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I probably should have started this blog with this post, but better late than never.

First, I began couponing. I’ve used coupons on and off since I married. Sometimes the effort was worth it, sometimes it wasn’t. Then I went on a very long hiatus from it as it just wasn’t worth my time. Then one day, I thought that I needed to try it again when I saw friends talking about how much better it had become, and seeing big savings. So I started seeking out couponing blogs and sites to learn how to do it better. So many people were creating some massive stockpiles of absolute junk from it, but I thought how great it would be if I could get a few of the items we use everyday in quanitity to save money in the long run as prices will always go up.

On one particular site that I frequented, there were side discussions on stockpiling with a purpose – and it was so familiar with the way I had begun thinking. In one of the threads, someone mentioned this book.

I read it, and it seriously changed my life and my thought process. I love dystopian literature, so this would’ve been up my alley anyway, but I think because of where I was in my thinking, the timing of this book to hit, and how it really spoke to me, I became, for all intents and purposes, a fledgling prepper.

I’ve now read it or listened to it three times in the last year. I’ve also read other fictional titles in the same vein, but this is, by far, my favorite. I’ll share more of those with you – but that’s another blog post.

And so, here I am, a year later, still not fully prepped, but happy to be on the journey to realizing that we can have a little control over the curveballs life throws at us.