How long should you be prepared for? 2 years, 1 year, 6 months? In this video, we’ll look at the critical milestone preppers should target and why it should be the standard when starting your preparedness journey. Download the Start Preparing! Survival Guide here: https://bit.ly/3xWhVwZ
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Thank you 🙏🏽 I am peppering for 8 months thank for the inside.
I'm going to focus on having 2 years plus my livestock.
I was at 26 months, but now that I have two other people who are coming to live with me, that just dropped to nine months…..
One year 400 pounds of rice 400 pounds of beans and your more then half way there and can do it under 500 bucks
I could probably scrape by 3 months with a combination of my stored food, water and knowledge of local wild water sources n small game hunting opportunities
Given most people are not prepared at all, especially in urban settings, a truly devastating crisis (an all encompassing SHTF situation), by the end of three months the population will be significantly culled thereby reducing demands on remaining resources.
It always baffles me when I see the hordes of people buying generators and shovels before a snowstorm, even here in Northern New England. It's like, did you not keep the ones you bought last year?!
Got myself a year of freeze dried water. 365 small gallon bags, it takes very little room and last for years.
Before watching the video I would ask why? When you can store more for tradables. Okay I'll go watch the video now.
Obviously, there are several goals. The immediate, the short term, the reachable goal, the long term goal, and the terminal goal.
FEMA's 3-day is meant to remove the immediate. The terminal goal, is, of course, determined by your age, reasonable lifespan, and any dependents you would want to see provided for beyond that if applicable.
I prefer a 1 month/4 month model to the 3 for the short term and reachable goals, with 2 years for the long term goals.
2 years, of course, is to get you to and through a growing season with a backup year if the first year's growing season fails or must be skipped (nuclear winter, etc). It also means that you have time to get self sufficient while still having preps in case of illness, injury or other emergency that might arise while already in post apoc world. If you can't make a go with 2 years of preps, well, then you just need to check out your actuary tables and prep for your lifespan. Also, at 2 years you are within the shelf life of most goods without the need for any special repackaging. Thus, so long as you rotate well and use your preps, 2 years can have no waste without the investments in long, long term food storage options (Mylar bags, freeze driers, etc).
So, the reason I go with the 1/4 month model is because getting someone prepped to 1 month is usually VERY easy. Someone who buys groceries once a week is usually already set to go two weeks (just without the fresh groceries). Getting them to 1 month prepped is usually more of an exercise in inventory than shopping – making it a goal that can be reached almost immediately as it might already be met or can be met in just one or two weeks of budgeting for it.
That early rush makes getting the 4 month preps an exciting and reachable first major goal – likely different from the 3 month plan only slightly in quantities. The reason for 4, however, is just basic math. You reach a 3 month goal, covering you for a season, and you have to do so again, again, and again to get to a year. With the tiny shift to a 4 month model, you only have to repeat it twice to get to the annual goals.
It's all about that $4.99 price tag that makes you feel like you are not spending over $5 or that $35 a month bill that makes it feel like you are not spending $420 on something every year. You want that "reachable goal" to be at the sweet spot where it is reachable, still feels like enough of a stretch to be a goal, but builds towards the long term goals as efficiently as possible.
Of course, some people would find prepping in 6 month increments reasonable – warm months and cold months. Others might find prepping in anything larger than one month increments difficult. Even prepping in one week units might be best for some – literally having a list of a week's needs, putting them in a box, numbering the box for rotation, and then doing so again until they have a shelf full of 1-week supply boxes. There is a lot of psychology behind why people preps and thus how the individual best preps. There will never be a one-size fits all.
Still, I could see a very good program that set out a 1 month goal, then a 3 month goal that was additive (getting to four) which then repeated both the 1 and 3 as a unit (of four) to repeat twice to get to the year.
This a great realist video.
If world depression that causes no hope to return to a free and safe society happens, after 3 months…. Most will be on the brink of death.
Have 6 months of supplies from the start of the flash point. If your 6 months of supplies end in winter…. Yeah… have a year of supplies.
I need to retake inventory, but I think my family would be fine for a little over a month with our preps. I aim for 3+ months, but realistically I think I would end up sharing with neighbors. Plus we just don’t have the space to store a lot of water. I hope to add a second rain barrel this year. But I only hook those up when it’s above freezing.
My weak spot is also water. If my daughter does not come back home i will only have about 2 weeks for me and my 4 cats
Hunting for a prepper is a joke. Unless you're in the far north of Canada where there is only 2 people per mile. All the lower 48 will be hunted dried in a few years.
Jesus said it better than Mr. Hinkley. IMHO.
"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
Matthew 7:24-27
Thank you kris
Great Content! We have chatted several times and I’m VERY impressed with your direction. I have been preparing for a long time, but only the last 2 years have I been attempting to put out info. You have come so far! I don’t know how you have the time for all that? I’m sure your very busy but if you could take a look at a few of my videos and let me know what you think? Anyways I’m thrilled for you and keep it going!! Vegas out!
So I've been reading one second after. I'd like to see you do a video on how to build Off the Grid prepper Refrigeration. I've been looking at the ice harvesting the tools are hard to come by but you can use just about anything. I'd like to see your thoughts on it one day
You LDS? Thanks for your videos. I’m still building my stash. I’m LDS too. God bless.
The biggest problem with multi month prepping is have the space for the supplies. He said 2 55 gl barrels of water for a person to last 3 months. With 4 in my family that is 8 drums so I would need a 4 by 8 foot floor area.
That's a good suggestion. I'm going to aim for 3 months for food and heat. Thanks Kris
practice on packing out 40lb of gear…when ya bug out that means your home is longer viable…40lbs of gear can give you the things you need to survive in the wild… pack it the way you want but follow guidelines of course
It all sounds good but if you are planning on prepping for more than 3 months the you should think about a bunker or a bug out.
It would be interesting if you made a “next step” video on prepping for a year.
Because the UN will be the saviors. They will come and the people will be happy to see because the shtf
If you generally cook at home then you already satisfied the three day prep
I totally agree with the 3 months goal. After that you're looking at homesteading and not prepping.
Good advice! Three months is not near enough.
Good advice. Start small and work your way up to reach your goals. Unless you're one of the rare super-wealthy type, it'll take time to start and begin building up the resources and skills to handle most emergencies. Perhaps picking up a hobby or two with learning and practicing trade skills or hunting and fishing.
Excellent video.
If help is not coming at 3 months, the marauders will be.. if not already.
thanks for sharing
In a hardcore SHTF event most people will probably be dead after 3 months, so if you can last that long it’s gonna be a whole lot less competition for everything.
Problem is that every prepper video falsely assumes that the viewers have boatloads of cash, credit, and own property.
Add up the cost of a small house, 7 acres of land, all the extras needed for prepping, and the cost is mind boggling.
Renters and poor people do not have the resources to prep as those videos show.
Where is an apartment dweller going to store all that stuff? And where are they going to get the money?
I’m likely screwed when it comes to water. I gotta move