First off, it’s Tuesday, and on Tuesday my friend Karaboo calls me. She drives from one work location to another and if she times it right, I’m at lunch. Plus, I work from home, of all of us, I’m the only one that doesn’t have someone looking over my shoulder frequently!
I look forward to our Tuesday chats, but today, today shows why we are friends.
She called and I told her that I was catching up on blog reading, and that there are some things that I just shouldn’t read. This is a blog that I just recently started following, so I wasn’t that familiar with it, but I was reading and they had mentioned Doomsday Preppers and a year’s worth of food on hand.
That was all I had to say and Karaboo goes “I think I follow that blog, too!”
Great minds people great minds!
I was kinda freaking out because now I think I need a years supply of food – and as we discussed previously, my dad really does think that hoarding food is a good thing right now because our President is sending our country into a downward spiral. So, between my dad, and now this blog… I was seriously wondering where to put this extra food!
Karaboo and I were talking, and I figured if the Zombie Apocalypse happened, well, Mr. T and I would head over to mom and dad’s (because of the aforementioned fact that dad is hoarding food). So, maybe I don’t need my own stockpile. Maybe.
Who am I kidding? I want this stockpile!
Then Karaboo mentioned that her kids have brought this subject up and asked what they would do and Karaboo told them honestly that she wasn’t worried because odds are, they won’t survive.
Here is another reason why we are good friends: I was silent, I didn’t quite have a response for that, but Karaboo knew that inside my head I was going
WHAT?!?! What do you mean?!? And why would you say that out loud? What?!?
She let me know that if she’s learned anything from The Walking Dead, it’s that out of the billions on Earth, only about 3 dozen survived. Odds are, we won’t be part of that 3 dozen.
Okay, when you put it that way… She’s right. I won’t be a survivor.
I’ve officially decided that I don’t need that food stockpile.
But I won’t turn this down if you want to get me a gift!
If you stockpile food and people are starving, they will just loot your home and leave you for dead anyway. In the end it would be just a waste of time and money…go buy yourself a dress instead! 😉
That’s the best conclusion yet! 🙂 I agree!!
haha Monkey’s dad wants to buy a remote house, bury gold and stockpile food. Far out. I think he must have caught the paranoia from his years living in the states 😉
I’m learning through the blog world that this fear is pretty much only in the states! I had no idea!
Must be a Canadian thing, but I haven’t heard the talk about stockpiling food being a thing up here. As far as surviving goes, I know I won’t – I don’t run, for anything. And running seems to be an important part of Apocalypse survival.
I laughed so hard that I snorted! And the funny thing is, so often the woods of Canada are where everyone down here is going to be running to! 🙂
LOL Well you can have fun in the bush up here. It’s a looooong way from Texas though.
If I thought I would and could make it to you, I would. There is no way tho! Lol. We both know that!
I’m not sure how you’d survive the winter in the bush though….it’s chilly.
good point. I would not survive winter up there!! I would take the zombies over a Canadian winter!
lol, at least the zombies would share body heat.
Hahahahahahahahaha! I have been raised to be a survivor and have been preparing for the inevitable take over by our government since birth. Growing up in the clann stronghold in the woods here in rural Oregon, we fully intend to survive, come hell or high water. Its kind of frightening. Do I really want to survive? I can tell you that after watching The Walking Dead, I have to call the positivity of survival in to question. However, if we are hit with the zombie apocalypse soon, I have enough green beans and sauerkraut to last a lifetime. At least until I’m bitten, and then I’m going to eat my husband’s brains.
Lmbo!! Too funny!! I kept hoping that someone who read my blogs would be intimately familiar with inevitable government takeover!! I’m super happy it’s you, cause now I can report back to my dad when we are canning and he’ll be in hog heaven!
Haha! My dad once tried to give me his plans on a water-tight vessel that we could seal our guns up in and bury in the woods when the government came to take them from us. You are in good hands with me, please let your father know. I will never lead you astray.
Nice! That’s just too awesome!!
Sounds like a good friend! And I’m excited to read her blog 🙂 When I was pregnant with my son, I got really into couponing…around the time that extreme couponing show was on. I got so into it that I built our own little stockpile. My husband LOVED it and I think is a bit disappointed I jumped off of that bandwagon. He’s a bit of a dooms day-er and would love an underground bunker. I feel like I’ve made this comment before on one of your posts. haha, dejavu?
