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[HoneyBadger]

Never needed to "get her on board" She has always been a gun friendly lady"

My wife is fine with guns and is a decent shot (still working on that!) but she isn't really into prepping or preparedness. The prepping is more what I was asking about, especially because of the time and money involved in properly prepping.

[Omicron]

Speaking of getting people in the right mindset.... I made a HUGE step with my wife today! We had 2 evacuees staying at our house during the Waldo Canyon fire, and they literally just brought sleeping bags for 2 night and 3 days. (I hope it was eye-opening for them too!) They are gone now, but this morning my wife and I were talking about all the fires, the tropical storm in the south, the heatwave in the midwest, and the winds/power outage affecting much of the Northeast, including Washington DC where MSM is reporting that millions of people could be without power for 3-4 days. During all of this, I kind of jokingly said "Gosh, that sounds like a good reason to stock up on rice and bottled water!" and she replied with "yeah no kidding. Wanna pick some up next time you're at Costco?" For a moment I was floored and didn't know what to say, because she has always been very financially insecure and afraid to spend extra money on ANYTHING, let alone food that we don't need for the week. This is great! I just need to be careful not to go overboard or I'll lose her support in this one really quickly.



For you married fellers out there, are your wives totally onboard with your prepping or bug out plans? If so, how did you do it?

For my wife the epiphany came during hurricane Katrina, when New Orleans flooded and society went to shit down there almost overnight. Runs on stores, looting run rampant, police confiscating guns from people just trying to hunker down and protect their property, people forced into evacuation shelters where crime ran rampant, etc. She realized then just how thin and easily broken down our infrastructure is, and got 90% behind prepping. We've been accumulating supplies ever since.
The one thing we try to lean toward accumulating though is stuff we normally use in every day life, so that we're always rotating our stock. Water was an issue until we figured out a system for rotating through that too.

[Great-Kazoo]

My wife is fine with guns and is a decent shot (still working on that!) but she isn't really into prepping or preparedness. The prepping is more what I was asking about, especially because of the time and money involved in properly prepping.

Owning guns is only the start. A lot of S/O's wives etc are "ok" with guns. However, do they have a ccw, carry when out, have a gun close by them in the house etc?? Not many woman are on board ccw wise. Getting them involved with security measures around the house and property, what is their part if someone tried breaking in, are they fully familiar with the gun on hand, do they have more than one as needed? I know a lot of woman who like guns but think my wife is a little over the top. Me i believe she's almost there: but have no doubt she will step up to the plate as needed.)

[Goodburbon]

My wife is almost there as well. She keeps a gun with her, but it's not always in the most well thought out position. She's on board with prepping. I don't know that there was much question about it or convincing, it just happened. I mean honestly, spending an extra 10-20 a week on groceries didn't hurt anything. I'd just ask her to pick up a case of tuna, or a case of beans, or a 25# bag of sugar, flour, rice, salt, etc when she goes to the store. WE started with bare cupboards and had a month's supply of food in short order, and it's just crept up from there, where we were suddenly needing long term storage, more storage space, water, etc.

[Skully]

Do ALL of your friends act like this? And is it when you bring it up in a group setting, or individually? There's a "group think" thing that often happens with people together, where one scoffing can be enough to make them all do it. I'd suggest you bring it up individually, then you're more apt to get a real read on who's with you and who isn't. Those that aren't can be ignored when it comes to prepping, and in fact, I'd never bring it up with them again - as those'll be the guys who'll remember your comments, and want to come mooch off you if SHTF.

For those that you identify that are of a like mind, cultivate them gradually. It may only be one or two at first, but eventually you may develop a network of like-minded individuals, which is more than you have today.

Well a little prequel, 7 years ago when I was single I had my good friends that were into the same things; guns, four wheeling, camping etc. we talked, but nothing serious at the time. Got married, had kids, those friends moved on as well even to different states, now I have little time and my friends now are usually co-workers. I work in Human Services, so most of them are liberals other than my Behavior Analyst friend who is definitely conservative. He hated Obama and got a lot of flak for being in human services and not supporting him.................


I talk to my wife who believes in my ideas and is with me being prepared for anything.

I just need to find time to make new friends in like mind, and go from there. If not, prepare my family and then if SHTF look for you guys........

[Skully]

Owning guns is only the start. A lot of S/O's wives etc are "ok" with guns. However, do they have a ccw, carry when out, have a gun close by them in the house etc?? Not many woman are on board ccw wise. Getting them involved with security measures around the house and property, what is their part if someone tried breaking in, are they fully familiar with the gun on hand, do they have more than one as needed? I know a lot of woman who like guns but think my wife is a little over the top. Me i believe she's almost there: but have no doubt she will step up to the plate as needed.)

My wife shoots minimally but not a lot of experience (she is not very big most of my guns her hands don't fit right.) so I bought her a little Ruger LC9 with laser for home defense or CCW (if she decides to pursue that) for Xmas.

She was telling me that she worries about our little boys and wanted to know what I thought about making sure they will survive and not suffer if there was anything that would happen. We talked about all the options and what my plans/thoughts were. She is pretty confident in my plans in case. So it is nice having her agree and be on the same page, so I guess I am lucky in that factor.

[Sawin]

Well a little prequel, 7 years ago when I was single I had my good friends that were in to the same things; guns four wheeling, camping etc. we talked but nothing serious. Got married, had kids, those friends moved on to different states, now I have little time my friends are usually co-workers. I work in Human Services, so most of them are liberals other than my Behavior Analyst friend who is definitely conservative.


I talk to my wife who believes in my ideas and is with me and being prepared for anything.

I just need to find time to make new friends in like mind, and go from there. If not prepare my family and then if SHTF look for you guys........

Sounds like you and I are pretty much in the same situation. I think we've found a good place to meet helpful folks. Shoot me a PM sometime if you'd like to meet up. I live in Broomfield too.

[Omicron]

Well that IS a form of a start... I've made some good friends here on this site, who clearly are of a like mind. After getting your spouse on board, even one or two other people is a good base to build from.

[Skully]

Sounds like you and I are pretty much in the same situation. I think we've found a good place to meet helpful folks. Shoot me a PM sometime if you'd like to meet up. I live in Broomfield too.

Yeah defiantly, even if we have someone similar to hang out drink a beer and talk crap.

Well that IS a form of a start... I've made some good friends here on this site, who clearly are of a like mind. After getting your spouse on board, even one or two other people is a good base to build from.

Yeah that is how it works, I have found some really cool people on this site and my 4 wheeling sites as well. Just never get to talk or hang out.

[HoneyBadger]

Yeah that is how it works, I have found some really cool people on this site and my 4 wheeling sites as well. Just never get to talk or hang out.

...I wish I had friends....

ETA: Just kidding! HoneyBadger don't care!

well.. I kinda do wish I had friends...