So glad you are back! Missed you :) I love your sense of organization and kit building.We need more positive channels like yours. I HATE fear porn and I am sad that so many prepping channels have went that direction. I was also sad that so many TH-cam viewers viewed these videos and often went down the conspiracy rabbit holes. We need to have channels that celebrate the joy in life while preparing for the unexpected as best as we can.
Hey PP! It's really good to hear from you. I've missed you too. I plan on "celebrating the joy in life" as you do with my videos. Looking forward to working together more in 2023.
100% on the fear porn. Cough Canadian cough. Beyond the nonsense, it leads to people making poor financial decisions and eventually may well lead to worse preparedness as none of the previous 6000 apocalypses predicted in any given year don’t come to fruition.
I have missed your channel because you are one of the only ones who stay away from the “fear porn”. You are a class act. Hope to see you back, but understand you must do what is best for you. I will continue to go back to your old videos for reference! 😊Wish you all the best.
Sure miss your videos. Probably not your typical audience, I'm 60ish, and a widow. Your lists and calm straightforward approach has been a big help. Thank you.
I miss the "nerdy" prepping. You are one of the preppers that got me started in prepping and got me preparing for different scenarios. I am even prepared at work thanks to you. I am not a fan of how the prepping channels have evolved... But it is what it is.
I always appreciated your common sense way of prepping! You’ve helped me more than anyone trying to do “analysis”. Nobody can predict the future. That’s what prepping is all about! Thank you for what you’ve done for the community
Glad to hear about your adventures away from TH-cam. You're what inspired me to create my own channel and it was a BLAST to collaborate with you as well! We're always going to support you, no need to apologize to us, Preppers know family comes first. Stay safe out there TUP!
We have to be careful we don't let prepping become counterintuitive, where feeling compelled to prepare to stay alive actually takes over our life itself. Good to see you again and glad you are in a better space :)
You do you. Those of us who get you will continue to watch and learn from you. I've missed your how to videos as I live in the PNW also and they have been helpful.
Great to see you Cliff. Glad you were able to step back and focus on family and your mental well being. If you want to make videos just do what you're interested in, your enthusiasm will naturally inspire others. Have always appreciated your perspective and calm balance. You are certainly appreciated. God bless you and your family in whatever you decide to do.
Hey Cliff I appreciate you. Yours was the very first prepper channel I started watching; I'll never be a wilderness person and urban prepping totally speaks to me. And I LOVE your color coding ideas. That's how I got started with my preps
Honestly... The fear porn is the reason i stopped watching most prepper channels. It got to a point that when i saw new uploads from these creators i rolled my eyes.
yeah I've unsubscribed from all other preppers (Nate went first. he should be ashamed of some of his videos and the clickbait... as TUP said it feels sleazy)
I’ve learned so much from the content you’ve made for us all. I totally understand the need to unplug and focus on family. If you make more videos I’ll be happy to see them. If you find you’re too busy with other things I’ll be happy for you that you’re out living your best life. Much appreciation for the fun content you’ve already put out.
The planning/organizing video that you did as a collab for 30 days of preparedness had been an inspiration to me. It is a goal I’ve yet to achieve. I’m into nerdy PDFs.
Cliff glad to see you again. I love your videos and information you talk about. I know exactly what you mean. I have been feeling the fear big time. I know I need to step away and take a break. I prep but I don’t need to consume the fear 24/7. It’s so you you could take the break and actually talk about it. You saying how you felt and needed a break was really good to hear. I feel that will help a lot. Thank you. Take care and I look forward to watching your videos and less of the fear I feel I have to check in on daily which I have been doing. If we do what we need to do to prepare and get organise that’s great and that’s all we can do. ❤
I loved your color coded pantry video. I tried it right away and it's the only pantry organizing that's worked for me, still going without an issue. So thank you so much!
Glad you are ok Cliff. Great to see you back, I’ve missed your videos. A true foundation of this topic online. I’ve learnt a lot from you over the years. 👍🏻👍🏻
So Happy your back!!!!! I totally relate to all you said in this video. I'm so glad you took time out for your mental health and your family. Both are very important. I don't watch the news anymore, I read it. It seems to not stress me out as much. I have encouraged all my family and friends to watch your videos since I started watching. 100% of them are now prepping. That's all because of you!! Thank You! Many other channels are so fear based that it turns people off. I can't tell you how much you've helped me just from the fact my family and friends are prepping now. I tend to want to take care of people so I worry when they are not prepared but now they are taking care of themselves so I don't worry about them. Yay!! Mrs Urban Prepper!!! Maybe she could do some videos with you?!! There are so few woman Preppers making videos. Would Love to see some Woman/Mom EDC video's. Some Video Ideas: I would love to see a video of why you have different phones and what kind you have. Altoids kits for kids. You inspired me to make Altoids 1st aid kits for the car for all my family this last Christmas. They LOVED them! Again, Thank You! Maybe a live stream of you and your wife talking about prepping as a couple. It might help those of us who have reluctant spouses. Flying/traveling with preps on vacation or for work. I love the idea of live stream interviews! Live stream on any topic is fun and informative!! And best of all it's less work for you. As many people have said, It's great to see you!
