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The importance of an on-going, always under review survival plan, can’t be over-stressed. Every plan…

I – more so than a lot of people involved in this – have dealt with A LOT of other preppers face to face and I want to talk about the patterns that I have seen form over the years.

Apart from the necessities of food, clothing, and shelter, what are the other tools and tricks you need to survive?

They’re also methods we can use to just preserve foods, and let us preserve the convenience of dropping something in water to create a meal.

If your survival plan doesn’t include a bug out to the forest option, it should, but coming up with a good plan might be more difficult that you think.

Whether you are using a pocket knife to cut rope, a shovel or hoe to cultivate plants, or a skinning knife to dress your game, they are all guaranteed to dull with repeated use.

Using mostly things that are also already in my storage or that are easy and inexpensive to obtain, I can churn out desserts, snacks, sides, dinners and breakfasts that are interesting and varied, and don’t really taste like oatmeal.

It’s the kind of thing in between our normal, everyday life and an actual major disaster that just doesn’t get prepared for all that often.

Even with some small, modest beds, there are a few tools like hooked three-prong hand cultivators or a small spade that come in handy.

A survival situation can occur not only from nefarious individuals/governments, but also from natural disasters such as earthquakes, tornados, and hurricanes.

You can do it on your own firearms without any problem, and you might be able to do it for friends and family, especially if you don’t get paid for it.

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.

Early in the morning of January 18th, some local troublemakers tried to break into my house. They didn’t make off with anything, but they did manage to evade capture. Here’s what I learned from the process.

Some of them relate to food production, some to increasing our efficiency, and some are little off-the-wall tasks that don’t get as much attention as they otherwise could.

Even if you are not a woman, including female hygiene items in your prepping is still a great idea!

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.

Good health is more valuable than gold but is ignored until it is no longer there.

I’m willing to bet that it will be considered as valuable a currency as any other! Heck, it practically is now.

Survival assured by matching one’s skills and ability to adapt to the problems at hand. The problem will be whatever threatens our well-being and existence.

The seven survival skills mentioned below are the most basic ones that you should be mastering first because these are the skills that will help keep you safe for a longer time until you are rescued.

For most, defense is simply just about the weapons you choose to keep. In reality, self defense is so much more.

If many survival groups are mainly made up of people whose only skill set is “providing security” and for some reason you found yourself looking to join a group either now or after a collapse, would you take you?

Here are some formulas and ideas for turning common storage foods into actual meals, increasing the variety of meals we can make with a few standard ingredients.

This thing is what I have needed in my kit for years. It has helped reduce the space in my bug out bag and has a ton of applications.

You REALLY don’t want all of your prepping supplies in your house. Such as a generator and fuel, oil and vehicle parts, battery banks and so on so building a storage shed makes a lot of sense.

Livestock keeping requires some research. It seems obvious, but it’s apparently not.

We all can’t afford bunkers and remote cabins to (attempt to) escape to. Have you completely given up on non-prepper society, including blood relatives?

Rather than focusing on building a fortress to defend your supplies it is safer to build a home you can walk away from without compromising your supplies or getting on the wrong end of a gunshot wound.

Effectively organizing a disaster scene can be as difficult and as important as directly treating victims.