States of Awareness, Jeff Cooper’s “Cooper Codes”

by suburban | Aug 25, 2010 | Preparedness, Psychology, suburban survival, Urban Survival

This was orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished on 05/2004 by some­one else, some­where else, and I copied and past­ed it to a word doc­u­ment for my own per­son­al ref­er­ence.  It goes into the states of aware­ness that I think all sub­ur­ban­ites should be aware of when... Read more

Suburban and Urban Survival at TheSurvivalPodcast.com

by suburban | Aug 22, 2010 | suburban survival, Urban Survival

So, on my way back from camp­ing today, I had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to catch up on some of Jack Spirko’s, The Sur­vival Pod­cast Episodes.  The two that hap­pened to be in my queue for lis­ten­ing were a two part series on Urban and Sub­ur­ban Home­steading, and... Read more

DIY — Make an Altoid Tin Stove for Your Bug Out Bag

by suburban | Aug 17, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, But Out Bag, Cooking, DIY, Preparedness, Stoves, Urban Survival

Instructa­bles .com has instruc­tions on how to build an Altoids Tin Stove that you can throw in your car, bug out bag, etc…  I am prob­a­bly going to build one of these to drop in my Get Home Bag in my car, because I already have a hik­ing stove in my Bug Out... Read more

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Survival — Over at Survival Spot Blog

by suburban | Aug 16, 2010 | Bug Out, Nuclear Weapons, suburban survival, Urban Survival

I read the Sur­vival Spot Blog, almost dai­ly.  Par­tial­ly, because I read through so much stuff, he gen­er­al­ly pep­pers his blog with videos that make for a nice change.  Today, he had a post, enti­tled “10 Things You Did­n’t Know About Sur­vival.”... Read more

The Focus of Suburban Survival Blog and, if the SHTF

by 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

Top 100 Items to Disappear First in a SHTF

by suburban | Aug 10, 2010 | General, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Well, this is an old list I just came across, and thought I would post it.  I don’t agree with the order in which the list was cre­at­ed, but I am not sure that it was cre­at­ed in any spe­cial order either.  Not to men­tion, I have no clue who cre­at­ed... Read more