The Importance of Being Prepared

by suburban | Jan 7, 2011 | Bug In, Preparedness

There is more snow com­ing this week­end.  Accord­ing to how the weath­er looks there might be quite a bit of snow over the next cou­ple of weeks.  Snow does not make me hap­py.  Espe­cial­ly now because the towns around me have NOT cleaned up the snow... Read more

Bartering, Your Urban and Suburban Currency Post SHTF

by suburban | Dec 20, 2010 | Barter, Bug In, Bug Out, Currency, Money, suburban survival, Urban Survival

I can­not deny it.  I have not bartered or trad­ed any­thing in about 20 years.  The last thing I bartered was wen I was in busi­ness for myself, and my cus­tomer was an out­door out­fitt­ter type of retail estab­lish­ment and I bartered a Sol­stace Jack­et,... 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

Lone Wolf or Survivalist Group?

by suburban | Nov 3, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, Personal, suburban survival, Survivalism, Urban Survival

As many of the read­ers know, I have joined a meetup.com group for pre­pared­ness.  I joined for a cou­ple of rea­sons.  First, as a “lone wolf” I was look­ing to con­nect with like mind­ed peo­ple to hope­ful­ly teach and learn from them.  The sec­ond... Read more

Prepping For A Personal SHTF

by suburban | Nov 2, 2010 | Bug In, Preparedness

Today I want to take the time to talk a lit­tle about some­thing I have not.  The title says it all, I think, with the excep­tion of defin­ing what a “Per­son­al SHTF” is because, well, it’s per­son­al.  In today’s econ­o­my, I think that most peo­ple might... Read more

A Safe Room For Your Home

by suburban | Oct 26, 2010 | Bug In, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

I am not real­ly sure this is going to apply to those of us who live in apart­ments.  How­ev­er, I may touch on that in this post. Much of what we dis­cuss, or I write, rather, revolves around bug­ging out.  As men­tioned in a pre­vi­ous post, I was going to... Read more