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Prioritize Emergency Preparedness Goals
Prioritize Emergency Preparedness Goals Whether you are just beginning or doing your annual update, prioritizing your preparedness goals for the near future is important. Just as you wouldn’t go willy-nilly on a cross country trip without a map, nor should you travel the road to survival based on a whim. Although the rule of 3 …
Emergency Pantry Stocked for About $60.00
Emergency Pantry Stocked for About $60.00 I am the first to admit that it isn’t easy to prepare for tomorrow while trying to keep a household going for today. I also realize that it is necessary to do! Once you have your basic pantry going it becomes easier and you are able to extend your preps to …
Pre-Traumatic Prepper Anxiety
Pre-Traumatic Prepper Anxiety In today’s world everything moves so fast, there is so much technology, so many things to worry about, so many people whose opinions, decisions and attitudes directly affect you, add family life, your job, and finances and it is a wonder we aren’t all nervous wreaks 100% of the time! The majority …
When to Plant Potatoes
When to Plant Potatoes Potatoes are easy to grow, but like cool weather, so you should try to get them into the ground at the right time. You can order seed potatoes through mail-order garden companies or buy them at local garden centers/ hardware stores. You should be aware that supermarket potatoes are usually treated …
DIY Paracord Snowshoes
DIY Paracord Snowshoes Harsh wintery weather can be a SHTF event on its own. Being stranded in blizzard conditions even more so. If you know you’re going to be taking a trek of more than a few feet in deep snow and freezing temperature you definitely need to preplan and have snowshoes available to you. However not everyone …
Tactics to Deter Looters & Defend Yourself
Tactics to Deter Looters & Defend Yourself For the sake of anyone new to prepping or homesteading the first point to be made here is that looters and scavengers are not the same thing! See looter defined here by dictionary.com: verb (used with object) –6.to carry off or take (something) as loot: to loot a …
DIY Firewood Rack Without Tools
DIY Firewood Rack Without Tools I get excited whenever I find a DIY project that doesn’t require tools. Not because I am not good with tools, I actually am. But because it usually means you are going to get to re-use or recycle some other object at the base of the project and I do …
SHTF Protein Sources
SHTF Protein Sources There are folks who get upset when survival sites post how to catch, butcher, a cook meat, particularly when it involves animals that aren’t normally what you can buy in the grocery store. Everyone is entitled to their own feelings on eating meat and should follow through on their preference as long as they remain …
Teaching Children to Prepare
Teaching Children to Prepare (2 links) Our Children learn by watching us but don’t always understand any more than this is how mom or dad always did it. Indeed, that it the first step to teaching your children to prepare. However, they must be taught from the time they have any amount of independence to …
Clever Ideas for Gardeners
Clever Ideas for Gardeners No matter what season it is, it is never too early or too late to be planning your garden, what went wrong last year? What went right? Which plants need more light and which need less, what should you plant more or less of and where would that do best? With …
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