While anyone survival minded believes in being prepared, there are varying degrees of preparedness and much of that depends on what you perceive to be the most likely survival scenario you will face.
Do you fall into the category of being too obsessed about it though? The answers to these questions might help you decide.
Do you have a year’s worth of food, water and medical supplies stashed away?
Do you refuse to get a flu shot because you deem it dangerous and unnecessary?
Do you own a firearm for self-defense purposes?
Do you have a concealed carry permit?
Do you have cash stored away in a personal hidey hole in anticipation of a global banking collapse?
Do you think we are on the brink of another Great Depression and when it happens, we will not see a recovery for years?
Do you think high ranking government officials and politicians are sneaky and egocentric?
Do you peruse at least 10 prepping and survival blogs a day?
Do you question everything you learned in school about history and so-called modern inventions?
Do you have supplies stashed under your bed, under the living room furniture, and in every other spare hidey hole throughout your home?
Do you have three dozen different flashlights and lanterns – just in case?
Do you know how much toilet paper you need to tidy up your business for a month? Using that calculation, have you stored enough TP to get you by for two years?
Do you have 4 different ways to purify water?
Do you go camping not for the fun of it but to practice being off grid?
Do you stock fish antibiotics so if the SHTF your “fishies” will not get sick?
Is your favorite book, William Forstchen’s One Second After?
Can you survive three days with the supplies kept in the trunk of your car?
Do you make your own soaps, cleaners, and personal products from simple, basic ingredients?
Do you have the ability to cook outdoors using only the power and energy of the sun?
Do you take periodic field trips to the forest or desert in order to pick up biomass?
Do you know four ways to start a fire?
Do you have a portable solar panel that can be used to power your eBook reader when the grid is sown?
Do you hoard (oops, store) unused toiletries, clothing, and other discarded items so that they can be used in a barter economy?
If the answer to most of these questions is “yes,” you fall into the category of very prepared, maybe overly prepared or perhaps you are preparing for something that likely will not happen.
There is nothing wrong with that. In fact, most survivalist will answer in the affirmative to most of this list. However, it is important to know where you are on the survival scale. Knowing where you are will allow you to form a strategy for whatever else that needs to be accomplished so that you're prepared. Knowing where you are at on the survival scale also may help you decide if you need to scale it back a little.
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