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!
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 …
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 …
Chances are if you have been prepping for any length of time you will have had the encounter and subsequent conversation with friends, or maybe even family, that is sometimes a little bit uncomfortable, and other times a little bit sad. I am referring of course to the conversation where you try to hopefully get …
How to Help Your Friends Get Prepared in a Hurry Read More »
We all travel through life with a certain swagger. For some this is limited to a narrow set of circumstances. While for others it is all encompassing to the point where the mind exceeds the body’s ability to back it up. Webster defines mindset as “A fixed mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person’s …
As a prepper, I have often wondered to myself and aloud to my associates and friends just how many of “us” are out there. How many citizens are taking the task of preparing for the inevitable Big Boom and resulting hard times, or the slow slide into the post-empire phase of a society? It should …
How Many Doomsday Preppers are There In The U.S.? Read More »
Serious prepping seems on its surface to be the province of the well-heeled land owners upon first inspection. The “ideal” is a remote hideaway, deep in the forest, on a mountainside or deep in the desert or tundra stocked to the rafters and beyond with every imaginable provision, piece of kit and all the installations …
The preps we stockpile are only an asset if they are in good working order, and we know how to use them. Making a prepper inventory and updating it at least annually (but more ideally on a seasonal basis) will ensure that: Water and fuel don’t have an indefinite shelf life, either. There is no …
Prepper Inventory: 17 Printable Lists to Organize Your Preps Read More »
September is National Preparedness Month in America. As preppers, we work towards increasing our survival odds on a daily – or at least a weekly basis. But most of our fellow citizens have not yet begun to grasp how important it is to be ready to fully deal with even short-term natural disasters on their …
National Preparedness Month – Time To Get Organized Read More »
Is starting a neighborhood watch a huge breach of OPSEC for preppers? Not necessarily. Many preppers have yet to take advantage of all being a part of such a community watch program can do to benefit their own families. We are all in this together, even if non-preppers fail to grasp that all-important fact. Neighborhood …
Irregardless of why you start prepping, after several months or years, you may find your enthusiasm for prepping is waning. If you find yourself procrastinating about the things you know need to be done for you to be prepared, you may be starting to burn out. Just like with job burnout, it’s important to recognize …