Hey Cliff, great to see you back & thanks for the updates. We always enjoyed your channel & still use many of the elements we learned from your channel. Well done for making the choices you needed to make to stay true to yourself. Much respect, sir. 🤘😎
Cliff! Hello!! So glad to hear from you and that you are doing well! I have missed your videos and the organization pdfs. Would never done a bug out bag without such a great list. Thank you taking care of your self and doing some self care. I have rewatched so many of your videos but it’s nice to see you are still at it. All the best from California.
Your channel is the best channel. No fear mongering just informative videos that helped me the most of all the videos. The edc of night stand is one of my favorites
I have a lot of respect for you putting family and personal peace first as well as feeling unethical profiting off disasters and fear. I hope you can also feel good that your content has prevented some of this suffering by helping people take action to prepare in reasonable ways. Thanks!
You are awesome Cliff. Glad to see ya back and I agree with you 100% on the shift in the community post covid/🇺🇦 . I have taken a huge break from watching any prepping videos as well just because it began just causing extra stress and anxiety. It was disappointing to see great thoughtful channels just turn into current events fear porn. Your positivity and relaxing nature in this channel was always my favorite. Huge respect for speaking up honestly about where you've been. Things still aren't amazing, but we're in a better place than we were, and I'm happy for that 🍻 Cheers!
Your videos are just right the way you do them. Don't worry about analytics or what other people are doing on their channels. I always appreciate your videos, and I miss them! I would love a centralized place to get all of the PDFs.
Dude glad to see ur back,love ur channel…ur channel and maybe like two or three other channels I still watch regularly,I got rid of the fear porn people..thanks for staying true
TUP, you haven't missed much since you've been gone. Lots of channels now are just a guy sitting in his car talking about the end of the world or his secret contact gave him top secret information. You and City Prep are the best channels on YT‼️‼️🙏👍
@@TheUrbanPrepper glad to see you back Cliff! What I noticed is that the more mainstream channels are mostly about fear mongering click baity titles and regurgitating recurring small threats that supposedly would be the end of the world. I've not yet finished watching this video but I sincerely hope you will get back with low quantity but high value videos with a lot of organizing, charts and manuals. I hope you and your family are well! Cheers from the Netherlands.
I am glad to see you back. Miss your educational videos. I love the organizational videos. I still use your pdfs and ideas. Take care and thank you for reminding us we all need balance.
I'm glad you took the time to take care of yourself. I'm glad you are back though. I used to subscribe to about a half dozen prepper channels but pretty much cut that down to you. I'd love to see you refresh or continue the car prep series and anything about organizing your preps!
Cliff yes we love your channel. Learning prepping stuff with great ideas without news, being scared. Great to prepare for all things besides wars and countries not being civil to each other. Nz has just had a worst cyclone we have even had in our history. Learning great skills is so good to have 😊
Your channels have always been an icon and leader upon which all the others were formed. Legendary. Love your channels. Still the best and still relevant
Love your stuff Cliff. Every holiday season I put out the TUP family card in haz-mat suits.. and I laugh every time I do it. Videos were all very relevant from what to do/have if you're in an office building that has an emergency to carrying a sillcock key which I do to this day when I'm in the city. Thanks for the laughs and great information, hope there's more to come.
👋😁Hey nice to see you! Yeah I kind just did the same on my channel recently. I've taken a break, not sure if I'll come back. It's tough sometimes putting out content you hope people will enjoy and trying to keep up with changes and stay relevant but also ahead of the curve. Stay safe man😎👍
I am so glad too see you here again. We missed you and we completely understand. The most important thing everyone has to remember is that you need to keep living your everyday life. No one is absolutely 100% prepared. All we can do is our best. There are still countless amounts of good people in the world that outweigh the bad. And we're going to be alright.
You started me off prepping, maybe ten years ago now. Before I had children. Your channel is always the best. No fear, very achievable and non threatening for me as a woman in particular. Hope you keep it up!
I miss all of those organization videos and the pdfs. I really enjoyed the Home Prepping System you created. That helped me get started on my own home preps.
Hi, Cliff! Glad you're still around! I always found your ideas well thought out and your videos very well done! Hope you're not totally finished with all that!
I missed the live stream. But it is great to see you back. I guessed that you didn't want to do the fearmonger videos like so many others have. Your style and mindset is refreshing and has been missed. I feel like the straight prepping (not current events) videos are every bit as relevant now. Things are more dangerous now and it seems like there is a new emergency every week. I have had to completely stop watching some of the other guys. I miss your videos and spreadsheets! And I am all in for the garage sale and meetup. I'm in Tacoma and work in Seattle. So I always hope to run into you sometime.
I unsubbed from all the fearp0rn prepper channels during 2022 so I could focus on 'doing the things', not freaking out about stuff I can't control. Totally understand you needing to take time out to take care of family & work. You and Cascadia Dispatch were two of the few I kept and I appreciated hearing your steady-state, upbeat voices amongst the craziness. Looking forward to seeing the new videos you have lined up. Welcome back! BTW I loved your mini Altoids kit video. I made two different ones that I carry as part of my EDC.
Casey and I have a blast together. It's all smiles. Yeah, I didn't unsub, but I ended up dropping from YT all together. I'm looking forward to producing new content in 2023 that is upbeat, void of fear, and full of nerdiness!
