There is a sort of dilemma when it comes to survival and prepping. We want to involve friends and family, preach to them about the future, the terrible things that can happen.
However, when we tell them, with some groundwork, a SHTF scenario may not be so bad they look at us, glassy-eyed. We can talk about training, MREs, bugging-out or bugging-in, clean water, and any number of survival situations until we are blue in the face. But do they listen?
Honestly, we have heard the phrase: “You are one of those.” Which means: “You are an end-of-the-world nut-job, aren’t you?” And we just have to sigh and try to forgive. However, when it comes time for the collapse these same unprepared people will be the first to turn up at your door, saying how sorry they are they doubted, and asking for help.
Some preppers will say “goodbye and good luck” while others, who have been brought up to help those in need, will do all they can — even at the expense of their own family. It is a puzzle.
After the break go to the next page and read-up on one man’s take on this important conundrum that will take place when the SHTF!
Turn away family? What kind of$#%&!@*would even consider that.
I would not turn away my kids, my kids’ mother, or a paramedic. Maybe one or two,other specific people.
Family is first and foremost. I wouldn’t turn anyone away. But that doesn’t mean I’m not going to take everything they brought with them and then turn them away.
Plan for those you love or who have something to bring to the table. All the rest, ” it was nice seeing you again, now please go die somewhere else”.
A handful are welcome. The rest are fertilizer
family and friends are always welcome. neighbors are laways welcome with a hint of i am watching you. everyone else will have to earn the trust of the group. while it requires more resources to care for a larger group it also pays to have strength in numbers. if you plan shelter in place or bugout you will need able bodies to help defend,collect, and company. going it alone is not a realistic way.
I will use a simple test. They must answer 3 questions…..favorite color, name, and the wind velocity of a coconut laden swallow
nurses and doctors. Thing for me is i have to many nurses and doctors in the family.
Those with useful skills, or at least the ability to follow orders well and be useful, can stay. All others can either leave or be shot.
You aint a part of the crew and true….. Screw you!!!
Yeah. The reason I said paramedic is for obvious SHTF reasons; if you need it and near it you could try to work out something,mother than that make do with making it through. As for family, I meant ONLY my kids and my kids’ mother. Unless other family members had honest useful skills and was willing to work with the understanding that life in SHTF is cheap.
But in a fantasy SHTF scenario, you’d still keep numbers as small as possible but just large enough to have the needed skill pool to survive.
Medical, food skill ( gather, prep, store ), mechanics ( more than one type as you don’t want any of them to burn out ), tailors ( to keep serviceable clothing and to double as medical help ), gunsmiths, woodworkers, that’s about all I can remember.
Although I am retired Army, I am a big fan of the Boy Scouts and the Marine Corps: Be Prepared and everyone is a rifleman first.
Kill them all so thats done.
I will never turn away family…
Yea BUT ther are some people out there I could give a rats$#%&!@*about it know wer I’m going taking the old George Washington Route to the Mountain of Uniontown
Will it happen in are lifetime ..?. I’m thinking not
If they are productive do not turn them away but if they are non productive kick them to the curb.
Yup. If I don’t like you,$#%&!@*off
Been trying to get friends and family to prepare and they all think I’m nuts so I just might turn away most of them
MY bugout hide, MY rules, period.
1) what USEFUL skills do you bring?
engineer (building), general physician (health), military (defense/offense), accountant (keeping track of supplies), machinist (manufacture/repair), chemist (drugs/weapons), electrician (manufacture/repair), teacher, agriculturist, veterinarian, scavengers, cannon fodder.
2) No work, no food. Not wasting commodity for comfort.
3) weapons are ALWAYS welcome, but they will no longer be “yours” but “ours” and put into the armory & issued for watch/defence/offense/training to those who do not know weapons. The adage ‘every Marine is a rifleman first’.
4) it will NOT be a democracy. Your feelings & thoughts hold no sway. We WILL survive by any means & snowflake thoughts are death to the group as a whole.
I have other items and while not non-fiction, a couple of good reads are Lucifers Hammer & Alas, Babylon. Most of civilization could last for a week to a month with little, if any, true difficulty. I think more on the scale of multi-year/generational. Who & what would we need to bring it back eventually?