Review of Ron Hood’s Urban Master Volume 1, The Home

by suburban | Nov 8, 2010 | Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

After it sit­ting on my shelf of a cou­ple of months, I slipped Ron Hood’s DVD on Urban Sur­vival in the DVD play­er this week­end.   In the first vol­ume Ron dis­cuss­es Urban Sur­vival tac­tics for the fol­low­ing cat­e­gories: Home Away from Home Threats to... Read more

Build Process Into Your Preparedness

by suburban | Oct 19, 2010 | Preparedness, Survivalism

So, yes­ter­day, on The Sur­vival Mom’s blog, she had a post on “What Sur­vival­Mom Can Learn from Star­bucks” about sur­vival or prep­ping.  I read it with inter­est, because I try to think out­side the box when it comes to my prep­ping and oth­er... Read more

Yikes, Inflation, Deflation, Bankers, and the Future

by suburban | Sep 24, 2010 | Economy

I saw this on TheSurvivalistBlog.net yes­ter­day, but only Part One was list­ed on the site.  I watched it, and this made so much sense to me I found parts one and two and want­ed to share with you.  Mike Mal­oney dis­cuss­es infla­tion, defla­tion, and more... Read more

Forgotten Preps That May Make a Difference.

by suburban | Sep 3, 2010 | Bug In, Preparedness

We all look at lists online of the basics to prep.  We all prep what we and our fam­i­lies will eat and con­sume.  But what about those things that we might for­get about?  The ancil­lary items we pick up occa­sion­al­ly at the con­ve­nient store or the... Read more

Why I Write About Cooking and Food

by suburban | Aug 24, 2010 | Cooking, Food, General

I, like many oth­ers in our coun­try, are VERY accus­tomed to just get­ting in the car, going to the gro­cery store and pick­ing up our food for the week.  Hon­est­ly, I grew up this way.  While many of my friends and their fam­i­lies ran farms, I was a... Read more