Anybody else a "light" prepper?
I have shelves in the basement full of food and a second fridge/freezer. I keep enough to always make it through a bad storm, I still remember 05 even though I was just a yute, but I'm not preparing for months on end. Mostly just fewer grocery store trips.
Anyway, I set up another shelf today and filled it up. I also filled the back seat of my truck with drinks but that's just because they had a sale. I drink a lot of fluids, more of it should be water out of a nalgene, but that's a problem for different thread. I'll run through it in a couple weeks.
The only difference between you and me is I appear to be older so I've added more shelves than you.
All prepping starts as light prepping. I started stocking buckets after our 3rd child. We both work but are cognizant lost jobs, injuries, sickness and changes beyond our control can happen. Storing more food was a way to try and ensure our children would never know what it was like to be hungry regardless of any difficulties my wife and I might encounter.
Having food is little different than having money in the bank or in the safe as a rainy day fund. The more you have, the less stressful daily life becomes and more options open up for your long term success.
If you don’t have food and live paycheck to paycheck, that is a lot of constant stress to keep your head down and grind life out. I don’t want to grind until I die.