Our vices aren’t necessary to our survival in many cases, but when you cut us off from them, hard times and adjustments just get harder.
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Whether somebody’s looking at a long-term, widespread, nation-altering event and wants the sustainable source of materials, bamboo has a lot to offer us.
One thing that can help is to simplify the shopping list. In some case it’s about paring it down. In other cases, it’s about finding multi-purpose items.
If we evacuate, we need to evacuate our animals.
Anyone that drives a vehicle on public roadways uses situational awareness. Unfortunately, for some, it stops when they exit their vehicles.
Happily, we can cheat the weather and time a little. We can do it indoors, with almost any amount of space and almost any budget and time available.
Sometimes collecting knowledge can be a pricey and time-consuming prospect. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t learn, but we need to prioritize as with anything else.
A disaster is a bad time to lose all of our conveniences in life. There are also some hand powered tools we can pull from the pages of history – and that inspire modern tools – that will help us with our self-reliance.
Fortunately, there are a number of self-defense tips and techniques that can level that playing field and allow women to protect themselves and those that they are responsible for protecting.
There are some good guidelines and tips on stockpiling ammo that will simplify this process for you and make it easier than it sounds on some forums you may have come across.
You need to make sure if your family is with you can survive for a short time period while getting to your home or to a survivable situation
Would you like to add off-grid solar to your preps, but think it’s too expensive? I’ll show you how to build an inexpensive system that can grow, as funds become available.
A lights out, no power debacle for an extended period of time is going to result in total chaos in any community.
Right now, here’s a look at my top five perennials preppers should consider, selected as such due to their versatility for all stages of preparedness.
In other words, are you prepared? Let’s take a quick peek at some of the things that you can do to ensure that when something happens, you will be ready for it.
It’s far more likely to encounter a little emergency than a major movie-style event. So what to do with the big pile of food, gear, etc. that represents an investment of time, money, and storage space?
It’s that time of year again; time to over eat and over drink, and wonder where on Earth 2016 went?
Thinking through what we prepare food in can save us labor in various ways. Both can help us prioritize for purchases moving forward.
This is my minimum gear I’d have on me if venturing any distance in the Winter season in Southern Ontario away from the home base.
Today I’m going to teach you one way to plan for a vehicle load out. Also I will help you develop a plan to secure the load so you can travel more safety.
I do like my breads and I do like something sweet now and again, so here’s half a dozen ways we can still get them, even without a working oven or supermarket.
Food security is already a worry for many of those countries that are striving to meet today’s demands, and the development of new preservation methods that will play an important role in the future is becoming essential
Considering the regular commitments like mortgage and car payments they have to keep up with, average income Americans may feel they have no money to start prepping for disasters.
The Blizzard of ’77 is a prime example of why you should be prepared.
Disaster can strike at any moment – even at work. Make your small business disaster recovery plan today to avoid catastrophic losses in an emergency.
Here’s my list of 8 barter items that end up ignored as barter but that aren’t without merit as backups for our own stockpiles.
It keeps government officials up at night. But the vast majority of Americans are completely unprepared for it…
Not having emergency funds doesn’t leave much room for prepping. So what can a poor penny-pinched Prepper possibly do?
I’m going to play devils advocate and attack several of the most common so-called “survival tips” preps so prevalent on the web today. I will even offer a suggestion or two.
There are multiple articles, videos, and books about bugging out and a few on bugging in. My aim here is to throw a bit of thought on the bugging in concept from my unarmed Canadian perspective.