Paracord, also known as parachute cord, is a lightweight cord that’s indispensable to survival, camping, and hiking. If you don’t know all the amazing paracord little projects you can do, it makes little sense to stockpile it. I’m not going to bore you with its history, suffice it to say it was first used in WWII […]
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When the average person heads out the door for work in the morning they typically have the following items: keys, cell phone, and wallet or purse (including cash, credit/debit cards, driver’s license, etc.) (Get our recommended list of EDC essentials here.) Depending on your line of work, you may also have your lunch or a
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So you stockpiled enough food to last you at least a year. Now what? In an SHTF situation, there are going to be water and energy shortages that will prevent you from cooking it. Things like rice and beans and pasta, the pillars of a long-term survival stockpile, cannot be eaten raw. You need alternative
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Though I’m not, by any means, trying to bring this particular prepping debate to an end (and there are quite a few of them), I do want to weigh in on the “lightweight versus ultra-packed bug-out bags” issue. Spoiler alert: there is no clear winner, it’s up to you to figure out what you pack
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A bug-out bag is a backpack filled with survival items that you should take with you when you’re bugging out, meaning you need to evacuate your home. It should have enough items plus food and some water to keep you safe and alive for at least 3 days and up to a week. Lightweight, durable,
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A get-home bag, or GHB, is a cousin to a bug-out bag. Where a BOB is designed to help get you away from home and hopefully to your bug-out location, a GHB is a bag designed to help you get home if disaster strikes while you’re away from home. A get-home bag is a step
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Since most prepping advice is focused on wilderness survival (due to the large amount of people living in the countryside who are interested), city dwellers are a little left out when it comes to no-fluff urban advice. This is exactly why I wrote this article… toget give you some of the best urban survival tips out there. The list isn’t by far exhaustive but it
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While there are many survival skills one could learn, the thing is, most of them are for wilderness survival scenarios… and that’s fine, except many of us live in cities, so our needs and skillset are a little different. I decided to make a similar one just for urban scenarios. I’m doing this for several reasons, the biggest
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When my friend and I came up with the idea for this article, we didn’t exactly have a goal in mind BUT we knew what we wouldn’t be able to do, and that’s to gather all the survival and preparedness knowledge in a single post. That’s just impossible and all its aspects is simply huge. So, we
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The thought of not having Internet and a working cell-phone post disaster (whatever that may be), is scary to me. Even though we humans lived for millions of years without blogs, Facebook, and Google, it’s going to be tough for most of us to kill time when there won’t be anything else to do other
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