Some posts may contain affiliate links. MIY Watermelon Moonshine Watermelon summer’s most juicy fruit treat and moonshine! Oh, must be too good to be true! Even if you aren’t currently one to have a cocktail now and again, spirits are a good barter item that will come in handy in just about every SHTF scenario as there will always …
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 …
Easiest Survival Shelters Shelter is the number one concern when caught in a SHTF event right after surviving the actual event. The elements can kill you faster than being without food or water and if the event is manmade getting out of immediate view can also be a priority. You cannot count on having any …
MIY Paper Products As a hobby, a nifty method of recycling, or as a necessity during a long term SHTF event making paper is something that you can do at home! The featured article gives step by step instructions for making it from recycled materials but once you know the process it can also be …
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 …
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 …
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 …
DIY Pepper Spray We get a lot of questions from those who live in areas and countries where owning a firearm is not a legal option about other methods of self-defense. Pepper spray is a non-lethal self-defense item that can be used in most places if needed without legal ramifications. However, we strongly encourage you …
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 …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. 10 SHTF Realities for the Unprepared Most of kind of laugh a bit when our unprepared friends or family announce that they do have a contingency plan…. to come to your house! Then in good humor we tell them don’t bother as we won’t be opening our doors to anyone …
