You may be thinking about the need to start preparing for survival, but you might be having a tough time convincing your partner, whether it be spouse, girlfriend, boy friend, or whoever that this is necessary. Here I would like to share some ideas that will help include everyone, even children, in survival preparing, as well as how to Convincing that significant other that it is a necessity.
Convincing The Significant Other
This can be a difficult thing to achieve, but not impossible. Explaining why you either want to, if you are not already preparing, or why you are spending the time and money on supplies, will be the most important.
You may try to explain your reasoning behind your prepping and still get resistance, and statements like nothing is ever going to happen, so you are just wasting time and money when we could be enjoying other things.
They very well could be right. Why are we doing this when there is a big possibility that nothing will ever happen?
We do this for that small chance that something could happen.
If you are not already prepping but thinking about it, or you already do prep, but would like to do more and have that partner that will only allow a small amount of prepping in the home, ask yourself this; if you do all this planning and preparing and nothing happens what do you lose? Nothing but your time and money (and maybe a little closet space). If you do nothing to be prepared and something does happen what do you lose? I will let you answer this one.
You have two choices here. You can prepare for survival, or you can depend on someone else (like the government) for your survival.
Which one are you going to choose?
What to do Next
Now that you have made the decision to start preparing for survival, and you have convinced your partner who still may be reluctant, it is time to start.
This step is not difficult as there are many sites catering to prepping just like this one, with mounds of information that can be overwhelming at times. There are many ideas on what and how you should prepare as well. In my opinion you and only you can decide what is best for your family, but you must understand the concepts as well.
This is why I created this site. I want to share some basic concepts to prepping and what steps you can take to start building your basic survival preps, and once you have the basics you can begin to build from there what you may need.
I am not recommending you go out and build yourself a bunker. What I am simply recommending, is you start small and build from there.
Yes prepping can cost a lot of money and will require some time, but by planning and starting small, it will start to come together. If you are truly set on being able to protect and survive with your family, the time and money will mean nothing to you in the end.
Include Everyone
Once you get going and start to make decisions on the direction you will take, include everyone in the house. This means everyone, even the kids if they are old enough.
What I mean by this is if something does happen everyone will have a role in the household survival. When planning and purchasing prepping items everyone should have a say in these steps if appropriate, and everyone who may be using a piece of gear should know how it works.
With kids, it can be difficult to have them understand what you are doing depending on the ages, so using age appropriate teaching will help. What I mean is to teach in the manner they currently learn. If they learn with games, then use games to engage them with the gear.
A great example of this is when you are going through your equipment in the bug-out-bags (BOB), include the kids with them going through their bag as well (Yes everyone who can carry one should have a BOB). This will be covered in another post.
Including everyone is the easiest way to begin, and continue, to prepare. Making decisions by yourself, and knowing how the gear works will not be beneficial in a survival situation. If you are the only one who knows how to make fire and something happens to where you cannot, who will?
Anyone who is able to practice a skill, or use equipment should be along side you learning as well.
Survival is a group effort, and preparing should be as well.
Everyone is Ready to Start
Going out and buying a bunch of gear maybe where you want to immediately go from here, but don’t. You will need to know what gear is best, as well as what works and what doesn’t. Do your research. Know what natural disasters can occur in your area that might create a situation where you need to rely on your preps for a few days, and get these preps first.
When we plan, it is best to know what can happen and prepare for that first, then build on what could happen.
This is a lifestyle choice of sorts as you will never stop prepping, but you will get to a point where you have what you feel you need and just continue to keep things in working order and practicing skills. This will take time, but persistance pays off.
Go out and start being prepared today!
