How an Attempted Home Invasion Turned Me into a Prepper

In today’s post we’re going to be discussing something a little more personal to me. Everyone has their story about how they got into prepping and today I wanted to share an incident that occurred several years ago that opened the doors to prepping and helped start me down the road to a preparedness lifestyle.

Before we start, I wanted to throw some numbers out there that will hopefully get you thinking a little more about home security. According to numbers published by the FBI, over 6,000 break-ins occur every single day in America. As we edge our way even closer to economic collapse or any other number of large-scale disasters, that statistic is only going to multiply. It’s important that you take steps now to avoid a potentially deadly home security disaster, before it’s too late.

It really can happen to you

Home security was actually the springboard that brought this author into the preparedness lifestyle to begin with. Several years ago, I was home alone with my two small children. As a newly divorced single dad, these nights were fairly common, and until one November evening, I don’t think I really paid a whole lot of attention to home security. I kind of had the same mindset far too many people today have and thought “It’s not going to happen to me” and was truly ignorant to the idea that someone could quite easily break into my home, whether I was home or not.

I was watching TV, ready to go to bed, when all of a sudden I heard banging on my door… not knocking, Banging. Over a dozen loud thuds on my door and all I could do was sit there, staring literally paralyzed with indecision (and I’ll admit it…fear) on what to do. It was late at night and there was literally no reason why someone should be at my door, let alone banging loudly on it with their fists repeatedly. After about 10 seconds of this, the would-be intruder began trying the door handle attempting to get in.

Thankfully I did at least remember to lock both the door and deadbolt that night, which was good because within a minute of all this starting, the man decided to try to kick down my door. I was able to get over my shock quickly enough to realize that my standard discount door from Lowes was probably not going to hold up against this guy for long. I rushed to the door, grabbing a large kitchen knife and my cell phone along the way, propped my back against the door and pushed on it as hard as I could while trying to call 911 at the same time. All I could think about was my 2 sleeping children (yes surprisingly they slept through the whole ordeal) and how completely helpless I realistically was to defend them if this bad situation turned worse and the guy actually got in….READ THE REST HERE