Glenn Beck on Being Prepared and Prepping

by suburban | Nov 16, 2010 | Money, Preparedness

Go into this video to about 11:00 min­utes into the video, and Glenn starts talk­ing about being pre­pared for the future.  As he usu­al­ly does, he rants a bit, but he makes some seri­ous valid points here.  This aired on Novem­ber 15th.  He touch­es... Read more

Review of Ron Hood’s Urban Master Volume 1, The Home

by suburban | Nov 8, 2010 | Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

After it sit­ting on my shelf of a cou­ple of months, I slipped Ron Hood’s DVD on Urban Sur­vival in the DVD play­er this week­end.   In the first vol­ume Ron dis­cuss­es Urban Sur­vival tac­tics for the fol­low­ing cat­e­gories: Home Away from Home Threats to... Read more

Prepping For A Personal SHTF

by suburban | Nov 2, 2010 | Bug In, Preparedness

Today I want to take the time to talk a lit­tle about some­thing I have not.  The title says it all, I think, with the excep­tion of defin­ing what a “Per­son­al SHTF” is because, well, it’s per­son­al.  In today’s econ­o­my, I think that most peo­ple might... Read more

Mom, Dad, Prepping, and Politics

by suburban | Nov 1, 2010 | Politics, Preparedness

This week­end I admit­ted to my par­ents, who frankly, would think I was a bit of a wacko if I ful­ly admit­ted I was a prep­per.  I admit­ted to them that I had about three months worth of food in my apart­ment for any hard times ahead.  They both,... Read more

What Would You Do If Technology Failed?

by suburban | Oct 25, 2010 | Homesteading, Preparedness, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Survivalism, Urban Survival

Recent­ly, I picked up the book “When Tech­nol­o­gy Fails” although I have not start­ed read­ing it yet, I came across this video this morn­ing, and want­ed to share it with you. Before I even start to read When Tech­nol­o­gy Fails, I was start­ing to pon­der, what... Read more