newbies here

Welcome Looloozu and greetings from Nothern Ontario.

Hi there. I'm from Truro area. And am really glad to see there are so many like minded people in Nova Scotia. Prepping can be so isolating. Not alot of company when you think outside the box!

Hi all,

I'm in the Annapolis Valley.

It's interesting to see how many CANADIANS are prepping and worried about the tough times that lie ahead. Mostly what you hear about are all Americans and what "they" are doing to prepare for doomsday.

The sad part about prepping is that it basically depends on how much money you have, not much money, not much preps.

If you have lots of money, you can afford to survive.

Isn't that what the "elite" want??

Glad I'm not the only one in NS taking this seriously, although unfortunately since I'm disabled, I fall under the "not much money" category...lol.
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I agree that money can be a large part of prepping. It is only one facet though. It can get you the stuff you need but knowledge, attitude, intelligence, resourcefulness and just plane luck will keep you alive. If you look at situations and disasters throughout time it has been a combination of all of these traits that you see in the survivors. Not just those with financial resources.

I agree that money can be a large part of prepping. It is only one facet though. It can get you the stuff you need but knowledge, attitude, intelligence, resourcefulness and just plane luck will keep you alive. If you look at situations and disasters throughout time it has been a combination of all of these traits that you see in the survivors. Not just those with financial resources.

I hear ya for sure 🙂

When you think about it, you can lose ALL your prepper supplies to anyone who has guns and decides to rob you, so I agree, being skilled and "smart" about things is a much better asset than "stuff" that can come and go.

I think what's bugging me (and probably many other preppers who are financially challenged) is when you watch a show like Doomsday Preppers and you see these guys forking out hundreds of thousands of dollars for bunkers, guns, food, water systems ect, and they STILL only get a rating of 67 out of 100!

Kinda makes you feel like if those guys are only given a 6 month or so survival time with all those resources, what about guys like us who are just trying to make it month to month and can barely manage to put aside a few extra cans of beans for emergencies.

Research the conditions of city dwellers in WW2. Leningrad comes to mind. How they lived, ate, heated. Where the water came from. It is amazing that they lived at all.. and they had nothing stored... only the brains, ingenuity and will to survive. Granted many of them still died...but then.. that again comes down to luck. If I was watching Doomsday Preppers as a regular citizen I'd go to bed KNOWING I and my family was going to die based on the show's parameters. LMAO

Research the conditions of city dwellers in WW2. Leningrad comes to mind. How they lived, ate, heated. Where the water came from. It is amazing that they lived at all.. and they had nothing stored... only the brains, ingenuity and will to survive. Granted many of them still died...but then.. that again comes down to luck. If I was watching Doomsday Preppers as a regular citizen I'd go to bed KNOWING I and my family was going to die based on the show's parameters. LMAO

Yeah, I don't think that Doomsday Preppers show is very realistic.

I think they have some helpful ideas, but there comes a point in one's life where you have to balance the present with the future, something I find increasingly more and more difficult to do since that is more or less based on the perceived proper allocation of my income!

I mean really, if I was all totally paranoid about the Mayan calendar ending on Dec 21st 2012, I wouldn't even have X-mas for my family, I'd just buy preps instead, but I don't think that would make my 2 year old daughter very happy that's for sure.

So what do you do, spend all your money on prepping, or just allocate portions of it "just in case" something does go wrong?

Life first, prepping next. Besides the eloquent list that JAB made a few posts earlier for things of value to a prepper besides money I would like to ad skills, skills and more skills. As far as the show Doomsday Preppers goes it was never intended to be helpful just entertaining.

Hello all,

New to the forum. Thought I'd join up after lurking for some time now. I've been researching prepping for a couple years now and building my knowledge on the subject. I'm a bit of an outdoorsmen and enjoy getting out. I have been collecting outdoor/survival equipment over time as a hobby but have yet to venture into the long term food preps area. Looking to meet like minded people in my area.

HWHarry

Welcome HWHarry.

Very happy to find this site, and looking forward to learning and sharing with you all.

Hello all, Just joined and I am located in the Sackville area. I am interested in prepping and group work. I have training in gardening, hunting and defence. Look forward to learning new things.

Welcome Slick and Welcome Glockman1 enjoy the threads!

There seems to be very little discussion going on. Is this a slow period? Or is there few active members? Seems to be only a handful of regular posters.

Do you mean in the Nova Scotia thread? A few of us post in other threads on IPN and CPN. Have you looked around those forums yet?
Here in the NS thread it does get slow at times for sure.