Browsing and googling and jumping from site is to site is most common for me when I am looking for specific information on any topic.  This leads me all over and while I’ve bookmarked a few blogs and information sites on preparedness and homesteading; I am not really spending a lot of time following specific pages and youtube channels.  It’s about the TIME; I just don’t have hours to sit and read and watch with the regularity I would like.  In a way though, I feel like I should make this fit.  It’s almost a prep itself.  Without local support, maybe online is where I need to find my community right now.  Connect with like minded people.  Actually follow a blog/vlog regularly enough to get invested.

There are a few youtube channels that I try to catch up on every few days.  Right now I especially am enjoying MichiganSnowPony.

I check Modern Survival Blog every day.  Typically its just one post each day on various preparedness subjects, and the community of comment leavers often have a lot of good information to supplement the article.  My favorite is the “What Did You Do for Your Preparedness This Week” posted weekly on Saturday.  If I ever had a readership, I would definitely want a post like that.  I look forward to the updates from regular posters and getting ideas for preps that I hadn’t considered.

In the search for that community, I have checkout out a few forums like American Preppers Network and The Survivalist Boards.  One isn’t busy enough, the other is too busy.  And I am not sure they are MY peeps.  I am far too liberal for lots of the vocal posters there.

I don’t know how much faith to put in such things, but online quizzes I have taken peg me as a “Young Outsider” (funny, since I am hardly young), but the description does rather fit me, aside from the age thing.

“This relatively young, largely independent group holds a mix of conservative and liberal views. And while more lean toward the Republican Party than the Democratic Party, Young Outsiders express unfavorable opinions of both major parties. They are skeptical of activist government; a substantial majority views government as wasteful and inefficient. Yet they diverge from the other conservative typology groups  in their strong support for the environment and many liberal social policies.”  And myself, I am in the 33% of “Young Outsiders” that lean more democrat than republican.  Shrug.

Well, that ended up going somewhere I didn’t plan.  Hah.  Just like my life ;)  Mostly I wonder if there are blogs or youtube channels and forums and online chats with people more like me.  I can’t be the only moderately liberal person in the world who thinks being prepared is a good idea?