Be honest, people think we are all a bunch of nuts because we prep, don’t they? This bothers some of us, while others wear the obvious difference like a badge of honor. While many of us find humor in the… Continue Reading
Getting lost in the woods is a common fear, but I propose that it’s also largely an unnecessary fear for most people if they are willing to do just a slight bit of preparation, planning and are carrying a few… Continue Reading
Salty’s Note: Building community and helping each other in a grid-down, Stuff Hit The Fan (SHTF) situation is a key thought for many preppers. This article something Jerry wrote a while back and shared with friends and followers. We present… Continue Reading
Keeping minor wounds and injuries minor is something we really need to do if the Stuff Hits The Fan (SHTF), and this is something that we can prep for, right now, to help happen. This is also another great example… Continue Reading
As I sit tucked in a nice warm house considering the ice storm that’s likely to start any minute now, power outages are on my mind. We recently did a post on the most important issue of how to heat… Continue Reading
Today’s the day when we turned on and tested our electricity-free emergency home heating system. It’s pilot-lighting day for our backup heat system! Every non-tropical home needs emergency heating. One of our biggest “localized temporary disaster” threats here in the… Continue Reading
The most likely type of Stuff Hitting The Fan (SHTF) to happen to us in the near future isn’t The End Of The World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKI) or being forced to live in a world Without Rule Of… Continue Reading
Salty and I have a family tradition of our own we honor as life allows: On Thanksgiving, we try to go somewhere that reminds us of what we’re thankful for. We’ve spent Thanksgivings everywhere from honoring the courage of Civil… Continue Reading
The life of the pilgrims in the Plymouth Colony in the new world in 1620-1621 was unbelievably hard and deadly but we preppers can definitely learn lessons from their troubles. Of the 102 people who went ashore off of the… Continue Reading
Salmonella is all over the news this Thanksgiving (2018) as an outbreak of the food poisoning hits the turkey market and people get sick from the disease. Unfortunate, right? But what does this have to do with prepping? I’ll get… Continue Reading
There’s someone you care deeply about, but that Someone is uninterested in prepping. You intend to help them if trouble comes. How do you prep for someone else’s medical problems? How well you can do this depends in part on… Continue Reading
This is a tough one. Some diabetics rely on insulin injections to maintain life and health. Insulin though has the triple crown of prepper medical problems: It’s by prescription only, it’s expensive, and worst of all it’s perishable (short shelf… Continue Reading
As we’ve all seen many, many times, the global stock markets go wonky every few years, and most financial guru’s preach that we should diversify our portfolios to protect us from having all of our assets crash at the same… Continue Reading
There are five basic aspects of health we need to address while prepping, things we all need to recognize and get sorted out before the Stuff Hits The Fan (SHTF). These are all critically important, and every one of them… Continue Reading
I’m a big fan of Pistol Caliber Carbines (PCC) for prepping… but does my opinion hold water? Let’s find out. So What Is A Pistol Caliber Carbine? A PCC is exactly what it sounds like from the name… a carbine… Continue Reading