Prepping is Insurance

 By:  Floyd Michael

When our kids first found out that we were "prepping" one of them made a snarky comment disparaging people who were worried about the apocalypse. I explained that we live in California where there are earthquakes, and we should be prepared for those. She then said something to the effect of "What good does it do if there is an earthquake, the house falls on you and you are dead?" How do you argue with that? I explained that it was like having car insurance. You could theoretically go your whole life without getting into a car accident. If you added up all the payments you made you could think that was a lot of wasted money, or you could just be glad that you never had to make a claim. If you did get into a car wreck and were killed then you would not be around to care about getting your car replaced, and again you could think, money down the drain.

People purchase auto insurance in case they are in an accident and do live to need their car repaired. Prepping is similar. We can spend a lot of time, money and effort preparing for a disaster that never comes, or a disaster that comes but you do not survive it. Either way all of your preparation was seemingly for naught. In our family, we don't prepare for either of these extremes, we prepare for the in between. For the disaster that does come, that we do survive. In that instance, our efforts at preparation will definitely be worth the effort, time and money we have put into being prepared. So keep preparing, just in case.