The food you purchased will not go to waste, after all you can eat some of it now if you have to. Spending money on preps to the point one is overdrawn is not good for anyone. Is there something that can be returned so that you can have enough cash for gas?

Let this be a lesson learned for both of you (sadly the hard way) that you can turn into a positive. Why not set down and go over what preps you have made together so you know where you are with prepping. You could then make a plan for any future prepping so that neither of you spends money for preps unless you are following the plan and have the cash available to make those purchases. That way you will not purchase things you do not need or become overdrawn because of prepping.

Personally I have a list of specific items to purchase and I know which of several stores has the best buy on those items. I will only buy those items that best meet my needs for the best price when the cash is available. If I find an item on sale I compare it with my list, if it is a better price then I make that purchase only if the funds are available because a sale is not a sale if it leaves me overdrawn and wanting for gas money.

 

Most money problems in a marriage are usually communication problems.

 

Realize that even  if this website never existed, the strong recommendation  to prepare is coming from a Cabinet Official in the Admisnistration- Michael Leavitt.

 

 This website simply helps you prepare more effectively and efficently.   

 

the experts have sounded the alarm to begin preparing Waiting untill news of sustained human to human transmission is going to be too late.

 

I understand your financial concerns few of us on the board are wealthy, were in the same boat as you. One of the untold benefits of prepping is that your grocery bill will go down not up - your more careful with your funds and eventually you only have to buy when something is discounted . For me it cut my monthly bill by 25% so preparing is really financially sound.

 

Only buy what you eat regularlly - just in larger amounts.

 

Have you considered a garage sale to cover the cost of ssome of the things your husband bought? What about working overtime or picking up a part time job for one of you for a short time you would be surprised what a difference that would make in your over all financial picture.

 

Either way you and your hubby need to come to a meeting of the minds and work together. Your lucky that you have a husband that is spending money on proctecting his family instead of on something that benefits him. He sounds like a great guy wish there were more men out there that cared that much about there families

 

You have raised an issue that will effect everyone of us- the economics of any flu pandemic.

 

Just as you have to go to work, sooner or later we will have to go back to our businesses and jobs after a pandemic. And the pandemic could last a long time, wave after wave. We can not, or will not, hunker in the bunker forever.

 

One very effective thing to do is to only eat the flu food and save money. I can assure you he will want to eat fresh food before a week is out and you can save the money. This site stresses eat what you buy and buy what you eat.

 

Money comes and money goes.How you and your husband resolve this is the most important issue.You two need to work together.

 

You can tell your husband that I do not buy any prep items unless I talk it over with my wife FIRST, before I buy,and cost is not really an issue. Communication is the issue.

 

If either of you were injured, and had to pay the $1,000 in medical expenses, you would sacrifice and do so. You can overcome this if you work together.

 

Please let us know how this works out.

My husband isn't on board with prepping but I have been doing it for years for any eventuality that may occur.  He knows that it makes me secure in an unsecure world so he has no complaints.  And, he really likes it when we don't run out of stuff that he likes.     

 

 

I had to prepare without my husband and if you think your fustrated now.  Try preparing without the support of your spouse.  I want your husband.  My husband is fighting me all the way. 

 

We have two kids,  everything in me says get prepared a.s.a.p.  I know your daughter would warn you but, what makes you think that she would be the first to get this vital information.  Remember there are thousands of us looking for this mutation.  The best scientist all over the world are telling us to prepare now. 

 

 To get the money I needed  I took some money from our tax refund.  I had a garage sale, and what didnt sell in the garage sale was someone else treasure on ebay...I made $212.00 so far on ebay.  We also canceled our spring break camping trip. 

Your husband means well... but he really needs to look for the buy 10 jars for $10.00 sales and only buy what you would normally eat in the event God has mercey on us.  

 

I do think this is going to be a recurring issue and I am glad she raised it here.

 

My wife doesn't think much of preparing beyond a week or two for hurricanes, and she is very turf conscious of storing items in the house, in the garage, the attic, the storage room, etc.The problem was not the money, it was lack of communication.

 

Plus she had some very good ideas, and she is right, I would buy another truckload every time I pass a  Sams and store it in semi truck trailers . We compromised at 1 year of food.

 

An old saying, "As God made them, so he matched them" Work as a team.

 

 

ISSUE:   DO NOT PANIC AND OVERSPEND MONEY.

But to discourage anyone from getting any supplies for any kind of emergency is putting them in danger.  And they are doing it for your protection.

However, I am starting to think that you are a troll and don't know anyone on this board, including your "husband".  Just a new troll technique. 

Well done!  Now go somewhere else and get your jollies.  All you have accomplised is to search our heads and hearts to realize that we are doing the right thing.  Thank you.

You said : we are overdrawn until next week.

We need gas money to go to work.

 "is causing arguing and fighting about over spending.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Easter!

God Bless you all

 

 

'nuff said.

 

 

An article on the newspaper's Web site said the document is the first to spell out how the government would detect and respond to a flu outbreak and continue to function through what could be an 18-month crisis capable of killing up to 1.9 million Americans.

The 240-page response plan identifies more than 300 specific tasks for federal agencies, including determining which frontline workers should be vaccinated first and expanding the Internet to accommodate a likely flood of people working from their home computers.

The newspaper said the Treasury Department is poised to sign agreements with other nations to produce currency if U.S. mints cannot operate.

The Pentagon, anticipating difficulties acquiring supplies from the Far East, is considering stockpiling millions of latex gloves.

The article, which was also to appear in the Post's Sunday editions, said the Department of Veterans Affairs has developed a drive-through medical exam to quickly assess patients who suspect they have been infected by the virus.

Bush is expected to approve the plan within a week, the article said.

The White House is eager to show it can manage the medical, security and economic fallout from a major outbreak following its widely criticized to Hurricane Katrina, the Post said. Concern about a possible pandemic has grown with the emergence of the H5N1 avian flu, the most dangerous strain in decades.

Bush is expected to adopt post-Katrina recommendations that a new interagency task force coordinate the federal response and a high-level Disaster Response Group resolve disputes among agencies or states, the newspaper said. Neither entity has been created.

BF is at least as devastating as Katrina but on a world level. All of us here have gaps in our imagination of what something of this magnitude would be like. For starters I would read the Stand by Steven King, I would follow that with Lucifers Hammer, by Niven and Pournelle......... and then get back to me if you have any questions. this is what we are talking about here, in this forum a society changing event. That effects every value, every assumption you may have about how life works and what is valuable. Of course this might be a trivial mater.

 

Your husband only owns a shotgun? He better whip out the plastic because  he is woefully underprepared. Of course this is JMHO..