Hello all like minds, I live in Southern Alberta around Lethbridge. I am looking for Grandmothers who are preparing for their families like I am. I'm into frugal sewing, second hand bargains, cooking, canning etc. My kids have told me that I'm funny to them because I'm preparing the the end of the world and having fun doing it lolol. I just believe personally, that something is coming, what, I don't know. But like all of you, I want to save my family and friends. Thanks for reading and maybe there are others!
Why run, you'll only die tired! si vis pacem para pacem
Hi Grammaprepper
Welcome to the forum. I'm not a grandma yet and my eldest is only 16 so I'd have a fit if he made me a grandma right now 🙂 I do sewing, quilting, shop secondhand, cook from scratch, bread baking and have canned for years, also knitting and spinning wool, gardening, have chickens and I can even milk a goat. Add in food dehydrating and have smoked a few salmon along the way. I bet the majority of people on this forum are doing much of the same.
Foxglove
Welcome Grammaprepper,
It can and should fun. I tell my daughter, the one that doesn't have, nor ever wants kids, if nothing happens I've been living a life I believe in. A lifesytle dedicated to the Earth. She feels she's doing her part by not contributing to the population explosion. Waste not want not. My other daughter, the mother of my grandchildren, shops till she drops, and lives the life that goes with it. Kids.
Until you do what you believe in, you don't know if you believe in it or not.
Leo Tolstoy
Its a shame that being self sufficient is becoming a dying artform. Todays youth are so interested in their phones that they are incapacitated unless walmart is open.
please teach them as much as you can , there are important skills that are simply not being passed along...
Unfortunately I didn't have the joy of raising my son. After the Fukishima disaster his mother asked him to learn prepping and disaster preparedness. He came to me first and asked what to do. Now his mother and grandmother have a 2 year food supply and he has his gun permit, so I helped him choose and buy the guns he should have. He is now in college to become an EMT and I helped him join a search and rescue organization that will not only help in a future career but he will also learn valuable survival skills. He comes up to visit every couple of months and we spend time out at my cabin while I teach him about prepping and less complicated living. We,ve not only bonded as father and son, but we've become good friends.
Spending time with your kids and teaching them about prepping may be frustrating at times but eventually they'll start to see the light. Just remember something my Grandmother told me about her parents. When she was young, her parents were dumb but the older she got, the smarter they got. Funny how that works.
Those who are unwilling to defend freedom, will become unfree.
Hello all like minds, I live in Southern Alberta around Lethbridge. I am looking for Grandmothers who are preparing for their families like I am. I'm into frugal sewing, second hand bargains, cooking, canning etc. My kids have told me that I'm funny to them because I'm preparing the the end of the world and having fun doing it lolol. I just believe personally, that something is coming, what, I don't know. But like all of you, I want to save my family and friends. Thanks for reading and maybe there are others!
Hi Gramma, I live very near you, I would love to talk to you 🙂
Hmmm, I don't know how to private message back. I'm just outside of Lethbridge
Hey Gramma, I am in Southern Alberta too, in the Hat area. I am a new Grandma(he is almost 2), my oldest 2 kids have moved out but are both starting their own preps too. I will still work on having enough preps for all of them though, you never know if they will end up here with us. I can sew, crochet can, cook and bake from scratch. Of course those are all ever evolving skills, so I am consantly learning. The last couple years I have been working on gardening skills, it has been interesting considering the state of our soil and the fact that our yard doesn't have alot of sun. But i will continue to try.
I am a grandma in Northern Alberta and am just learning of the prepper movement and am starting to get organized. I was raised on a farm and learnt how to do all things- shoot a gun, hunt, cook, weld, drive machinery- whatever it took to get it done and made sure to raise my children that way as well. One of the biggest things I taught my children to do was to drive a standard transmission vehicle- one never knows when you will need this skill! This seems to be an interesting site. Hope to chat with others!
Hi Grandma prepper: I am not a grandma, because my husband and myself started very late - I am 48 - But I plan to be so that is why I am prepping. I am not very domesic but I am learning. I am teaching myself to make cheese and have explored the wonders of inhouse vegetable gardening - wow these herloom plants frow fast and produce lotsa food. I have a canning pressure cooker and dehydrater and I am experimenting with difference recipies - so far they are all tasty. My supplys are small but growing weekly - mainly basics. This summer I plan to utilize my garden supply as well as farmers market and others food resouses around Lethbridge to increase my supplies in veggies and fruit canning.
