September is National Preparedness Month

by Prepperjim | Sep 14, 2011 | Cooking, Energy, Fire, first aid, Food, Gardening, Guns & Weapons, Health, Light, Personal, Water

Our gov­ern­ment has des­ig­nat­ed Sep­tem­ber as “Nation­al Pre­pared­ness Month”. This con­trasts with the FBI’s pro­fil­ing prep­pers as poten­tial ter­ror­ists. I imag­ine the mes­sage is “be pre­pared”, but don’t be too pre­pared. We still want you depen­dent... Read more

Doomsday Blues

by Prepperjim | Jul 20, 2011 | Civil Unrest, Health, Psychology

Just like gen­er­a­tions past, there are plen­ty of issues on the hori­zon that present a chal­lenge to our day and age. Almost every day some­one pre­dicts doom is around the cor­ner, most­ly so they can point to their YouTube video or blog and say “I told you... Read more

Whey Protein As An Essential Prep?

by suburban | Jul 7, 2011 | Food, Health, Physical Fitness, Preparedness

While on and off my fit­ness kick this year, I have sup­ple­ment­ed my dai­ly diet with a morn­ing pro­tein shake mixed with fat free milk, water, ice, and var­i­ous fruits that would mix with pro­tein pow­ders well.  I have been on the quest for the per­fect... Read more

CERT Training Completed

by Prepperjim | Jul 6, 2011 | first aid, Health, Jobs, Politics, Self Reliance, suburban survival

I recent­ly com­plet­ed my Com­mu­ni­ty Emer­gency Response Team (CERT) train­ing. First some back­ground and then an eval­u­a­tion from a prep­per per­spec­tive. CERT’s were formed in the wake of the Sep­tem­ber 11th attacks via exec­u­tive order. The train­ing... Read more

It’s the Small Stuff

by Prepperjim | Jun 22, 2011 | Health, Hygiene, Personal, Psychology, Survival Gear, Urban Survival

When thrust into a sur­vival sit­u­a­tion, it is often the small things that make the dif­fer­ence between suc­cess (sur­vival) and fail­ure (death). Often, hav­ing a sense of com­fort makes all the dif­fer­ence in your men­tal atti­tude. With so many prep­per words... Read more

Prepper Fitness

by Prepperjim | Jun 15, 2011 | Personal, Physical Fitness

In a sur­vival forum, it was not­ed that: “Remem­ber the first rules from Zom­bieland.  No, not “dou­ble tap.”  Car­dio.  If you’re a couch pota­to you need to fix this right now.” Yes, I am a for­mer ath­lete that has been a couch pota­to for too long.... Read more