To paraphrase a once popular country song, I was a prepper before prepping was cool. *laugh* I have just always had that mindset of “two is one and one is none”. A few years ago I tried to impress on some (what I thought was) close friends the importance of prepping and why. Their response was, “Oh, they will never let that happen” or “I’ll worry about that is it happens”. They stopped socializing with us, saying that I was too negative. OK, lesson learned. I keep my mouth shut, even if someone else brings up the subject.
I only trust several close family members and no one else. We might think we have great neighbors and/or close friends to count on when the times are good, but if and when things blow apart we will see a different side of most of them, especially if they know we have something they desperately need and won’t give it to them. Its better they not know what we have. I’m friendly to everyone, but I don’t trust anyone but family.