Category: Prepping

Tent Cot Details

Tent Cot Details Elevated sleeping platform keeps you high and dry and away from the bugs and snakes Heavy duty 210D tent and rain fly is designed to handle most wet weather conditions Versatile design allows you to use your tent cot as a lounge, a chair and a flat cot as well Designed to …

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First Garden or Updating? 3 Things to Consider

First Garden or Updating?  3 Things to Consider This year’s gardening season is nearing in most areas of the world. So if you have decided this year you’re going to plant your first garden, if your garden this past year didn’t produce as well as you had hoped. or your garden last year was so awesome you want …

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Make Your Groceries Last Longer

Make Your Groceries Last Longer   Everyone wants to save some money! Stretching your grocery budget, keeping your home grown produce and sale goods fresh and usable longer will do just that. Some of these tips can also help stretch your preps in an emergency situation when a trip to the store simply isn’t possible. Our …

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DIY Path lighting

DIY Path lighting Here is an easy DIY path lighting project that can make a big statement at your next BBQ or summer party. You may already have all the pieces you need to make your own pathway lighting!  You can use a plant stick as a pole or if you prefer recycle an old …

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What Does Living Off Grid Really Mean

    What Does Living Off Grid Really Mean We hear a lot of chatter these days about living off the grid. What does that really mean? There are countries and cultures that have always been off the grid. Some due to poverty, an economic choice, a lifestyle choice or religious beliefs Does this just mean they don’t have …

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MIY ChapStick

MIY ChapStick  Although ChapStick is actually a brand name, like many other products the original producer’s brand has become the common name for the product itself.  The basic recipe for store bought lip balm contains camphor, beeswax, petrolatum, menthol, vitamin E, phenol, aloe, and oxybenzone. If like me you don’t know exactly what each of those …

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Foraging Safely -Common Non-Edible Plants

Foraging Safely -Common Non-Edible Plants   Many of us are learning about foraging and edible plants as we become a more health conscious and prepared society. But we must remember to choose the plants we decide to eat with care as the wrong one can make you extremely ill. It is an old tale that …

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Free Solar Water Heating Designs

Free Solar Water Heating Designs In today’s economy anything that reduces your power bill is a plus. Being able to take a hot shower after a SHTF grid down situation will be priceless. Some of the designs presented in the featured article are historically the oldest types of solar water heating. Often going off the …

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Top Guard Dogs

Top Guard Dogs Even small dogs can be very protective (the one pictured is a peekapom, not very big but furiously protective) . Your loving pet can be an asset to protecting you, your family, your home, and your preps. Most often love of their human master is all the training they need to bark and attack when they feel …

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Mudslide Survival

Mudslide Survival   On March 22, 2014 Oso Washington experienced a large mud slide. Forty three people lost their lives and forty nine homes were engulfed. If there is a slide of this magnitude in your area  how would your home fair? As many areas are now going into their rainy seasons it is especially important to know about slides. Even if you don’t live in an …

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