LOL! If you made the comment, then it’s because I’ve mentioned it before! And, considering my dad is a bit like your husband, then I probably have mentioned it more than once! 🙂
I’d love to be an extreme coupon-er. Like, that would be my dream to do that and save all of that money – and I’ve tried, but then something shiny crosses my path and I’m off!
yes, and it takes too much time keeping up with it all. I have way too many blogs to read to spend time clipping coupons. haha!
hahahahahaha! I so totally agree!!
I’m gunna be in trouble that’s for sure. I’m the girl who gets her groceries for dinner the night of. Now my mom on the other hand, maybe much like your dad. She has stock piles of food. Some very questionable.
LOL. I love that everyone is different – is your mom close enough that you guys could head her way and use her stockpile if necessary? Cause that’s totally my plan! I will invade my parents house!
I live in Canada. If there was ever a Zombie outbreak I would grab some arctic survival gear and head north. I figure zombies wouldn’t do well in the snow.
I figure you are correct! If it weren’t so darn cold and snowy and icy up there, I would head that way, too. As it is, I run a better chance of surviving Zombies than I do the cold Canadian weather! 🙂
I worked with a guy many years ago who was a devout Mormon and also a huge conspiracy theorist. During a long road trip one day he shared all the nefarious things that the super powerful handful of people running the world are doing to screw us all over: One world government; all currency devalued to nothing; and so on, and so forth. There were even tales of virgin sacrifices at their once-per-year get together in a super secret location. He also shared that he had a 3 year supply of food and water at home. (I got the sense that this may be a Mormon belief, but it could just be his conspiracy theory driving this one) and also invested all his savings in gold bullion. (That part was definite conspiracy theory.)
Me, I think I’ll just bury myself in a bottle of tequila, eat all the cheesecake my heart desires, have dirty, crazy, raunchy sex and then call it a day.
hahahahahaahaha! I’m right there with your survival plan!! That sounds like the best way to live the last days! 🙂
And what a painful car ride that must have been!!
Painful?…Nah! I was so entertained. The hardest part was trying to keep a straight face, to keep him talking/sharing. If he knew I was making fun of him he never would have shared so much. I kept nodding, looking all serious and shit, and saying things like, “…fascinating!”.
Yes, I am that evil.
hahahahaa – I love it!
I like the survival kit and would gladly take one. All I know is that if anything happens, I’ll be heading for the hills where I can live off the land. Actually, that sounds good even if nothing happens. 🙂
hahahaha, I keep thinking that I’d love to live off the radar, have a solar powered house, collect all my rainfall and reuse it, tend to a massive garden.
Then I remember that I live in an area that only gets like 2′ of rain a year and I can’t live without my internet!
I love that a good portion of your “survival” plan involves heading over to your parents. I was wondering- did you read that in a survival manual or did you come up with that yourself ? 🙂
hehehehehe – totally came up with that one on my own! I’m just that smart – and I’m very familiar with their pantry contents! I plan to pack us up, food and all and head over there first thing! That’s my survival plan. 🙂
My mother has recently started talking about stockpiling as well. It will never happen because she’s more of a purger than a hoarder. The conversation with your friend was hilarious!
It was pretty funny – and it did put my mind at ease. I really did feel better once I realized that the odds of my survival were pretty slim!
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LOL – Don’t think I haven’t considered one of those!!
Besides….if we did actually happen to survive….I’ve never once seen any of the zombies actually eat anything that resembles food we would stockpile anyway. So…we’d just find us some doomsday preppers hoard and hang out there!
Or Walmart….that works too! 🙂
We should band together and live in my Walmart, and all take turns manning the cannon. Walmart has cannons, right?
I think your dad needs to come hang out with my family. He’d fit right in.
Lol- I’ll send him to you! I have told him over and over again that mom is not going to bail him out when the Secret Service shows up. 🙂
Please. What are you going to do just stay in the house with your food for months. No thanks. I say a weeks worth of food is plenty. If things, get so bad, well, there’s always cannibalism. Just kidding. Watch out kids.
Lol! I agree. And as soon as word gets out I have all of that food, well if I survived the initial attack I sure wouldn’t survive everyone coming to get it from me!
I think I wont survive too. I’d be that stupid woman who stops dead in her tracks and just keeps on screaming. LOL
Hahahhahahaha! That’s okay, I’ll be right there with you, my mouth agape and my jaw on the floor!
I would want a little longer than a 3 day survival pack. But this was a great post. So funny. I have a friend like this. We are both a little crazy. I think about these things too. 🙂
PS. I love the walking dead.
LOL, it’s nice to know I’m not the only one! And I think I could find room for several of those 3 day kits! 🙂