Promises To Keep : Your New Post-SHFT Credit Card

by ST | Sep 27, 2011 | Barter, Guest Posts, Money, Survivalism

There is no hon­or among thieves. But, thank­ful­ly, most peo­ple aren’t thieves. Even in a SHTF sce­nario, with some excep­tion (e.g. Kat­ri­na), most peo­ple do behave well. For the most part. Liv­ing in or near a big city it can be hard to under­stand that a... Read more

Rural Land for Bug Out Location: A Response to Suburban

by ST | Sep 20, 2011 | Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Guest Posts, Homesteading, Preparedness, Self Reliance, Shelter, Survivalism

This arti­cle is a response to Suburban’s May 31st arti­cle “Think­ing About Buy­ing Rur­al Land for Your Bug Out Loca­tion”. A good arti­cle cer­tain­ly. I too have been look­ing into the pos­si­bil­i­ty of buy­ing some unde­vel­oped (“raw” as Sub­ur­ban puts it)... Read more

Rant About the Main Stream Media, Post Hurricane Irene. Following a Post from Modern Survival Blog

by suburban | Sep 2, 2011 | Personal, Survivalism

This post is prob­a­bly more of a rant, and you will want to read the post over at Mod­ern Sur­vival Blog about Hur­ri­cane Irene: Main-Stream Slams Hur­ri­cane IRENE Prep­pers. Hon­est­ly, I am fired up.  How is it pos­si­ble the main stream... Read more

Benefits of CERT Training

by Mr-Jones | Aug 5, 2011 | CERT, Personal, Preparedness, suburban survival, Survivalism

I live in a com­mu­ni­ty of less than 10,000 peo­ple in rur­al Cache Val­ley on the ID/UT bor­der with vol­un­teer fire and ambu­lance ser­vice.  It’s been 8 months now since I joined my local Com­mu­ni­ty Emer­gency Response Team.  Since then: I have... Read more

Black Swans, Why We Prepare

by Prepperjim | Apr 20, 2011 | Personal, Survivalism, Water

A few years ago I read a book called The Black Swan, by Nas­sim Taleb.  While the book is pri­mar­i­ly applic­a­ble to the finan­cial cri­sis (it came out before the cred­it cri­sis hit and accu­rate­ly pre­dict­ed the issues), it also applies to low... Read more

The High Level Plan to Preparedness

by suburban | Apr 5, 2011 | Bug In, Bug Out, But Out Bag, General, Levels of Awareness, Physical Fitness, Preparedness, suburban survival, Survivalism, Urban Survival

Well, after last evening’s inter­view with Doc­tor Prep­per, I thought I would write up a few thoughts on plan­ning for your pre­pared­ness goals.  This will prob­a­bly appeal to novice prep­pers, but it got me think­ing about a few points of... Read more