Knowledge is the best prep ever, because its so darned useful and so hard to have taken away. There’s also more of it than any one person could ever consume available for FREE. If you’re able to read this, you’ve… Continue Reading
Today, we just wanted to send out a quick note to wish all of you a Happy New Year! May you all be healthy, wealthier and blessed in 2019. Happy New Year! If you are looking for an article to… Continue Reading
We here at 3BY have been working on a series of ‘personal SHTF’ articles: Pieces about how to be prepared for the emergencies that come one family or person at a time. These preps are not usually extensive or expensive,… Continue Reading
Bombardiers love to see secondaries. They drop their bomb, it explodes, and a few seconds later there’s another set of explosions. Each of these is a secondary. The first problem has caused a chain reaction. The goal of this post… Continue Reading
Back problems cost more disability than any other health problem in the world. In a previous article, we talked about how to reduce your chances of getting a back problem when you can least afford it, and what to do… Continue Reading
Injuries happen. But then what? Your efforts at rehabilitation (rehab) can make a giant difference in how much function returns. Preppers need to have some idea on how to rehab to get themselves off the sidelines and back into the… 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
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
If life were a Mad Maxx movie, death by dehydration would involve deserts and grimy men with lots of beard stubble. Since most of life is not Hollywood, death by dehydration mostly looks like a baby with diarrhea. Or a toddler… Continue Reading
I can’t believe I haven’t reviewed this book for you yet. Spoiler alert: It’s my favorite prepping book ever. Also, it needn’t even cost you a dime (although I do recommend buying the hard copy) because it’s offered as a… Continue Reading
I recently spent most of a vacation visiting some of America’s wild places. This trip took a friend (Doc) and I out of our comfort zones and out of range of quick assistance. It was a good model for some… Continue Reading
Strait up: In Salty’s humble opinion, a lot of preppers spend far too much time “observing” instead of actually prepping. The biggest keyword in prepping is DO. Hear me out, I’m not trying to be mean… but… “do”, not “observe”.… Continue Reading
Why is prepping seemingly dominated by men? Ah, women don’t care about protecting their loved ones! No….that’s not it. Oh I know; women are incapable of forethought or planning! That hypothesis dies in a single word: Weddings. Here’s one real truth:… Continue Reading
Both prepping and relationships work better when both people are true partners, on the same page with regard to goals. Most couples don’t start out there, though. It’s common for one partner to be ‘more into it’ than the other.… Continue Reading
It’s an Epic problem: If you are online, you can and will be tracked and traced by your (and other) governments. Period. There’s just no way to get around the fact that governments can and will have access to everything… Continue Reading