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Originally posted by GypsK
Hope to find some tips here in the survival forum
Here's my sob story:
As most of you here I've been preparing for a possible sit-x. For the last 6 months I've been stacking food and survival equipment, this all without my husband knowing about it. In all this time he hasn't even noticed the water bottles under our bed, he hasn't noticed that all my clothing is hanging in my kid's spare closset and mine is stuffed with food cans. LOL, ok, he's not a stupid man but it is kinda funny when you think about it.
We also have a caravan, kilometers away from town in the middle of the woods, completely isolated... there we have our own water pit and an electric generator. I'ts where I will go when something does happen. (It's where I was preparing to go if this mexican flu should become worst case scenario.)
Now my husband wants to sell our piece of land there...
After a lot of discussion about this I had to tell him why I don't want to sell it, I told him about the food stock under the bed... he didn't believe me at first, but then he went to take a look and all hell broke loose.
So now he thinks I'm crazy...paranoid... overreacting...etc.
Let me tell you that I'm not paranoid n'or a nutcase, I'm a normal person who tends to blend in with the rest perfectly... I just feel much better knowing that I'm at least a bit prepared, because I believe that some day something will happen.
It's my gut feeling that tells me that something will come along, I have catastrophic scenario dreams for years and it keeps my survival instinct on the edge at all times.
But my husband thinks I have some kind of obsessive paranoid disorder. I thought he would just laugh at the whole idea, but he doesn't even think it's a bit funny
SO, my question to the rest of you,
how do you deal with the people around you who think you are nuts for having a healthy survival instinct ?
Originally posted by GypsK
Sorry I haven't replied to anyone the last days
I have some great news, at least it seems great right now untill I have all the details....
My husband made me an offer I don't think I can resist.
We have been discussing the whole caravan matter further, in a civilized way . Yesterday when he came home we sat down and talked. He said he found a nice little cottage-like house for sale, only a few miles from where the caravan is. It's closer to the village though, but that village is nothing i'm worried about, not to many people live there and it has just basic needs, a bank, a couple of stores, a school and a gas station... rather small but enough for all your needs and close enough to do the weekly shopping.
anyway, the house is not to big, about 80m², but all basic comfort: electricity, two bedrooms, nice kitchen and bathroom and storage... it's only been build 10 years ago and just came up for sale...... and lots and lots of ground around it with nothing but trees and nature!!! yay!
He said he wouldn't mind leaving the city and move there, he could use the peace and quiet and he loves the al around vacation feeling.
and: i can do there whatever I want he said: drill a new water pit, plant vegetables, hold chickens, etc... but that would be my responsibility, not his.
So his offer, we sell the caravan and buy the cottage and move in there. We are going to take a look at it after the weekend, I can hardly wait to see it! If it's as good as he says it is I think my mind is made up already!
(maybe I have my hopes up to soon, but I feel like I've got a present from the heavens!)
He still thinks I have some weird ideas but I guess he can live with those
(I suspect he's going to push for the new car he wants now... give and receive *g*)
Now I wonder what the familly is going to think about the whole idea, lol
sorry, I'm so exited about this, just had to share it
Originally posted by GypsK
The big issue is that caravan,
I rather have him trowing away the food then selling my bug out place. And that he thinks is 'overreacting'.
I suspect he's going to push for the new car he wants now... give and receive *g*) Now I wonder what the familly is going to think about the whole idea, lol