Jessie Krebs - Member - The Prepared

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Reply to: Preps of shame? Posted June 8, 2020

My sister, brother-in-law, and their three children came to live with me on my land almost a decade ago, and they were convinced (dreams and such) that the end was near. I let them talk me into buying a couple thousand dollars in various staple foods (mostly rice, beans, and dried fruits). Needless to say, I’m STILL trying to finish it all off. I am amazed at how long some things can store though! I guess everything can be a lesson!

Reply to: Minimizing bug out bag weight Posted June 8, 2020

Hi Camille! I see prepping as a spectrum, with gear on one side and skills on the other. Really the best prepping you can do is learning skills. “The more you know the less you need to carry.” Native peoples didn’t use duct tape or toilet paper and they did just fine. I’m not saying spend years learning how to live in the wilderness in the middle of winter starting out naked with a knife, but there are a lot of things I don’t need to carry or stress about because I know how to make/do what I need without man-made items. I know it’s also much harder to take my skills from me than my gear. I recommend taking some classes from a reputable school that teach how to meet your basic survival needs without selling you a pack full of stuff. Note that there is a significant difference between learning survival skills versus primitive living or homesteading skills too. Many schools don’t make that distinction, but solid homesteading and primitive living skills WILL take you months if not years to learn. Happy prepping!

Reply to: Single female prepper resources? Posted June 8, 2020

Hi Lyn83, I run a wilderness survival school and prefer running women’s classes. There are not nearly as many female survival/prepper oriented types for sure. I’m prior military and SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) and was the only woman in my flight of 30 men for the 4 years I was in. My focus is more survival than prepping per say, but they work hand in hand. I see prepping as a spectrum: gear focused on one end and skills focused on the other. I work heavily on the skills end and teach how to work with what you may find or have with you in an emergency. Beyond classes I run Meetup groups (occasionally now through Zoom) and have one called “Survival Sisters” in Boulder. It’s a free group and we’ll be having a Zoom discussion/analysis of a survival story (about Bram Schaffer’s experience in 1995 in Montana being attacked by a grizzly) this Wednesday from 6-8 pm if you’d care to join us. Just find us on Meetup. I work with The Prepared as well and have some videos on knots and map and compass reading for now. We’ll be adding more later. If you’d like my emailed newsletter which also includes links to other resources just send me an email at [email protected]. I send them out about 4 times per year and you can remove yourself at any time. Do you have any questions about survival skills that I may be able to answer here on the forum?

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Reply to: Preps of shame? Posted June 8, 2020

My sister, brother-in-law, and their three children came to live with me on my land almost a decade ago, and they were convinced (dreams and such) that the end was near. I let them talk me into buying a couple thousand dollars in various staple foods (mostly rice, beans, and dried fruits). Needless to say, I’m STILL trying to finish it all off. I am amazed at how long some things can store though! I guess everything can be a lesson!

Reply to: Minimizing bug out bag weight Posted June 8, 2020

Hi Camille! I see prepping as a spectrum, with gear on one side and skills on the other. Really the best prepping you can do is learning skills. “The more you know the less you need to carry.” Native peoples didn’t use duct tape or toilet paper and they did just fine. I’m not saying spend years learning how to live in the wilderness in the middle of winter starting out naked with a knife, but there are a lot of things I don’t need to carry or stress about because I know how to make/do what I need without man-made items. I know it’s also much harder to take my skills from me than my gear. I recommend taking some classes from a reputable school that teach how to meet your basic survival needs without selling you a pack full of stuff. Note that there is a significant difference between learning survival skills versus primitive living or homesteading skills too. Many schools don’t make that distinction, but solid homesteading and primitive living skills WILL take you months if not years to learn. Happy prepping!

Reply to: Single female prepper resources? Posted June 8, 2020

Hi Lyn83, I run a wilderness survival school and prefer running women’s classes. There are not nearly as many female survival/prepper oriented types for sure. I’m prior military and SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) and was the only woman in my flight of 30 men for the 4 years I was in. My focus is more survival than prepping per say, but they work hand in hand. I see prepping as a spectrum: gear focused on one end and skills focused on the other. I work heavily on the skills end and teach how to work with what you may find or have with you in an emergency. Beyond classes I run Meetup groups (occasionally now through Zoom) and have one called “Survival Sisters” in Boulder. It’s a free group and we’ll be having a Zoom discussion/analysis of a survival story (about Bram Schaffer’s experience in 1995 in Montana being attacked by a grizzly) this Wednesday from 6-8 pm if you’d care to join us. Just find us on Meetup. I work with The Prepared as well and have some videos on knots and map and compass reading for now. We’ll be adding more later. If you’d like my emailed newsletter which also includes links to other resources just send me an email at [email protected]. I send them out about 4 times per year and you can remove yourself at any time. Do you have any questions about survival skills that I may be able to answer here on the forum?