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    Post Meet the Prepsters: Inside the World of High-End Apocalypse Gear

    Meet the Prepsters: Inside the World of High-End Apocalypse Gear - Are you willing to pay $500 for bug-out bags with expensive chocolate and hand lotion for the end of the world?


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    It’s an attractive satchel. Cream-colored and expensive looking, the canvas bag’s body stamped in the center with a forest green cross, reminiscent of a first aid symbol on a doctor’s traveling kit. This tote is called the “Prepster Luxe,” and sells exclusively at Pottery Barn for $495 dollars. At first glance, the appearance of a high-priced purse on a high-end home
    furnishing store’s website is no pivot from Pottery Barn’s norm — it is one of the largest e-commerce retailers for upmarket housewares and has upscale products for any upscale room in any upscale home — yet the contents that come with this purse reveal a shift from the retailer’s norm: a roll of duct tape, survival matches, a space blanket, a signal flare, a poncho.

    ‘The Prepster Luxe 3 Day Emergency Bag helps you prepare for unexpected events with its thoughtfully planned and generously stocked kit of survival supplies,” reads Pottery Barn’s sales copy for the bag. “The Preppi 2 Person emergency survival kit is generously stocked with all of the necessary supplies to get through three days following an emergency event.”

    Until recently, preppers have always been seen as a fringe culture, filed in the cultural library somewhere between the Michigan Militia and Duck Dynasty. The image we’re most accustomed to is a macho kind of prepping — clever rednecks who gather guns and ammo and head to the woods to wait out the zombie apocalypse. But the dumpster fire known
    as the year 2020 has brought us face to face with disasters of biblical proportions — pandemics, flooding, fires, hurricanes, droughts — being a daily scenario, with scientists this year pushing the doomsday clock two minutes closer to midnight.

    Young Americans have been raised on tragedy and capitalism, but they’re also coming to terms with the reality that when a natural disaster or a global pandemic strikes, the government isn’t always going to do the right thing; you might have to put together your own emergency bag, or create a company that sells them.


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    Yea, you don't need to spend a lot of money to make a bug-out bag.
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    Apologies to anyone whose nose I may tweak, but if you aren't able to put together your own kit, chances are it's not going to matter where you bought it or what you paid for it, because you won't have a clue how to efficiently use the contents. Common sense doesn't come in a waterproof pouch.
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    Simon Huck did the latter. Two years ago, [Simon Huck,] the successful public relations owner ... (known for his close relationship with the Kardashian family) oscillated from the vast subculture of celebrity and reality shows into the growing market of disaster preparedness. “I had so many friends and family who have been in these emergency situations,” says Huck, the founder and CEO of the emergency preparedness company JUDY, over the phone from his apartment in Manhattan, where he’d been living since the start of the pandemic. “They’d experienced everything from household fires and floods to large scale emergencies, hurricanes, lost their homes. And the common denominator was their fundamental lack of preparedness. No one had a go-bag, a first aid kit. People had a haphazard approach to being prepared. Have you spoken to your husband or wife or kids or partner about an evacuation plan? No one had done that. None of the ground rules of basic emergency preparedness had been met.”

    With this, Huck saw an opportunity and pivoted to create JUDY — its name not an acronym but rather “just a word that sticks.” JUDY’s emergency go-kits are Millennially-stylish, construction-orange bug-out bags with catchy black block lettering. There are five types of bags, costing anywhere from 45 to 250 dollars, ranging in size from a fanny pack to plastic crate. Contents include anything from basic first aid to a 72-hour self-sufficiency kit of a flashlight, duct tape, phone charger, food bars, and a hand-crank radio. Huck employed FEMA associates to help him create a more realistic kit, sans cilantro hair conditioner and bourgeois chocolate bar.
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    I'd be more worried about the zombies.

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