Good on you. Brilliant idea with the “get home” named bag. Whatever works.
No, he really doesn’t shop much. Sometimes for his snacks so he justifies that but he does complain about the prices. Even so, he’s not making the connection. I try to come at it from a natural disaster scenerio (btdt) or financial crisis (there now) but it doesn’t fly. And now he’s found out there’s grab n go goodies in the bag so sneaks them, sigh...
Oh, well. You could just call that *rotation*.
I know when I was being challenged about the amount I was stashing away, not to mention comments about my organizational skills (admittedly needs improvement), I just ignored them and carried on. When things would look better, economically/politically/weather-wise, I would get snarky comments. I think he just thought this was a Y2K sort of thing or some other extreme conspiracy theory. Then, a totally different sort of thing, a local political issue I had been agitating about, became public knowledge. Suddenly, after over a decade, I had people coming up to me or to my husband on the street or in a store saying: “She was right. How did she know that, then?” I think that helped a lot and prompted him to begin his own analysis.
I know there have been a few politically/economically dicey periods in the past 3 years when he went white with shock over something or other and began his own lists of essentials, mostly tools, energy sources, maintenance supplies. Our income slowed down after major investment losses in 08 and then, he had an accident and was out of work for 7 weeks. We are self-employed and this was a major economic hit. The preps came in handy. I think we rotated through the food stores 3x since 2008. We have even more now and are getting well-stocked on energy sources and tools.
So, hang in there and keep on keeping on. You will be vindicated. If we are super fortunate and nothing really happens, outside of a storm or temporary income loss, you can point out how your various purchases were already made for the next 6 months/year. If we are right, your family is prepared for a major disruption and that is the important thing.
Logical males with a strong normalcy bias really need a lot of evidence. I know that I had more free-floating anxiety than my husband did, originally. Prepping, for me, reduces my anxiety. He tends to be confident he can handle any situation as it arises. That has changed, though, as this slow motion train wreck of an economy and an administration has endured.