Thinking About More Preps, Goals, Milestones, and Disaster

by suburban | Apr 15, 2011 | Bug In, Bug Out, But Out Bag, Economy, Gear, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

It’s a fan­tas­tic evening here in NJ, with the excep­tion of my aller­gies kick­ing up, which reminds me. Time to stock up a few sea­sons worth of Zyrtec or some oth­er anti-hys­timine.  As long as they as stored cor­rect­ly, they should last for sev­er­al years... Read more

The High Level Plan to Preparedness

by suburban | Apr 5, 2011 | Bug In, Bug Out, But Out Bag, General, Levels of Awareness, Physical Fitness, Preparedness, suburban survival, Survivalism, Urban Survival

Well, after last evening’s inter­view with Doc­tor Prep­per, I thought I would write up a few thoughts on plan­ning for your pre­pared­ness goals.  This will prob­a­bly appeal to novice prep­pers, but it got me think­ing about a few points of... Read more

Grab Paper

by suburban | Feb 16, 2011 | But Out Bag, Gear, Guest Posts

A post by a guest author who would like to remain anony­mous Arti­cles and videos abound that dis­cuss grab bags (aka “bug out bags”) for a SHTF event. Each varies some­what for con­tent but in gen­er­al they all men­tion tak­ing sup­plies of food, water,... Read more

Tight Budget? Get Prepared Anyway.

by suburban | Dec 3, 2010 | But Out Bag, Food, Money, Preparedness

Every­one has mon­ey on the brain these days.  I don’t care how much mon­ey you have.  A forum I am some­times active on had one young man in col­lege just sought the advice of the mem­bers on how he can get pre­pared, as well as help his fam­i­ly... Read more

Apartment Prepping, the Real Deal In My Opinion

by suburban | Nov 22, 2010 | Barter, Bug In, Bug Out, But Out Bag, Food, Preparedness, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Urban Survival, Water

I hes­i­tat­ed writ­ing this because I want­ed it to be com­pre­hen­sive, but I don’t want it to be a book. How­ev­er, I am going to let it be as long as it needs to be at this point.  Yes­ter­day, I was out at my NJ Pre­pared­ness Meet­up and one of the peo­ple... Read more

My “Get Home Bag” Replacement Contents.

by suburban | Nov 5, 2010 | But Out Bag, Gear, Personal

Well, as many of you know, about a week ago or so my “Get Home Bag” from my truck was stolen from the park­ing lot where I had been park­ing my car for two plus years.  In hind sight, I think it was my fault for assum­ing that there was ample secu­ri­ty.... Read more