Top 10 Things to Do to Be Ready for a ROCKY 2024 (According to Josh and Carolyn)

These are the top ten steps we think everyone should take right now to prepare for the future. How many of these prepper fundamentals and skills do you have under your belt?

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[Dangeresque_]

If you watch what folks do and how folks live in places like refugee camps and places that have rolling or long term black outs you can learn a lot. It’s a real reality check. It’s not an exiting survival scenario that’s like camping at home that some folks seem to think the grid going down will be. It’s grinding, incredibly uncomfortable, and very dangerous. People starve, die of simple infections, and suffer a lot of trauma. Pray we DON’T need these things. Support your community, get to know your neighbors. Prepare with extra for others. And don’t let yourself be fear mongered or agitated by propaganda from any side.

[gracechadi]

Thank you for sharing. I read Proverbs 21 today and verse 20 says "The wise store up choice food and olive oil, but fools gulp theirs down."

[sweaterdoll]

Very good list. I would also recommend 
1) prepare for your animals and livestock! With the big freeze we're having all week, I stocked extra water for my chickens in case a pipe bursts. I bought extra heavy duty tarps in case the wind tore the ones keeping the wind out of their pen. Remember your duty to protect all within your care.

2) learning how to live without modern conveniences and communication EMOTIONALLY. Be ready to seamlessly, stresslessly switch to a power (or communication) down situation as in bad winter storms. This is as much an emotional readiness as much as practical. We made sure to have the lanterns we like and a box of homemade shortening candles in wide mouth pint jars which last almost a week each. Emotionally, we just know we don't even have to struggle if the lights go out. We have a system we like. Same with water catchment, food, laundry, etc.

Personally, we have chosen to prepare for problems in power supply by preserving food and heating in ways that don't require electric power. I don't want to have generators that depend on gas I might not be able to get and then lose freezers. Hey, I prefer to live on-grid for convenience, but if it disappeared tomorrow, I know how to live very simply because I was raised by Depression-era people who did just that. And, yes, this is the first year we put in two years of wood. Good idea!

[HomesteadMercantile]

I am so thrilled that you two are coming out and talking about this. I am a prepper for some time now, but many Christians I know won’t prepare bc they say God is gonna take care of them. It’s daunting to try to get them to see the need to prepare. I mean truly God gave us a brain and he expects us to use it. There are warning signs everywhere, just as you mention in this video.
I have had friends tell me they are coming to my house if we have a PHTF situation…if I say to them I am preparing for my family and i have warned them to prepare themselves they get offended!
I wish someone would do a video “directed” to Christians lining prepping up with stories in the bible to get them to see it is biblical! Please consider this idea!
Thank you! BTW, I am local to you and have followed you from a ways back. Appreciate your videos.

[eve_]

For water storage, I’ve heard someone suggest filling all their empty mason jars with water (they take up the same amount of space anyway)

[scarleenswalker]

Just found your YouTube channel. I don’t do Facebook so I’m so glad you’re on YouTube! I love your family, your lifestyle, your strategies….. so comforting. Thanks for bringing joy to my life. I’m 75, an only child, divorced after 46 years of marriage (he’s now married to “her”), and spend a lot of lonely hours. I do have two children, and four grandchildren but they are all so focused on their families, their careers, their lives (which I’m thrilled for) that they don’t have a lot of time for me. Thank you for filling many lonesome hours with wholesome, clean videos. May God continue to bless your home and family!

[sarahanderson]

And I’ll add to the list: if you’re not doing so already you should take your physical health seriously. Chopping firewood and hauling water require a healthy, strong, capable body. I live with my two elderly parents who didn’t take their physical health seriously in their younger years and now they’re extremely vulnerable and 100% dependent on others.

[useupwearout]

13 minutes in...AH HA!! Our Family Motto for 4 Generations now...Use Up, Wear Out, Make Do, or Do Without!! I still pull buttons from worn out shirts (and I cut the shirt up for rags, or rag rugs), good zippers...wash barely used ziploc bags to reuse...This is a long lost "art". Every time you open the trash bin....take a look at it. Does it have another purpose? This was a great video. Thanks!

[dwightrhodes]

I am blessed because I have a mt spring on my property

[ambermarrs]

Everyone needs firewood regardless if you have a fireplace or wood stove the tx snowstorm showed us that...I was cooking over a fire in a galvanized wash tub in the front yard

[nancyhjort]

I buy food in bulk at the restaurant supply store. I came for salt...and the shelf was bare. They are having supply chain issues. I have stocked up after thinking about how vital a nutrient salt is to our animals, and ourselves, taste of food, food preservation, and preventing dehydration. I have been using only baking soda to brush my teeth for 10 years and the hygienist always finds my teeth clean, no cavities, and no change in my gums. Also, salt will be a good trade item when supplies dwindle even more. Another find is a water preserver used by the military called H20 Resq. it contains copper and silver. 1 fl oz treats 55 gallons, or 12 drops per gallon, and maintains water freshness for 5 years. I hope this helps.

[sandraforsythe]

Thanks so much this really helped to support my mindset. I am trying to set up my house with a homestead atmosphere but my husband does not support me. It makes it very difficult emotionally and I feel alone until I watch channels such as you. Makes me sad but I will keep setting up my home with this way for the protection of my family. Proverbs 31 shows me the way to go. Thanks for all you do!

[dr.froghopper]

Gardening, food preservation, sewing, leather work, metal work, brewing, alternative fuels, herbal medicine, first aid….all good things to learn and gain proficiency in.

[twohomesteads]

Stock toothbrushes. You don't need toothpaste. Dry brushing works just fine. Charcoal and baking soda do a great job also.

[CH-zyot]

I have a garden and I'm a weaver. Each year I add a new garden bed to my backyard, working towards growing more of my own.

[alindalt]

"If you live like no one else, you'll be able to one day live like no one else!" Our motto as we scrimped and saved for so many years. We just paid off the home this last Thanksgiving! The greatest blessing that we could ever imagine. Now it is time to save up and save up!! One of our first purchases, after we get things saved up a bit, is to find a wood burning stove for our home. I've been creating a wood pile for some time now... in anticipation of a wood burning stove!!

I agree with all of these... wonderful things to think of. Thank you.

[ZenKode]

i went back to having cookbooks, print recipies, i havent bought bread in over a year now, i bake my own. i do some "practice runs" to make my own soap, toothpaste, deodorant etc...making sure i have all my supplies ready if needed. i now have a binder with all my prepping stuff and much more. no power= no internet or very limited access. i would like to see how you are using your different generators and how it's all lined up! that's where i am at in my prepping! thanks for the info.

[sonrisa]

Super important!!!! Be your own first response! First aid kits and skills to use the stuff!

[moriahlee]

That fire wood stack is blowing my mind!!! Dreams and goals right there. But storing in What I assume is the basement?? How do you keep mice and bugs out of the house? Since I know wood is a wonderful attractant

[MarciPrice-cleq]

Our house was built in 1939, (922 sq ft) electric hadn't been updated since 1981. We did the update, then added a Gentrek whole house power back up, that runs on propane.