Add One of These Budget Knives To Your Kit(s)

by suburban | Jan 26, 2012 | But Out Bag, EDC, Gear, Knives, Prepping, Survival Gear

In a short sight­ed ambi­tious attempt to think about learn­ing more skills, I want­ed, and con­tin­ue to want to learn how to make a knife out aof a blank piece of steel.  It is some­thing that I have want­ed to do for a long time, as does a bud­dy of mine.... Read more

2011 Urban Farming in Review

by ST | Dec 13, 2011 | Gardening, Guest Posts, Preparedness, Prepping, Self Reliance, Urban Survival

2011 was a pret­ty good year farm­ing wise at home. For an urban (I do con­sid­er myself urban) back­yard con­tain­er farm we did pret­ty good. And more impor­tant­ly, we learned a lot to apply for next year. Start­ing out we added sev­er­al new con­tain­ers to our... Read more

Coupons for Preparation, by ShaneTheNurse

by suburban | Nov 23, 2011 | Preparedness, Prepping, Self Reliance

My kids will tell you if it is not on sale and we do not have a coupon we do not need it. Hav­ing this men­tal­i­ty will help you to save mon­ey and build your stock­pile of life sus­tain­ing goods. I am sure by now many of us have seen shows on tele­vi­sion with... Read more

What’s Missing in Your Food Storage

by suburban | Nov 11, 2011 | Personal, Preparedness, Prepping

A very short post today… So, I took it upon myself to to re-arrange my food stor­age last night, repack some of it, con­sol­i­date some of it, and just make it a bit more orga­nized.  Hon­est­ly, it is still not where I want it.  How­ev­er, I need­ed to make... Read more

It’s All About the Jobs

by Prepperjim | Nov 2, 2011 | Civil Unrest, Crime, Economy, Gold and Silver, Money, Personal, Prepping

I read this arti­cle and became real­ly con­cerned, fright­ened even. The fig­ures from pay­roll tax­es report­ed to the Social Secu­ri­ty Admin­is­tra­tion on jobs and pay are, in a word, awful. Even more alarm­ing is this graph with the title “Few­er Jobs,... Read more

And Then There Was a Dinner Meeting

by suburban | Oct 31, 2011 | Bug In, Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Cooking, Guns & Weapons, Personal, Preparedness, Prepping, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Last week, I had din­ner with three oth­er prep­pers.  One was new, and the two oth­ers I have been in touch with for some time.  We all live in North­ern NJ, and are con­cerned with the econ­o­my, job growth, Bug­ging In, Bug­ging Out, etc.  The... Read more