Preparedness

If you typically throw away your coffee filters, think again. These cheap little items have more alternative uses than you can imagine. Their ability to strain or absorb makes them useful in dozens upon dozens of situations around the house, or even in an emergency. So think twice before tossing your used coffee filters, and […]

In the aftermath of a long-term event If you’re extra-prepared, you’ll have already designed and constructed a defensible bug-out location where you can settle and sustain yourself until things calm down. Regardless of the location you settle on, make sure you know as much about the area surrounding your house in the woods as you

Your cell phone isn’t necessarily the first thing that pops into your head when you think of tracking your way out of the wilderness, foraging and hunting in the wild or surviving TEOTWAWKI. Think again. Even an experienced prepper or outdoor adventurer can use a smartphone to close the gap between catastrophe and survival. What

For those new to the business of prepping, you can feel no small amount of intimidation from just how much info you need to learn just to have a clue! From food long-term storage to fire starting, or land navigation, the sheer breadth and depth of the subject is bewildering, especially if you aren’t coming

Prepping is cumbersome for anyone, but for those who are have the added challenge of dealing with a chronic illness or disability,, even a simple bugout can be a challenge. Ultimately, if you or a family memberhas a disability, then prepping will take careful planning above and beyond what the average prepper must deal with.

OK, so you heard about preppers and survivalists and you wanted to dig a little deeper. This is probably why you landed on this page. Fair enough. I’m going to tell you everything you need to know but I have to tell you right from the start that preppers and survivalists are NOT the same

Caching is the art of hiding your preps and equipment in secure storage spaces so that you can dig them up when you need them later. The best caches are easily recovered by the owner, but virtually impossible for anyone else to find. The cache site should be chosen with two main factors in mind:

Quick question: how prepared are you really for what’s about to come? The reason I’m asking is because I’ve seen a A LOT of prepping mistakes over the years. And you know what my conclusion is? That you don’t know what you don’t know… In other words, what you don’t know, your prepping mistakes… your

It is easy to feel totally overwhelmed when you first start to dig into the subject of emergency preparedness. Some events aren’t too bad, and maybe you can expect help to arrive in hours or days. Other events are genuine apocalypses, and promise to plunge entire countries into bedlam. Where are you supposed to start?!