What is ‘Prepping’? Prepping 101

Prepping is simply about taking proactive steps to self-reliance and preparedness for an uncertain future. This preparedness includes being ready for events including natural disasters, economic instability, or political unrest. These are all things recently witnessed in the United States and various countries across the world. ‘Prepping’ can also focus on structuring your life with a more intentional focus on sustainability. Here at PreppedU we aim to help you LEARN everything you need to know to PREPARE yourself, from understanding its fundamental principles, strategizing survival scenarios, integrating homesteading techniques, and equipping yourself with the right gear to PREVAIL in any situation.

• Prepared Lifestyle

• Fundamentals of Prepping

• Survival and Strategy

• A sustainable Approach to Prepping

• Prepping Gear and Reviews

Prepared Lifestyle

Prepping is not just a set of actions but a lifestyle choice. Integrating these principles into your daily life can lead to a more mindful and prepared existence. Mike Glover with Fieldcraft Survival wrote a great book (available here), Prepared A Manual for Surviving Worst Case Scenarios that details his experiences and lists examples of how you can integrate prepping into your daily life. One key example discussed in the book and many other places is to build a community of like-minded individuals. This allows you a sounding board where you can share experiences and tips, gaining experiences from others to avoid costly mistakes. Building this community also allows you to stay up to date with ever evolving threats and strategies to ensure long term resilience.

Fundamentals of Prepping

Everybody has something to learn. If you’re just starting out then our fundamentals section is going to provide a ton of great information to improve your preparedness. In this section of our educational website we go over how to assess your needs and what are more likely scenarios that you might find yourself in compared to others. We also teach the foundation of prepping focusing on the essentials: water, food, shelter, and security. Many of these concepts are more basic or short term. For the long term solutions and scenario strategies we have another dedicated section with specific information.

Survival and Strategy

This is the section for survival and strategies techniques including: how to formulate a strategy unique to your situation, how you can practice to ensure your plan is as good as it can be, and much more. This section also includes lessons from basic first aid to wilderness survival techniques, acquiring a set of core skills is essential for any prepper. These skills ensure that you can respond effectively to a wide range of scenarios. These scenarios can range from natural disasters, local emergencies, and even large scale events.

A Sustainable Approach to Prepping

Many would say the long term goal of prepping is independence and personal responsibility. This can largely be summarized in the homesteading lifestyle that is regaining popularity. Thus, in this section the focus will be on everything you need to know to get your homestead up and running at a level of sustainability for you and your family. Starting with the basics of growing your own food to managing your resources wisely we use tips and tricks from many successful modern homesteaders.

Prepping Gear & Reviews

Perhaps the most important section is the Gear and Reviews focus of PreppedU. Here we give unbiased input about what gear you should target when trying to prepare for the worst. With a very broad audience there might not always be a one-size fits all approach to these resources, we make sure to keep that in mind as we include everything from budget friendly to premium options depending on the use-case. Of course, much of the time redundancy is key to preparedness and a variety of resources might be necessary to accomplish the goal of preparedness. Therefore with all of our input we try to give the entire picture when providing honest input on the equipment you might end up relying on in the future.