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Your Home Crisis Guidebook for a Survival Situation or a SHTF

Family.  They say family is one of the most important things in life. If it is just you and the wife or you and the husband, they are family. If you have kids, and your kids have kids, now that’s a family, and no doubt they are very important to you. If you are reading […]

Another Place To Consider for Preps or Last Minute Preps

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 gossiping, being, frankly loud and obnoxious. […]

What Odd Places Have You Purchased Preps

So, what are some of the odd places you have purchased preps in the past.  Just curious.  I am on a weird place kick, as there is another post coming that follows up from the Auto Parts Store post the other day… Post the odd and weird places you have purchased preps in the past […]

Do You Live In a Constitution Free Zone

I sure don’t.  Wondering what a “Constitution Free Zone” is?  So was I until about an hour ago. A Constitution Free Zone is the area “within “100-miles of the US land and coastal borders.” Airports are also in these zones, regardless of their geographic location. According to 2007 figures from the US Census Bureau, 197.4 […]

Five Minute Bug Out at Survival Spot Blog

Today, I came across a video at the Survival Spot Blog entitled “Five Minute Bug Out.”  You can check out the video below. I may actually try this exercise in the coming week or two.  I may set up a poll as to what type of scenario to be in.  The poll will let you […]

One Suburban Apartment Preppers Plan

Taken from a survival forum and copied to a word document late last year for my own review going forward: Now some people live in apartments like myself, I figured we needed a thread for suggestions for folks like myself.  I’m pretty creative and have some ideas that I will be enacting soon if not […]

Forgotten Preps That May Make a Difference.

We all look at lists online of the basics to prep.  We all prep what we and our families will eat and consume.  But what about those things that we might forget about?  The ancillary items we pick up occasionally at the convenient store or the pharmacy?  I am compiling a list of those things […]

Apartment Prepping for Fall and Winter

Well, the end of August is coming, and the weather is starting to change a bit; evenings are getting cooler, and days are starting to get a bit shorter.  This to me is a clear sign of a few things.  One, some of my Bug Out Bag contents need to be rotated out soon with […]

Les Stroud – Living Off the Grid Video

Many of you have no doubt seen this video in the past.  It is the one hour documentary that Les Stroud recorded about buying a piece of property and living off the grid potentially simplifying life.  That, however is not the reason I am posting this video.  My friend Doug actually gave me the idea […]

Protecting Your Preps by Caching Some Along Your Bug Out Routes

Protecting your preps (Security) is one of the basic five basic survival priorities, and is usually one of the last things we think about when it comes to preparations.  One way I have been looking at protecting some of my preps, is to begin caching them along my Bug Out routes… The reason for this […]