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The 4th in the Rule of 3’s is the amount of time someone can survive without food – three week period. Candidly, I didn’t consider three weeks without the possibility to resupply to even be a possibility. Seeing what happened… Continue Reading
Sure we could live without gasoline and propane — but it’s a lot nicer not to have to. In this podcast, Salty and I talk about our three fuel preps to prevent running short on energy during a crisis. Fuel:… Continue Reading
Canned meats. It’s a staple of many preppers emergency food storage. The question? Is this a good thing, or a bad thing. The answer is that very annoying phrase “Well, it depends…” As it turns out, there are good canned… Continue Reading
It’s hard to know how much of one’s time and treasure to spend preparing for unpredictable events. Too little, and you’re left hanging in the wind when life throws a curve (as it inevitably will, eventually). Too much and you… Continue Reading
Salty and I are not big on New Year’s resolutions; but there is a value in giving yourself a checkup now and then, considering what’s been going well and what needs to be improved upon. In this podcast, we do just… 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
Should vitamin supplements be a part of food preps? If so, of what kind, and how much? These are the questions I’ve been considering; and I thought it might be of value to you to share some of the research… Continue Reading
Prepping can seem an impossibly difficult task. The ultimate goal, after all, would be able to deal with anything life sends your way. It’s like trying to eat a whole elephant! So how do you start? Anything is better than… Continue Reading
I”ve made many prepping mistakes over the years, and hopefully I have learned from at least most of them There’s one that I have made over and over, and yet I have to struggle every day not to make it… Continue Reading
I admit it, there are some groups of people I really don’t care for. There are people of certain political views that I think are idiots for thinking that stuff. With so many religions in the world (and sects among… Continue Reading
You Can Prepare Anywhere By now you may have realized there is a prepper myth that I just don’t agree with. The idea is that urban centers, and perhaps other locales, are simply impossible to survive in if SHTF. I… Continue Reading
Spiders All Salty did was take a hike in the woods of a state park. At the time, we didn’t notice anything amiss. A thing like that shouldn’t take the wonders of modern medicine to keep from killing a guy,… Continue Reading
Making Hardtack Biscuits Hardtack has been a staple long-term storage food for over 1,000 years. Known by many names, and made in untold numbers of combinations of grains and flours, the purpose of Hardtack (or sea biscuits) is to provide… Continue Reading
Here’s a lesson from the School of Hard Knocks. Sometimes buying ammo is a mistake… or at least buying the particular ammo that you put in your shopping cart is. Ammo hard knocks I’ve made a lot of prepping mistakes… Continue Reading