Prepper Jim’s Goals

by suburban | Apr 12, 2011 | Guest Posts, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

I pre­vi­ous­ly wrote that the begin­ning of any prep­ping plan is goals. That is, what is it you are actu­al­ly try­ing to accom­plish? In oth­er words, you must have SMART goals. SMART stands for Spe­cif­ic, Mea­sur­able, Achiev­able, Real­is­tic and Time Bound. So,... Read more

The High Level Plan to Preparedness

by suburban | Apr 5, 2011 | Bug In, Bug Out, But Out Bag, General, Levels of Awareness, Physical Fitness, Preparedness, suburban survival, Survivalism, Urban Survival

Well, after last evening’s inter­view with Doc­tor Prep­per, I thought I would write up a few thoughts on plan­ning for your pre­pared­ness goals.  This will prob­a­bly appeal to novice prep­pers, but it got me think­ing about a few points of... Read more

Prepper Jim’s Pocket EDC

by suburban | Apr 4, 2011 | EDC, Gear, Preparedness

“You know you are a prep­per if it takes five min­utes to load your pock­ets each time you leave the house.” The sub­ject of gear seems to be of great inter­est to the prep­per com­mu­ni­ty so I will address my gear-relat­ed items from time-to-time. I have come to... Read more

Tune into Doctor Prepper Radio Monday, April 4th

by suburban | Apr 3, 2011 | Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Well, looks like I will be on Doc­tor Prep­per Radio again Mon­day evening, April 4th.  Tune in and lis­ten to Doc­tor Prep­per and I talk about sub­ur­ban and urban prep­ping.  There’s not going to be an agen­da or for­mat, I think, but more just... Read more

Thinking About Medicine and First Aid During a SHTF Event

by suburban | Apr 1, 2011 | first aid, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Recent­ly I have been giv­ing some thought to First Aid and Med­i­cine in the wake of the three very bad earth­quakes our plan­et has recent­ly seen in the past 14 or 15 months.  I have been think­ing about my first aid kit, is it ade­quate, what I know... Read more

What I Did First, by PrepperJim

by suburban | Mar 28, 2011 | Guest Posts, Preparedness

I am going to pref­ace Prep­per­Jim’s post today with a brief state­ment, and say that I real­ly per­son­al­ly enjoyed this post, as it let me know that I was not alone in mak­ing my own mis­takes.   Mak­ing mis­takes is how many of us learn, espe­cial­ly when we... Read more