Road trip! It seems like half the prepper fiction books start with the protagonist being hundreds or thousands of miles from home when disaster strikes. Why? Because travel can be a rich source of problems for preppers. Good for authors;… Continue Reading
We talk a lot here at 3BY about water purification. Really though, are you likely to get cholera if you drink from a creek during a bug-out? Or diptheria, or typhoid, or a bunch of disease you mostly only find… Continue Reading
Ditch water… that’s what we in Missouri call any stagnant pool of water sitting around in ditches and small streams. Generally, ditch water is teeming with life, with insects, frogs, mosquito & other larvae, all kinds of interesting biological stuff,… Continue Reading
I’m not a carpenter, or a plumber, or an electrician, or even a masterful DIY hobbyist. Most of you aren’t either. What are we to do when things break, or we need something new built, and we can’t just call… Continue Reading
PrepperNomics 107: Venezuela Here at 3BY we generally avoid politics. We want to encourage prepping, regardless of your politics, religion, sexual preferences, or state of mental health. 😊 As a result, I have not talked about the largest disaster currently… Continue Reading
Kerosene lanterns are an inexpensive, reliable prep for a power outage / grid down situation, but they do have some quirks. We shouldn’t confuse a kerosene lantern with a kerosene light… lanterns are meant for both indoor and oudoor use,… Continue Reading
We love the idea of a small rocket stove for our bugout bags, bugout location and our get-home bags so much, we have several of them. In our opinion, there’s no better way to cook food and boil water for… Continue Reading
We can stock up many things we might need for disaster situations, but prescription medication usually can’t be stocked in depth. That’s a problem, since the majority of Americans are on prescription meds, and many of us are on more… Continue Reading
There’s a common misconception among many preppers that “only rich preppers” can afford a Bugout Location (BOL). It’s simply not true… but… you have to be a careful shopper. The Affordable BOL My thesis is that you can buy an… Continue Reading
Please take a minute and a half to watch the video below, if you haven’t already. (1) So …for real? Half the people don’t notice a woman in a gorilla suit walking through with a dramatic chest-beat mid-screen?… Continue Reading
Survival seed banks are good… but… Because there has to be a “but”, right? I recently read a good article on a very popular, well run prepper site which extolled the virtues of survival seed banks. It’s a good article,… Continue Reading
The Obsolete Three-Day Kit For as long as I can remember, the recommendation from official emergency preparedness types, e.g. DHS, Red Cross, was to have a kit with three days of emergency supplies for your whole family. The logic behind… Continue Reading
Spice has put in an extraordinary amount of work on her PrepperMed 101 series, and I thought it was time to do a series overview and share with you ALL of the stories in the series (so far). This creates… Continue Reading
Let’s take a deeper look at fear, and open up the discussion of how fears are used against people as a tool. Fear In yesterday’s post, I wrote about how my fear of an Electromechanical Pulse or Coronal Mass Ejection… Continue Reading
I fear the USA being hit by an electromagnetic pulse (EMP). That fear motivated me to start prepping years ago, and it’s still something that motivates me today. Let’s talk about fear The word “fear” is one that most of… Continue Reading