If you’re Not Getting out of Debt, You’re Not a Prepper

In this post we’re going to be discussing a topic that should be extremely important to every prepper. Unfortunately, if the forums and Facebook are any indication of how much importance most preppers put into their finances…well we’ve got a long way to go to truly being prepared as a community.

We’re going to start out first with defining what prepping really is and what it isn’t. Prepping is not buying a bunch of crap, maxing out your credit cards and putting yourself deeper into debt in order to buy that case of mountain house or a that new AR15. This is dumb….i’m sorry, but it is. If you’re charging thousands of dollars on your credit cards, have a battery of firearms, but yet have no savings then you are not a prepper. You’re a sensationalist, and really bad with money.

Being a prepper (and anymore that term is just losing its original meaning) is about being prepared for anything life can throw at you. Today it seems, a lot of preppers have decided they are going to prepare for that one doomsday event that they are SURE is right around the corner. This is not only silly, but is a disservice to yourself, your family and the preparedness community as a whole. Think about it… why would you prepare for an event that has a extremely low statistical likelihood of happening and yet ignore the dozens of things that WILL happen and you WILL have to deal with sooner than later?

Being a prepper…a REAL prepper, means that you’re simply ready to handle anything that life can throw at you on your own, without outside systems of support. That doesn’t mean we completely discount and ignore the possibility of the unlikely events like an EMP, global pandemic or even peak oil…but by simply preparing for one of these huge events and ignoring the rest of life, you’re basically saying “I am prepared for NOTHING except this ONE specific doomsday event!” That just seems kinda ridiculous doesn’t it?

Debt is something that is REAL; it’s affecting you and your family every single day. It’s preventing you from living the life you want to live. It’s preventing you from being as prepared as you want to be. It could be forcing you to stay a slave to a job you hate. Debt ruins marriages, destroys families and in this bloggers, opinion, is as dangerous as cancer. If you are not at least preparing or figuring out a plan to get out of debt, you (I’m sorry to say) are not a prepper… you’re simply a sensationalist.

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