Survival Heater for Your Car, My Test

by suburban | Feb 13, 2012 | Fire, Gear, Improvised Gear, Preparedness, Prepping, Self Reliance, Weather

I know. Every­one has done a YouTube les­son on how to build one of these inex­pen­sive emer­gency heaters for your car. Hon­est­ly, I had to try it for myself to be sure that it “worked.” Many peo­ple use emp­ty steel cof­fee cans, some peo­ple impro­vise and use... Read more

Saturday Videos

by suburban | Jan 21, 2012 | Personal

Reli­gion and the SHTF You need Med­ical train­ing if you car­ry a gun. EDC Update The Pseu­do Prep­per Dan­ger Area… While you bug out or run secu­ri­ty for an area. Sur­vival Kit in Water­proof Float­ing... Read more

2011 Urban Farming in Review

by ST | Dec 13, 2011 | Gardening, Guest Posts, Preparedness, Prepping, Self Reliance, Urban Survival

2011 was a pret­ty good year farm­ing wise at home. For an urban (I do con­sid­er myself urban) back­yard con­tain­er farm we did pret­ty good. And more impor­tant­ly, we learned a lot to apply for next year. Start­ing out we added sev­er­al new con­tain­ers to our... Read more

What’s Missing in Your Food Storage

by suburban | Nov 11, 2011 | Personal, Preparedness, Prepping

A very short post today… So, I took it upon myself to to re-arrange my food stor­age last night, repack some of it, con­sol­i­date some of it, and just make it a bit more orga­nized.  Hon­est­ly, it is still not where I want it.  How­ev­er, I need­ed to make... Read more

It’s All About the Jobs

by Prepperjim | Nov 2, 2011 | Civil Unrest, Crime, Economy, Gold and Silver, Money, Personal, Prepping

I read this arti­cle and became real­ly con­cerned, fright­ened even. The fig­ures from pay­roll tax­es report­ed to the Social Secu­ri­ty Admin­is­tra­tion on jobs and pay are, in a word, awful. Even more alarm­ing is this graph with the title “Few­er Jobs,... Read more