Category: Non Seasonal

4 Methods for Making Moccasins

4 Methods for Making Moccasins We could show you a simple how to featuring a single pair of moccasins, but why only one method! As with anything there are different levels of skill and personal preferences for style. The featured tutorial gives you four different methods and styles that will make your moccasins as unique …

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Avoiding and Surviving a Carjacking

Avoiding and Surviving a Carjacking Locally the incidence of attempted armed carjacking has drastically increased. I am told this is not just an issue here but across the western world. The last two incidents I heard about involved women stopped at stop lights who were approached by a pedestrian who pretended to be using the …

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Fire Survival Tips For The Disabled

Fire Survival Tips For The Disabled What if there is a fire and you or someone you care for can’t run down the stairs and out of the engulfed building? One of the worst-case scenarios I can imagine is being trapped in a burning building. As we see more and more of our wounded warriors …

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DIY Emergency Stove From Soda Cans

DIY Emergency Stove From Soda Cans Another example of how what today we throw out in the trash can be something that could become a very useful item in an emergency scenario. I do realize that these little alcohol stoves can be more difficult to use than is one that burns wood or another flammable …

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Benefits of Prepping if Disaster Doesn’t Come

Benefits of Prepping if Disaster Doesn’t Come So, you do all this prepping, and the zombies don’t rise aka no pandemic illness strikes (although we’ve had a taste of a smaller version with covid) or World War III continues to brew but war doesn’t actually break out bringing with it TEOTWAWKI.  Now what? A waste …

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MIY Rum

MIY Rum We have posted a number of times about the uses for our own distilled spirits in a SHTF scenario. Most of the recipes we share with you can be deemed illegal in some areas as is stated at the very beginning of the featured article. I feel it does indeed reduce the value …

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Tips to Burglar Proof Your Home

A  burglary is committed in the United States about every 15 seconds and 60% of those burglaries involve forcible entry. The more our economy struggles the higher the crime rate rises.

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Advice for the Newbie Homesteader or Prepper

there are some basics that are if not the same very similar for each of us who want to live a sustainable or independent lifestyle

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Keeping Your Safe Haven Safe

Keeping Your Safe Haven Safe Note that for the purpose of this post, home invasion is defined as any breach of your property. Home being  your primary residence, bug out location, vacation home, or any space that you consider your own and invasion meaning someone unwelcome entering that location without your consent whether you are there or …

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DIY Solar Distiller

DIY Solar Distiller The featured article talks about building your own solar still. With a still you can turn undrinkable water into pure home distilled hydration. Purchasing one can be really pricey, even for a small distiller the asking prices are 200+. The uses can be almost unlimited from refilling lead-acid batteries in normal times to …

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