Solar Oven Fail

by Prepperjim | Sep 28, 2011 | Cooking, Personal, Preparedness

This week­end I had an “epic fail” (as the kids say) with my new solar cook­er. I tried to make a sim­ple dish, Arroz con Pol­lo (chick­en with rice), but did not get past 100F. Why? The sun! As it turns out, Sat­ur­day morn­ing and after­noon was the time moth­er... Read more

Rural Land for Bug Out Location: A Response to Suburban

by ST | Sep 20, 2011 | Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Guest Posts, Homesteading, Preparedness, Self Reliance, Shelter, Survivalism

This arti­cle is a response to Suburban’s May 31st arti­cle “Think­ing About Buy­ing Rur­al Land for Your Bug Out Loca­tion”. A good arti­cle cer­tain­ly. I too have been look­ing into the pos­si­bil­i­ty of buy­ing some unde­vel­oped (“raw” as Sub­ur­ban puts it)... Read more

The $5.00 Tipping Point?

by ST | Sep 13, 2011 | Bug Out, Civil Unrest, General, Guest Posts, Money, suburban survival, Urban Survival

As of writ­ing this crude oil is still flow­ing in the Mid­dle East and through the Suez Canal (as well as oth­er prod­ucts) in spite of the chaos in Egypt. Will that last is the ques­tion. And yet even with the con­tin­u­a­tion of oil world prices for crude are... Read more

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 of... 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... 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... Read more