You know your a prepper when:

You open up your broom closet and get hit in the head with a can of beans...

Just some fun for today...

you know your a prepper when;

you yell at your tennager for throwing out an empty 2 litre bottle and you been collecting them for years...

alright..lets gets some more..hey would could do a prep joke book...

you know your a prepper when;

you have more tuna then the grocery store shelves

when you visit me in guantanamo

,aka alternative medicine room

you know your a prepper when:

you stop the stock boy in the grocery store and ask him for a 24 case of soup, because you want a full case and there are only 23 on the shelf

you know your a prepper when you are known on a first name basis by the dollar tree clerk at a store 90 miles away from your home town and when your girlfriend's house looks like bomb shelter. 

When you pack in enough groceries to feed an army and there are only 2 of you.  It's so bad I put the car in the garage, I don't like doing that, so the neighbours couldn't see my latest food run.

You Might Be A Survivalist If...

-         You have emergency rations for your pets, and view your pets as
potential emergency rations.

- You can't put your groceries in the trunk of the car because its
already jammed full with emergency kits, first aid supplies, and
fully-stocked BOBs.

- You know the news three days before it hits the mass media.

- You have back-up plans for your back-up plans.

- You're convinced you've been exposed to so many chem-trails, you
consider it a form of birth control.

- You've ever repressed the urge to bleat "BAAAAAAAAAA" as your
neighbor earnestly asks, "What war? Where?"

- You've ever bought antibiotics for human use through a vet, or
grains for human consumption through a feed store.

- You've got more than one grain mill.

- You've ever wondered how you might filter the used water from your
washing machine to make it fit for human consumption.

- You have a kerosene lamp in every room

- Your living room coffee table is actually a board with pretty cloth
over it to disguise your food storage underneath.

- Your box springs are Rubber Maid containers filled with rice and
beans.

- You save dryer lint to make fire starters.

- Your most commonly-used fuel additive is 'Stabil', instead of
'Gumout'.

- You automatically choose the heavy duty flatbed cart upon entering
Sam's or Costco.


- If you know the shelf life of tuna fish, but don't know how long
you've had an open jar of mayo in the frig.

- Your basement walls are insulated with crates of toilet paper, from
floor to ceiling, all the way around.

- While other people are saving money for new furniture, or vacations,
you are desperately saving to get solar panels put on your house.

- You were excited beyond all reason when they came out with cheddar
cheese in a can.

- You've ever served MREs at a dinner party.

- You can engage in a spirited debate on chemical vs. sawdust toilets
for hours on end.

- You've ever considered digging an escape tunnel from your basement
to the nearest stand of trees.

- You know how to use a vacuum cleaner in reverse to filter air in
your designated bio-chem attack safe room.

- You've ever considered buying an above-ground pool for water storage
purposes.

- You know what things like 'TSHTF', 'BOB' and 'TEOTWAWKI' mean.

- You have different grades of BOB's.

- You know the names, family histories, locations, and degree of
readiness of over a thousand fellow doomers on the net.... but you've
never met your neighbors.

- The best radio in the house is a wind-up.

- You have better items in storage than you use everyday.

- When the SHTF, you would eat better than you eat now.

- Your significant other gave you a sleeping bag rated -15 degrees for
Christmas.... and you were moved beyond words.


- You've sewn secret mini-BOBs into the bottom of your children's
school backpacks.


- Local food pantries have come to depend on donations from your
larder when you rotate stock in the spring and fall.

- You're still using up your Y2K supplies.

- You have enough army surplus equipment to open a store.

- The local army surplus store owner knows you by your first name.

- You fill up when your gas tank is 3/4 full.

- You call Rubber Maid for wholesale prices.

- You have several cases of baby wipes and your kids are all grown.

- Bert from 'Tremors' is your favorite movie character.

- You carry a pocket survival kit, a sturdy folding knife, a SureFire
flashlight and a small concealed handgun on you to church every
Sunday.

- You start panicking when you are down to 50 rolls of toilet paper.

- You keep a small notebook to write down any edible plants you happen
to see along the road.

- You shop yard sales, store sales, and markdown racks for barter
goods for ATSHTF.

- You own a hand-operated clothes washer and a non-electric carpet
sweeper.

- You have at least two of every size of Dutch oven (the ones with the
legs on the bottom), and 20 bags of charcoal, although you have a gas
grill.

- You have rain barrels at each corner of your house, although you
have a city water hookup, and a Big Berkey to purify the water.


