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

Les Stroud — Living Off the Grid Video

by suburban | Aug 31, 2010 | Bug Out Location, Les Stroud, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Many of you have no doubt seen this video in the past.  It is the one hour doc­u­men­tary that Les Stroud record­ed about buy­ing a piece of prop­er­ty and liv­ing off the grid poten­tial­ly sim­pli­fy­ing life.  That, how­ev­er is not the rea­son I am... Read more

“What’s the Best Survival Weapon?” Over At FieldandStream.com

by suburban | Aug 27, 2010 | Guns & Weapons, Self Reliance, Survival Gear

So, this is an arti­cle I ran across this week, from Field & Stream Mag­a­zine Online.  They had one of their guys upload the arti­cle about a few sur­vival weapons that he did some inde­pen­dent tests on.  The Hen­ry AR‑7, just hap­pened to be... 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

A Little More Food Storage — Stocking Up On Wheat Products

by suburban | Aug 9, 2010 | Food, Self Reliance

Well, I had every inten­tion of pick­ing up a bit more for my food stor­age, main­ly flour in both whole wheat and white.  Picked up a five pound bag of brown rice, canned chick­en, two bags of dried chick peas, a bag of dried peas, and a few more items.... Read more

100 Skills Every Man Should Know.

by suburban | Aug 6, 2010 | DIY, Homesteading, Self Reliance

Yes, I said every man, how­ev­er, I believe that many women should know these as well.  Espe­cial­ly if they are prep­pers or sur­vival­ist types.  Don’t get excit­ed, they are not all skills that require weld­ing or some­thing like that.  They are... Read more