Category: Bugging In

What an Electricity Shortage Looks Like

What an Electricity Shortage Looks Like Power rationing in Venezuela As you are all well aware of Venezuela had an economic collapse. We have previously presented articles on how they are dealt with the food and supply shortages as the store shelves empty and are not restocked. Than they began  rationing electricity. I have been …

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Modern Bunker Design For Family of 6 or Connect for Community

Modern Bunker Design For Family of 6 or Connect for Community

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Modern Bunker Design For Family of 6 or Connect for Community Back during the days of the cold war, bunkers were a luxury item based on very limited variety of cookie cutter plans and dug into the home owner’s back yard. These bunkers were top notch 1950’s design and usually were made to house a family …

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Raising Baby Chicks on a Budget

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Raising Baby Chicks on a Budget If you have the space and means chickens can be a great starting point for your self reliant food source! It used to be deemed your ‘duty’ to raise your own food, now days it seems as though the government and laws are …

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Everyday Items That Can Be Used For Survival

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Everyday Items That Can Be Used For Survival The creativity of preppers and homesteaders never ceases to amaze me! The smallest and most common of everyday items can become just what is needed to get through a crisis. From cardboard tubes to earrings see what your everyday items can …

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Items You May Not Have Considered for Your Survival Kit

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Items You May Not Have Considered for Your Survival Kit Sometimes it’s the little things that are easily forgotten or not thought of that can become the most important survival items in an instant! One example can be feminine hygiene products. Women don’t tend to think much about them …

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Does Prepping Make You a Target Post SHTF?

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Does Prepping Make You a Target Post SHTF? By Whom? Tips for Prevention Most of us know about OPESC and don’t announce our preparations to the world in general. But does any amount of preparation make you a target after a SHTF event and if you have been careful, …

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Tips & Recipes for Cooking from Long Term Food Storage

Tips & Recipes for Cooking from Long-Term Food Storage

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Tips & Recipes for Cooking from Long-Term Food Storage As it states in the featured article we tend to think of long-term storage as foods we will eat when we have no other options. I mean rice and beans aren’t always the tastiest of menu items! So Jackie Clay …

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Downloadable U.S. Marine Corp Winter Survival Handbook

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Downloadable U.S. Marine Corp Winter Survival Handbook The fact is seasons change. No matter when a major SHTF event happens knowing how to survive the winter that is certain to come in most parts of the world and honestly is becoming harsher and harsher in normally warm weather locations …

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Caring for a Baby Post SHTF

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Caring for a Baby Post SHTF Even if you don’t have a baby, don’t plan on having one, don’t have grandchildren, or don’t even like babies, this is still something you should consider. I am not saying prep as if you have or are going to have one. But …

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Edible Landscape: Eating Hosta

Edible Landscape: Eating Hosta

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Edible Landscape: Eating Hosta Perhaps you have little interest in gardening, gardening has become too arduous for your lifestyle, you don’t have the space for a garden, or your HOA won’t allow vegetable gardening on your property. This could be worrisome if there should be a SHTF event that disrupts …

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