How Inflation and Shrinkflation Affects Families, Economy, and Being a Prepper

by suburban | Jan 22, 2022 | Economy, Inflation, Preparedness, Prepping

When infla­tion is ris­ing, a lot of peo­ple feel the pinch in their wal­lets. How­ev­er, infla­tion is not just ris­ing prices mak­ing every­thing you have less impres­sive. Infla­tion can be mea­sured in many dif­fer­ent ways. Income infla­tion mea­sures how fast... Read more

Building Your Own Isolation Room

by suburban | Aug 3, 2020 | Improvised Gear, Pandemic, Preparedness

The fol­low­ing was pro­vid­ed to me by my good friend Shane.  He’s con­tributed to this blog in the past as Shanethenurse.  Shane and I fre­quent­ly talk about bug-out loca­tions, shel­ter­ing in, med­ical prep, etc.  As you can imag­ine the most... Read more

Ramen Noodles as a Food Prep

by suburban | Aug 2, 2020 | Food, Food Storage

Over the years, I am sur­prised I haven’t writ­ten about this.  I saw the ques­tion posed else­where and thought I would take a few min­utes to write about it…  Count­less oth­er blogs have talked about this, but this is real­ly the first time I am sit­ting... Read more

15 Thoughts About The Coronavirus COVID-19

by suburban | Mar 12, 2020 | Bug In, Pandemic, Preparedness

Well, if it is one thing I can hon­est­ly say, is that I nev­er thought I would be writ­ing about an actu­al pan­dem­ic that I might be in the mid­dle of, in any stage of its process.  When I first heard about Coro­n­avirus pri­or to the COVID-19 strain being... Read more

What’s Still Running After an EMP Event?

by suburban | Feb 27, 2019 | EMP, Preparedness, Survival Gear

Today, I would like to take a look at what might or might not be work­ing after a spec­u­la­tive EMP event regard­less if it’s a man­made or nat­ur­al based dis­as­ter. I think there is a lot of spec­u­la­tion about the types of gear, vehi­cles, elec­tron­ics, etc.... Read more