I don’t watch the news. Spice and I don’t even have a television. I don’t spend hours going over the latest news/outrages/spin/whatever on the internet. This podcast explains why. After years of being a “news junkie”, after letting myself get… Continue Reading
People toss around the name and diagnosis of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) a lot; but what is it really? I’m not a psychiatrist … but a good friend of mine is, and she has quite a lot of professional experience… Continue Reading
NOTE: Please do not take anything in this post too seriously, it is said tongue-firmly-in-cheek. I am a country boy. My wife is a country girl. Chances are real good that if you live in a town, my town is… Continue Reading
The oldest axiom on how to make money on Wall Street is to “buy low, sell high”. It should come as a surprise to nobody that gun sales are off following the 2016 elections. We don’t talk politics, even a… Continue Reading
Our article “The UnPanic Button: Two Strategies for Interrupting an Anxiety Attack Without Drugs” by Spice has been featured on The Prepper Website Podcast Episode 123 is a companion to The Prepper Website, the best prepping link Ep.123 feat. @RedoubtPatriot… Continue Reading
One of the things that makes preppers look, . . . paranoid, is the fact that the preparations are all for low probability events. Too many of us are then unable to discuss what we are preparing for without sounding… Continue Reading
Making Hardtack Biscuits Hardtack has been a staple long-term storage food for over 1,000 years. Known by many names, and made in untold numbers of combinations of grains and flours, the purpose of Hardtack (or sea biscuits) is to provide… Continue Reading
Welcome to my take on “the most famous prepper gun”, the Mosin-Nagant. Not long ago, the Mosin-Nagant (in it’s various forms) was considered to be the “classic” prepper gun, a high powered rifle that sold for under $100 and a… Continue Reading
The world is chock full of germs that would love to live in your warm, food-rich interior. If allowed, they’d move in, eat your food, change your TV channels, poop on your carpet, and generally trash the place. I use… Continue Reading
Here’s a lesson from the School of Hard Knocks. Sometimes buying ammo is a mistake… or at least buying the particular ammo that you put in your shopping cart is. Ammo hard knocks I’ve made a lot of prepping mistakes… Continue Reading
Your heart pounds. Your breath comes fast and shallow. Lunch is a hard, unmoving lump in your stomach. Cold sweat trickles down your spine. Nails dig into your palms as your fists clench. Your eyes are wide as visions of… Continue Reading
The (excellent) Prepper Website Podcast (clicky) included our Prepping Guns: 4 Lessons To Learn From My Expensive Mistakes in Episode 118. Show host Todd Sepulveda (who runs multiple prepper websites including the (excellent) Prepper Website, a daily aggregator of prepping information that… Continue Reading
I’m starting my book review series with some suggestions of some of the best prepper fiction to read, and there’s a good chance you haven’t even heard of his favorite series of the bunch. Book one in the article is… Continue Reading
One of the problems with being a prepper is storage. For ammunition, the most popular solution is the military style ammo can. These come in a variety of sizes with 50 cal. and 30 cal. being the most common. These… Continue Reading
Part I of this series had some ideas on having less asthma. But what if you do have it, and it’s hanging on like a bad house guest, and normal medical care isn’t available? There are some suggestions here… Continue Reading