The Get Home Bag for the Girlfriend and Her Impending Education

by suburban | Feb 12, 2013 | Bug Out, But Out Bag, Preparedness, Prepping, suburban survival, Urban Survival

As I men­tioned in a pre­vi­ous post, I was con­cerned about mak­ing sure my girl­friend was pre­pared for an emer­gency, pri­mar­i­ly to get to my domi­cile in the event of an impend­ing or hap­pen­ing dis­as­trous sit­u­a­tion.  I hope to make sure... Read more

Local or Alternative Currency in a Community for Higher Economic Sustainability

by suburban | Aug 21, 2012 | Barter, Currency, Economy, Money, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

On the ride home from my boss’s office on Mon­day evening this week, I was think­ing about the econ­o­my, and the ram­i­fi­ca­tions of eco­nom­ic col­lapse.  I thought about how it would effect where I live in NJ today, and I thought about how it might effect my... Read more

Thoughts on a Storage Unit as a Fallback Shelter or Bug Out Location

by suburban | May 17, 2012 | Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

This is a response to @Alex516 who asked the fol­low­ing ques­tion, which made me think a lit­tle deep­er on the sub­ject, and I thought it would make a good post: @Alex516 asked: “I’d be curi­ous about your thoughts for using a stor­age unit as a lay­over. I’m... Read more

Pandemic Thoughts, and How’s Your NBC & Quarantine Gear?

by suburban | Mar 23, 2012 | Pandemic, Preparedness, Prepping, suburban survival, Urban Survival

As I spend time writ­ing this post, I am on a plane watch­ing the film Con­ti­gion. If you have not seen it, it’s a film about a pan­dem­ic that start­ed and begins to be wide­ly spread by those trav­el­ing. As the film pro­gress­es, it is found that the pan­dem­ic is... Read more

2011 Urban Farming in Review

by ST | Dec 13, 2011 | Gardening, Guest Posts, Preparedness, Prepping, Self Reliance, Urban Survival

2011 was a pret­ty good year farm­ing wise at home. For an urban (I do con­sid­er myself urban) back­yard con­tain­er farm we did pret­ty good. And more impor­tant­ly, we learned a lot to apply for next year. Start­ing out we added sev­er­al new con­tain­ers to our... Read more

Endless Fall – Part 6: Trouble Comes For Dinner (Alternate Ending)

by ST | Dec 6, 2011 | Civil Unrest, Economy, Food, Guest Posts, Guns & Weapons, Levels of Awareness, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Note: The fol­low­ing is the sixth install­ment of a series that rep­re­sents a first-hand chron­i­cle of a fic­tion­al eco­nom­ic col­lapse in the Unit­ed States. This series is to be viewed as only one pos­si­ble sce­nario. Con­tains explic­it lan­guage.   May... Read more