Who Would You Bug Out With?

by suburban | Jan 18, 2012 | Bug Out, Preparedness

A ques­tion on one of the boards I am on popped up, and I respond­ed, which I rarely do these days.  I’ve been kind of burned out of writ­ing and been focus­ing on build­ing more preps, los­ing some of my flab and get­ting into bet­ter shape, etc.…... Read more

The Final Preparation – Part 2: Where There Is A Will…

by ST | Jan 17, 2012 | General, Guest Posts, Money, Preparedness

In the first part of this series it was point­ed out many of the ridicu­lous and frankly lame excus­es peo­ple often give for not prepar­ing (“get­ting their affairs in order” as the old say­ing goes) for their ulti­mate demise. Regard­less of a dis­as­ter, we are all... Read more

Honestly, Where is the Answer?

by suburban | Jan 13, 2012 | Economy, Personal

Hon­est­ly, I have not been moti­vat­ed to write recent­ly.  I feel like work is con­sum­ing my life over the past sev­er­al months.  Being in sales I am not sur­prised, but I feel like I am work­ing hard­er longer hours for small­er rewards.  The... Read more

The Final Preparation – Part 1: Dare to Consider

by ST | Jan 10, 2012 | General, Guest Posts, Money, Preparedness

Death and tax­es. The two things the old joke says can’t be avoid­ed (and these days I often think the order of those two should be reversed!). No mat­ter how fit we are, how healthy a life style we live, no mat­ter how great our health­care is, it doesn’t mat­ter.... Read more

National Traffic System – A Good Resource to Know!

by ST | Jan 3, 2012 | Civil Unrest, Economy, General, Guest Posts, Preparedness

No, this isn’t about dri­ving or get­ting from A to B. The Nation­al Traf­fic Sys­tem (NTS) is a net­work of ama­teur radio oper­a­tors around the coun­try (there is sim­i­lar oper­a­tions inter­na­tion­al­ly but with dif­fer­ent rules) that in times of emer­gen­cies... Read more