Even though home births have made a comeback among prospective parents these days. No one plans on doing so without appropriate training or on the fly during a crisis scenario. I know that women have been giving birth just fine on their own for all of measurable time. That doesn’t make me feel one iota …
MIY Dehydrated Potato Flakes Especially if you don’t have a root cellar this is an awesome way of storing your potato harvest. They can then be stored ready to make quickly and they take very little room to store. Yes, it is more work initially than just buying a box of potato flakes at the …
Building With Plastic Bottles During normal times we in most 1st world countries have access to what we would consider normal building materials. However, if you are in a 3rd world country that may not be the case. The building pictured was built with sand filled recycled plastic bottles retrieved from the trash in Africa. …
DIY Cook Top From a 55 Gallon Barrel This project is just awesome! We have seen barbeques and wood stoves for heating made from barrels and now one with a cook top. I personally love it. If cooking off grid on a permanent basis for any length of time and I would desperately want a …
New Prepper’s Guide to Preparedness Everyone of us was a newbie to prepping at one time or another, even if it is a life style we grew up in. We took those things for granted and lived by our parents examples preparing for the most likely SHTF scenario in their opinions. Today’s world isn’t the …
Low-Cost Alternative To Semi-Automatics Semi-automatics are preferred by preppers for their quick fire, but they are expensive! In some areas of the world they are also very difficult to obtain legally. So many are seeking lower cost alternatives. Information on low cost alternatives is available at the link below The Low-Cost (But Effective) Alternative To …
Bug Out Lessons From SWAT We can learn lessons from anything we do in our lives from our jobs, our educations, our vacations, our family and friends. The author of the featured article happens to work as a SWAT team member and has been able to take his work experiences and apply them to the …
Prepping Carry Ons Approved By TSA The price of airline tickets has become outrageous. Hopefully the current decrease in fuel costs will eventually trickle down to a lower ticket prices. We used to be able to check a couple of bags to make our travels easier without additional charges. Now checking a bag is almost a …
Emergency Rectal Rehydration I know no one wants to talk about anything that has to be done rectally. Worse than talking about it of course is being the one on which the rectal procedure is being performed. However unpleasant or not it sure beats dying of dehydration. You can indeed die if you become overly …
Turn Waste Paper into Heating Fuel Probably everyone at one time or another has burned paper in a fire. As you saw it didn’t last long or really put off enough heat to do much of anything. More of a fire starting material than an actual heating fuel. Before this special project anyway! This make …
