Family Preparedness Mindset — A Lesson Learned by Matthew Brown

by suburban | Apr 8, 2012 | Preparedness

My fam­i­ly and I recent­ly attend­ed a wed­ding in Michi­gan near the Sleep­ing Bear sand dunes. We went up for the week­end and I knew that the weath­er was going to be unpre­dictable. I packed accord­ing­ly with my water­proof shell, my hik­ing shoes and your... Read more

I’m Different… An Observation(s) from the Field of Life

by suburban | Apr 1, 2012 | EDC, Gear, Personal, Preparedness

I’ve been on a long over­due vaca­tion this past week.  Sev­er­al years over­due, in fact.  But I learned some­thing quite by acci­dent that I would like to share.  While trav­el­ing with a group of friends out­side the Unit­ed States, one of which was... Read more

The Path of the Gun; explaining the virtue in the martial art that involves firearms, by Jesse Mathewson

by suburban | Mar 26, 2012 | Guns & Weapons, Preparedness

As an indi­vid­ual who believes in Lib­er­ty, Non-Aggres­sion, Self-Defense, Self-Own­er­ship and a Free Mar­ket with­out state inter­fer­ence it is Jesse’s firm belief that we should all be bet­ter stu­dents in life. His auto­dac­tic edu­ca­tion in Amer­i­can... Read more

Pandemic Thoughts, and How’s Your NBC & Quarantine Gear?

by suburban | Mar 23, 2012 | Pandemic, Preparedness, Prepping, suburban survival, Urban Survival

As I spend time writ­ing this post, I am on a plane watch­ing the film Con­ti­gion. If you have not seen it, it’s a film about a pan­dem­ic that start­ed and begins to be wide­ly spread by those trav­el­ing. As the film pro­gress­es, it is found that the pan­dem­ic is... Read more

BTB Part 2 — Food

by Prepperjim | Mar 14, 2012 | Preparedness

Last week, I dis­cussed water stor­age and what I my prepa­ra­tions are in this area. This post will dis­cuss my food stor­age preps and how I approach the issue. This is a much more com­plex sub­ject because every­one eats dif­fer­ent food and... Read more

Back to the Basics

by Prepperjim | Mar 7, 2012 | Preparedness, Water, Weather

I’ve been prep­ping for about 18 months now and have kind of lost the spark that dri­ves me to keep going. I real­ly have not done any­thing for the past two months oth­er than lis­ten to The Sur­vival Pod­cast and some oth­er “small” projects (sub­ject of future... Read more