Of all the mistakes you can make as a prepper, which one do you think is the deadliest? A while back, I compiled a list of 20 prepping mistakes. I came up with several on my own, but I also got lots of suggestions from friends and readers.
Some of the ideas included: focusing on supplies instead of skills, not stockpiling enough water, relying on an arsenal, not preparing your family, not field testing your gear, telling everyone that you’re a prepper, not having backup plans, and keeping all your supplies in one place.
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All of these mistakes could be deadly, but incredibly, there is one huge mistake that I completely forgot about. And it’s a mistake that lots of preppers are making: Going it alone.
I’m naturally a very introverted person. I don’t mind spending lots of time alone, and I only have a handful of friends. There’s nothing wrong with that, but I know that when the SHTF, I’ll be much more vulnerable without a support system made up of other preppers. This is why recently I’ve been reaching out to people in my community and trying to make new friends.
I suspect I have a lot of readers are introverts, too. If you think surviving on your own is realistic, I urge you to watch this video by Canadian Prepper. He made the video after reading The 48 Laws Of Power by Robert Greene. Law #18 is, “Do not build a fortress to protect yourself because isolation is dangerous.” Watch the video below to learn more.
Gerrit says
April 21, 2019 at 4:02 amTo me the biggest mistake any one can do, if you are alone or in a group is to stand out. The moment you stand out is also the moment other see you. That is the moment you are a target and then all your prepping means nothing. Every person who don’t have will try and get your stuff. If your neighbor has burglarproof around hie house. Let your burglarproof look more or less the same. It is not the outside that matters, it is the inside that matters. On the inside you can make your house jail proof as long as no one see it. If they don’t know what is inside they will not try to enter and as soon as past the first defense on the outside and see that there are another fence that they did not prepare for they will leave. They want to come in and out as fast as possible.
If someone want to visit have an separate area for them. Don’t show them. If you have to show soeone move all your furniture around that night.
I lived in a 3rd world country. It was a 1st world country some 25 years ago. We are growing to something worst that a 3rd world country. In my country SHTF everyday to someone.
Murray says
March 13, 2019 at 5:08 pmIf your basing this off experience then I would agree, but since there hasn’t been a SHTF moment, no one can determine the 1 Major mistake that will be made by preppers.
There are multiple personalities in this world, some like you, some like me, some like the jones, or the Davis’s’s or w/e. So to make a statement that isn’t supported by anything just doesn’t make sense to me.
If I had my own underground support system, I definitely wouldn’t tell anyone. That just seems like you’re asking for trouble. Because when SHTF, EVERYONE, is going to want to get there. Don’t think that anyone you tell will be polite about waiting until YOU show up, or knocking, or picking a lock, or blowing open a door, or using whatever means available to acces a prepping place. If it comes to the end……people are going to lose their minds.
I’m not trying to make it sound like I know anything, but I do know after being in the Army for 23 years and a Platoon Sergeant for 6, that when things start happening that deal with very high levels of stress, common decency and sense go out the window.
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