The Bare Fundamentals for a new prepper

[Grumpy Grandpa]

Excellent pointers NR. When I first discovered prepping (not so very long ago at all!) the first thing I did was start creating lists - of water requirements, of food, of equipment - then I had list of my lists...

It was only then that I realised that it really was ability that mattered, as much if not more so, than anything I could store. I also realised that fortunately, my life experience has already given me many of the abilities you have noted, rusty perhaps with the passage of time but still there in my mind nevertheless.

While the importance of the stores is not forgotten, my focus in now much more on refreshing those abilities and in learning new and necessary ones. My thanks are due to you, to the many contributors to this Forum (capitalised deliberately,) and to SD, for creating this vital tool in the first place.

(Happy head on... )