Preppers prepare for hard times; but there’s a glitch. We want to be prepared for the next disaster … so we prep to be ready for the last disaster. An example of preparing for the last disaster In 1877, the Firth (Bay)… Continue Reading
Proposed: Echo chambers are dangerous to fairness, rational thinking, and a civil but diverse society. It’s very easy, and very tempting, in this internet age to hear mostly from sources who agree with you and shut out all other voices.… Continue Reading
“Stop.””Deer.” “Blocks.” Most times, Salty and I are all about coming to decisions jointly and not bossing one another about. There have been times though when one of us needed the other to instantly and efficiently take direction without questions… 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
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
What do I mean by “It’s time to move beyond Thunderdome?” Admit it We all do it… we sit around and envision The End Of The World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKI)… and the overwhelming, crushing concern over what would… Continue Reading
Here at Beans, Bullets, Bandages, and You (3BY), we don’t do politics or religion. We don’t talk about ours and we don’t provide a forum for other people to talk about theirs. In this post and companion podcast, we explain… Continue Reading
The US Government has a long history of responding to natural and man-made disasters, with varying degrees of success. We are going to examine the history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in a future article, today let’s take… Continue Reading
We wouldn’t be preppers if we didn’t believe that we might meet a Black Swan. Black swans are so uncommon that statisticians use the term to refer to very rare events. We prep for black swans … EMPs, pandemics, etc.… Continue Reading
Being a Lone Wolf prepper is an extra risky business. Practically, you can only really attend to one thing at a time, and no things for about a third of each day. Sleep must happen. You also have trouble with… Continue Reading
It was a dark and stormy night. Some loser drunk had collided with a power pole and left its debris in the road. Salty and I hit at highway speed a cable that was stretched across the road. The front… Continue Reading
In some ways humans are unique among living things; but when we get scared enough those special things bolt off into a hole somewhere and we’re left with responses common to many animals. This is what physiologists call the sympathetic… Continue Reading
You’re laughing with a friend and having a great dinner when she gets a startled/alarmed look and reaches for her throat. She makes a few vigorous spasms with her torso, starts to turn odd colors, and slumps over without having… Continue Reading
“I should, but I don’t wanna mess with it today.” We’ve all been there. We decided doing a thing is worthwhile when we committed to it, and that hasn’t changed. But we’re tired of messing with it and would rather… Continue Reading