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

Prepper Jim’s Goals

by suburban | Apr 12, 2011 | Guest Posts, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

I pre­vi­ous­ly wrote that the begin­ning of any prep­ping plan is goals. That is, what is it you are actu­al­ly try­ing to accom­plish? In oth­er words, you must have SMART goals. SMART stands for Spe­cif­ic, Mea­sur­able, Achiev­able, Real­is­tic and Time Bound. So,... Read more

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

Tune into Doctor Prepper Radio Monday, April 4th

by suburban | Apr 3, 2011 | Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Well, looks like I will be on Doc­tor Prep­per Radio again Mon­day evening, April 4th.  Tune in and lis­ten to Doc­tor Prep­per and I talk about sub­ur­ban and urban prep­ping.  There’s not going to be an agen­da or for­mat, I think, but more just... Read more

Thinking About Medicine and First Aid During a SHTF Event

by suburban | Apr 1, 2011 | first aid, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Recent­ly I have been giv­ing some thought to First Aid and Med­i­cine in the wake of the three very bad earth­quakes our plan­et has recent­ly seen in the past 14 or 15 months.  I have been think­ing about my first aid kit, is it ade­quate, what I know... Read more