Saturday Videos
2 Activists Not Sure on Communist Solution httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JICDKUrKPjE SHTF CREW TAG httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsoWzV9LgR0 The Day of Darkness Came httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er_6BKxk5Pg Surviving Hypothermic Conditions httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsTkAM2_Kvw Live, Laugh, Prepare… httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmGO7jAfMIg WROL Spring Development httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jz0m3HFjgs
100, no 200+ Items a Prepper Must Have for Survival and Barter
This post was just updated for clarity, accurate links, and further defined. This list has NOT been broken down into categories, and is simply expanded from it’s original format from the 2014 update, almost 10 years ago. Updated February 24th, 2023 Updated: 3/16/2014: I am adding links to the products so you do not have […]
Lessons Learned from Hurricane Floyd Employed in Hurricane Irene
This generous post was contributed by Cameron Green, of Green Academy of Personal Protection. Cam has contributed several other posts, and I continue to value his help and contributions. Please visit his Website at GAPPNJ if you live in the NY, NJ or PA area, and are looking for certification for CCWs, or learning how […]
Who Will Help me Eat My Bread?
There is an old children’s story about someone who asks “Who will help me make my bread?” No one helps. No one helps plant the wheat, harvest the wheat, mill the wheat, make the dough, or bake it. But at the end when it is asked who will help eat the bread everyone comes running […]
Solar Oven Fail
This weekend I had an “epic fail” (as the kids say) with my new solar cooker. I tried to make a simple dish, Arroz con Pollo (chicken with rice), but did not get past 100F. Why? The sun! As it turns out, Saturday morning and afternoon was the time mother nature chose to break its […]
September is National Preparedness Month
Our government has designated September as “National Preparedness Month“. This contrasts with the FBI’s profiling preppers as potential terrorists. I imagine the message is “be prepared”, but don’t be too prepared. We still want you dependent upon the government, so don’t become independent! 😉 So, what skill do you want to develop for National Preparedness […]
Prepping on Twenty Five Dollars a Week, Increasing Your Budget Slightly, Increases Preps Exponentially
I am going to try to be realistic here. There are posts all over the Web on preppers sites about starting your prepping for $5.00 a week. But what does $5.00 really buy these days. In my case $5.00 can buy: – 3 – 4 cans of soup, – 3 – 4 cans of tuna, […]
Repacking Some Core Preps for Portability, Ease of Use, Care Packaging, and Rotation
We talk an awful lot about how to rotate your canned, jarred, and other preps for freshness. We also talk a lot about storage, how to store, what to store, etc. Yesterday, I undertook a small job of repacking some of my “basic” preps. What are some of my most basic preps. Well, rice and […]
Prepper Evangelical
I read ST’s post from last week and started thinking about how to convert people to our preparedness mindset. To be frank, I think it is almost impossible to change people’s ideas on just about any subject. Their opinions have been formed over countless hours of careful conditioning. In our case, in our time, in this country, […]
Hurricane Irene, What I Missed, What I Didn’t, and What I Learned.
Admittedly, I missed the “center” of Hurricane Irene. Rather, I missed the heart of the storm. I made my way west to Pennsylvania, not to bug out, but to a good friends bachelor party. The upside is that I was going to be west of Irene. The downside, if there is one, is that (in […]