Flavio Goncalves - Member - The Prepared

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Reply to: What triggered you to prep? Posted July 8, 2021

Actually, both side of my family were homesteaders in the Azores, so I grew up considering that making your own wine, making moonshine, grow your crops and kill or fish what you eat were just a normal part of human life, the “US Cavalry” catalogs came later on. Living in the Azores meant hurricanes, tropical storms and earthquakes were usual events, at least a couple of each every year, prepping was normal and helped us when the huge earthquake of 1998 destroyed our house, power lines, water pipes and roads in our island (Fayal) and unlike our neighbours we barely noticed it. I moved to Lisbon in 2002 and remained a refurbished urban prepper up to 2015, when I had a mini-stroke that left me helpless for a few weeks and thought “hell, if I can’t prepare for this, why keep bothering with it?” I resumed prepping in 2019 focusing more on my family than on myself (if a serious stroke hits, they will be better off if we are prepared before hand) more as a hobby and I’m back at full prepping in the city and getting ready to move to a small homestead in the country side since I’m all fed up with city life and working everyday in an office with people I deslike, we are mixing our preparedness and homesteading with a tiny FIRE mindset this time. I’m surprised how popular prepping became in Portugal and Brazil since 2015, I was out for just a few years and I’m meeting a whole new generation of preppers.

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Reply to: What triggered you to prep? Posted July 8, 2021

Actually, both side of my family were homesteaders in the Azores, so I grew up considering that making your own wine, making moonshine, grow your crops and kill or fish what you eat were just a normal part of human life, the “US Cavalry” catalogs came later on. Living in the Azores meant hurricanes, tropical storms and earthquakes were usual events, at least a couple of each every year, prepping was normal and helped us when the huge earthquake of 1998 destroyed our house, power lines, water pipes and roads in our island (Fayal) and unlike our neighbours we barely noticed it. I moved to Lisbon in 2002 and remained a refurbished urban prepper up to 2015, when I had a mini-stroke that left me helpless for a few weeks and thought “hell, if I can’t prepare for this, why keep bothering with it?” I resumed prepping in 2019 focusing more on my family than on myself (if a serious stroke hits, they will be better off if we are prepared before hand) more as a hobby and I’m back at full prepping in the city and getting ready to move to a small homestead in the country side since I’m all fed up with city life and working everyday in an office with people I deslike, we are mixing our preparedness and homesteading with a tiny FIRE mindset this time. I’m surprised how popular prepping became in Portugal and Brazil since 2015, I was out for just a few years and I’m meeting a whole new generation of preppers.