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!
Drinking water storage is always of great concern to preppers. Clean, drinkable water is so precious and so hard to come by, that it is no wonder the average prepper spends so much time planning for it. One of the biggest and most reliable vessels for keeping water inside your own home happens to be …
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Preppers should be compiling and storing important documents with the same vigor as we self-reliance minded folks stockpile food, water, and supplies. Both during but especially after a SHTF scenario, paper copies of essential marriage, custody, ownership, and health records preserved digitally may not be accessible (temporarily or ever again) depending upon the nature of …
For those preppers who live on a rural or truly remote property and depend on a wood burning stove or fireplace for heating their home, accumulating enough firewood to make it through the cold season is imperative, and might literally be a matter of life and death during a harsh winter. Even for those of …
Most people have need of extra storage in their lives, especially people with large and bulky equipment, containers full of miscellaneous gear and sporting or lawn care equipment that is tough to store anywhere in or around your home. For separate, nominally secure storage two of the most popular options available today are classic storage …
Shipping Containers vs Storage Sheds: Which To Get? Read More »
Prepping means different things to different people, and if you are a prepper that is about more than just having three or four days worth of supplies on hand and a map in the glove box of your car, you are probably thinking big picture, long-term and sustainable plans for the future. If you are …
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, …
