Prepping For Your Car

by suburban | May 16, 2011 | Bug Out, Bug Out Vehicle, Personal, Preparedness

Let’s see… We buy food.  We buy gear.  We buy guns.  We buy ammu­ni­tion.  We grow gar­dens.  We can food.  We talk about Bug Out Loca­tions.  We talk about Bug­ging In.  We talk about a lot of things, but as I was dri­ving home... Read more

All Prepping, All the Time

by Prepperjim | May 4, 2011 | Gear, General, Guns & Weapons, Health, Money, Personal, Psychology

“All Prep­ping and No Play, Makes Jim a Dull Boy” One down­side to being a prep­per is there is always some­thing that needs doing to pre­pare for pos­si­ble emer­gen­cies. Peo­ple in your life may not share the same sense of urgency, to the point of being annoyed at... Read more

Urban Blender

by Prepperjim | Apr 27, 2011 | But Out Bag, EDC, Gardening, Guns & Weapons, Survival Gear

In any envi­ron­ment, blend­ing in can be an impor­tant sur­vival tac­tic. It is no dif­fer­ent in urban or sub­ur­ban sit­u­a­tions where fit­ting in keeps you under the radar and safe. Every­thing you do is either use­ful cam­ou­flage or dan­ger­ous attrac­tion,... Read more

Bare Minimum Gear You Should Have at Your Bug Out Location

by suburban | Apr 22, 2011 | Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Preparedness, Self Reliance, Survival Gear

So, after hav­ing a con­ver­sa­tion with a cou­ple of prep­pers this week, I decid­ed to put togeth­er a list of gear in no par­tic­u­lar order around what you should have at your Bug Out Loca­tion.  Recent­ly I have been chat­ting with a lot of peo­ple around... Read more

Prepper Jim’s Goals

by suburban | Apr 12, 2011 | Guest Posts, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

I pre­vi­ous­ly wrote that the begin­ning of any prep­ping plan is goals. That is, what is it you are actu­al­ly try­ing to accom­plish? In oth­er words, you must have SMART goals. SMART stands for Spe­cif­ic, Mea­sur­able, Achiev­able, Real­is­tic and Time Bound. So,... Read more