I feel and understand everything you have just said. Your videos are and always will be the best of the best. Stay real, be the ultimate family man, continue to protect those close to you and only make videos when you feel the time is right. Thank you for all that you do.
While I miss all your EDC and prepping videos and reviews ( you are meticulous and really thorough) and I have gleaned a lot information…I am glad you are putting family first. I know exactly how you feel…prepping was overwhelming me (fear, doom, and gloom). While I still prep…I have completely changed my thoughts on gloom and doom prepping and focused more on family. We still garden and can a lot of our food, we do mostly for grown kids and family’s. Love your content and look forward to anything you put out for everyone. I love the nerdy content. 😅
I totally missed the livestream but most importantly I missed YOU!! I noticed you were gone and didn’t wanna bug ya, just thought you needed time away and I totally get that. I love your brand and I hate how this space kind of makes you feel pressured to go one way or another in the prepping world. I hate the fear porn too. We can still be prepared and talk about news but man, no need for the fear porn. You’re awesome and keep being you! Missed you!!!
TUP, I'm glad you're back here. Between you and Chris @ City Prepping, I like your style and peaceful presentation of Prepping as a personal need, not an impending crisis. I used to live in WA and moved away due to the politics and direction of the West Coast. Hope all is well and please bring content back. Be you and continue to put your heart as you always do, into it.
I get it and I respect you more for not doing more videos. I see all the "fear porn" and dislike it immensely. Being prepared is a mindset, we cannot control what happens in the world whether it be natural or man made and folks trading on the topics like preparedness and edc is a turn off. I think it is important to live in the moment, glad you were redirect that energy back into your family. Glad you checked in on this channel, I was wondering a couple of weeks ago what happened to you.
Please do the videos! I love you're developer touch on prepping. For me you are the prepper with labels and the one with AGILE organization. Great videos! From Romania lots of applause!
Love that. you are NOT a fear prepper. I love your style and the organization. That's what I love about your channel. Family should always come first! Good for you.
Hubby and I enjoy the vein in which you chose and in which you continue: the straightforward, mature, educated, clean-to-the-core, solid-as-a-rock, and always helpful topics doused with humor here and there…..are the best. Good on you for picking up where you left off. 😊 And…..if you’re ever on The Other Coast….please bring your color stickers and charts and methods and use my food storage room as how NOT to arrange. 😂 Bless you and yours.
I just want to comment on a few parts of the first 15 minutes of this video. You mentioned a video "fell on his face" oh, I remember that video and it was done very well but here's the thing.. I've noticed a lot of TH-cam content makers seemed to blame the video they made and all their hard work or themselves for a video not doing well in getting lots of used or lots of likes whatever metric they measure it by. But that is not the case! Many times people are distracted by world events or something going on on a weekend or possibly a competing TH-cam channel or even this guy who work for TH-cam named Al Go-rhythms and any of those or a combination of those can make a great video and all your hard work seem not to pay off. But it's just like doing great work at a job and not being noticed for it and other times you get noticed for things that you don't work hard on. There's just such a randomness to what becomes a hit/popular that I wish all TH-cam content makers would realize that they should never blame themselves. Just try to do good content and move on. My last thought is that from what you've explained it sounds like you made the exact right decision, both for you and for your viewers. We were all getting Overexposed to the fear push in the mainstream media and everywhere else. Thank you for not making videos when you didn't think it was right for you at that time. We all know that fear based news gets the attention more than helpful tips, even though we all wish that wasn't true. So thank you for what you did before and thank you for not making videos and thank you for coming and explaining your choice. You did the right thing.
Thank you so much for the detailed comment! Yeah, the TH-cam Studio Dashboard can really make you question yourself when it talks about how a certain video is not popular with your audience. I'm just going to stop looking at things like that.
Thank you, Cliff, for not being sensational. Yes, this world is in a mess and probably will get much worse, but I relate to you more than many others. I'm in Key Largo FL so naturally, I have a Class A Rv for evacuations. I'm a strong 68 yr young woman, and I'm the driver of that rv. Living mostly in cities, I easily gravitated towards your cite. Your a great guy
Good to hear from you again Cliff. I have missed your goodnatured videos about what can happens in real life. like fires, floods and earthquakes, and all your EDC videos. I also like that your channel is not a gunshow, it is fitting for us who living in countries where guns are not so easy to own.
Thank you for this video... i thought the algorithm was hiding your videos.. I am so glad you spoke about the fear gate that over took the web. It made me tap out of watching the videos. Hope you are thriving with your family!
Nice to see you again. You are one of the first prepper channels that got me more serious for survival. I'm one of those that have become very fearful of a ww3 coming soon. Although I'm considerably poor, I have thousands of dollars on prepping I wonder if I'm crazy and why some people aren't worried at all. I hope to see you make some new videos soon. Thank you
Video idea: Family financial and "end of life" planning. Not a sexy topic AT ALL, but vitally important. I think your analytical and organizational mind would thrive there. My wife finally talked about getting life insurance with me today. I ended up showing her a 7 page document with all my passwords, logins and lists of all my investments. She didn't even know about a half dozen accounts I own that hold crypto, real estate, foreign currency, and bullion. If I died yesterday that money probably would've been lost to the void. Now she has at least a basic idea of what to do, and where to look if I don't come home one day.
