Five Dollar Preps You Can Make Weekly

by suburban | Jun 4, 2010 | Bug In, Cooking, Energy, Fire, first aid, Food, General, Health, Hygiene, Preparedness

I’m not exact­ly sure where I got this, but I have had a copy of it for some time now.  Maybe a year or two.  It is a list of $5.00 or rough­ly $5.00 items that you can buy week­ly to increase your preps at home, or to get you start­ed if mon­ey is... Read more

Car Preparedness, Part 5, Hygiene, Navigation, and Fire

by suburban | May 23, 2010 | Fire, Gear, Health, Hygiene, Navigation

First, It has prob­a­bly been a week since my last post.  So much for a post a day.  I was trav­el­ing this past week on busi­ness, and it was a busy week. Today we are going to talk about hygiene, nav­i­ga­tion, and fire mak­ing prod­ucts to keep in your... Read more

Car preparedness 2.1, make a survival heater for your car in an emergency.

by suburban | May 11, 2010 | Fire, Shelter, Stoves, Weather

  Here is a sep­a­rate PDF I found online illus­trat­ing how to build a sur­vival heater for your... Read more

My EDC

by suburban | Apr 18, 2010 | Bushcraft, Cooking, EDC, Fire, Fishing, Food, Gear, Improvised Gear, Survival Gear, Trapping

So as a mat­ter of expla­na­tion, I am going to list what I use for my EDC.  Keep in mind my EDC is bang­ing around North­ern New Jer­sey most of the time, and in PA and NY states on week­ends some of the time…    I designed my EDC basi­cal­ly... Read more

Home made fire sticks

by suburban | Jun 13, 2009 | Cooking, Energy, Fire, General, Improvised Gear, Preparedness, Survival Gear

UPDATE 2021: I have not made these fire starters in years.  This is not to say they were not effec­tive, they cer­tain­ly were.  They were an amaz­ing aid when we went camp­ing and prac­ticed fire-start­ing skills.  They act­ed as a great accel­er­ant,... Read more