A Friend Has Lost Everything, Checked Into a Men’s Shelter…

by suburban | Sep 9, 2010 | Clothing, Economy, EDC, Fire, first aid, Food, Improvised Gear, Personal, Psychology, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Survivalism, Urban Survival, Water

This post is very close to my heart…  It pains me to write it, as it affects a friend of mine direct­ly, that refus­es help, as I will illus­trate. I have a friend I got a call from this week.  He has lost his job, his apart­ment, much of his cloth­ing,... Read more

Do You Live In a Constitution Free Zone

by suburban | Sep 7, 2010 | Bug Out Location, Politics, suburban survival, Urban Survival

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... Read more

Five Minute Bug Out at Survival Spot Blog

by suburban | Sep 5, 2010 | Bug Out, Preparedness

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... Read more

One Suburban Apartment Preppers Plan

by suburban | Sep 4, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

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... Read more

Forgotten Preps That May Make a Difference.

by suburban | Sep 3, 2010 | Bug In, Preparedness

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... Read more