We admit it. We’re human. We screw up. A lot. We do, however, think that one vital prepping skill is the ability to admit to our many prepping mistakes, and learn from them. We also try to learn from other… Continue Reading
PrepperNomics 107: Budgeting for Preppers In an earlier post on Supply Categories, I outlined the categories I use for planning and inventorying supplies. We can use those categories for preparing a Prepper Budget. Variable Costs Consumables have a Variable Cost… Continue Reading
When I was a Boy Scout, the typical scout knife was a Swiss Army Knife, sometimes with the Scout logo on it. At the time these things seemed pretty handy, but then along came the original Leatherman multitool, and the… Continue Reading
Don’t you just love all the neat terms and acronyms the prepper community uses? “Operational Security” OPSEC is borrowed from the military. Personally, I prefer “Loose Lips Sink Ships” but LLSS doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, so I guess… Continue Reading
Chirp. Chirp. Chirp. It’s regular as a metronome as you cycle or walk the roads of rural Missouri. The red-winged blackbirds sit on the telephone lines. One’s always watching you, and that regular “Chirp.” is his announcement that… Continue Reading
Humans are naturally terrible at risk assessment. The situations in which our native intuitions developed are not the situations in which we now live; so our intuition no longer serves us very well. We have two very strong and… 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
One of the themes that constantly comes up on prepper forums is the likelihood of “Economic Collapse”. This seems to be viewed as almost inevitable by many preppers, due to the handling of the US economy by the government, or… Continue Reading
In an emergency situation, a team that is coherent and on the same page has a much higher chance of surviving than both teams that act like a “debating society” and lone wolves. There is a time for disagreement and… Continue Reading
To really succeed as a prepper, you have to have a plan. Prepping is a lot of hard work, it takes a lot of time and a significant chunk of your available money… and one of the keys to being… Continue Reading
One of the things you need in case of a bug out, or destruction of your primary dwelling, is a tent. Tents can be very simple, or quite elaborate and expensive. If you are into camping and will be using… Continue Reading
I just took my Ruger LC9S, safely tucked into it’s pocket holster, out of my jacket pocket and placed it in it’s daytime home, my office desk drawer. I work in an office that is entirely pro-carry… to the point… Continue Reading
As preppers we need to plan for a variety of supplies and inventory them after they have been acquired. We need some sort of categorization for them. Even the name of this Blog, “Beans, Bullets, Bandages, and You” refers to… Continue Reading
Let’s talk about six places you probably didn’t know you could stash stuff in your home. Just so you know, my father owned a construction company so I’ve been around the construction related trades all of my life, and I… Continue Reading
One of the most popular children’s story series ever penned is Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Little House” series about growing up in the “western” USA. Having two older sisters and growing up in the 1960’s and 1970’s, I was subjected to… Continue Reading