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I was the person in our household who decided we needed to start ‘prepping’.

My wife was the person who had the far better ideas on what we needed to do to prep (at least in the context of food).

We’ve gone from less than 2 weeks to around 4 months of food in storage, and we eat out of our pantry. If I’d been prepping, we probably would have had a lot more dehydrated food and MRE’s

With the food in the pantry, we’re starting to eat cheaper and healthier.

I’ve been the one putting more thought on how to survive in a single family suburban home when we have no electricity, and no gas for heating. But, without the food knowledge my wife has, we’d be in far worse shape.

My brother-in-law also sees bad times coming. But, he’s stocking up on MREs. On the one hand, that’s so like him, on the other hand, he has a store of not particularly pleasant food that he’ll never eat unless things get really bad, and that’s an extra cost.

We’re eating better, and saving money at the same time (at least on a cost-per-meal basis, we’re spending money on increasing our food stores).

Michael

We also have a house policy – you can’t ever watch a movie until we read the book , assuming, of course, that the movie comes from a decent book.

Sharon

Sharon-”We’ve started a couple lately that haven’t taken – the language of Swiss Family Robinson didn’t do it for them”

I confess- I cheat. I learned to from my mother. My mother was very much into stories and reading to us- taught me how. When I was in High School, she worked as a part time librarian, and she had the children’s story circle. So I got to watch her do that. Rather than use an edited version of a story, she’d do the editing herself, on the fly. The kids stayed fascinated, and she was always pushing the edge of their language. She’d just change a word here and there, to put it within their reach. I do that with Smidgen; and I have the very powerful ability to NOT edit it on the third reading- so now she knows what’s going on in the story, and when I throw the complex language at her- she knows what it means. Most of the “simplified” versions are just yucky to me, drive me crazy.

We also play a game where I change the words- on the 6th reading of Curious George, I started changing everything- “George was an .. elephant.” as we’re looking at the picture of the monkey. “The Man in the Purple Hat.” “The whole bunch of watermelons came loose, and he floated away..” etc. She’ll correct me a couple times- then let me have my way, knowing that I know that SHE knows.

I will most definitely get a copy of the Princess Bride. Smidgen already is familiar with the differences between movies and books- she loves both movie and book for Charlotte’s Web; nary a problem.

“Is there anything more wonderful than getting to pass your beloved books on to your kids?”
It’s really hard to think of anything. When they’re snuggled up on you; and you’ve been reading to them for a half an hour, and they’re kind of sleepy- then they look up at you and make some brilliant observation about the story, and you know they’ve absolutely been following every word…

yep. That’s it.