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Prepping saves you money. Now. Whether there’s disaster or not.
And if there is a disaster it saves big money, and maybe your life.
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Needs repeated.

We are in a rough patch (hopefully light at the end of the tunnel)and I cannot tell you all the times our preps helped us over a period where bills were due before revenue arrived.

Not just a pantry, although that was paramount. We keep propane on hand, plus a device which allows us to fill 1# canisters for space heaters. Premium gasoline with stabilizer. Medications (we buy the 90-day refills). Alternative meds which save Dr. appointments (includes sources for antibiotics). Replacement items like gloves/socks,toothbrushes, etc. Extra glasses. Candles for power outages. Water, ditto.

We have a generator for outages....important in Spring when there is flooding here and we need to use pumps. Keeps the freezer running, too. Bottled water in the freezers.

Know how to repair essential machinery. Know first aid and how to treat relatively small medical emergencies. Pantry should have multiples of basics so you can put together a soup, bread or a casserole even when it is somewhat depleted.

So much more. We never stop learning.

Prepping saves you money. Now. Whether there’s disaster or not.
And if there is a disaster it saves big money, and maybe your life.

We prepped for Y2K, and it wasn't nearly as grim as some had come to believe. And we found that some of our assumptions were unsound, and some of our stocks of supplies were unneeded or overblown. In short, the real events of Y2K made a nice shakedown and test of our plans.

A little more than a year later, on 09 November 2001, airplanes started hitting the World Trade Center. And the Pentagon. And we had our emergency plans and supplies in place, and knew we'd have others alongside us, and reasonably secure refuges from the troubles of that day, and any that might follow on the following days.

So far it has not come to that. But we continue to seek to improve our plans and preps and retailor them to our circumstances as they change. I think we're in pretty fair shape. But it is no time to not continue such preparations.