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The Business of Survival, by an Anonymous Reader

Apr 11, 2011 |

Maybe it’s a case of life imi­tat­ing art. Maybe it’s just com­pa­nies tak­ing advan­tage of a pub­lic trend. Or, maybe it real­ly is a wave of fear sweep­ing the nation. What­ev­er “it” is ‘sur­vival’ today is becom­ing a big busi­ness! The sit­u­a­tion isn’t mere­ly the usu­al well…

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Blog Down and Explaination

Apr 10, 2011 |

I received sev­er­al emails over the past day ask­ing why the blog was down…  Well, it seems the Sub­ur­ban Sur­vival Blog was under what is called a Denial of Ser­vice attack or some­thing not unlike that, slow­ing the serv­er down dra­mat­i­cal­ly.  Unfor­tu­nate­ly, we are not…

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The High Level Plan to Preparedness

Apr 5, 2011 | , , , , , , , , ,

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 dis­cus­sion around how to get the…

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Prepper Jim’s Pocket EDC

Prepper Jim’s Pocket EDC

Apr 4, 2011 | , ,

“You know you are a prep­per if it takes five min­utes to load your pock­ets each time you leave the house.” The sub­ject of gear seems to be of great inter­est to the prep­per com­mu­ni­ty so I will address my gear-relat­ed items from time-to-time. I have come to think that…

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What I Did First, by PrepperJim

Mar 28, 2011 | ,

I am going to pref­ace Prep­per­Jim’s post today with a brief state­ment, and say that I real­ly per­son­al­ly enjoyed this post, as it let me know that I was not alone in mak­ing my own mis­takes.   Mak­ing mis­takes is how many of us learn, espe­cial­ly when we have no one else…

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