# The ethics of being a "Prepper" or "Stockpiling" supplies **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 1, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ethics-of-being-a-prepper-or-stockpiling-supplies/1022654 "2025-09-01T15:00:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 79
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ethics-of-being-a-prepper-or-stockpiling-supplies/1022654/79 "2025-09-04T02:11:52Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > ISTR that a Doper purchased an acreage a few years ago, and while doing some excavations to remodel outbuildings in one way or another, found assorted caches of 5-gallon buckets which contained a variety of edible and non-food supplies, dated from the late 1990s > [@Echos of Y2K in a hole in my barn](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/echos-of-y2k-in-a-hole-in-my-barn/726625): > > Some of you may recall the first part of this tale, told a few times here in passing over the years. But now the tale has a 2nd, more bizarre part. Back about 1998 or so, the Mrs. and I rented out the old farmhouse (built circa 1850) on our property to a couple in their late 40’s. Let’s call them Mr. and Mrs. Frerint. They were religiously very conservative, suspicious of government, and active in the anti-abortion movement to the extreme. Yet they brought many good qualities as renters. Th… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ethics-of-being-a-prepper-or-stockpiling-supplies/1022654)._