Replenishing the Reserve Fund, and Silver

by suburban | Dec 7, 2010 | Barter, Money, Precious Metals, Preparedness, Psychology, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Well, as it turns out, I have been able to save a lit­tle bit of cash recent­ly.  A few dol­lars back in sav­ings, paid off a cred­it card (two to go), and can think about replen­ish­ing my reserve cash fund.  Recent­ly I wrote about hav­ing a reserve fund... Read more

Why Home Security Is Important As A Survivalist No Matter Where You Live.

by suburban | Dec 6, 2010 | Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

This is a sub­ject that I feel strong­ly about.  It might stem from being in the home secu­ri­ty busi­ness for a few years, see­ing homes and per­son­al lives invad­ed, or worse because the occu­pants of that par­tic­u­lar domi­cile did not have a secu­ri­ty... Read more

Apartment Prepping, the Real Deal In My Opinion

by suburban | Nov 22, 2010 | Barter, Bug In, Bug Out, But Out Bag, Food, Preparedness, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Urban Survival, Water

I hes­i­tat­ed writ­ing this because I want­ed it to be com­pre­hen­sive, but I don’t want it to be a book. How­ev­er, I am going to let it be as long as it needs to be at this point.  Yes­ter­day, I was out at my NJ Pre­pared­ness Meet­up and one of the peo­ple... Read more

Review of Ron Hood’s Urban Master DVD “Away From Home”

by suburban | Nov 16, 2010 | Gear, Personal, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

As many of you know, I do a lot of trav­el­ing for work.  In fact, one of my con­cerns is always secu­ri­ty and pos­si­ble SHTF when I trav­el.  I don’t think there can be a much worse sit­u­a­tion than being with­out any of the gear you are famil­iar with... Read more

The Advantage of the Suburban Farmers Market

by suburban | Nov 12, 2010 | Cooking, Food, Gardening, Preparedness, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival

You might not think there is one.  At first glance you might say, the veg­eta­bles are not organ­ic, they have less fla­vor because they are fac­to­ry farm grown, they have steroids, etc.  But there is one advan­tage of the sub­ur­ban farm­ers... 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