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

Obscure Book and Movie Recommendations

by suburban | Mar 11, 2011 | Books, Entertainment, Preparedness, Survivalism

Obscure Book and Movie Rec­om­men­da­tions, as pro­vid­ed to me by an anony­mous read­er and con­trib­u­tor Sur­vival blogs and web­sites are full of reviews about this or that book for prepa­ra­tion and/or out­door sur­vival skills. Or how a pop­u­lar movie or TV... Read more

Share and Share Alike? or The Case For Non-Lethal Defense “Part 2”

by suburban | Feb 1, 2011 | Preparedness, Survivalism

This is a sec­ond arti­cle by the same read­er who asked not to be iden­ti­fied. Dur­ing my last arti­cle I dis­cussed var­i­ous sce­nar­ios for using non-lethal defens­es. While the respons­es were great, they did focus on an ancil­lary aspect of the arti­cle I... Read more

What Are Your 2011 Preparedness Goals?

by suburban | Dec 31, 2010 | Preparedness, Survivalism

What are some of you 2011 Pre­pared­ness goals?  Here are some of mine in no par­tic­u­lar order: Add an addi­tion­al three months of food stor­age to my preps, Take at least two tac­ti­cal shoot­ing cours­es, Con­tin­ue teach­ing what I learn when I can, Take... Read more

Form/Join a Survivalist or Prepper Group or Lone Wolf it?

by suburban | Dec 22, 2010 | General, Personal, Survivalism

I joined the North­ern NJ Pre­pared­ness Meet­up because I was inter­est­ed in sur­vival pre­pared­ness.  I think that soci­ety, espe­cial­ly in the sub­urbs, social­ly frown on prep­ping and pre­pared­ness in gen­er­al.  Almost every­one I have met that is... Read more

Christmas Presents for My Family (Worth Reading!) By My Friend Kurt

by suburban | Dec 16, 2010 | Personal, Survivalism

Note: This was repub­lished with per­mis­sion from my good friend Kurt S.  He cur­rent­ly is liv­ing in Croa­t­ia, and I thought this relates a bit to sur­vival­ism, and asked him if I could re-post this.  Of course he said yes. Alter­nate Title: Fuck You... Read more