water storage?

[rbeau30]

You can store your stuff at my house.


RE: Water. You can look to things that are already available to you. Getting that water from where it is to your stomach and everything in between. (like your hot water heater, toilets, rain barrel (oops don't do that it is illegal). Maybe Look in your neighborhood to see where you can get water (creek, etc) Stor the stuff you would need to render the water safe, it is easier to hide (I mean spread out the preps so it does not look like you are stockpiling stuff.) as well.

Do you have a Water BOB? It is easy to stash somewhere.
https://www.waterbob.com/Welcome.do;...09800AFC857AE2


I like how Irving mentioned the OPSEC portion. My wife is on board with me 120% but... for some reason her co-workers know a little bit too much. With me... It seems that only the preppers around me have found me out (by the way I act and the way I am observant of things around me.)

Do things gradually. What probably happened is that she watched some show like doomsday preppers and say all the idiots on that show and got turned off by all that.

Worst Case Scenario: She doesn't want to live in a world like that right? Well you gotta eat... so it is a win-win either way. I have some of my Wife's most favorite food stored in my preps. Fatten her up a little bit first.

[clodhopper]

opsec is a significant issue. I am much more clear on it than my wife. She tends to blab about things to her family, but they live cross country, so I let it go. My sons are very opsec vigilant, likely because they grew up doing it, so it just seems normal to them. Very few that know me have any idea of my prep nature. The few that do understand opsec and would never reveal it, which is why they were permitted to know, or are members of my "network". My co-workers and neighbors know me as an independent, maybe a bit eccentric, self sufficient, capable individual who just likes to learn new skills. I am fine with that. My neighbor has gotten in the habit of asking what project I am working on today, because it seems I am always doing something different. She once asked if there was anything I didn't know how to do, to which I simply responded "not yet, but I keep looking to find it".

My pop was in the military and got paid once a month when I was small. That was commissary day, when he bought a months worth that had to be carried and stored. Habits die hard. My wife grew up with just the bare minimum in the house, so it took a while to understand the benefits. In the last decade, we have seen several acquaintances lose a job and then lose everything. She tends to see the store more as a means to survive a temporary chasm rather than apocalypse. She also got into hard core couponing, which requires maintaining a store of supplies to work from. She quickly learned the long term savings of buying when the deal is available rather than waiting for the need. That extends to most everything in one way or another. Frugality and what is commonly known as prepping are typically closely aligned.