Favorite New Additions to My Bug Out Bag
I have been eying up no rinse shampoo and no rinse body bath for some time on Amazon.com. This week I bought them and they came in… I have to tell you, I think they are going to be outstanding additions to my Bug Out Bag and for Camping. If you follow this blog, then […]
One Suburban Apartment Preppers Plan
Taken from a survival forum and copied to a word document late last year for my own review going forward: Now some people live in apartments like myself, I figured we needed a thread for suggestions for folks like myself. I’m pretty creative and have some ideas that I will be enacting soon if not […]
Testing Your Bug Out Route(s), I Am Beginning To Do This
A couple weekends ago I tested a bug out route (via vehicle) to a point that intersects with a spot where I can branch off into two or three other routes to get to my BOL. We’ll call this intersection point “Point B.” I wanted to test the following: Viability of the route Normal traffic […]
Why I Write About Cooking and Food
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 middle class kid with parents that worked, […]
How Stocked Should a Bug Out Location Be If You Have to Bug Out?
This is a thought that hit me this weekend as I was surfing the Web for survival topics so I could learn something new. I was looking up Bug Out Locations, and it hit me that, we (I) discuss prepping your primary home with preps primarily for Bugging In. But I started giving more thought […]
Here is a quick read. Urban financial elite owning and using their Bug Out Locations
Check this out from SHTF. Thought it should be posted for all: http://www.shtfplan.com/emergency-preparedness/prominent-hedge-fund-managers-idaho-ranch-it-would-be-a-place-you-could-hole-up-in_07222010 Here is the flaw I see with the NYC financial elite building out BOLs anywhere. These people have no clue how to be self sufficient. While they have the financial resources today to “buy” their food for storage, their gear, etc., can […]
DIY – Make Charcloth for your Bug Out Bag
I have not made any yet, but plan on it in short order. Charcloth looks like it is an easy way to get an ember burning so that you can start a fire… httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7uLVGrAt1M
My Survival and Outdoor iPhone Apps
When I bought my iPhone last year, I quickly realized it had the potential to be a survival tool My search for iPhone apps under “camping, hiking, and survival” quickly returned many options for me. I have tried a bunch of them, and am using the ‘best ones for me’ at the moment. They may […]
Apartment Security in an Urban area: Bug Out
Here is my perspective on apartment security if you live in an urban or suburban area. There is none… If you have prepped supplies my suggestion they should be for minor natural disasters only. People will be come refugees in a SHTF in urban areas and then they will be come locusts devouring every resource […]
My Philosophies on Bugging In vs. Bugging Out
I have a couple philosophies as I am an apartment dweller outside NYC with little space for storage, as well as a Bug Out location 100 miles from my apartment. So here are several philosophies of mine that I think might resonate with you: Bugging Out. There is NO predetermined formula or time to Bug […]