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caridad
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 Posted - 10/17/2009 : 03:35:49
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top ten reasons people don't store food for emergencies. as recanted by wendy dewitt.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
I've had a request for my
Top 10 Reasons Why I Don't Have My Food Storage.
10. My neighbors have a TWO year supply! No, they don't. They don't have any food. Did you know that 85% of the members of the church don't have any food storage at all? If your idea of food storage is to eat someone else’s food………..this is a really bad plan.
9. I've paid tithing for 20 years...the church can give me a little food. Many members believe that when the times get hard, the church is going to come through like Joseph in Egypt. Absolutely not true. All the church storehouses and welfare farms across the country would only feed 4% of the members of the church. The church has been asking YOU to store food for 75 years. They're NOT storing food for you. Thus, another bad plan.
8. I'm moving in with my children / parents! Really....that’s just a bad plan all by itself. But it points out that most members don't have a year's supply because they're PLANNING on eating someone else's food! Of course, since no one HAS any food, we have yet another bad plan.
7. I have a year's supply...and the bullets to go with it! I've heard time and again, "How dumb is that to go to all the time and expense of getting food...just to have some guy with a gun come and shoot my family to take it away?" Here's a better question. Are you afraid of the guy with the gun? Or are you more afraid of BECOMING the guy with the gun? What would you do if your children were starving to death? Would you lie? Cheat? Steal? Would you shoot your neighbor for his food? I guarantee....if you were watching your child starving to death, you would do anything you had to to keep them alive. If you don't have your year's supply, you are putting yourself in danger of losing not only your temporal salvation, but your spiritual salvation as well.
So far, all the reasons we don't have our food storage involve eating someone else's food. Please, don't put your family's temporal salvation in other people's hands. No one is storing food for you. Not your neighbors, not the government...not even the church.
#6. The boat and the 4 wheelers are taking up all my storage space! (priorities!)
#5. 3 letters....Y2K. Ok, that's 2 letters and a number....but they're always making way too much out of everything! This is never going to happen!” (Every prophecy that has ever been given WILL happen.)
#4. If anything DOES happen, the government will be here within hours! (insert laughter) Did you know the government has been telling us that we need to have food storage? They're actually CALLING it food storage! We now have the government telling us to store food, water, medicines...whatever we will need to be able to stay in our homes for several months.
#3. I can't afford scrap booking AND food storage. The average food storage can cost as little as a dollar a day. We live in the richest society in the history of the world, and while there are cases where money may be a problem, most of the time it is a matter of priorities. We have chosen bigger homes, nicer cars, more tv's, computers, vacations ...everything is more important than our food storage. If I asked, "Who has a cell phone?" most of you would say yes. You pay at least $30 a month to have a cell phone....that's about a dollar a day...the cost of one year's supply of food for your child. Is your cell phone really more important than your child's temporal salvation? You have to make food storage a priority.
2. I'm waiting for the cannery to sell Papa John's dehydrated pizza! Food storage has always had a stigma attached to it. If it's not wheat, beans and powdered milk, it's not food storage. With the system I use, food storage can be sweet and sour chicken, tamale pie, chile and cornbread, beef stew, shepherd's pie, minestrone...even chocolate chip cookies! Your imagination (and your pocketbook) are the only limitations you have.
And the #1 reason why I don't have my year's supply of food? A year?? I thought it was 72 hours!!
You KNOW you should have your food storage. You WANT to have it, but it can be so overwhelming! How much do I buy? Where do I store it? How do I cook it? It seems like an impossible task.... but it's not. It doesn't matter if you use my system or just start buying extra food, the important thing is to do something. Good luck in your efforts! Wendy DeWitt
Posted by Wendy at 8:46 PM 2 comments
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Nickelless
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Posted - 10/17/2009 : 22:53:32
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| Great post, Caridad. I've been going round and round with my mother about her worries that people will think I'm weird if they see the 300 lbs. of rice and beans that she saw in my apartment (which is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of my food suply which nobody else knows I have!) but the fact is that it's just plain irresponsible--or stupid--NOT to prepare, especially during the uncertainty we're living in the midst of right now, right here in the United States. |
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caridad
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Posted - 10/20/2009 : 22:53:16
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| anyone else want to add why people don't prep? |
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caridad
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barrytrot
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Posted - 10/21/2009 : 00:16:32
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I'm not LDS, but I must say I highly respect their stances! Very family, safety, and wisdom oriented!
My Church could learn a thing or two! |
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Copper Catcher
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Posted - 10/21/2009 : 09:26:45
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| One reason not addressed is that so many people live paycheck to paycheck and are in debt up to their eyeballs that they do not put much of anything extra aside. Call it priorities or choices or whatever you want but I bet if you pulled 100 people off the street and locked them up in their house for a month and told them they could not come out until the following month, 90 would be dead. If you turned their water off 100 would be dead. What say you? |
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caridad
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USA
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Posted - 10/22/2009 : 23:42:29
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| very true copper. however, the moment i realized i would lose my job i took every available penny i had and invested in paying storage and stocking up on food and diapers. i knew that umemployment would be hard to get for me. and welfare... is something else. |
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