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

Accelerating the Purchase of Preps

by suburban | Apr 18, 2011 | Food, General, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Ide­al­ly, you replace one can of some­thing with two cans of that same some­thing when you use it and you are rotat­ing your preps.  Late­ly, I have been a bit lazy think­ing I have had enough, but I real­ly do not, and if you read Fri­day’s post, clear­ly my... Read more

Thinking About More Preps, Goals, Milestones, and Disaster

by suburban | Apr 15, 2011 | Bug In, Bug Out, But Out Bag, Economy, Gear, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

It’s a fan­tas­tic evening here in NJ, with the excep­tion of my aller­gies kick­ing up, which reminds me. Time to stock up a few sea­sons worth of Zyrtec or some oth­er anti-hys­timine.  As long as they as stored cor­rect­ly, they should last for sev­er­al years... Read more