Laurence Gonzales wrote a book, Deep Survival. Gonzales is a man with both a long history of extreme sports and a fascination with what it is that causes some people to survive under terrible duress while others succumb. I share… 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
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
Let’s take a deeper look at fear, and open up the discussion of how fears are used against people as a tool. Fear In yesterday’s post, I wrote about how my fear of an Electromechanical Pulse or Coronal Mass Ejection… Continue Reading
New Orleans and surrounding areas were a complete mess in so many ways after Katrina; but they did have a lot of lessons preppers can learn from. My friend Doc was called into the disaster response early on and spent… 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
The lyrics are from Styx’s Crystal Ball, but they could have come from the heart of any number of people struggling with dementia-induced confusion, including Alzheimer’s patients: “Tell me, tell me where I’m going I don’t know where I’ve been… 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
Train like you want to react in an emergency, because it could save your (and other people’s) life. Train like you want to react – an example When a bad guy charged the prepper, the prepper pulled out his handgun… Continue Reading
Depression afflicts more than 10% of the population at some point in their life. Throw a lot of upheaval into people’s lives, and there’s likely to be a whole lot more. We here at 3BY are all about helping people… Continue Reading
Paranoid Prepper recently wrote the article PrepperNomics 107: A Look At Mutual Assistance Groups (MAG) Contracts. A reader mentioned that the hard part is to figure out who to trust if your MAG is not family based. Trust Trust is probably… Continue Reading
Calm. The thing about emergencies is that they’re made even worse when people lose their cool and are too distraught to function well. We are human though, and it will happen to some of us. Knowing how to help someone… 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
It’s no secret to any prepper that the bulk of society does not share our commitment to self-sufficiency in times of crisis – making us to some degree ‘nutty’. Some of that seems unavoidable if we are to open up… Continue Reading
Prepping as a Hobby Disasters are not everyday events. We need to keep a bit of perspective if we want to live normal lives, while getting ready for whatever Murphy throws at us. We need a method to keep improving… Continue Reading