This is what they call a Digital CLEANSE. I'm glad you're feeling better. I have to say it: I HATE the 'Current Events' fear-orn genre. I watch prepping and homesteading channels because I want to LEARN about prepping and homesteading. I want to see preppers teaching about how they prep and what they do with what they have and what they have and how to use them and what they plan to do with them etc. I've learned about EDC gear, BOB gear, and the differences between GHB and INCH bag and their philosophies. I'm learning about pantry organization and stocking up and rotation. (I need more PDFs!) I feel like I still have much more to learn... but because of the current-events-fear-porn TREND, I've run out of real teachers. (Including some of the guys I've counted on for rational sanity, such as City Prepping.) IF you have a whole new system of organization, I want to hear about it so I can decide if I want to learn about that. Does this work in conjunction with the Colors of Prepping? Is it a new-and-improved CoP system? Or totally new and different? You got a lotta esplainin' to do. I'll add on to your list of video ideas. Now that your wife is canning... you've got to design and build a new set of pantry shelves, with an eye toward (a) fitting canning jars neatly... (b) easy Inventory... and (c) EASY FIFO food rotation. AND make the Wife happy. LOL I'm looking forward to that video.
By the way, my Mother was a prepper. She was a farmer, knew how to buther a hog, can food, grow a garden, milk cows---manually. Etc. Had all her 6 kids at home in the same bed naturally. Yes she survived the Great Depression
I've unsubscribed from a number of preparedness channels because I can't stand all of the we're-all-gonna-die, prep-now-prep-now-prep-now, buy-it-all-before-it's-gone, doom and gloom stuff. For the channels that I'm still subscribed to, I skip those type of videos whenever they're posted. Give me reviews of actual items, how-tos for organization or gardening or power systems. Basically, things that I can actually apply, rather than trying to scare me about the world, followed with generic platitudes about how everyone needs to prep. That was one of the reasons that I liked your channel. you give actual examples of things, funny or serious, rather than just telling us that the sky is falling!
Glad that you are doing ok...... missed you. I love the way you do and have done your channel! I liked your attention to detail and organization skills..... yes, some would say your CDO---- [gotta have it in alphabetical order. ;] I am and have been well pleased with your LACK of fear porn..... Many of the other channels that went the way of FEAR PORN I have lost interest in.... I am also of the opinion that most of your stuff is EVER GREEN, good basic information. FAMILY time does have to come first... PS I started prepping in the 70s and teaching it while in the military up to now..... I typically DO get some modern ideas from you and at least another prospective on things...... KEEP keeping it REAL..... THX for what you do
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So glad you are back! Missed you :) I love your sense of organization and kit building.We need more positive channels like yours. I HATE fear porn and I am sad that so many prepping channels have went that direction. I was also sad that so many TH-cam viewers viewed these videos and often went down the conspiracy rabbit holes. We need to have channels that celebrate the joy in life while preparing for the unexpected as best as we can.
Hey PP! It's really good to hear from you. I've missed you too. I plan on "celebrating the joy in life" as you do with my videos. Looking forward to working together more in 2023.
Well said! Couldn't agree more 🙂👍
100% on the fear porn. Cough Canadian cough.
Beyond the nonsense, it leads to people making poor financial decisions and eventually may well lead to worse preparedness as none of the previous 6000 apocalypses predicted in any given year don’t come to fruition.
What conspiracy?
I have missed your channel because you are one of the only ones who stay away from the “fear porn”. You are a class act. Hope to see you back, but understand you must do what is best for you. I will continue to go back to your old videos for reference! 😊Wish you all the best.
Sure miss your videos. Probably not your typical audience, I'm 60ish, and a widow. Your lists and calm straightforward approach has been a big help. Thank you.
My wife thinks I’m a big nerd because of you, but appreciates when I’m prepared. You’re the best!
I miss the "nerdy" prepping. You are one of the preppers that got me started in prepping and got me preparing for different scenarios. I am even prepared at work thanks to you.
I am not a fan of how the prepping channels have evolved... But it is what it is.
I always appreciated your common sense way of prepping! You’ve helped me more than anyone trying to do “analysis”. Nobody can predict the future. That’s what prepping is all about! Thank you for what you’ve done for the community
So good to see you Cliff. God Bless you Brother...
Glad to hear about your adventures away from TH-cam. You're what inspired me to create my own channel and it was a BLAST to collaborate with you as well! We're always going to support you, no need to apologize to us, Preppers know family comes first. Stay safe out there TUP!
Saw both of those livestreams, would love to see you guys live again, good energy! 😊
We have to be careful we don't let prepping become counterintuitive, where feeling compelled to prepare to stay alive actually takes over our life itself. Good to see you again and glad you are in a better space :)
You do you. Those of us who get you will continue to watch and learn from you. I've missed your how to videos as I live in the PNW also and they have been helpful.
Great to see you Cliff.
Glad you were able to step back and focus on family and your mental well being.
If you want to make videos just do what you're interested in, your enthusiasm will naturally inspire others.
