Financial Readiness for Survival (A Personal Note)

by suburban | Nov 18, 2010 | Economy, Preparedness, Survivalism

I’ve come to terms this week and come to a cou­ple of con­clu­sions.  That as a sur­vival­ist, prep­per, or what­ev­er you want to call me, I am not finan­cial­ly pre­pared for a large or even mid-size emer­gency.  I used to be pre­pared for the mid­size... Read more

One Hour Meltdown and More. Thanks Survival Mom.

by suburban | Nov 11, 2010 | Money, suburban survival, Survivalism, Urban Survival

Thanks for scar­ing me to death…  Not real­ly… Back in Jan­u­ary of 2010 The Sur­vival­Mom pub­lished a post on “The One-Hour Melt­down.”  I actu­al­ly came across this last week for the first time.  Not sure how I missed it, but, in trolling her blog,... Read more

Lone Wolf or Survivalist Group?

by suburban | Nov 3, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, Personal, suburban survival, Survivalism, Urban Survival

As many of the read­ers know, I have joined a meetup.com group for pre­pared­ness.  I joined for a cou­ple of rea­sons.  First, as a “lone wolf” I was look­ing to con­nect with like mind­ed peo­ple to hope­ful­ly teach and learn from them.  The sec­ond... Read more

What Would You Do If Technology Failed?

by suburban | Oct 25, 2010 | Homesteading, Preparedness, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Survivalism, Urban Survival

Recent­ly, I picked up the book “When Tech­nol­o­gy Fails” although I have not start­ed read­ing it yet, I came across this video this morn­ing, and want­ed to share it with you. Before I even start to read When Tech­nol­o­gy Fails, I was start­ing to pon­der, what... Read more

Build Process Into Your Preparedness

by suburban | Oct 19, 2010 | Preparedness, Survivalism

So, yes­ter­day, on The Sur­vival Mom’s blog, she had a post on “What Sur­vival­Mom Can Learn from Star­bucks” about sur­vival or prep­ping.  I read it with inter­est, because I try to think out­side the box when it comes to my prep­ping and oth­er... 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