No More Apartment Prepping… Any advice?

by suburban | May 12, 2014 | Personal, Preparedness, Prepping

Well, it seems I usu­al­ly start out a post with, “It’s been a while, but…”  In this case, I can say that it’s been just about two months; it’s been stress­ful, reward­ing, expen­sive, and much more.  Any­way, as the title says, I’m out of the... Read more

Personal 2013 Year in Review

by suburban | Jan 2, 2014 | Personal, Preparedness, Prepping

2013 was an inter­est­ing year for me.  I did­n’t blog as much as I have blogged in the past, and I think that was appar­ent to every­one.  I prepped less this year than I have in the past.  In fact by com­par­i­son to the past sev­er­al years, it was... Read more

Review of “Without Rule of Law, Advanced Skills to Help You Survive: Hide, Evade, Scavenge, and Infiltrate”

by suburban | Feb 20, 2013 | Civil Unrest, Preparedness, Prepping, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Survivalism, Urban Survival

This review is prob­a­bly months over­due. I’ve had “With­out Rule of Law: Advanced Skills to Help You Sur­vive” for months. It also took me a cou­ple months to get through because I picked it up just every now and then to read it when I had a spare moment. To be sure... Read more

Prepping, a New Girlfriend, and Her Dog…

by suburban | Jan 6, 2013 | Personal, Preparedness, Prepping

Well, We’re all prepar­ing here for what­ev­er it is we are prepar­ing for.  Hur­ri­cane, eco­nom­ic col­lapse, earth­quake, civ­il unrest, what­ev­er it is.  As a sin­gle per­son, prep­ping has been a pret­ty sim­ple con­cept to under­take.  Know what... Read more

Hurricane Sandy, Five Days Without Power, Three Weeks Later, and the Gear That Made My Life Easier

by suburban | Nov 23, 2012 | Gear, Natural Disaster, Preparedness

This is my (Sub­ur­ban’s)  slight­ly over­due post­mortem of Hur­ri­cane Sandy.  It’s Thanks­giv­ing day as I write this, and I want to say thank you again to all of you, my read­ers, as well as a Hap­py Thanks­giv­ing to you and your fam­i­lies.  My... Read more