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
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
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
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
5 Real World Survival Tips Inspired by The Walking Dead What would you do, if the world ended tomorrow? It’s a heavy question and one that television shows like AMC’s The Walking Dead and other post-apocalyptic entertainment explore deeply. Doesn’t… Continue Reading
One of the hardest (and most expensive) lessons I have learned in my prepping journey is keeping our prepping proportionately in balance. When I started prepping, I went WAY overboard buying guns and ammo. Why? Because guns and ammo are… Continue Reading
It only takes one bad moment. A few days ago, ice took Salty down and left him with a broken ankle. The emergency room gave us a boot and a prescription for a walker, crutches and a knee scooter. Without… Continue Reading
How to Pack a Backpack The comments from one of my previous posts regarding 14 day emergency kits made it clear that some of our readers may be committed preppers, but haven’t necessarily had much experience with camping. I don’t… Continue Reading
Few things make for crankier campout mornings than waking up wet. To be fair, by the time morning comes you’ve often been up for a while, shivering and miserable and trying to fix problems that can’t be quickly fixed. If… Continue Reading
Americans spend a lot of time in their cars. We’re in our cars when we’re farthest from where our main preps are (our homes). That makes a well-prepped car an important feature of overall prepping. It’s particularly important in winter,… Continue Reading
Five Preps You Can Buy For $5 Since prepping can be very expensive, we thought we would share five preps you can buy for a total cost of $5. There are a whole host of preps you can buy for… Continue Reading
It’s a rainy Sunday morning … so I went for a hike. Why? Well honestly, walking in the rain can be its own excuse; it’s got a peaceful groove all its own. I also put on my ‘bugout gear’, what… Continue Reading
Having a good bug-out location (BOL) is a goal for many preppers. Especially if you live in an urban area, you might want to be Elsewhere when trouble hits. If you’d like some thoughts on how to choose a location,… Continue Reading
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
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