Preparedness

In 2001, I was in my office at work and watched in horror with my colleagues as the second plane hit the towers and our world changed forever. Even hundreds of miles away, it was a devastating catastrophe. Just two short years later, in August of 2003, I was living just west of Cleveland when […]

Prepper compounds and survival retreats have become big business – even spawning specialized real estate brokerages to sell doomsday disaster home sites. When I was still pretty active in real estate, I would routinely get phone calls from out-of-the area folks seeking homesteading, hunting, or farmland. But, the first time I received a phone call

Prepping with senior citizens poses some challenges, and many benefits as well. An elderly person may no longer be able to physically contribute heavily to the manual labor required on a sustainable prepper retreat, but he or she possesses decades of knowledge and skills that can help guide the family to enhance their overall chances

Non-preppers, or as my self-reliant pals like to call them, “sheeple” are 100 percent wrong about the five million or so Americans who choose to prepare for looming disaster and live a self-reliant lifestyle. Six years ago, I was functioning under the misconception that I was a non-prepper married to a mega-prepper. Turns out, as

Maximizing the amount of time, you can spend preparing for the survival of your family after the SHTF can sometimes even be done from the comfort of your favorite chair – or at least very close to it! Practicing your preps to hone survival skills and buying essential emergency gear and weapons is a major

Game of Thrones is a riveting series that chronicles the conflicts between several powerful feuding families. It’s based on several books by George R.R. Martin, which even he admits, are somewhat loosely based on a series of wars between two royal houses, the House of York (white rose) and the House of Lancaster (Red Rose).

No matter how long you’ve been prepping you’ve no doubt run across some prepping concepts and advice that you disagree with. Preppers are a very diverse bunch of people. Whether they call themselves bushcrafters, survivalists, preppers, off-gridders, or homesteaders, all have different goals, motivations, skill levels, and beliefs. With the recent political upheaval and changes

So, today there is a term that is used to describe someone that lives in a certain manner, or practices certain practices. They call a person like that a “prepper”. Well, I find this interesting for a couple of reasons, the first reason being that, in the past, people just lived that way. There wasn’t

Being a full time RVer myself, I understand the concerns one might still have about being prepared for a SHTF scenario. In my opinion you are ahead of the game already, simply because you are in most cases halfway there. Most likely, you have set up your RV with basic ways to stay off the

There’s a difference between ensuring that your family has enough food for rough times and preparing for a food crisis. Having a backup plan in case of an emergency is extremely important, especially if there is a food crisis. Although you are probably not a novice to all things prepping, in this article, we will