- You have sapphire lights, survival whistle, and a Swiss Army knife
on every family member's keychain.

- The people in line at Costco's ask you if you run a store or
restaraunt.

- You require a shovel to rotate all your preps properly.

- You no longer go the the doctor's because you can either fix it
yourself, make it at home, or know and understand the physicians desk
reference better than he does, and can get the goods at the vets or
pet store for MUCH less moolah anyway.

- You know that a 'GPS' has nothing to do with the economy.

- You track your preps on a computer spreadsheet for easy reordering,
but have hardcopies in a 3-ring binder 'just in case'.

- You've thought about where the hordes can be stopped before entering
town.

- You start evaluating people according to 'skill sets'.

- You view the nearest conservation area as a potential grocery store
if TSHTF.

- You know *all* the ways out the building where you work.

- You have enough pasta stockpiled in your basement to carbo-load all
the runners in the New York marathon.

- You know that you have 36 gallons of extra drinking water in the hot
water tank and your 2 toilet tanks.

- You know which bugs are edible.

- You have a handpump on your well.

- You have #10 cans of 'stuff' that the labels fell off of, but you
won't throw it out or open it because it 'may be needed later', even
though you haven't a clue as to the contents.

You know where the best defensive positions and lines of fire are on
your property.

- You've made a range card for your neighborhood.

- Your toenail clipper is a K-BAR.

- The Ranger Handbook is your favorite 'self help' book.

- You've numbered the deer romping in the yard by their order of
consumption.

- You must move 50 cases of food for the plumber to get to that leaky
pipe, but you have your own hand truck in the basement to do it.

- You own more pairs of hiking boots than casual and dress shoes
combined.

- You have more 55gal blue water drums than family members.

 - Your UPS system has more than 6 Deep cycle batteries.

- You have a backup generator for your backup generator, which is a
backup for your solar system.

- You go to McDonalds and ask for one order of fries with 25 packs of
ketchup and mustard.

- You have ever given SPAM as a serious gift.

- You've had your eye out for a good deal for a stainless steel
handgun to conceal in the bottom of the magazine rack next to the toliet.

- You are single male over 40, but you still have an emergency childbirth kit, just in case you have to deal with that possibility.

- You have two water heaters installed in your basement, but one is a
dummy that's been converted to hideaway safe.

- You've made bugout cargo packs for your dogs.

- You have a walking stick with all sorts of gadgets hidden inside.

 - Your koi pond is stocked with catfish.


- As a stand-in scoutmaster, you taught your son's troop to set
mantraps and punji pits, and haven't been asked to stand in since.

- You're on your fifth vaccum sealer, but you keep at least one of the
worn out ones because you can still seal up plastic bags with it.

- You haven't bought dried fruit in years, but you buy fresh bananas,
apples, peaches and pears by the case and have three dehydrators.

- Your UPS man hates you because of all the cases of ammo he's had to
lug from his truck to your front door.

- You have duplicates of all your electronics gear, solar panels and
generator parts in your EMP-shielded fallout shelter.

- You have set aside space for your live chickens in the fallout
shelter.

- When the power goes out in your neighborhood, all the neighbor's
kids come over to your place to watch TV on generator power.

- You must open the door to your pantry *very* carefully for fear of a
canned goods avalanche.

- You have a 'Volcano', you know you can cook anything, and you cast
evil glances at your neighbor's annoying, yappy poodle, muttering
"your day will come, hotdog" under your breath.

 Your basement walls are insulated with crates of toilet paper, from
floor to ceiling, all the way around.

SEE I am not the only one the has eyed the paneling in her basement...along my breezeway 1/2 finished basement..would,nt take much to fill in space there

you know you are a prepper when;

every set of pants come equipped with permant marker to date your preps and exacto knife to always have on hand for those odd jobs(lol..my pockets)

muskrat wrote: I know that I am a prepper when.....I read through that list and at 75% of them applied to me....

Me too. That was a great list. Thanks for posting it.

You know you are a prepper when:

You pass by the shelves in the grocery store (already knowing the expiration dates of all the goods there) checking and waiting to see when they put the next load  up to see if the expiration dates of those are later than the ones you already have stocked...

I am curious to know if the Virginia country ham can be cooked over top a grill. Many thanks!

Femvet,

I'm so sorry about your kitty. I lost my baby to feline leukimia about 6 years ago. The only up side to this is you know to love him as much as you can now, whereas you don't get that with accidents. Just enjoy what time you have left with him. It is now a gift. Jo