Have always appreciated your perspective and calm balance.
You are certainly appreciated.
God bless you and your family in whatever you decide to do.
Thank you SO much, Rick! I really appreciate your support.
Hey Cliff
I appreciate you. Yours was the very first prepper channel I started watching; I'll never be a wilderness person and urban prepping totally speaks to me. And I LOVE your color coding ideas. That's how I got started with my preps
You inspired me and guided me with your lists to create "go bags" for each of my family members...which they still have! Many thanks.
Good to see you are back and healthy.
Wishing you and your family all the best.
I love and use your pantry organization!!! We need you back doing practical preparedness!!! Glad to see you!
I have a lot of fun with Pantry organization. Thanks for your support, Maria!
Honestly... The fear porn is the reason i stopped watching most prepper channels. It got to a point that when i saw new uploads from these creators i rolled my eyes.
yeah I've unsubscribed from all other preppers (Nate went first. he should be ashamed of some of his videos and the clickbait... as TUP said it feels sleazy)
I have to admit that I did the same thing. I like all of those channels; they're my friends. It just wasn't healthy content for me.
@@TheUrbanPrepper You and Kris are the sanest people. The rest are just pushing for clicks.
I’ve learned so much from the content you’ve made for us all. I totally understand the need to unplug and focus on family. If you make more videos I’ll be happy to see them. If you find you’re too busy with other things I’ll be happy for you that you’re out living your best life. Much appreciation for the fun content you’ve already put out.
Your EDC videos always respark my excitement and I rewatch them every few seasons!
The planning/organizing video that you did as a collab for 30 days of preparedness had been an inspiration to me. It is a goal I’ve yet to achieve. I’m into nerdy PDFs.
Cliff glad to see you again. I love your videos and information you talk about. I know exactly what you mean. I have been feeling the fear big time. I know I need to step away and take a break. I prep but I don’t need to consume the fear 24/7. It’s so you you could take the break and actually talk about it. You saying how you felt and needed a break was really good to hear. I feel that will help a lot. Thank you. Take care and I look forward to watching your videos and less of the fear I feel I have to check in on daily which I have been doing. If we do what we need to do to prepare and get organise that’s great and that’s all we can do. ❤
I loved your color coded pantry video. I tried it right away and it's the only pantry organizing that's worked for me, still going without an issue. So thank you so much!
I am sooooooooooooo happy to see you! Glad you are back and DONT CHANGE A THING. Your style is what people enjoy. I want PDF's ..... Gimme PDF's!!! :)
Glad you are ok Cliff. Great to see you back, I’ve missed your videos. A true foundation of this topic online. I’ve learnt a lot from you over the years. 👍🏻👍🏻
So Happy your back!!!!!
I totally relate to all you said in this video. I'm so glad you took time out for your mental health and your family. Both are very important. I don't watch the news anymore, I read it. It seems to not stress me out as much.
I have encouraged all my family and friends to watch your videos since I started watching. 100% of them are now prepping. That's all because of you!! Thank You! Many other channels are so fear based that it turns people off. I can't tell you how much you've helped me just from the fact my family and friends are prepping now. I tend to want to take care of people so I worry when they are not prepared but now they are taking care of themselves so I don't worry about them.
Yay!! Mrs Urban Prepper!!! Maybe she could do some videos with you?!! There are so few woman Preppers making videos. Would Love to see some Woman/Mom EDC video's.
Some Video Ideas:
I would love to see a video of why you have different phones and what kind you have.
Altoids kits for kids. You inspired me to make Altoids 1st aid kits for the car for all my family this last Christmas. They LOVED them! Again, Thank You!
Maybe a live stream of you and your wife talking about prepping as a couple. It might help those of us who have reluctant spouses.
Flying/traveling with preps on vacation or for work.
I love the idea of live stream interviews! Live stream on any topic is fun and informative!! And best of all it's less work for you.
As many people have said, It's great to see you!
Hey Cliff, great to see you back & thanks for the updates. We always enjoyed your channel & still use many of the elements we learned from your channel. Well done for making the choices you needed to make to stay true to yourself. Much respect, sir. 🤘😎
Cliff! Hello!! So glad to hear from you and that you are doing well! I have missed your videos and the organization pdfs. Would never done a bug out bag without such a great list. Thank you taking care of your self and doing some self care. I have rewatched so many of your videos but it’s nice to see you are still at it. All the best from California.
Your channel is the best channel. No fear mongering just informative videos that helped me the most of all the videos. The edc of night stand is one of my favorites
I have a lot of respect for you putting family and personal peace first as well as feeling unethical profiting off disasters and fear. I hope you can also feel good that your content has prevented some of this suffering by helping people take action to prepare in reasonable ways. Thanks!
You are awesome Cliff. Glad to see ya back and I agree with you 100% on the shift in the community post covid/🇺🇦 . I have taken a huge break from watching any prepping videos as well just because it began just causing extra stress and anxiety. It was disappointing to see great thoughtful channels just turn into current events fear porn. Your positivity and relaxing nature in this channel was always my favorite. Huge respect for speaking up honestly about where you've been. Things still aren't amazing, but we're in a better place than we were, and I'm happy for that 🍻 Cheers!
