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Prepping for Doomsday: Turning a Profit

By on February 7, 2012 in Ideas

End of the World

ABC News:

The never-ending hysteria over a Doomsday cometh has sparked a growing movement of people called “preppers,” who prepare for the end of the world as we know it — and in some cases, make a profit.

Tim Ralston, a married father of two from Arizona, is one such “prepper.”

“There’s a lot of different things that could happen,” Ralston said. “For me, I look at prepping as kind of like insurance. You have car insurance, health insurance, life insurance.”

Call it Apocalypse insurance. Ralston turned his family’s two-car garage into a staging area. Inside is a trailer, which he keeps packed and ready to go at all times, stockpiles of freeze-dried food, including cartons of canned chicken with a shelf life of 15 years, survival gear, such as a system for purifying polluted water, first aid kits and lots of weapons and ammunition.

Tim Ralston’s website, where he profits from the end of the world, is gearupcenter.com.

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  • http://www.gearupcenter.com Victoria

    …And Gearup employs hundreds of Americans bringing American Made Innovations to market. BTW- The media has an interesting way of spinning positive into negative. Gear UP NOR Mr. Ralston believe the world is going to end anytime soon. They merely want to get the word out to get people to be self-reliant and have some preparations in the event of a crisis- big or small. ABC got it wrong…and you rode their coat tail.