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

Prepping Is The Morally Right Thing To Do

by suburban | Oct 18, 2010 | Preparedness, Psychology

You read it right.  And, frankly this is just a the­o­ry I am devel­op­ing based on a con­ver­sa­tion I had today with some­one.  Prep­ping is moral­ly, the right thing to do.  I say this because being pre­pared for ANY type of dis­as­ter no mat­ter... Read more

Unlikely Places to Find Survival Information Online

by suburban | Oct 12, 2010 | General

Here is a small list of unlike­ly places to find infor­ma­tion on sur­vival.  This is more fun I think, to most of the read­ers than infor­ma­tive, but when I start­ed look­ing around for these I only found a few places online that I could draw from. Primer... Read more

Another Place To Consider for Preps or Last Minute Preps

by suburban | Sep 14, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, Preparedness, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Urban Survival

It’s Sun­day morn­ing, or it was Sun­day morn­ing, I should say.  I was sit­ting at Star­bucks for the first time in a cou­ple of months, sip­ping on a cof­fee try­ing to read a book, when a cou­ple of old­er women sat down next to me, and start­ed yap­ping and... Read more

Lessons in Preserving Meats and Poultry

by suburban | Sep 13, 2010 | Cooking, DIY, Food, Personal, Preparedness, Self Reliance

This past labor day week­end, a bud­dy and I went camp­ing.  Not like real camp­ing, how­ev­er, in the woods with no facil­i­ties, and no one around for miles, but to a piece of prop­er­ty his fam­i­ly owns that he will like­ly use as a Bug Out Loca­tion.... Read more