Favorite New Additions to My Bug Out Bag

by suburban | Sep 5, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, But Out Bag, Health, Hygiene, Psychology, suburban survival, Urban Survival

I have been eying up no rinse sham­poo and no rinse body bath for some time on Amazon.com.  This week I bought them and they came in… I have to tell you, I think they are going to be out­stand­ing addi­tions to my Bug Out Bag and for Camp­ing. If you fol­low this... Read more

One Suburban Apartment Preppers Plan

by suburban | Sep 4, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Tak­en from a sur­vival forum and copied to a word doc­u­ment late last year for my own review going for­ward: Now some peo­ple live in apart­ments like myself, I fig­ured we need­ed a thread for sug­ges­tions for folks like myself.  I’m pret­ty cre­ative and... Read more

Forgotten Preps That May Make a Difference.

by suburban | Sep 3, 2010 | Bug In, Preparedness

We all look at lists online of the basics to prep.  We all prep what we and our fam­i­lies will eat and con­sume.  But what about those things that we might for­get about?  The ancil­lary items we pick up occa­sion­al­ly at the con­ve­nient store or the... Read more

Bugging In vs. Bugging Out at TheSurvivalPodcast.com

by suburban | Sep 2, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Bug Out Vehicle, But Out Bag, Preparedness

The title says it all.  I am not going to write a bunch about this.  Just lis­ten to the pod­cast: Episode-502- Bug­ging In vs. Bug­ging Out – Answer­ing with... Read more

Apartment Prepping for Fall and Winter

by suburban | Sep 1, 2010 | Bug In, Cooking, Energy, Gear, Light, Preparedness, Self Reliance, Shelter, Stoves, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Urban Survival, Weather

Well, the end of August is com­ing, and the weath­er is start­ing to change a bit; evenings are get­ting cool­er, and days are start­ing to get a bit short­er.  This to me is a clear sign of a few things.  One, some of my Bug Out Bag con­tents need to be... Read more

Testing Your Bug Out Route(s), I Am Beginning To Do This

by suburban | Aug 30, 2010 | Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Bug Out Vehicle, suburban survival, Urban Survival

A cou­ple week­ends ago I test­ed a bug out route (via vehi­cle) to a point that inter­sects with a spot where I can branch off into two or three oth­er routes to get to my BOL. We’ll call this inter­sec­tion point “Point B.” I want­ed to test the fol­low­ing:... Read more