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Resources and Commentary on Prepping in Suburbia

After a year or so of the site being down, we’re slow­ly relaunch­ing it with all the old con­tent, and writ­ing new con­tent. It’s been well over a year since I’ve done any prep­ping, and recent­ly start­ed again. Updates over the last 18 months are, Ms. Prep­per is now Mrs. Prep­per, and there’s the addi­tion of Baby Prep­per, too… I feel like it’s all new again, and I’m learn­ing from scratch…

11 Years Later

Sep 11, 2012 |

There is not much to say today.  Very sim­ply, my thoughts go out to the fam­i­lies and vic­tims of the 9/11 tragedy 11 years ago today.  I don’t real­ly have much more than that.

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Hygiene In the Field, or Bug Out Hygiene

Sep 6, 2012 | , ,

I’ve done a lot of camp­ing this sum­mer, and with the drought, you can imag­ine it was pret­ty hot out there.  I can attest that it was.  At our camp site we cut a lot of wood, and we used much of it for the camp fire.  Those were hot days swing­ing an axe, and can say in…

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Bug Out Threats, Traffic and Fuel, Part One

Bug Out Threats, Traffic and Fuel, Part One

Aug 28, 2012 | ,

Liv­ing in NJ is an expe­ri­ence unto itself.  Just ask any of my friends who live here that are trans­plants like me.  It is cer­tain­ly one of the most unique places I have ever been.  Peo­ple here just want to get from point A to point B when they are in the car.  You…

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Local or Alternative Currency in a Community for Higher Economic Sustainability

Local or Alternative Currency in a Community for Higher Economic Sustainability

Aug 21, 2012 | , , , , , ,

On the ride home from my boss’s office on Mon­day evening this week, I was think­ing about the econ­o­my, and the ram­i­fi­ca­tions of eco­nom­ic col­lapse.  I thought about how it would effect where I live in NJ today, and I thought about how it might effect my home town, a…

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