was out. It's essentially an overnight bag for all 3 of us and the dog.

I don't consider myself a 'prepper' in a derogatory sense and am not a user of the Prepper board. But then I don't think that most of the people who do post there are Preppers, they are just sensible people preparing for possible outcomes. Proactive rather than reactive.

Don't be ridiculous, Silver. Spreading anxiety? It's the scoffers here who are talking about apocalypses, bunkers, starving hordes, etc.

If you're getting anxious about someone discussing being prepared for a power cut, or getting snowed in, then frankly, it's not the 'prepper' with the problems, is it.

The definition of the word Prepping - the action or process of preparing something, or preparing for something.

Sounds like you are a prepper to me.

i have no idea what an ORFS or a kit 1 2 and 3 are

using jargon doesnt impress

All the people that are hung up on the word 'Prepper' - AFAIK there were a number of names suggested for the board - including 'Be prepared' and 'The Bunker'. Preppers was chosen as a tongue in cheek nod towards the ZA. You know, like a joke? Some people (and I don't mean the Preppers here) really are taking it all a bit too seriously.

Swisscheese that is an interesting point, as i could imagine that preparing for all eventualities is quite common in people with anxiety. I tend to favour the head in the sand approach. Although my CBT therapist would have suggested that prepping for something that isn't likely to happen is giving it too much significance in my life.

Like i say, im not talking about a power cut, snow or even a flood. I'm talking about things that really are unlikely to happen.

Maybe Self Sufficiency would be a better term for the posters who have a healthy and sensible reaction to preparation for things that might conceivably happen.

The batshit You Can All Starve While I Laugh In My Cellar Cradling My Gun ones probably need more help than MN can provide.

I frequent the peppers boards and have no idea what a kit 1 2 and 3 is either.

I'm pretty sure you're a prepper Brenda trying to throw everyone off the scent in case they discover your barn full of long life food.

Line 1, 2 and 3 kit - A military term for the kit you take with you for an immediate threat (Line 1), a 24 hour task (Line 2) and a longer deployment (Line 3).

OFRS is an 'Oh Fuck RuckSack' or Go Bag - a very long running MN joke.

But this is just normal life, we don't call it prepping surely. It is being prepared for minor life happenings.

I personally think its a bit weird for people to self-identify as a "prepper" this is when to crosses over to being unhealthily anxious IMHO.

I don't call myself a prepper. However other people would classify me as that. Especially here. And apparently because I have weapons (ie axes) then there must be MH issues .

I can only assume people don't live rurally if they can not imagine a legitimate reason for own an axe.

The word prepper is used, because it's now generally known. I also don't think mners got the final decision on the title used here.

i have animals that i can eat

Sorry should have added silver , yes some people do take it to far.

But doesn't that happen with most things. It isn't the majority

And no, I don't have an OFRS, or a bug out bag, or whatever. The closest to that is a pre-packed hospital bag, having spent 4 miserable days with what DD deemed necessary (hint, deodorant and shampoo, NOT a plastic model of Christopher Eccleston). My asthma is appalling atm, I can't get above 80% peak flow, and I got told at my last respiratory appointment to have a bag packed in future.

Apart from that, I have a flucket in the car boot with basics like a warning triangle, water, and oil, and a well stocked larder because a) it's v rural here and we get cut off in bad weather, b) financially it's all a bit precarious, and I feel better knowing I have a decent amount of food if a huge bill comes in, and c) I fucking hate doing food shopping and have animals to feed so do one massive monthly shop.

Yes, I'm prepared. But only for pretty mundane stuff. If that makes me mad, fair enough, but I am not hurting anyone, and I think it's pretty fucking bad form for others to be slinging insults around on this thread.

This whole thread is bad form. Would you start one complaining about the religious topic, or a particular diet? Somehow I doubt it. If you don't want to see the board hide it. It's what I do with all the topics I'm kit interested, and it's what the fucking hide button is for.

Tbh I just really don't get this calling it a thing.

I can understand if you have a family member with some type of specific medical need that you would wish to have bag system in place for an emergency evacuation. Or perhaps live in a wilderness or place without much of an infrastructure. But wasting mental energy and financial resources on having plans and stuff for a situation not likely to happen when you are a resourceful human being just seems a bit obsessive.

The batshit You Can All Starve While I Laugh In My Cellar Cradling My Gun ones probably need more help than MN can provide.

And again Iris, there aren't any posters of that ilk there. It's only you, again, mentioning it.

But wasting mental energy and financial resources on having plans and stuff for a situation not likely to happen when you are a resourceful human being just seems a bit obsessive.

Have you read Aibu? Honestly there are far more ways to waste mental energy

Also people spend money on things others would call wasteful all the time.

If it's not effecting anyone else I don't see the issue

It's like it's something special that no one else has heard of. When having things you need for eventualities to do with your environment is just sensible.

There are some names on here I recall being very worried about the threat of Ebola a while back. Anxiety transference maybe?

Nobody on MN coined the term "preppers" and most real preppers would probably laugh at the MNers and their measly "preps".

Having 'weapons' because you use them for their intended purpose is not what I meant and you know it.

Having weapons to guard your hoard indicates that you might be over thinking things to the point where you might do well to talk about your fears with someone professional.

Preparing for things that could feasibly happen is normal. Preparing for imaginary scenarios in which you'll need a stock pile of anti biotics, a camping stove, weapons and half of Tesco in your store cupboard is not normal.

Nor is deciding in advance that you will leave your NDN to starve.

Rtt, Stratters. Dying neighbourhood children and the need to arm yourself is not something off the top of my head. You seem to be trying to whip up an indignation that isn't anything to do with you or your preparations.

I just store extra food (duplicates of the normal food we eat) and use it by sell by date. It is very useful in a rural area where the local supermarket is quite a long way away. It is called being prepared.

Why is this wasting mental energy and financial resources?

Having 'weapons' because you use them for their intended purpose is not what I meant and you know it

I wasn't actually talking about you. I was talking about someone who mentioned it earlier in the thread.

Indeed stratter

I don't understand the pure nastiness that's gone on here, people are really strange it's like we're depriving them personally of that extra tin of beans they wanted during their weekly shop or other oddness.

Who gives a fuck, get on with your lives!