DIY — Make an Altoid Tin Stove for Your Bug Out Bag

by suburban | Aug 17, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, But Out Bag, Cooking, DIY, Preparedness, Stoves, Urban Survival

Instructa­bles .com has instruc­tions on how to build an Altoids Tin Stove that you can throw in your car, bug out bag, etc…  I am prob­a­bly going to build one of these to drop in my Get Home Bag in my car, because I already have a hik­ing stove in my Bug Out... Read more

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Survival — Over at Survival Spot Blog

by suburban | Aug 16, 2010 | Bug Out, Nuclear Weapons, suburban survival, Urban Survival

I read the Sur­vival Spot Blog, almost dai­ly.  Par­tial­ly, because I read through so much stuff, he gen­er­al­ly pep­pers his blog with videos that make for a nice change.  Today, he had a post, enti­tled “10 Things You Did­n’t Know About Sur­vival.”... Read more

The Focus of Suburban Survival Blog and, if the SHTF

by suburban | Aug 12, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, Bug Out Location, But Out Bag, Preparedness, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Survivalism, Urban Survival

I am writ­ing this post, because, it is prob­a­bly some­thing I should have writ­ten sev­er­al months ago when I start­ed writ­ing a dai­ly blog on my thoughts about sub­ur­ban sur­vival.  I real­ly start­ed get­ting con­cerned about what was going on in the... Read more

Changes to the Suburban Survival Blog

by suburban | Aug 10, 2010 | Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Bug Out Vehicle, Guns & Weapons

Well, you no doubt have noticed a change in scenery here at the Sub­ur­ban Sur­vival Blog.  I have updat­ed the look and feel, sev­er­al images, as well as the wid­get that allows peo­ple to post to social media sites to allow oth­ers to ben­e­fit from what I... Read more

My Large Bug Out Bag Contents

by suburban | Aug 4, 2010 | Bug Out, But Out Bag, suburban survival, Urban Survival

This bag is for the SHTF, and hav­ing to evac­u­ate to West­ern NJ, North­east­ern PA, or the Catskills in NY.  It will be packed and ready to go from my apart­ment.  I may also build a sec­ond iden­ti­cal bag in the event I can­not get to the one at the... Read more

How Stocked Should a Bug Out Location Be If You Have to Bug Out?

by suburban | Aug 2, 2010 | Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Gardening, Guns & Weapons, Homesteading, Hunting, Preparedness, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival

This is a thought that hit me this week­end as I was surf­ing the Web for sur­vival top­ics so I could learn some­thing new.  I was look­ing up Bug Out Loca­tions, and it hit me that, we (I) dis­cuss prep­ping your pri­ma­ry home with preps pri­mar­i­ly for... Read more