If anyone had asked me a year ago if I would ever "prepare" or move to a more self-sufficient lifestyle, my answer would have been an emphatic, "No!". Then I discovered why I was so sick all the time. I discovered why my youngest daughter was sick so much. I discovered what we were eating and what companies were doing with our food supply.
Our food bill tripled. My electric bill was out of control. I live in Maine. K-1 heating oil is sky rocketing. I spent over $1500 this past winter. It was a mild winter! And that was just to heat the basement! The rest of the house is electric. Gas prices are going higher than I ever thought they could go. Unfortunately, our pay did not keep up. Within 12 months, my income is going to drop to an all-time low due to a divorce. I began panicking.
How am I going to keep my kids and I healthy? I have to buy organic food. I have to eat as naturally as possible. There is no choice. My daughter can't have soy at all. Cheap meat makes us sick. Walmart ground beef, the cheapest around here, makes us sicker than anything. (Hellooo, pink slime.) How am I going to pay the bills? What happens if a car breaks down? There isn't enough money to go around now. What will happen in the future?
What? Me - a worrier? Nah. Okay, maybe a little.
I rarely watch T.V. I usually have it as background noise, because I don't like it too quiet. One night while stressing and thinking I zoned out in front of it. All of the above questions were running rampant in my brain like hyperactive preschoolers. Something caught my attention. I'm not sure what. I focused on the show. I needed a distraction from my worrying, and it was definitely a distraction!
Bunkers, bug-out locations, guns, freeze-dried foods, stockpiles, polar shifts, EMPs, solar flares, collapsing economy... I'm not sure how many times I picked my jaw up from the floor. My first reaction? These people are nuts!
Then someone mentioned electrical outages. That caught my attention. I lose power if the dog sneezes too hard or a squirrel farts. We get power surges, because the electrical needs updating. I am literally surrounded by trees. Some are very tall pine trees that love to dance in strong winds. A tree fell and took out the neighbor's power to his house. Having a long-term power outage isn't that far off the map for me.
It got me to thinking...
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