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Preparing For Potential Tariffs: Should You Be Stockpiling?

April 15, 2025 By Prepared Mom

Hearing about new tariffs can make people worry about stockpiling. Tariffs are basically taxes on goods brought in from other countries. When tariffs go up, companies often pass that cost to shoppers. This makes items made overseas cost more. It's hard to know exactly which goods or countries will be affected before it's official. But knowing the types of products often hit by … [Read more...] about Preparing For Potential Tariffs: Should You Be Stockpiling?

Preparedness for a disaster makes a lot of sense. With recent and predicted events like Hurricane Sandy, The Colorado Wildfires, Fiscal Cliffs, and rising food and gas costs just in 2012 there is no denying that things are changing in our world. Whether or not you believe "The End of the World As We Know It" is near there are plenty of everyday things to worry about: loss of a job, health emergency, local weather events to name a few.

I find that I worry less about the big "what if's" out there the more emergency planning my family does to deal with the unexpected. I will share the survival tips and tricks I have learned while on this preparedness journey and hope that you join in with lots of comments. We all have a lot to learn from one another.

Now, lets get started prepping! Pick a post and start reading. At the end of every post the blog randomly selects three more survival posts for you to check out. Set aside 10 minutes a day to build your preppers knowledge base. We can never be done learning or prepping, right?