September is National Preparedness Month

by Prepperjim | Sep 14, 2011 | Cooking, Energy, Fire, first aid, Food, Gardening, Guns & Weapons, Health, Light, Personal, Water

Our gov­ern­ment has des­ig­nat­ed Sep­tem­ber as “Nation­al Pre­pared­ness Month”. This con­trasts with the FBI’s pro­fil­ing prep­pers as poten­tial ter­ror­ists. I imag­ine the mes­sage is “be pre­pared”, but don’t be too pre­pared. We still want you depen­dent... Read more

CERT Training Completed

by Prepperjim | Jul 6, 2011 | first aid, Health, Jobs, Politics, Self Reliance, suburban survival

I recent­ly com­plet­ed my Com­mu­ni­ty Emer­gency Response Team (CERT) train­ing. First some back­ground and then an eval­u­a­tion from a prep­per per­spec­tive. CERT’s were formed in the wake of the Sep­tem­ber 11th attacks via exec­u­tive order. The train­ing... Read more

10 Things You Can Do Right Now To Become a Better Prepper or Get Started

by suburban | May 26, 2011 | Bug In, Bug Out, Bug Out Location, But Out Bag, first aid, Gardening, Gear, Preparedness

Trav­el­ing again this week and short on time, but want­ed to put some­thing togeth­er for you… I was going over ways in my head to help me re-align some goals and thought I would share a few of them with you…  These are in no par­tic­u­lar oder Plant a gar­den,... Read more

Saturday Videos

by suburban | May 14, 2011 | EDC, first aid, Gear, Preparedness

Indi­vid­ual First Aid Kit NYC / Urban EDC Kit Eco­nom­ics: Does Wealth Evap­o­rate Or Is It Trans­ferred? — Mike Mal­oney of WealthCycles.com Sce­nario Video–First spring after the crash (WROL) “Be Sure to Wave” Leather­man Review by Nut­n­fan­cy The begin­ning of... Read more

Thinking About Medicine and First Aid During a SHTF Event

by suburban | Apr 1, 2011 | first aid, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Recent­ly I have been giv­ing some thought to First Aid and Med­i­cine in the wake of the three very bad earth­quakes our plan­et has recent­ly seen in the past 14 or 15 months.  I have been think­ing about my first aid kit, is it ade­quate, what I know... Read more

Pedialyte For A Survival Situation

by suburban | Sep 23, 2010 | first aid, Food, Health, Water

So, I was in South Flori­da on busi­ness last week.  I had to take clients out to din­ner, and had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to see some friends.  Admit­ted­ly, I knew I was going to be con­sum­ing amounts of alco­hol over the course of the week that were high­er... Read more