Preparedness

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

There are a number of challenges to living off the grid, and in a disaster situation, there is unfortunately no way to get around having to deal with them. A lot of everyday conveniences that we take for granted require electricity and gas. In such situations, simple tasks can become much more difficult. One thing

As you are more likely aware, the best way to ensure one’s survival after TSHTF is to move to a rural area, this is why so many city preppers have a dwelling outside the city limits. Indeed, many of these dwellings have been optimized to turn into self-sustaining farms. While it is true that owning

I first learned about petroleum jelly for survival when researching ways to make my ferro rod more effective for starting fires. However, the more research I did the more uses I found for this miracle substance. Petroleum jelly is the generic term for Vaseline, a petroleum byproduct that is technically considered a lubricant. It should be