"Prepper" mom prepares for sudden economic loss

PHOENIX - One Valley "prepper" is stocking up on food for her family even though she isn't worried about the world ending in 2012.

Lisa Bedford is a prepper. She stockpiles food and supplies for something that "could" happen like the loss of a job or the economy getting worse.

Lisa Bedford thinks it's foolish for people to prepare for a certain doomsday date. "Y2K still haunts people who wasted a lot of money getting ready for one day. And when they discovered the morning after that nothing severe had happened, they felt foolish. They had wasted a lot of money."

"I think it's a mistake for someone to prepare for a specific date or a specific event in the future."

She says preppers should start by getting debt free and buying things with cash. "Unless your finances are in good shape, you cannot afford to stock up on food. And the worst thing you can do is run up a credit card because you're going to buy a year's worth of freeze dried food because of something you've seen on TV or the Internet."

Bedford has a new book coming out about "prepping" and has a website called TheSurvivalMom.com.