Precious Metals As Currency, My Thoughts

by suburban | Feb 1, 2015 | Barter, Currency, Economy, Gold and Silver, Money, Precious Metals, Preparedness, Prepping, suburban survival, Urban Survival

I have a some­what skewed view of pre­cious met­als. I believe that in a post SHTF sit­u­a­tion peo­ple will not just turn to pre­cious met­als as cur­ren­cy.  The aver­age per­son will raid their change jar and use what­ev­er cash they have on hand to pay for... Read more

Sensible Mountain Preparedness Seminar III — “EMP Keynote: Dr. William R. Forstchen”

by suburban | Dec 22, 2014 | Electro Magnetic Pulse, EMP

This sem­i­nar hap­pened about a year ago, but this keynote was just brought to my atten­tion.  I thought I would share it.  William Forstchen is the author of “One Sec­ond After.” Part 1 Part 2... Read more

NYC, MRAPs, Humvees, Protests, Hooray!

by suburban | Dec 8, 2014 | General, Government, Preparedness, Protests, Urban Survival

I had a friend in town this week­end from Flori­da. Ms. Prep­per and I went into NYC last night to go to din­ner. While in the cab down­town on the low­er east side, as we were dri­ving around the 20th street area, was­n’t I sur­prised to see an MRAP... Read more

Simple Preparedness Lesson — Gun Maintenance

by suburban | Nov 9, 2014 | Guns & Weapons

Just a quick note here.  Learned a valu­able les­son about spare parts, guns, shoot­ing, etc.  I was out with my firearms instruc­tor from GAPP a cou­ple weeks ago doing some basic pis­tol train­ing.  When I start­ed using my CCW firearm, which is... Read more

Ebola, Ebola, Ebola, What I Am Doing To Prepare

by suburban | Oct 27, 2014 | Bug In, Bug Out, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

How many times in the last sev­er­al weeks have you heard about Ebo­la?  Too many?  Me too.  Some may say I am crazy, some may say I am cau­tious, and some are walk­ing around liv­ing in their bub­ble of life with­out a clue. It was only a few weeks... Read more