A Friend Has Lost Everything, Checked Into a Men’s Shelter…

suburban Sep 9 2010 Clothing Economy EDC Fire first aid Food Improvised Gear Personal Psychology suburban survival Survival Gear Survivalism Urban Survival Water

This post is very close to my heart…  It pains me to write it, as it affects a friend of mine direct­ly, that refus­es help, as I will illus­trate. I have a friend I got a call from this week.  He has lost his job, his apart­ment, much of his cloth­ing,... Read more

Fortify Your Winter Camp if You Bug Out

suburban Aug 18 2010 Bug Out Survivalism Weather

So, I thought this was pret­ty cool, and some good advise.  In the event you have to bug out in the win­ter whether you start out on foot, or start out in a vehi­cle and then end up on foot in the win­ter with an ample lev­el of snow on the ground, you may end up... Read more

Practical and Affordable Prepping, at the SurvivalBlog.com

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

The Focus of Suburban Survival Blog and, if the SHTF

suburban Aug 12 2010 Bug In Bug Out Bug Out Location But Out Bag Preparedness suburban survival Survival Gear Survivalism Urban Survival

I am writ­ing this post, because, it is prob­a­bly some­thing I should have writ­ten sev­er­al months ago when I start­ed writ­ing a dai­ly blog on my thoughts about sub­ur­ban sur­vival.  I real­ly start­ed get­ting con­cerned about what was going on in the... Read more

Podcast about Urban Survival by Chip Monk

suburban Aug 2 2010 Preparedness Self Reliance suburban survival Survivalism Urban Survival

Chip Monk is a new pod­cast­er, pod­cast­ing about sur­vival­ism.  This morn­ing I came across his pod­cast on Urban Sur­vival and thought I would share it with you.  This pod­cast cov­ers the basics, and you may already have them down, how­ev­er, if you do... Read more

Reviews of the Henry Survival Rifle / AR‑7

suburban Jul 7 2010 Guns & Weapons Hunting Survival Gear Survivalism

So a cou­ple months ago I bought a Hen­ry .22 Sur­vival rifle.  It is an inter­est­ing rifle that packs up into its own stock for stor­age.  I’ve shot it a cou­ple of times and have mixed feel­ings about it.  It seems to do exact­ly what Hen­ry said it... Read more