It sounds like you have been around and I think that we can learn from each other. You sound very domestic and I can contuibute with security and electrical ideas - I can show you how to make solar and wind generators from scratch - that actually work. This summer I am starting a new solar project that will generate 1.2KWH that is 12000 watts per hour, enough to ensure that you can run a house on limited resourses. I am also doing a small panel that will run my small green house during the winter in lights and heat. I have the specs for a home made wind turbine that I will also add to the green house that will generate enough power in the winter that will ensure that my green house has the light and heat it needs to feed my family over the hard winter. I do alot of reading and gathering but so far I am on my own exceep for my husband who is has my back. My friends and parents think i am crazy so it is hard to talk to them when they want to put me in a padded room.
call me it would be nice to meet others with similaar interests.
Robin
Hello Grandma Prepper & everyone else!!!! I am a Grandma from Brooks & my grandchildren live in Nova Scotia with my daughter/her husband. My husband & I are in our 50's & are prepping alone. Our mothers are here, one in a lodge & one in Bassano independantly living so far & 2 sisters are in other cities (small family). We have had (not too heavy) discussions with one of my sisters/it frightens her too much , my mother can not handle it because it causes her to stress to much and she has high blood preasure. I grow a garden (wish I had a backyard yearly greenhouse), can, freeze, dehydrate, make my own cleaners, laundry supplies, toothpaste, mouthwash, body wash etc with minimal products needed from the stores. I wish we all lived on the same block and could spend our days teaching each other what we know! lol This will do! Robin C...wish I was handy enough to build solor/wind power items for our home...please share info! It is exciting to meet you all!
To gramma and wemustbeprepared, I am in the same area and i have a young family that i am trying to teach to be self reliant whether shtf or not. I grew up with my mennonite great grand parents who were very self reliant growing up and had taught me a lot of valuable lessons in life. I don't know everything but i am learning and would love to learn with others.
I wanted to say something about tin foil hats. No one has really touched on what a massive solar flare will do to the human nervous system...... If we have a doctor on here, maybe they could shed some light on this topic. My opinion is this..... Whether it is true, false or indifferent, here it is. Yes, I did make one and looked at myself in the mirror. ROFLMFAO - for those who dont know....rolling on floor laughing my fat ?ss off. It got better when family came home. But in all seriousness, we are electrical beings. I read somewhere that you make a hat and a neck guard with the foil. Well, what about the heart and spine? Wow, if you have to make foil clothing....... Dont know about that. I would think maybe a small room that you lined with foil and put your family in there till it passes. I think that might be "part" of what "zombies" are. They simply get fried. Whether short or long term memory is effected?
Why run, you'll only die tired! si vis pacem para pacem
I wanted to say something about tin foil hats. No one has really touched on what a massive solar flare will do to the human nervous system...... If we have a doctor on here, maybe they could shed some light on this topic. My opinion is this..... Whether it is true, false or indifferent, here it is. Yes, I did make one and looked at myself in the mirror. ROFLMFAO - for those who dont know....rolling on floor laughing my fat ?ss off. It got better when family came home. But in all seriousness, we are electrical beings. I read somewhere that you make a hat and a neck guard with the foil. Well, what about the heart and spine? Wow, if you have to make foil clothing....... Dont know about that. I would think maybe a small room that you lined with foil and put your family in there till it passes. I think that might be "part" of what "zombies" are. They simply get fried. Whether short or long term memory is effected?
Please do some research on "Faraday Cage". FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Administration, USA) uses chicken wire to block electromagnet radiation from entering their buildings. I don't know how well it works but an easy test is to build a Faraday cage, put a cell phone inside it and try to call that phone. If it doesn't ring you have blocked a lot of electromagnetic radiation from reaching that phone. Just wrap a cellphone in tinfoil and try calling it.
Than= I’d rather be rich than poor.
Then= I first became hungry then I ate.
There = She is there now.
Their = They have their things.
They're = They're going to the mall.
To = They came to the house.
Too = That's too bad.
Gramma,
I don't want to bring negative energy to this talk about tin foil lined rooms, but........we teach the Scouts to line a cardboard box with tin foil and insert 9 bbq birquettes to bake food. A room lined with tin foil that is exposed to a solar storm may just become a walk in oven. I try to stay positive, but another solution may be needed. A cave?? Root cellar?? Mylar tarps on the exterior of your home or shelter??
I do not know the solution to your query.
Mountainman.
PS - Keep asking the hard questions, they help everyone ponder solutions.