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!
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 […]
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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,
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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
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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
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Petroleum jelly has been a household standard ever since it hit the global market back in 1872 under the brand name “Vaseline.” But, does Vaseline ever expire? Technically, yes, Vaseline does expire, having a “best by date” of about 3 years, but in reality, it just degrades and loses potency. You can store and use
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If you’ve ever taken the time to really look around you wherever you happen to be out in the world, you will probably be surprised at how much info you can gather about the people nearby, just based on the way they dress, the way they present themselves to the world, and on their attitude.
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There is nothing quite like marriage. When times are good and the weather is sunny, it really is bliss and holy matrimony. But when things are bad it can feel like crawling on your belly over hot coals and broken glass. It goes without saying that marriages take work, and it is a team effort
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If you are brand spanking new to prepping, you might be feeling pretty overwhelmed right about now. You might be confused, even anxious. That’s okay; no matter what pushed you to make the decision to get serious about your personal safety and the safety of your family, welcome aboard! I will wager that this will
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