I love my CBC, I like to keep up on the news, I still read my artic newpaper each day daily online, current events are a regular topic at our dinner table in my house, most of the time it a very polite thing between hubby and I but there are times where we both get alot more heated on certain subjects.
Dh and I do not always see eye to eye on a few things, we are both active in our own ways, we both vote, (boy do we vote differently and our reason’s for our choices are night and day), we are both active in letting the parties know what we think, DH has even taken a day off work a couple years ago to protest on the hill, it was when the goverment was on hold and his statement was simple, the peaple voted, now get to work!
So it would be safe to say that both of us have been watching the current debt issues in our own country, what has been happening with our largest trading partner just across the border, and for months now, we have been read, watching and listening in regards to what has been happening in Europe..
I am very much a glass is half full kind of gal, I perfer to live my life in the moment when it comes to allowing myself to be happy with all the small things that are excellent in my world, the simple pleasure of a good cuppa, amazing healthy fresh food, the soft silkyness of a hounds ear, the sound of a kitty purring, the glory of a sunrise, a hug from my man.
Having said that, I am the one of the two of us, that is also the most proactive when it comes to preparing for possable coming bad times, I want to enjoy the good times but I was raised in a feast and famine family, my dad worked pipeline (still does) and at our house we were either flush or we were lean, I don’t really remember much middle ground really, and once I got out on my own, there was some very lean times indeed.. So I perfer to be ahead of the game in as many ways as possable, you can’t prepare for everything but you can make choices that will get you ahead of the game most of the time.
My Dh is on board in the sense of owning our own land, growing our own food, preparing for any and all the different things nature can throw your way, snow storms, ice storms. He is on board when it comes to getting ahead of the game because you just never know about a job loss etc
However he is the one in our relationship that is the postive on the world, he thinks that while we “could” have a personal crisis, and or a slow decline in our quality of life, he is not the one that see’s doom around the corner, like I can.. (example, crap honey, do you see that X Y, and Z all lost their rice crop this year.. better buy another 100 pds now before the price goes up).
So when he looked at me and said, honey, run me over where we are at right now in regards to the big picture cuz I think we are going to feel alot of ripples on what is about to happen in Europe over the next months to a few years, I did a double take..hmm, when my Dh asks me to step it up on certain fronts, I will do so..
So how about you and yours? Have you been keeping an eye on the news? Are you trying to add just a little more to your stores, or are you focused on paying off debt? Is the European Debt Crisis something that you have on your personal radar?
Just another Day on the Farm 
You know how I feel about all of this. I’ve had this over-riding sense of dread for the past year and it is only growing. We have an International Economy – the plain fact is that if *one* country tumbles, we all will. There is no stopping this. We are heading for a worldwide decades-long depression that is going to make the Great Depression look like a walk in the park.
We’re plugging away every penny we can so that we can buy our “bug out” property. It’s primitive and remote, just an old hunting camp, really … which means that it’ll be relatively safe in the future.
Every day is just a continuing process of “try to save money, pare down the non-essentials, replace things with human-powered, dry food and put it away, and gather more information.”
Fair enough, you know I think your plan is awesome and that you are on a amazing journey, good luck on that bug out property and each little step add’s up..
It was just interesting to me to have Dh be the one that seems to think that the coming Europe issues are going to really effect Canada in a number of way.. we will see if he is right on some of his thoughts.
I have to admit that for me, I am in fall mode, the pantry is full, the freezers are full, we have added in lots of new things to help this year and I have that “its all coming together for me to head into winter”, its a calming effect for me to be able to see what is put up..
Maybe I should not be in that calm fall mode but i’m there none the less.. Wonder how long it will last.. I say give me a few weeks before my drive really kicks back in.. right now, I just want to prepare for winter
I don’t think that’s uncommon…spouses starting off on different pages, you know? My man thought I was just plain neurotic when I started on this path. He never stood in my way, but he didn’t see the necessity of it either. But things have changed a lot in the past 3 or 4 years and now we’re pretty much on the same page.
To be honest, I don’t follow the European debt crisis too closely; mainly because I don’t entirely understand the relationship between the countries and the governing system they have set up. I don’t have my head in the sand, but I don’t dwell on it either. I agree, though, with CD…when one falls, we all fall. I try to keep a close eye on the politics and economics going on in the US…especially when it comes to the blatant stomping of the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Amendments that the current administration is enjoying. Come on, November 2012.
Hi Andrea,
I think you are right, its is normal here to be walking the same path with my Dh but perhaps not at the same pace. I think that because Canada is more of a export to a point country, perhaps our news carries more on what is happening in the world, I know that there have been times when talking to friends in the States over the years that we will have things in our news weeks to even months faster then when that same news makes it to the radar in the states.
I hear you on all the things going on in the states, as our countries biggest trading partner, its fair to say that we do hear alot of about what is happening in your country up here as well.
A friend and I were just talking about this the other day – it floors me that so many people have no clue about what is going on in the world. But, having said that, once you get away from the CBC on the radio you hear very little current events, other than Lady Gaga didn’t wear pants again. I’ve stepped up some of my “prep” activities if you want to call them that, but I’m aiming for long-term sustainability. When it dawned on me that an economy based on growth can’t last forever is when I started taking steps to live like my grandparents did, so the debt crisis doesn’t surprise or shock me. I think there are going to be a lot of Canadians get a rude awakening, though. We’ve been so sheltered (luckily) here from the troubles in the world that it’s not on a lot of peoples’ radar.
As for the differences between me and the hubs, I am totally the prep person although he has come a long way. Just the other day he asked how much peanut butter we have socked away, and last night he asked if we need to smoke and dry more peppers. I don’t think he realizes how much 9 years of being married to me has changed him (*insert evil laugh*) 🙂
LOL @ Lady Gaga didn’t wear pants again….sad but true.
Hi Daisy, I hear you, I find its amazing how most folks either don’t have any clue to the current events or they do and they are CBC listens. I get you on the words, I didn’t know I was a prepper either till last year, I was just raised to “put up” and we have spent years working towards long term self-sustainability is a great way to say it!
I wanted to honor and keep the information that had been passed down the generation in my family and to have much more control over what I eat and how its raised be it in the garden, or on the hoof etc.
Ya, Dh has come a LONG Way since I meet him, he was wonderful when I meet him but we have grown together in so many ways, and he just amazes me some times at the man he has become!