A Knock at the Door: Reflections on Fear, Faith, and the World Today

by suburban | Oct 23, 2023 | General, OPSEC, Preparedness

So, yes­ter­day, I had a thought, after a brief encounter at the front door of my home. Two slight­ly old­er women showed up at my front door. Invari­ably when two women show up at the front door with pam­phlets in hand, you think, Bap­tists or Jeho­vah’s Wit­ness­es.... Read more

The Importance of Creating Your Own Currency for Preparedness Groups

by suburban | May 4, 2023 | Barter, Currency, General, Money, Mutual Assistance Group, Precious Metals, Preparedness, Prepping, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival

If you are a mem­ber of a pre­pared­ness or mutu­al assis­tance group, I feel it is get­ting to be much more impor­tant to under­stand the impor­tance of being ready for any emer­gency sit­u­a­tion. You hope­ful­ly stock­pile food stor­age, water, and med­ical... Read more

Dogs as prepper companions

by Cameron | Apr 20, 2015 | Bug In, Bug Out, Food Storage, Gear, General, Natural Disaster, Preparedness

In our mod­ern world, prep­pers need to be con­cerned with guns, ammu­ni­tion, food, gaso­line, med­ical sup­plies… the list goes on and its daunt­ing.  But don’t for­get about the fam­i­ly pets. An often over­looked and very help­ful resource to your preps is a... 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

Summer’s Here, Work, Future Plans, and Prepping

by suburban | Jun 25, 2013 | Bug Out Vehicle, Gardening, General, Pandemic

Well, sum­mer is offi­cial­ly upon us.  When it came it came with heat and humid­i­ty.  With that there are sup­posed to be severe thun­der storms all week here in NJ.  I’m get­ting used to the rain, and am going to start call­ing New Jer­sey, “New... Read more

Review of Smith’s Diamond Precision Knife Sharpening Kit

by suburban | Sep 4, 2012 | DIY, General, Knives, Preparedness

Those of you that real­ly know me, know I can­not sharp­en a knife worth a damn.  I’ll get it right on one side of the blade, and  on the oth­er side man­gle the angle so bad­ly you would assume the blade is worth­less after­wards, if you just give me a... Read more