Fortify Your Winter Camp if You Bug Out

by suburban | Aug 18, 2010 | Bug Out, Survivalism, Weather

So, I thought this was pret­ty cool, and some good advise.  In the event you have to bug out in the win­ter whether you start out on foot, or start out in a vehi­cle and then end up on foot in the win­ter with an ample lev­el of snow on the ground, you may end up... Read more

DIY — Make an Altoid Tin Stove for Your Bug Out Bag

by suburban | Aug 17, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, But Out Bag, Cooking, DIY, Preparedness, Stoves, Urban Survival

Instructa­bles .com has instruc­tions on how to build an Altoids Tin Stove that you can throw in your car, bug out bag, etc…  I am prob­a­bly going to build one of these to drop in my Get Home Bag in my car, because I already have a hik­ing stove in my Bug Out... Read more

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Survival — Over at Survival Spot Blog

by suburban | Aug 16, 2010 | Bug Out, Nuclear Weapons, suburban survival, Urban Survival

I read the Sur­vival Spot Blog, almost dai­ly.  Par­tial­ly, because I read through so much stuff, he gen­er­al­ly pep­pers his blog with videos that make for a nice change.  Today, he had a post, enti­tled “10 Things You Did­n’t Know About Sur­vival.”... Read more

Practical and Affordable Prepping, at the SurvivalBlog.com

by suburban | Aug 15, 2010 | General, Preparedness, Self Reliance, Survivalism

JWR’s blog, this morn­ing has a good post on Prac­ti­cal and Afford­able Prep­ping, that I think is worth the read.  Here is a snip­pet and the link. The pur­pose of this sub­mis­sion is to estab­lish that we all have real lives to lead while we remain vig­i­lant... Read more

My Altoids EDC Emergency Kit

by suburban | Aug 13, 2010 | DIY, EDC, Gear, Preparedness

I car­ry an Altoid EDC Emer­gency Kit just about every­where I go.  I have one that can get through air­line secu­ri­ty (no razor blade or knife, but it does have a fire steel and scraper in the kit that makes it through secu­ri­ty with no issues).  The one... Read more

The Focus of Suburban Survival Blog and, if the SHTF

by suburban | Aug 12, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, Bug Out Location, But Out Bag, Preparedness, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Survivalism, Urban Survival

I am writ­ing this post, because, it is prob­a­bly some­thing I should have writ­ten sev­er­al months ago when I start­ed writ­ing a dai­ly blog on my thoughts about sub­ur­ban sur­vival.  I real­ly start­ed get­ting con­cerned about what was going on in the... Read more