Prepping is not just for New Year but lasts throughout the following 12 months. Since this is the season for well-intentioned resolutions, however, let’s add prepping to the list of things you promise yourself you’ll do – and make a point of sticking to these potentially life-saving precautions. So, if you’re ready to make a…
A prepper is someone who knows – instinctively – the value of preparation. And prepping is nothing more complicated than being prepared for tomorrow whatever tomorrow might bring – whether it is your home flooding, shops running out of supplies or, a simple power cut. Norman normal So, when you ask what is a prepper,…
Preppers – and their art of prepping – have taken on an air of normality and respectability in the face of the social and economic disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, argued a piece in the Mirror newspaper on the 30th of October 2021. Who’s paranoid now! The story mentions the origins of prepping –…
It was the playwright George Bernard Shaw who said that Britain and the United States are two “nations separated by a common language”. Little did he know that the sentiment is likely to be shared by new generations of preppers in those two countries – the language is often the same, but the practice and…
A “systems collapse” is imminent because of a worldwide supply chain breakdown – so reads the alarming news in Business Insider on the 30th of September 2021. Alarm is the right word for it since supply chain breakdowns can bring all manner of difficulties, challenges, and emergencies in their train. Let’s take a look at…