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…

The $10.00 Jerky Maker (from SurvivalMonkey.com)

The $10.00 Jerky Maker (from SurvivalMonkey.com)

So, while on the SurvivalMonkey.com forum this morn­ing, I came across a post called “The $10.00 Jerky Mak­er.”  I am sure many of you have seen these card­board box jerky maker/driers in the past…  After my first skep­ti­cal look, I  was impressed with the sim­ple design…

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Saturday Videos

Under $20 Wal-Mart Sur­vival Kit httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H1oT5n3Np8 “Highs and Lows of the Tac­ti­cal .22” by Nut­n­fan­cy httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3wKO438N6c Wool vs. Syn­thet­ic httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzMPLNeA0x8 Five Best Sur­vival­ist Pis­tol…

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Kydex Sheath Information

Kydex Sheath Information

I have a few knives that have nylon sheaths.  I am real­ly not hap­py with the nylon sheath.  Besides keep­ing costs down, they breathe and allow the water to evap­o­rate off the knife to pre­vent it from cor­rod­ing.  How­ev­er, I am not real­ly hap­py with a cou­ple of them, and…

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CCW State Reciprocity and Gun Laws

This is a pret­ty use­ful site I thought I would share. If you have a CCW in any one of the 50 states, just click on it, and a win­dow will pop up with all the states that will allow you to car­ry with your state’s CCW. www.handgunlaw.us If you are inter­est­ed in hand­gun…

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Economically Challenged Television

While flip­ping though the chan­nels this evening, I came across a show called “Down­sized,” and iron­i­cal­ly to me, it was on the We chan­nel.  So here is what the show is about; The Bruce fam­i­ly is strapped for cash and $300 short on rent.  Fear­ing evic­tion, they spring…

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