Lol, so you in denial?
Good to see you again!
Do whatever you want and we'll be there to watch them!!
Cool to hear the Mrs is now a prepper too!!
welcome back dude. I got a lot of great information from your channel. Made me think a bit more and look for solutions.
Thank you so much, James!
Your videos are just right the way you do them. Don't worry about analytics or what other people are doing on their channels. I always appreciate your videos, and I miss them! I would love a centralized place to get all of the PDFs.
Dude glad to see ur back,love ur channel…ur channel and maybe like two or three other channels I still watch regularly,I got rid of the fear porn people..thanks for staying true
TUP, you haven't missed much since you've been gone. Lots of channels now are just a guy sitting in his car talking about the end of the world or his secret contact gave him top secret information. You and City Prep are the best channels on YT‼️‼️🙏👍
I plan on doing some binge watching to see what is going on with the world of TH-cam Prepping channels.
@@TheUrbanPrepper glad to see you back Cliff! What I noticed is that the more mainstream channels are mostly about fear mongering click baity titles and regurgitating recurring small threats that supposedly would be the end of the world.
I've not yet finished watching this video but I sincerely hope you will get back with low quantity but high value videos with a lot of organizing, charts and manuals.
I hope you and your family are well! Cheers from the Netherlands.
Exactly! I can't watch thoses things, some may be truth but it's so much of the 2 hour drama e lacks real content.
Canadian Rambo is a circus show . Clickbait all the time .🤢
City Prepper has slid down the same path recently.
Good to see you buddy. Always appreciated your brand of “prepping”. We started a channel and are doing it for the same reasons.
I am glad to see you back. Miss your educational videos. I love the organizational videos. I still use your pdfs and ideas. Take care and thank you for reminding us we all need balance.
Thank you, LaJoyce! The educational videos are fun.
So happy to see you on here again. I also enjoyed your videos on cleaning old headstones. Thank you
Sorry we missed you on the day !
We missed you..
Keep being you
I'm glad you took the time to take care of yourself. I'm glad you are back though. I used to subscribe to about a half dozen prepper channels but pretty much cut that down to you. I'd love to see you refresh or continue the car prep series and anything about organizing your preps!
Nice to see you, glad you are doing well. I really enjoyed your videos.
Love your work, TUP! Your discussion on the need to take a break from the fear mongering made perfect sense.
Cliff yes we love your channel. Learning prepping stuff with great ideas without news, being scared. Great to prepare for all things besides wars and countries not being civil to each other. Nz has just had a worst cyclone we have even had in our history. Learning great skills is so good to have 😊
You’re the 🐐of prepping and SHTF. Hands down. Period. Thank goodness for your OCD and we needed and still need your expertise. Don’t get discouraged.
Your channels have always been an icon and leader upon which all the others were formed. Legendary. Love your channels. Still the best and still relevant
Thanks for all your fun with organizing.
Love your stuff Cliff. Every holiday season I put out the TUP family card in haz-mat suits.. and I laugh every time I do it. Videos were all very relevant from what to do/have if you're in an office building that has an emergency to carrying a sillcock key which I do to this day when I'm in the city. Thanks for the laughs and great information, hope there's more to come.
👋😁Hey nice to see you! Yeah I kind just did the same on my channel recently. I've taken a break, not sure if I'll come back.
It's tough sometimes putting out content you hope people will enjoy and trying to keep up with changes and stay relevant but also ahead of the curve.
Stay safe man😎👍
I am so glad too see you here again. We missed you and we completely understand. The most important thing everyone has to remember is that you need to keep living your everyday life. No one is absolutely 100% prepared. All we can do is our best. There are still countless amounts of good people in the world that outweigh the bad. And we're going to be alright.
You started me off prepping, maybe ten years ago now. Before I had children. Your channel is always the best. No fear, very achievable and non threatening for me as a woman in particular. Hope you keep it up!
Glad your back :)
I’d love to see gallon bucket 101 series be continued.
I miss all of those organization videos and the pdfs. I really enjoyed the Home Prepping System you created. That helped me get started on my own home preps.
Hi, Cliff! Glad you're still around! I always found your ideas well thought out and your videos very well done! Hope you're not totally finished with all that!
I missed the live stream. But it is great to see you back. I guessed that you didn't want to do the fearmonger videos like so many others have. Your style and mindset is refreshing and has been missed. I feel like the straight prepping (not current events) videos are every bit as relevant now. Things are more dangerous now and it seems like there is a new emergency every week. I have had to completely stop watching some of the other guys. I miss your videos and spreadsheets! And I am all in for the garage sale and meetup. I'm in Tacoma and work in Seattle. So I always hope to run into you sometime.
I just saw you come up on my feed...I had not seen you for a long time. Glad your back.
Wow!! Cliff, thrilled to see you. Thought u might be very ill! Hope all of your family are very well!. So glad u are back!!
I always knew you were a real one!
I try to be 100% authentic.
BTW, I love, love, love my new OCD pantry, thanks to you. A pantry is important!
I unsubbed from all the fearp0rn prepper channels during 2022 so I could focus on 'doing the things', not freaking out about stuff I can't control. Totally understand you needing to take time out to take care of family & work. You and Cascadia Dispatch were two of the few I kept and I appreciated hearing your steady-state, upbeat voices amongst the craziness. Looking forward to seeing the new videos you have lined up. Welcome back!
