12 Days of Prepper Christmas-Day 11

In a past year, Matt from KY Preppers did a series of posts entitled 12 Days of Prepper Christmas. My thanks to Matt and APN for allowing me to use the title for my own series of posts. I hope that you will find something that will make your own Christmas more fun, frugal, and wonderful!





Hi everyone!! Today's gift idea is (again) one of my favorites! Plus, it's practical now and in an emergency situation. Basically, it's the gift of 'something to do'. In other words, games, puzzles, books! You know, "old-fashioned entertainment" to today's modern kids, because by games I mean board games!





Puzzles are great for the mind, everyone can work on them at once, and they take up ALOT of time! Every Christmas we put one out and it stays out until it's done. People work on it whenever they feel like it!





There are tons of old stand-bys when it comes to games: Monopoly, Backgammon, Scrabble, Yahtzee, MasterMind, Boggle, Battleship, PayDay, Tripoly. The list goes on and on. We've also fallen in love with some 'newer' games such as: Rummy-O, Apples to Apples, Sequence (one of my absolute favorites!), Wits & Wagers (we played this as a family at Thanksgiving), Mad Gab (another family favorite). Games can be hours of family fun now, and a way to have fun and make time pass quickly during a power outage or some other sort of emergency.





Books!! What can I say? I LOVE books! I for one, just can't fall in love with a machine that you load a book on to. My love of books isn't just for the words, but for the case it comes in! I love shelves of books! Anyway, some books that are good ideas for preppers or others are the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Back to Basics by Abigail R. Gehring, a travel Bible, Harvesting the Wild from Backwoods Home Magazine, How To Hide Anything, Making the Best of Basics by James Talmage Stevens (one of APN's sponsors), 101 Things to do 'Till the Revolution, by Claire Wolfe, Living on Less from Mother Earth News. The list could go on and on! And don't forget, if you have a book-lover in your life, they would be happy with any book, whether it was new or used!





Under the reading category, two great gift ideas for preppers/homesteaders are subscriptions to Countryside and Backwoods Home magazines. Please note also, that both of these publications sell wonderful homesteading/prepping books!!





Prep On!
Gen-IL Homesteader

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Prepper Christmas Gifts

I hope you all enjoyed a beautiful Christmas day with those you love. I hope it was peaceful. I'm thankful we had heat and electricity, when so many were without due to storms. Let's not forget that those types of emergencies could happen at any time to any one of us, and that is why we prep.

I was wondering if anyone gave or received any 'prepper' gifts for Christmas this year? Were you inspired by Kentucky Prepper's 12 Days of Prepper Christmas Gifts? Did you have friends or family who wanted prepping help, so you gave them prepper gifts?

We didn't give any prepper gifts to others this year, unless you want to count the candles that were given. (Emergency lighting, right?) But we did give ourselves some prepper gifts. For years, my favorite magazine has been Countryside and Small Stock Journal, and from their bookstore we bought two books: Basic Butchering of Livestock and Game (Would have come in handy when hubby got his first deer over Thanksgiving weekend. Thank God for youtube!), and Herbal Remedy Gardens. I'm really looking forward to all the info that those books will provide.

I also asked hubby for a subscription to another homesteading/prepping magazine called Backwoods Home. Along with that subscription we received a free book entitled Harvesting the Wild, Gathering and Using Food From Nature. I asked for a new canning book by Jackie Clay entitled Growing and Canning Your Own Food (a girl can't have too many canning books/cookbooks, can she?) and with that order we received another free book entitled Starting Over, Chronicles of a Self-Reliant Woman. So, our prepping library grew this Christmas! I'm ready for some good reading, learning, and inspiration in the new year. Remember that if all of your prepper info is on the computer, it will be no good to you if the electricity is out. Print those important pages out, or buy books that have the info you need.

Lastly, hubby got me a surprise gift: a 1925 Victrola, along with a few old records. He laughed and said that it's emergency music!! Gotta love it! We enjoyed listening to some old, fuzzy-sounding waltzes and polkas on it. What a great time!

I'd love to hear about any prepper gifts you gave/received.
Prep on!
Gen--IL Homesteader