Category: Hunker Down Prepping

What to Store in Your Faraday

What to Store in Your Faraday Almost everyone reading this is aware that a faraday cage is intended to protect your electronic devices from electrical pulses aka an EMP. However, there are great differences of opinions and ideas of just what items should be stored in this protective case. Truthfully this does and should vary …

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Uses for Baking Soda Preppers Should Know

Uses for Baking Soda Preppers Should Know Preppers and homesteaders are well known for their ability to creatively solve almost any problem with what they have on hand. We adore multi use items and baking soda is one of those items! Our friends at Preparing for SHTF have put together a list of 15 ways …

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H2 Dynamo Turns Air Into Fresh Water!

H2 Dynamo Turns Air Into Fresh Water! Fresh water has become an issue in many countries around the world including the United States. One of the countries that suffers the most from lack of fresh drinking water is Israel due to the dry desert conditions. They have developed a device they call the H2O Dynamo that …

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40 Items for Barter – Updated to 100!

40 Items for Barter- Updated to 100! Having a stockpile of food, first aid supplies, batteries, and such handy will assist in your own readiness for a time when running to the local store isn’t an option. Having extra of these kinds of items will make bartering much easier as they are the kind of supplies that everyone …

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Technical and Field Manuals – Download For Free

Technical and Field Manuals – Download For Free The featured site contains technical and field military manuals both old and new that you can now download via PDF for FREE!  You might wonder what good an old manual could do you today. But after a SHTF event there is every possibility that the modern-day methods …

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DIY Tin Can Trail Alarm

DIY Tin Can Trail Alarm Although as the featured article states there are more modern methods of alerting oneself that your encampment is being approached, in a SHTF event they might not be available to you! One of the bad things about our trash is that it takes years upon years to decompose tin can …

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Are You Making the Most of Your Preps?

Are You Making the Most of Your Preps? The benefits of dual use items are obvious both in today’s world and if the SHTF. Many of us including myself have some items that are just tucked away for ‘what if’ scenarios. What would be awesome would be to be able to use these items today …

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Foods That Store Indefinitely

Foods That Store Indefinitely Storing some food products that don’t spoil or go bad over time has its advantages. I do believe strongly in storing what you eat and eating what you store. I also believe that barter is going to be very important in sustaining your quality of life. Some of these items that …

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Survival Uses for Aluminum Foil

Survival Uses for Aluminum Foil Aluminum foil has been used in kitchens for years and years. It is well known for its ability to seal in heat and with stand baking temperatures. In the prepping world it is also known for its ability to block electronic impulses to our devices. For this reason, it has become a joke among …

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What We Can Learn From the Old Homestead

What We Can Learn From the Old Homestead Author of the featured article Stephanie Dayle writes about her family’s old homestead and the way of life from the past that is becoming a chosen lifestyle once again. We all long for a simpler time and way of life. Although the actual homesteaders would be the …

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