My New Boots

by suburban | Dec 28, 2010 | Clothing, Gear, Personal, Survival Gear

This may be a mun­dane post by com­par­i­son to oth­ers, but I had to tell you about my new boots.  Per­son­al­ly, I hate win­ter boots.  I think most of them actu­al­ly suck at the job they are sup­posed to do.  I know how to dress for the cold, I... Read more

Review of Bear Grylls Ultimate Knife & Parang Machete from Gerber by Field & Stream

by suburban | Nov 24, 2010 | Bear Grylls, EDC, Gear, Knives, Survival Gear

As a knife fan, I real­ly look for­ward see­ing and hear­ing reviews about knives and how they work in the field.  I hate to make a mis­take when buy­ing a knife.  Once you have bought and used it, you own it for life, unless you can unload it on some­one... Read more

Apartment Prepping, the Real Deal In My Opinion

by suburban | Nov 22, 2010 | Barter, Bug In, Bug Out, But Out Bag, Food, Preparedness, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Urban Survival, Water

I hes­i­tat­ed writ­ing this because I want­ed it to be com­pre­hen­sive, but I don’t want it to be a book. How­ev­er, I am going to let it be as long as it needs to be at this point.  Yes­ter­day, I was out at my NJ Pre­pared­ness Meet­up and one of the peo­ple... Read more

Hypothetical SHTF if Traveling for Work

by suburban | Oct 13, 2010 | Bug Out, EDC, Gear, Improvised Gear, Preparedness, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Survivalism, Urban Survival

So, this morn­ing when I woke up, I decid­ed to write a post about what if the SHTF while I was trav­el­ing for work, and all I had time to do is grab gear from out of the hotel room and get the heck out of Dodge on foot.  I did a quick sur­vey of the room, and... Read more

Storing Your Bug Out Gear in the City

by suburban | Sep 27, 2010 | Bug Out, But Out Bag, Gear, Improvised Gear, Preparedness, Survival Gear, Urban Survival

When I worked in NYC (post 9/11), I was always won­der­ing how I was going to store any type of gear to get me across two rivers into NJ to my apart­ment, so I could bug in or bug out if the SHTF and the bridges and tun­nels were shut down.  I decid­ed on, but... Read more

Another Place To Consider for Preps or Last Minute Preps

by suburban | Sep 14, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, Preparedness, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Urban Survival

It’s Sun­day morn­ing, or it was Sun­day morn­ing, I should say.  I was sit­ting at Star­bucks for the first time in a cou­ple of months, sip­ping on a cof­fee try­ing to read a book, when a cou­ple of old­er women sat down next to me, and start­ed yap­ping and... Read more