Suburbansurvival Blog

Survivalism & Disaster Preparedness

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…

Repacking Some Core Preps for Portability, Ease of Use, Care Packaging, and Rotation

Repacking Some Core Preps for Portability, Ease of Use, Care Packaging, and Rotation

We talk an awful lot about how to rotate your canned, jarred, and oth­er preps for fresh­ness.  We also talk a lot about stor­age, how to store, what to store, etc.  Yes­ter­day, I under­took a small job of repack­ing some of my “basic” preps.  What are some of my most basic…

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The Becker BK 2 Knife

The Becker BK 2 Knife

The Beck­er BK2 by Ka-Bar. I’ve had this knife for sev­er­al months, and keep for­get­ting to write a review of it. So, here it is… In hind­sight, I remem­ber pulling this knife out of the box… My first impres­sion was how heavy it was. My sec­ond impres­sion was how thick…

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Prepper Evangelical

Prepper Evangelical

I read ST’s post from last week and start­ed think­ing about how to con­vert peo­ple to our pre­pared­ness mind­set. To be frank, I think it is almost impos­si­ble to change peo­ple’s ideas on just about any sub­ject. Their opin­ions have been formed over count­less hours of…

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The Interesting Road to Actually Bugging Out, Thoughts During a Mandatory Evacuation

The Interesting Road to Actually Bugging Out, Thoughts During a Mandatory Evacuation

Yes­ter­day, I received an email, and text mes­sage from the local emer­gency sys­tem I was signed up for.  The may­or of my town, and the coun­ty, I believe, insti­tut­ed a manda­to­ry evac­u­a­tion of homes due to flood­ing from the Pas­sa­ic Riv­er.  As I got the text and email, I…

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Saturday Videos

SHTF Deal of the Week Part X httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wSiesqJu0 Prep­per Retreats Pop­ping Up All Over httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfZRwL44Wno Bud­get Prep­ping: Estate Sales httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADjlLfL1o3E Sen­si­ble Prep­per Con­fer­ence Oct 14 &…

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