Apartment Prepping, the Real Deal In My Opinion

by suburban | Nov 22, 2010 | Barter, Bug In, Bug Out, But Out Bag, Food, Preparedness, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Urban Survival, Water

I hes­i­tat­ed writ­ing this because I want­ed it to be com­pre­hen­sive, but I don’t want it to be a book. How­ev­er, I am going to let it be as long as it needs to be at this point.  Yes­ter­day, I was out at my NJ Pre­pared­ness Meet­up and one of the peo­ple... Read more

Financial Readiness for Survival (A Personal Note)

by suburban | Nov 18, 2010 | Economy, Preparedness, Survivalism

I’ve come to terms this week and come to a cou­ple of con­clu­sions.  That as a sur­vival­ist, prep­per, or what­ev­er you want to call me, I am not finan­cial­ly pre­pared for a large or even mid-size emer­gency.  I used to be pre­pared for the mid­size... Read more

Reader Question About Civil Unrest and Gun Confiscation

by suburban | Oct 11, 2010 | Civil Unrest, General, Guns & Weapons, Personal

This ques­tion was pub­lished with per­mis­sion from the author.  The ques­tion email pos­es the ques­tion of gun con­fis­ca­tion dur­ing time(s) of civ­il unrest and dur­ing a dis­as­ter where any gov­ern­ment is capa­ble of reach­ing out and con­fis­cat­ing... Read more

I Ordered My ARRL Ham Radio License Manual

by suburban | Oct 1, 2010 | Communications, Personal, Preparedness

I ordered my ARRL Ham Radio License Man­u­al this week.   It was pred­i­cat­ed on the North­ern  NJ Meet­up I attend­ed a cou­ple weeks ago, and anoth­er gen­tle­man I met at the meet­up some time ago that has his Ham license.  There is a lot of... Read more

DIY — Making Makeshift Shoes Out of Tires Post SHTF

by suburban | Sep 30, 2010 | Clothing, DIY, suburban survival, Urban Survival

NOTE:  I found this post here, and thought it inter­est­ing enough as a DIY project you can file in the back of your head or put on your USB dri­ve to car­ry around with you: This seems sort of odd…but in a post dis­as­ter world that may not get back to... Read more