Handy tips for living in your car No one wants to be homeless, no one plans to make a home from their car other than in a bug out situation and even then it is hoped to be a temporary situation. But you suffer a job loss and long term unemployment, an illness with a prolonged …
Considerations When Burying a Cache A cache is actually less a thing and more a place. A secret hiding place where valuables are hidden with the assumption that you will come back at some point to retrieve them. Caches do not have to be buried in the ground necessarily. But burying survival supplies makes sense in most situations. …
What You Didn’t Know About Bugging Out Here are some things that you might never experience if you haven’t strapped your gear on your back (more properly, your hips) and traced your planned bug out route. You can’t know for sure what will work and what will not. You can’t choose to add or remove items from …
9 Items for your Glove Box Whether you Survive or not is most predictable by attitude. Without the right attitude all the appropriate skills and tools in the world won’t help you get through an emergency. But with the right attitude and some very basic tools within hands reach in your glove box, you can get through. To …
Urban Foraging Regardless of your environment, you can find plants that it will provide you with nourishment in a survival situation. But you must know what to look for and know where to look for it. This includes non-traditional growing seasons! Some plants are entirely edible from the fruit to the roots. Roots can be found year …
Making Reflector Oven Bread Wheat, flour, cattail, or rice based bread and pastries could quickly become stables in our post SHTF diets. Knowing how to prepare and bake them under primitive circumstances will be a valued skill and one we can practice on during hunting trips, camping trips, back yard bbq’s Too see how …
Principles of Preparedness There are basic principles that represent the keys to being prepared. There is the financial security and peace of mind that comes from having car insurance, home insurance, medical insurance, etc. Personally, I have resented paying the constant rising costs associated with health insurance until I needed it! Now paying that insurance fee seems like dropping pennies in an old coffee can in comparison …
DIY Solar Electronic USB Charger If you are looking to improve your DIY skills and save money at the same time this easy project is for you. This little garden light hack allows you to charge small electronic devices like phones, MP3 players etc. The cool thing about this little project is you can keep …
Simon Dale’s Low Impact Woodland Home Simon Dale is a family man residing in Wales, the western part of Great Britain. His interest in self-sustainability and an ecological awareness led him to dig out and build his woodland home—one of the loveliest, warmest, most inviting dwellings you could ever imagine. This is doable anywhere in the …
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