BTW I loved your mini Altoids kit video. I made two different ones that I carry as part of my EDC.
Casey and I have a blast together. It's all smiles. Yeah, I didn't unsub, but I ended up dropping from YT all together. I'm looking forward to producing new content in 2023 that is upbeat, void of fear, and full of nerdiness!
@@TheUrbanPrepper nerdiness ROCKS!
Thanks for sharing preparations and not just doom &gloom predictions.
I feel and understand everything you have just said. Your videos are and always will be the best of the best. Stay real, be the ultimate family man, continue to protect those close to you and only make videos when you feel the time is right. Thank you for all that you do.
Thank you so much, Martin! Will do.
While I miss all your EDC and prepping videos and reviews ( you are meticulous and really thorough) and I have gleaned a lot information…I am glad you are putting family first. I know exactly how you feel…prepping was overwhelming me (fear, doom, and gloom). While I still prep…I have completely changed my thoughts on gloom and doom prepping and focused more on family. We still garden and can a lot of our food, we do mostly for grown kids and family’s. Love your content and look forward to anything you put out for everyone. I love the nerdy content. 😅
Happy to see you back my pal.
I enjoyed your channel. Glad to see that your back and safe.
I totally missed the livestream but most importantly I missed YOU!! I noticed you were gone and didn’t wanna bug ya, just thought you needed time away and I totally get that. I love your brand and I hate how this space kind of makes you feel pressured to go one way or another in the prepping world. I hate the fear porn too. We can still be prepared and talk about news but man, no need for the fear porn. You’re awesome and keep being you! Missed you!!!
TUP, I'm glad you're back here. Between you and Chris @ City Prepping, I like your style and peaceful presentation of Prepping as a personal need, not an impending crisis. I used to live in WA and moved away due to the politics and direction of the West Coast. Hope all is well and please bring content back. Be you and continue to put your heart as you always do, into it.
I get it and I respect you more for not doing more videos. I see all the "fear porn" and dislike it immensely. Being prepared is a mindset, we cannot control what happens in the world whether it be natural or man made and folks trading on the topics like preparedness and edc is a turn off.
I think it is important to live in the moment, glad you were redirect that energy back into your family. Glad you checked in on this channel, I was wondering a couple of weeks ago what happened to you.
Please do the videos! I love you're developer touch on prepping. For me you are the prepper with labels and the one with AGILE organization. Great videos! From Romania lots of applause!
Love that. you are NOT a fear prepper. I love your style and the organization. That's what I love about your channel. Family should always come first! Good for you.
Hubby and I enjoy the vein in which you chose and in which you continue: the straightforward, mature, educated, clean-to-the-core, solid-as-a-rock, and always helpful topics doused with humor here and there…..are the best. Good on you for picking up where you left off. 😊 And…..if you’re ever on The Other Coast….please bring your color stickers and charts and methods and use my food storage room as how NOT to arrange. 😂 Bless you and yours.
Thank you, Robin! I would love to meet up on the other coast. I appreciate your longtime support of my videos!
Great to see an update from you!!
I just want to comment on a few parts of the first 15 minutes of this video. You mentioned a video "fell on his face" oh, I remember that video and it was done very well but here's the thing.. I've noticed a lot of TH-cam content makers seemed to blame the video they made and all their hard work or themselves for a video not doing well in getting lots of used or lots of likes whatever metric they measure it by. But that is not the case! Many times people are distracted by world events or something going on on a weekend or possibly a competing TH-cam channel or even this guy who work for TH-cam named Al Go-rhythms and any of those or a combination of those can make a great video and all your hard work seem not to pay off. But it's just like doing great work at a job and not being noticed for it and other times you get noticed for things that you don't work hard on. There's just such a randomness to what becomes a hit/popular that I wish all TH-cam content makers would realize that they should never blame themselves. Just try to do good content and move on.
My last thought is that from what you've explained it sounds like you made the exact right decision, both for you and for your viewers. We were all getting Overexposed to the fear push in the mainstream media and everywhere else. Thank you for not making videos when you didn't think it was right for you at that time. We all know that fear based news gets the attention more than helpful tips, even though we all wish that wasn't true. So thank you for what you did before and thank you for not making videos and thank you for coming and explaining your choice. You did the right thing.
Thank you so much for the detailed comment! Yeah, the TH-cam Studio Dashboard can really make you question yourself when it talks about how a certain video is not popular with your audience. I'm just going to stop looking at things like that.
Great to see you back, got really started watching you.
Just from my point of view I just enjoy your vid’s I love the information you bring to the world.
Thank you, Cliff, for not being sensational. Yes, this world is in a mess and probably will get much worse, but I relate to you more than many others. I'm in Key Largo FL so naturally, I have a Class A Rv for evacuations. I'm a strong 68 yr young woman, and I'm the driver of that rv.
Living mostly in cities, I easily gravitated towards your cite.
Your a great guy
Glad to see you back!
Oh man sorry I missed the notification, catching up now
Hey Sarge! It's good to see you again.
