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Doomsday Preppers

DH and I watched this show last night.  It's on Nat Geo These people are definitely a train wreck you can't look away from.

My favorites:

*The lady who has, like, 3 stocked pantries.  She buys eggs in bulk and dips them in mineral oil and supposedly they'll keep for months.  She also dips her cheese in wax to preserve it.   She teaches other people how to be a doomsday prepper.  She and her H routinely wake up in the middle of the night to run end of the world drills.  They've learned some Filipino dialect that only 12 people in the world know and they have learned how to communicate with one another by banging on random appliances and boxes in their home.

*The lady who grows and cans everything and stockpiles it.  She thinks that when the world ends, that everyone is going to be peaceful and nice and share and share alike.  Therefore they do not need weapons.  At the end of the world everyone is going to sit around a fire and sing "Kum-ba-yah".

None of these people have real life jobs(except for the family of 6 or so people...they could spread out the work) and this doomsday prepping takes up HOURS of their days.  And all these people have a specific way/fear on how the world is going to end. 

The best part is they had experts at the end of each segment who graded these people on how well prepared they are the areas they need to work on. And then they followed up to see if the advice was taken.

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  • I'd rather die than live in a world with eggs in oil as my food source.
  • I'm with EDJ.  Really, if it comes down to people hiding in the woods and shooting each other to get the last can of corn...I'd rather not be here.  I plan to be amongst the early deaths.
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  • I know! 

    Oh and the experts also give the 'percentages' of each Doomsday scenario coming true and it's ridiculously low.  So all these people are doing this for nothing. 
  • [QUOTE]The best part is they had experts at the end of each segment who graded these people on how well prepared they are the areas they need to work on. And then they followed up to see if the advice was taken.
    Posted by mrs.conn23[/QUOTE]

    this was my favorite part of idkiwp, too.
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  • So, did one of them have a contraption that allowed them to turn urine into drinking water a la Sheldon from BBT?
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  • i know this is not the point, but mineral oil? why not smoke the eggs and meats? or salt cure? people are stupid.
  • In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_wedding-woes_doomsday-preppers?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:47Discussion:fb38027c-0dcb-4dd6-aa81-36bbbd80712aPost:8fc7080f-029e-412f-9014-eb0e627ba17a">Re: Doomsday Preppers</a>:
    [QUOTE]So, did one of them have a contraption that allowed them to turn urine into drinking water a la Sheldon from BBT?
    Posted by L_Woods[/QUOTE]

    IDK about the urine to water, but I know one had some sort of super filter to purify dirty water. 

    Oh and someone else had some way to make antibiotics.

    I only half paid attention to some of them becuase my eyes kept wanting to roll out of my head at the ridiculousness of it all. 
  • In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_wedding-woes_doomsday-preppers?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special Topic Wedding BoardsForum:47Discussion:fb38027c-0dcb-4dd6-aa81-36bbbd80712aPost:c417d864-e8f7-4508-aa35-a69eac66cbd7">Re: Doomsday Preppers</a>:
    [QUOTE]I'm with EDJ.  Really, if it comes down to people hiding in the woods and shooting each other to get the last can of corn...I'd rather not be here.  I plan to be amongst the early deaths.
    Posted by zsazsa-stl[/QUOTE]

    Not if you would let your H get the deep freeze he has always wanted to stockpile with corn! See! The man is trying to SAVE YOU, zsa. Stop fighting it.
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  • Min, the deep freeze was installed last summer.  It took a $250 visit from an electrician plus the price of the freezer.  H gets giddy every time it is his turn to make dinner and he is able to triumphantly pull a bag of corn out of that thing. 
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  • I must have missed something, but a deep freeze for corn? That man must love him some corn.
  • I love this show. It makes me happy to know there are people out there far far crazier than I am. Although it is sad when they show the families going through drills and such with the kids. Poor kids.
    "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one." ~C.S. Lewis
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