6 Tips From A Prepper Family
COVID-19 is resulting in too many people buying too many of the wrong products.
My family is a crazy conservative religious family. Never use birth control, think the government is out to get them, type of crazy family. So naturally, they are an extreme prepper family.
They have an entire storage room downstairs filled with food for doomsday and an entire arsenal of guns to match.
Again, crazy stuff. Which is one of the many reasons I am not close to them these days. But regardless, my family has taught me some valuable steps for emergency preparedness.
With all of the panic-buying from the COVID-19 scare, let me tell you: everyone is buying too many of the wrong things.
1. Stop buying 6 months' worth of perishable food
I’ve gone to several grocery stores in the past couple of days and oddly enough, the aisles that are all picked over are not the ones that should be.
The bread, meat, egg, and fruit aisles are practically empty. With the exception of a few chicken gizzards, there is no produce in sight. And while it may make sense to buy a little bit more than you normally would, it doesn’t make sense to buy 6 months' worth of bread. Because bread, eggs, meat, and fruit expire at a pretty quick rate.