@@TheUrbanPrepper hit me up anytime, you know how to reach me. Hope all is well, keeping you in prayer brother
I just Subscribed to Got Preps so I can watch that quality content as well. You provide a side of prepping some don't always go into
Great to see you again. As you make some great videos that are about the sort of prepping I like without all the fear crap.
Your Live Stream was GREAT. Can’t wait for your next one.
Good to hear from you again Cliff. I have missed your goodnatured videos about what can happens in real life. like fires, floods and earthquakes, and all your EDC videos. I also like that your channel is not a gunshow, it is fitting for us who living in countries where guns are not so easy to own.
Good to see you back :)
Thanks Jeffrey!
Thank you for this video... i thought the algorithm was hiding your videos.. I am so glad you spoke about the fear gate that over took the web. It made me tap out of watching the videos. Hope you are thriving with your family!
Nice to see you again. You are one of the first prepper channels that got me more serious for survival. I'm one of those that have become very fearful of a ww3 coming soon. Although I'm considerably poor, I have thousands of dollars on prepping I wonder if I'm crazy and why some people aren't worried at all. I hope to see you make some new videos soon. Thank you
Watched the replay. Good to see you TUP!
Video idea: Family financial and "end of life" planning. Not a sexy topic AT ALL, but vitally important. I think your analytical and organizational mind would thrive there.
My wife finally talked about getting life insurance with me today. I ended up showing her a 7 page document with all my passwords, logins and lists of all my investments. She didn't even know about a half dozen accounts I own that hold crypto, real estate, foreign currency, and bullion. If I died yesterday that money probably would've been lost to the void. Now she has at least a basic idea of what to do, and where to look if I don't come home one day.
Been searching for you. Loved you and prepper princess those were my favorite
Good to see you.
Miss your videos so much!
More videos will be coming in March 2023!
@@TheUrbanPrepper Your PDFs are excellent. I carry a copy in my 22 L Simond backpack whenever I travel.
This is what they call a Digital CLEANSE. I'm glad you're feeling better.
I have to say it: I HATE the 'Current Events' fear-orn genre.
I watch prepping and homesteading channels because I want to LEARN about prepping and homesteading. I want to see preppers teaching about how they prep and what they do with what they have and what they have and how to use them and what they plan to do with them etc.
I've learned about EDC gear, BOB gear, and the differences between GHB and INCH bag and their philosophies.
I'm learning about pantry organization and stocking up and rotation. (I need more PDFs!)
I feel like I still have much more to learn... but because of the current-events-fear-porn TREND, I've run out of real teachers. (Including some of the guys I've counted on for rational sanity, such as City Prepping.)
IF you have a whole new system of organization, I want to hear about it so I can decide if I want to learn about that. Does this work in conjunction with the Colors of Prepping? Is it a new-and-improved CoP system? Or totally new and different?
You got a lotta esplainin' to do.
I'll add on to your list of video ideas. Now that your wife is canning... you've got to design and build a new set of pantry shelves, with an eye toward (a) fitting canning jars neatly... (b) easy Inventory... and (c) EASY FIFO food rotation.
AND make the Wife happy. LOL
I'm looking forward to that video.
WB Glad to see you back.
no wonder. always watched you specially during the lockdown. missed you man…
Hi Cliff, Always great info.
I missed the live, but glad to see you back in action
Thanks Daniel!
Oooh his and her prepping shelves!!! Now that’s cool!
Good to see you! Loved all the organization videos! Really helped me get prepared! Thank you!
Thanks Swan!
By the way, my Mother was a prepper. She was a farmer, knew how to buther a hog, can food, grow a garden, milk cows---manually. Etc. Had all her 6 kids at home in the same bed naturally.
Yes she survived the Great Depression
I grew up on the same farm your mom did. 😆 I wish I had taken more of it with me through life but I'm back on track now, finally.
I agree the prep channels think they are news sources now. They are way off track!! Good to see you again!!!
I've unsubscribed from a number of preparedness channels because I can't stand all of the we're-all-gonna-die, prep-now-prep-now-prep-now, buy-it-all-before-it's-gone, doom and gloom stuff. For the channels that I'm still subscribed to, I skip those type of videos whenever they're posted.
Give me reviews of actual items, how-tos for organization or gardening or power systems. Basically, things that I can actually apply, rather than trying to scare me about the world, followed with generic platitudes about how everyone needs to prep. That was one of the reasons that I liked your channel. you give actual examples of things, funny or serious, rather than just telling us that the sky is falling!
I would love to see a deep dive video into breaching tools for the urban environment!
TUP glad to see you back, looking forward to videos and live shows 👍
Thank you for your patience!
Glad that you are doing ok...... missed you. I love the way you do and have done your channel! I liked your attention to detail and organization skills..... yes, some would say your CDO---- [gotta have it in alphabetical order. ;] I am and have been well pleased with your LACK of fear porn..... Many of the other channels that went the way of FEAR PORN I have lost interest in.... I am also of the opinion that most of your stuff is EVER GREEN, good basic information. FAMILY time does have to come first... PS I started prepping in the 70s and teaching it while in the military up to now..... I typically DO get some modern ideas from you and at least another prospective on things...... KEEP keeping it REAL..... THX for what you do