Replenishing the Reserve Fund, and Silver

by suburban | Dec 7, 2010 | Barter, Money, Precious Metals, Preparedness, Psychology, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Well, as it turns out, I have been able to save a lit­tle bit of cash recent­ly.  A few dol­lars back in sav­ings, paid off a cred­it card (two to go), and can think about replen­ish­ing my reserve cash fund.  Recent­ly I wrote about hav­ing a reserve fund... Read more

Why Home Security Is Important As A Survivalist No Matter Where You Live.

by suburban | Dec 6, 2010 | Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

This is a sub­ject that I feel strong­ly about.  It might stem from being in the home secu­ri­ty busi­ness for a few years, see­ing homes and per­son­al lives invad­ed, or worse because the occu­pants of that par­tic­u­lar domi­cile did not have a secu­ri­ty... Read more

Tight Budget? Get Prepared Anyway.

by suburban | Dec 3, 2010 | But Out Bag, Food, Money, Preparedness

Every­one has mon­ey on the brain these days.  I don’t care how much mon­ey you have.  A forum I am some­times active on had one young man in col­lege just sought the advice of the mem­bers on how he can get pre­pared, as well as help his fam­i­ly... Read more

Interesting Conversation

by suburban | Nov 28, 2010 | Economy, Preparedness, Self Reliance

I have a friend that is a finan­cial advi­sor and stock bro­ker in the NYC area.  I actu­al­ly have a few of them, but last evening while we were out to din­ner in NYC, he men­tioned a cou­ple of his pre­dic­tions for our econ­o­my in the not to dis­tant future.... Read more

The Mobile Washer

by suburban | Nov 23, 2010 | Hygiene, Preparedness

So, I just got my Mobile Wash­er.  Pri­mar­i­ly I pur­chased it for camp­ing trips next year so that I could wash the smoke and body odors out of my clothes while camp­ing for a few days, and decrease the num­ber of cloth­ing items I bring.  It looks like a... Read more

Apartment Prepping, the Real Deal In My Opinion

by suburban | Nov 22, 2010 | Barter, Bug In, Bug Out, But Out Bag, Food, Preparedness, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Urban Survival, Water

I hes­i­tat­ed writ­ing this because I want­ed it to be com­pre­hen­sive, but I don’t want it to be a book. How­ev­er, I am going to let it be as long as it needs to be at this point.  Yes­ter­day, I was out at my NJ Pre­pared­ness Meet­up and one of the peo­ple... Read more