Why do I Prep? Why bother with preparedness?
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Yes, the last time we had a power cut, out here in the sticks, it lasted for about 36 hours. Me and my missus loved it and wanted it to go on for a week or so to really test our preps. When it came back on we could hear loud cheers from next door but we just looked at each other with disappointment on our faces.
Exactly me!
I regard prepping the same way as paying for insurance. I don’t feel ripped off if our house doesn’t burn down or my car doesn’t end up in an accident I’m relieved. I’m not waiting for a SHTF moment to use my preps, because come that moment it WILL be way worse than you can imagine!!!
Agree
I recently had a power outage from early morning to after 5pm...thankfully the hot water had been put on an hour before bed time the night before which is normal. I have two gas camping stoves, a whistling stove top kettle, we had a small radio for music and we were absolutely fine. I had an evening meal planned using the camping stoves as I had no idea when the power was back on. The afternoon was spent playing Monopoly, it was a good trial run for SHTF and we all coped fine. Portable solar panel and battery pack for charging phones so all was good. Good to test out the preps and see if there`s anything that could be improved.
That all sounds amazing but as someone who’s involved in the tabletop games industry you need to sack monopoly off haha
Can I suggest “the mind” “coup” and “cascadia” for three games that are easy to learn and will prevent you from undoing all your hard work in prepping by having to kill yourself from boredom with monopoly 😂
I know what you mean about being disappointed about the power coming back on. Last year a load of houses near me needed evacuating, and they were looking at extending that evacuation. Had mine and my families bug out bags all ready, double checked them. Waited a couple of days to hear more, then on the 4th day found out we only needed to evacuate for a few hours! 😂 Interestingly, it was my 10 YO who was the most gutted, as he wanted the adventure of it. Despite that, the fact that houses just up the road from us needed to immediately leave their houses for 5 odd days shows the importance of having some sort of bug out bag.
Glad it's not just me! Thanks for the comment.
I originally started prepping as a form of inflation proofing as food prices started to rise. I'd always been OK for alternative ways of cooking and lighting in case of short power cuts because I have wild camped and hill-walked for years and have various stoves and fuel, ditto water filtration but I've expanded into preparing for longer term outages because cyberattacks are becoming a worry. The effects of an escalation in the issues with Russia and a resulting breakdown in the supply chain is also making me prep harder. Virtually no-one that I know seems to be doing any kind of prepping - there seems to be little awareness of world events.
Thanks for the comment. Yes, very little awareness across the board. Like being in complete denial.
I've received a email from our county Police force this week detailing 5 steps for being prepared. Quite detailed bullet points actually, with suggestions of making a go bag, food and water storage including food for pets.
That's interesting. Was that a general email or are you job?
Your obviously on their "list" :) What did it say?
Our psychological threat response system is the Limbic System (LS) which is constantly assessing the environment for ‘threats’.
The last 4-years in particular have seen a massive uptick in psychological warfare/attack against ‘Joe Public’ and as such the LS has been dialled up into Hyper-arousal which is a state of heightened physiological and psychological arousal. It’s characterised by increased alertness, restlessness and a heightened state of readiness leading to….’prepping’.
However, this aroused state can’t be maintained indefinitely which leads to psychological exhaustion when the LS goes into Hypo-arousal which is a state of reduced physiological and psychological arousal. The brain has to shut down and take a break or it will breakdown/burnout. It’s characterised by a lack of energy, motivation and engagement with the environment.
The constant assault on our ‘wellbeing’ is a key psych-strategy being deployed; to wear down the resolve and resilience of people so they become exhausted and compliant. Prepping is like exercising, rest days are essential.
Apologies for the essay ✌
Absolutely superb, totally on point, thank you.
Oh fairly recently we had another issue with our local water pumping station and we were without water. My brother dashed to a local cash & carry to stock up on bottled water and ask me if I needed any and I laughed and said I’m more than prepared for this and have been since the last time our local water pumping station failed years ago and have been prepared ever since! Yet I can’t even drum in to my own flesh & blood the importance of being prepared! Humanity is doomed ;-)
I always have some additional preps for friends or family members that are too unfocused to see the value.
Again , thanks Steve .
What I get really fed up with is , people won’t listen and ridicule our prepping efforts. Seems very wide spread . Well amongst my circle of friends anyway . Don’t get me wrong I don’t tell them much but do tell them to purchase food if you have spare money to invest , buy tinned foods especially with long shelf life . Food prices never go down anyway.
I’ve invested in a small solar set up since your “solar basics” video a couple of weeks ago , so please don’t get too despondent about the number of views on solar videos . At least the message is getting through
Looking forward to the next video
Thank you. Yes, my friends always joke and say they'll come to mine when shtf, not taking it seriously at all. I'm pleased that you managed to get yourself a solar set up, glad to have helped.🙂
Thanks as always EP. Always on point. Good man 👍🙂🌲
I’m 76 now but I remember when I was about 12 I said to my mum, “ why do you keep a sideboard full of food”? Mum smiled at me and said “ just in case”. That’s all she had to say and I understood.what you are doing is “ just in case” and a lot more people should be doing it as well. It is up to us to safeguard our future. I am always looking for alternative ways to use fuel, fats, wood, sawdust and rocket stoves, gasifiers etc. One day I’ll crack it all. Carry on undeterred . Phil.
Don’t let the weather put you off from having a weekend camping with your car.
If it ain’t raining- we ain’t training!
- You learn more in bad weather, and might I say enjoy looking back on adversity.
My memorable camps were when water bottles froze in our packs.
