You’re Completely Unprepared, Using What You’ve Got.

by suburban | Jun 13, 2011 | Bug Out, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

This post is a result of the recent sur­vey that I just took based on one of the com­ments that was left… I thought it might be an inter­est­ing one to start with, since for new­bies, it might help them to use what they have imme­di­ate­ly if they had to… Sce­nario.... Read more

Thinking About Buying Rural Land for Your Bug Out Location

by suburban | May 30, 2011 | Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Land in a rur­al area for a Bug Out Loca­tion is roman­tic thought for me, and recent­ly I have been look­ing at prices with­in a cou­ple hour dri­ve of where I live in an area that is the polar oppo­site of where I live.  I make some notes about a year ago... Read more

Man’s Best Friend? Or Worst Enemy?

by ST | May 24, 2011 | Civil Unrest, Guest Posts, Preparedness, Urban Survival

An odd occur­rence hap­pened to me this win­ter. The short ver­sion: Late one cold evening we heard an odd sound at the front door. Our dog start­ed bark­ing. I didn’t see any­one at the door. No one rang the bell. So final­ly I care­ful­ly cracked open the door and a... Read more

EDC Bag Reconfiguration

by Prepperjim | May 11, 2011 | But Out Bag, EDC, Gear, Personal, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Urban Survival

When I first began prep­ping, I put a tac­ti­cal mes­sen­ger bag on my Ama­zon Christ­mas list so that I could car­ry “stuff” around to be a “sur­vival­ist” if the “SHTF”. I am putting those words in quo­ta­tion, because I had no idea at the time what stuff I need­ed... Read more

Reality check — Part 1: Farming/Growing Your Own Food

by ST | May 10, 2011 | Food, Gardening, Guest Posts, Self Reliance, Urban Survival

Every survival/prepping web­site and book has some sec­tion on grow­ing your own food dur­ing a SHTF event.  There are ads for seed com­pa­nies show­ing a per­son push­ing a shop­ping cart down isles of emp­ty super­mar­ket shelves and the cap­tion reads... Read more

Bartertown, U.S.A.

by ST | May 3, 2011 | Barter, Economy, Food, Guest Posts, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Barter – To trade by exchange of com­modi­ties rather than by the use of mon­ey. (Source: Dictionary.com. Source loca­tion: Ran­dom House, inc.) Much has been writ­ten about the use of barter in a post SHTF/TEOTWAWKI. event. Even in “mere­ly” a post-finan­cial... Read more