Survival Heater for Your Car, My Test

by suburban | Feb 13, 2012 | Fire, Gear, Improvised Gear, Preparedness, Prepping, Self Reliance, Weather

I know. Every­one has done a YouTube les­son on how to build one of these inex­pen­sive emer­gency heaters for your car. Hon­est­ly, I had to try it for myself to be sure that it “worked.” Many peo­ple use emp­ty steel cof­fee cans, some peo­ple impro­vise and use... Read more

I Forgot My EDC…

by suburban | Feb 12, 2012 | EDC, Gear

Well, I am in Flori­da on busi­ness. I’m here for a week. Maybe longer. I’m hap­py to be here, because it seems win­ter has final­ly met with the North­east. How­ev­er, I feel naked. I left my trav­el EDC kit in my my GHB acci­den­tal­ly, in the trunk of my car. All I... Read more

Add One of These Budget Knives To Your Kit(s)

by suburban | Jan 26, 2012 | But Out Bag, EDC, Gear, Knives, Prepping, Survival Gear

In a short sight­ed ambi­tious attempt to think about learn­ing more skills, I want­ed, and con­tin­ue to want to learn how to make a knife out aof a blank piece of steel.  It is some­thing that I have want­ed to do for a long time, as does a bud­dy of mine.... Read more

100, no 200+ Items a Prepper Must Have for Survival and Barter

by suburban | Oct 7, 2011 | Barter, Gear, Preparedness, Prepping, Survivalism

This post was just updat­ed for clar­i­ty, accu­rate links, and fur­ther defined.  This list has NOT been bro­ken down into cat­e­gories, and is sim­ply expand­ed from it’s orig­i­nal for­mat from the 2014 update, almost 10 years ago. Updat­ed Feb­ru­ary 24th,... Read more

The Becker BK 2 Knife

by suburban | Sep 7, 2011 | Bushcraft, Gear, Knives

The Beck­er BK2 by Ka-Bar. I’ve had this knife for sev­er­al months, and keep for­get­ting to write a review of it. So, here it is… In hind­sight, I remem­ber pulling this knife out of the box… My first impres­sion was how heavy it was. My sec­ond impres­sion was how... Read more

The Interesting Road to Actually Bugging Out, Thoughts During a Mandatory Evacuation

by suburban | Sep 3, 2011 | Bug Out, But Out Bag, Gear, Personal, Preparedness, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Urban Survival

Yes­ter­day, I received an email, and text mes­sage from the local emer­gency sys­tem I was signed up for.  The may­or of my town, and the coun­ty, I believe, insti­tut­ed a manda­to­ry evac­u­a­tion of homes due to flood­ing from the Pas­sa­ic Riv­er.  As I... Read more