Power failures are something I have to deal with that can go for days. It was one of the first things I prepared for because it does happen. The good thing about batteries and solar is that they are silent. I do have a generator that I use during the day if needed and can charge my batteries to go over to at night.
I live in Australia, so people really think that we are in a safe part of the world. No governments here telling people to prep or emergency broadcast drills, etc. I still prep, but I don't talk about it to anyone, they would think I was mad here.
i love the review videos because you can spend your money on useful items instead of some rubbish that you will just throw away
Fair enough, thank you
Totlay the same steve, lights went out twice last year and was devastated lol when the power came back on, my brother was the same.as far as any point , 100 percent it is, hands down.
RE pay off for solar etc, I never looked at it that way either I've 3.6kw on roof, 12kw of house battery and 3 powerbanks circa 4kw total. Cost around 15 grand for all of that, and I couldn't give a crap about the pay off, was never the primary install reason.
The doom slayers oreoper channels , mate they have had us al killed 10 times since Friday.
The sad thing is, once oast the bull crao click bait, their content had some gold nuggets.
Great vid buddy
One of those things we need to be careful of. If anything like my neighbourhood during a power outage, everyone comes out and has a moan and a chat for 20 mins or so until as like yourself, some communication is received. We need to go out just for a look to 'blend in'. Perhaps lighting your home wasn't the wisest things to do even with blackout options until the comms were received. As its evening anyway and the power was coming back on most likely during a time when you are going to bed. Was it worth exposing yourself. A few candles and a torch without the blackout option would draw less attention and less suspicion if seen.
You have good point.
One should always keep schtum!
Honestly yes! To me it doesn't mean 'preparing for everything?' It just means the basics, shelter, water, food! Simply that! Everything else is a caveat of that! :- As ordinary people we have no control over anything else!
It is also worth looking at developing nations. That is how we relearn the skills we have forgotten!
@@johnbaldwin143Those that live closer to nature will have an advantage
@@X5493-c7p That sir is spot on! I am quite old but I grew up with 'the old boys'! Taking ferrets to catch rabbits and also the 'other' things! The Romany's who lived up the lane taught me how and what to forage and where to find water. I have never forgotten any of those lessons. I still pass them on to anyone who wants to learn.
I love reviews of gear!
Ah great!
Ok you say ‘you were the only house in the neighbourhood with the lights on’
From a security point of view if you are that house then over a period of time you become a target
Grey man and all that
Don’t disagree with what you’re doing but maybe have some low key low vis lighting,I’ve got some led drip lights.actually 24volt,but they run off an 18volt drill battery
Enough to get around the house but possibly not be seen from outside
Keep the vids coming mate,like your down to earth approach
Thanks mate. Yes I've got low key lighting, blackouts etc
@@everydayprepper yeah hide in plain sight you know the score
Agree, With one of our power failures I had someone pull up in front of our house about 10:30pm sitting there in there 4WD idling for about 5-10 minutes because we still had power.
Also I was running on batteries, so I wasn't making any noise with generator, etc.
That's dodgy stuff. I'd have probably overreacted and gone out and filmed him!
Is solar worth investing in even if you only have a couple of hundred pounds max? Or do you need a big amount to make it worthwhile? I'm really early on in prepping journey and don't have much money (got to love statutory maternity pay lol) but am interested in it.
Hi, thanks for your comment. It depends what you mean by worthwhile. If you want a really long term backup that can run a fridge and other larger items, then you can start small and build it up, which is what I did. If you are just prepping to ensure you have backup for USB and other small devices then an all in one unit may suffice. You can get a 100W solar panel, charge controller and a battery for less than £200 which would charge all your usb devices if the grid went down. Thanks for watching btw 🙂
I am a conspiracy theorist but I love the fact that you concentrate your channel on prepping. There is the argument that you have to keep up with what They have planned for us in order to know what to prepare for but frankly our prepping all amounts pretty much to the same things, having to rely on what we have in, food shortages, inflation, supply chain issues, power outages, breakdown of society and nuclear war. That is us in Europe of course. In other parts of the world they have volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, earthquakes etc. Thankfully in Blighty at least, we don’t very often have these and when we do, see above!
Yes, agree. Thanks for the comment.
Talking water YT recommended a video about water distillation and I thought that would be another way to create drinking water assuming you have power or a heat source. Rain catchment is all well and good, but with the way pigeons poop on everything including our roof I wasn’t planning to use that water for anything other than flushing the toilet while the sewerage system is running or washing stuff up. Now if things get desperate I might have to use that water. So that’s my next project to research that. Oh and after I watched that video YT recommended videos about stilling alcohol 😂 Though that would be a great barter item after SHFT! ;-)
You'll probably find stilling booze is quicker!
Growing Tobacco as well.
@@everydayprepperBack in the 19th century it was safer to drink beer over water as the process of fermentation got rid of the bacteria. A great excuse to be a beer drinker 😂
does your router or can you get a router for internet that can run via usb on a power brick ?
My router is not usb but I believe you can get them. Especially ones with sim card.
Most routers are bog standard 5V input, so you can run them off a battery bank for a while if needed.
The problem arises if the power cut extends to the broadband network as well, then you go to plan c and use the phone as a hotspot :)
@@testpilotian3188 thank you , that helps
What is the point of you can't have firearms?
Who can't have firearms?
I am looking forward to the videos coming up and I have learnt so much from your solar information.
I see it as insurance, you pay car insurance and life insurance in the hope you never need it but if something does happen you are covered, I look at prepping the same way I pay into it but hope we never have to use it but I’ve sure got it covered if something does happen, even day to day things that can go wrong are covered
Great vid😊
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