by ST | Oct 4, 2011 | Barter, Food, General, Guest Posts, Money, Preparedness, Self Reliance, Survivalism
There is an old children’s story about someone who asks “Who will help me make my bread?” No one helps. No one helps plant the wheat, harvest the wheat, mill the wheat, make the dough, or bake it. But at the end when it is asked who will help eat the bread... Read more
by suburban | Oct 3, 2011 | Civil Unrest, Politics
It’s Monday morning. I am working from home, and I just have to get this off my chest before I actually start working. This has been burning all weekend long in my brain… I was going to wait to post this until later in the week, but just... Read more
by suburban | Oct 3, 2011 | Personal, Prepping
It’s been a rough couple of weeks with work. In fact, work has become increasingly busy. It was the end of the quarter and a race to get customer contracts closed up, signatures, etc. For those that don’t know, I work for a software company in sales. It can... Read more
by suburban | Sep 29, 2011 | Guns & Weapons, Preparedness
This is the second installment in a series of papers to educate the new prepper about what weapons they should have on hand. I’m approaching this from a SHTF scenario, and while I’m not advocating using any firearm in an offensive manner, I stress that... Read more
by Prepperjim | Sep 28, 2011 | Cooking, Personal, Preparedness
This weekend I had an “epic fail” (as the kids say) with my new solar cooker. I tried to make a simple dish, Arroz con Pollo (chicken with rice), but did not get past 100F. Why? The sun! As it turns out, Saturday morning and afternoon was the time mother... Read more