Category: SHTF

Survival Skills Bucket List

Survival Skills Bucket List

Survival Skills Bucket List None of us are experts on everything. Anyone who claims to be is not being honest with themselves or you. There are basic skills that will be required in order to stay alive during a disaster scenario. They aren’t the most difficult ones to master but do require practice like anything …

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Homemade Cough Syrup That Reduces Phlegm

Homemade Cough Syrup That Reduces Phlegm Carrots tend to get under-rated in the area of health benefits. I can attest to the fact that in many European countries carrot juice is one of the first juices introduced to babies for skin health. I remember myself as a child being told carrots would assist my eye …

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Prepper Groups: Start One, or Join One?

Prepper Groups: Start One, or Join One? Almost everyone agrees that the lone wolf survivor has a lot more to overcome to survive than does a group. A prepper groups dynamics can throw a wrench into the works or make a well oiled survival machine. You may already have a planned group made up of …

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Splitting Firewood With a Knife AKA Batoning

Splitting Firewood With a Knife AKA Batoning

Splitting Firewood With a Knife AKA Batoning Not only does batoning actually take less energy to chop wood into kindling, but it is a method available to most people in a survival scenario. Many people actually carry a knife on their belt or in the trunk of their car. Fewer folks tote an axe with …

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Hand-Foot-And-Mouth Disease

Hand-Foot-And-Mouth Disease It looks like chicken pox and sounds a bit like hoof and mouth disease, but it’s neither!  Hand-Foot-Mouth-Disease is caused by a couple of viruses. Coxsackievirus A16 is the most common cause and Enterovirus 71 is the second-most common. It is highly contagious like the chicken pox caused by the varicella-zoster virus and is not the …

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Surviving In A Freezing Cold Car

Surviving In A Freezing Cold Car Unless you’re a self-sufficient hermit you must leave your home some time during the cold winter months. Even on those milder days the weather can change very quickly catching you in route. Knowing how you can survive in a freezing cold car is imperative if you live in colder …

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Medical Uses and Benefits of Peppermint Oil

Medical Uses and Benefits of Peppermint Oil

Medical Uses and Benefits of Peppermint Oil Peppermint flavoring is used so often in sweet treats that it’s easy to forget that in fact it is an herb. One of my favorites in that regard is peppermint hot cocoa. Particularly appropriate for cold winter nights in front of a fire. Especially that I now know …

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5 Vintage Gadgets Tested

5 Vintage Gadgets Tested

5 Vintage Gadgets Tested Two things I love rolled into one! The Russian Hacker who always makes me laugh and vintage items. I actually did not know what the first item pictured was! I have never used an egg separator. My tool for that is even older than the wire thing, the actual egg shell. …

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Introducing goTenna Mesh

Introducing goTenna Mesh

Introducing goTenna Mesh Often times its interesting to see the new technology that is coming our way. This particular device the goTenna Mesh refreshingly takes current technology and adds old world methods to make it work. I doubt that people will flock to this device in today’s world. Because it requires a human relay system which would …

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Different Types of Preppers – Which are You

Different Types of Preppers - Which are You

Different Types of Preppers – Which are You I don’t particularly like labels on people. Especially those that can have a huge swing in meaning depending on who is using the label and in what context. To me the term preppers is defined as people who plan ahead to insure their and their family’s or group’s quality …

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