Prepping on Twenty Five Dollars a Week, Increasing Your Budget Slightly, Increases Preps Exponentially

by suburban | Sep 12, 2011 | Food, Preparedness

I am going to try to be realistic here. There are posts all over the Web on preppers sites about starting your prepping for $5.00 a week. But what does $5.00 really buy these days. In my case $5.00 can buy: – 3 – 4 cans of soup, – 3 – 4 cans... Read more

Repacking Some Core Preps for Portability, Ease of Use, Care Packaging, and Rotation

by suburban | Sep 8, 2011 | Bug In, Bug Out, Food, Personal, Preparedness, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival

We talk an awful lot about how to rotate your canned, jarred, and other preps for freshness. We also talk a lot about storage, how to store, what to store, etc. Yesterday, I undertook a small job of repacking some of my “basic” preps. What are some of... Read more

Prepper Evangelical

by Prepperjim | Sep 5, 2011 | EDC, Personal, Preparedness

I read ST’s post from last week and started thinking about how to convert people to our preparedness mindset. To be frank, I think it is almost impossible to change people’s ideas on just about any subject. Their opinions have been formed over countless... Read more

The Interesting Road to Actually Bugging Out, Thoughts During a Mandatory Evacuation

by suburban | Sep 3, 2011 | Bug Out, bug out bag, Gear, Personal, Preparedness, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Urban Survival

Yesterday, I received an email, and text message from the local emergency system I was signed up for. The mayor of my town, and the county, I believe, instituted a mandatory evacuation of homes due to flooding from the Passaic River. As I got the text and email, I... Read more

Hurricane Irene: A Preppers’ Postmortem

by ST | Sep 1, 2011 | Bug In, General, Guest Post, Levels of Awareness, Preparedness, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival

The storm has come and gone. Your experiences all depends on where you were at the time. Some places by me got hit hard (and are still without power as I write this). Others like my immediate area got away pretty cleanly (unless you were right on a canal). Even house... Read more

Hurricane Irene, What I Missed, What I Didn’t, and What I Learned.

by suburban | Aug 31, 2011 | Bug In, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival, Weather

Admittedly, I missed the “center” of Hurricane Irene. Rather, I missed the heart of the storm. I made my way west to Pennsylvania, not to bug out, but to a good friends bachelor party. The upside is that I was going to be west of Irene. The downside, if... Read more

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