(5 September 2013, 08:21)MCavity Wrote: I'm looking at prepping as a kind of hobby that just might save my life one day. I know that sounds a bit fair weather to alot of you, but I like my lifestyle, home, holidays etc and won't overspend prepping if I look at it that way.
So for me at least I compromise by keeping my current lifestyle, as well as prepping. No regrets here 
I think a lot of people see it as a hobby. If so, that's cool. Each and every to their own. You can easily use it as an excuse to do awesome stuff, e.g. rock climbing, orienteering, shooting, archery, running, defensive driving techniques, wilderness skills, foraging, etc. As long as you get done the things that you need to, and learn skills that are worth learning (there's a lot of crap people try to peddle as 'useful survival' stuff) then you're good to go.
I like to do things that p*** off the wife too, like burying a case of food under a part of the garden haha. It's fun to do, winds up the wife, and it's a novel feeling knowing you have that bunkered down in the garden.