Articles on how to prepare yourself, your family, your house and your livestock for disasters and emergencies of all sizes. This isn’t the same as actually surviving them; this is about getting ready for them and, in many cases, avoiding them altogether!
I travel for work a fair amount. On average, I spend one week a month on the road. During the busiest times, I’ll spend 5 out of six weeks traveling the United States with the occasional trip abroad. Through my travels, I’ve walked the streets of London, sweated over a plate of hot fried chicken …
We are moving to a paperless society, so why keep a bookshelf with survival books?Well, it’s fine to have the digital options, but in case of power failures, or an EMP, the knowledge contained in print can last for generations. Plus, you can access books at any time without having to worry about whether your …
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If you’re like me, you’ve invested a lot of time and money into having the right supplies, tools, and skills to prepare for and survive when SHTF. But there’s one resource you may not have thought about or adequately trained – a dog. I’m not talking about the family pet, who barks at passing traffic …
Conservatism has a hard way to go heading into the 21st century. You might say it has always had a hard way to go, being predisposed to maintain, to defend and to preserve the older, better ways that bought us our current prosperity, and continues to do so in flagrant defiance of a civilization and …
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Learning how to build a fire and maintain it for heat, light and cooking is an essential prepping skill, and often one of the first primitive or austere environment tasks that a beginning prepper will learn, often times right after establishing their three-day supply cache. There are all kinds of ways to create a fire, …
People have a way of procrastinating, even about really important stuff. Problems very small and very far away on the horizon quickly grow in magnitude the closer they get. Suddenly, what appeared to be about as threatening as a tiny newt has taken on positively draconian proportions when it is staring down at you, breathing …
Prepping is simply the mitigation of risk by proaction, specifically by increasing competency in various disciplines (internal), and the acquisition of equipment and provisions which will better equip one to survive the rigors of a perilous situation or emergency (external). But when you stop to consider all the various threats and situations one could face, …
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Time to pull back the curtain on my writing. I’ve been prepping for over 25 years, and I just hit a milestone. You know, the big one that comes with having too many birthdays to count. The one signified by discounts at the local coffee shop, and an AARP card in the mail. Yeah, that …
Oil heated homes are a fairly common occurrence throughout much of the Northwestern and Northeastern states in the US, especially in urban areas, although it is not unusual to encounter them in more rural communities. These systems rely on a petroleum distillate commonly known as home heating oil, or HHO. Keeping your house livable and …
We’ve seen it happen – drought, flood, pandemic – the stock on the shelves empties out fast, and prices begin to skyrocket as people start stockpiling too late. But those who have prepared for droughts can sit pretty, knowing they have enough to last them at least a year or two until the drought breaks. …
