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

The Time Is Now, and It’s Not Too Late

by suburban | Oct 21, 2011 | Economy, Food, Preparedness, Prepping

I’m sit­ting in anoth­er damn air­port.  Not bitch­ing, how­ev­er, just anoth­er damn air­port.  I have to rant a bit.  The time is now.  The time is now if you are not a prep­per to prep.  The con­ver­sa­tions I have had with friends who are... Read more

100, no 200+ Items a Prepper Must Have for Survival and Barter

by suburban | Oct 7, 2011 | Barter, Gear, Preparedness, Prepping, Survivalism

This post was just updat­ed for clar­i­ty, accu­rate links, and fur­ther defined.  This list has NOT been bro­ken down into cat­e­gories, and is sim­ply expand­ed from it’s orig­i­nal for­mat from the 2014 update, almost 10 years ago. Updat­ed Feb­ru­ary 24th,... Read more

Prepper or Consumer Poser? That is the Question.

by suburban | Oct 3, 2011 | Personal, Prepping

It’s been a rough cou­ple of weeks with work. In fact, work has become increas­ing­ly busy. It was the end of the quar­ter and a race to get cus­tomer con­tracts closed up, sig­na­tures, etc. For those that don’t know, I work for a soft­ware com­pa­ny in sales. It can... Read more