Some posts may contain affiliate links. Escaping From a Sinking Car Accidents are called accidents for a reason. No one intends for them to happen. Yet every day someone dies an accidental death. Many of these are preventable while others come completely out of the blue. Being prepared and accepting that you could be the victim …
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What the Five Stages of Acceptance will Look Like After a SHTF Event
What the Five Stages of Acceptance will Look Like After a SHTF Event Acceptance as defined by Wikipedia Acceptance in human psychology is a person’s assent to the reality of a situation, recognizing a process or condition (often a negative or uncomfortable situation) without attempting to change it, protest. The concept is close in meaning …
Contentment: The Quiet Survival Arsenal
Contentment: The Quiet Survival Arsenal Content is an awesome state of mind to find yourself in. It’s rather rare these days though with all the strife and struggle to do more, have more, achieve more. No one wants to be left behind! Or seen as a slacker. So we worry, work, plan, and struggle all …
7 Special Preparedness Situations
7 Special Preparedness Situations As prepared as we all try to be there are always kinks in the plan. Things that are either so simple that they are overlooked or that just don’t apply to your current situation or group but could suddenly become a major issue to be overcome in your preparedness plan. Let me …
DIY Rainwater Catchment Cistern
DIY Rainwater Catchment Cistern A while ago, one of our followers on our Facebook asked a question regarding her defunct cistern. One end had been breached by tree roots and the property owner before her had begun to fill it with odds and ends including concrete bricks. Her question to the group was should she …
Post SHTF Dumpster Diving
Post SHTF Dumpster Diving Many of us stockpile so that until we can get a sustainable source of fresh food we won’t have to go hungry, stand in a hand out line or stoop to dumpster diving. Our featured blog in this post challenges that thinking. In all honesty the thinking behind the recommendations make sense. …
Animal or Human? Specialized Shoes Leave Them Guessing!
Animal or Human? Specialized Shoes Leave Them Guessing! They are intended to be art. Made by Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre, clay sculptures attached to old shoes. Kind of urban funk. His creations could fool the best of us! I think the fun would be watching urban neighbors realize there are bear or even just deer …
Wild Game Jerky
Wild Game Jerky Who doesn’t love jerky? We have a number of recipes for various sauces and flavorings on the site. But I don’t think that a whole lot of us have tried to many wild game jerkies. Here in my local area the common jerkies are made from beef, turkey and deer. But if …
Cooking With Mud
Cooking With Mud Sounds horrible doesn’t it? Cooking with mud sounds really unsanitary. But if you do it right, it’s actually not. Cooking with mud was probably the advent of pottery to begin with (just my ponderings) It gets hard and then when done you break it away from the food. There is a bit …
Save Yourself From Choking
Save Yourself From Choking Most everyone in every country has heard of the Heimlich maneuver used to save another from choking to death. But what do you do to save yourself from choking if no one is there to preform the maneuver on you? 1st stay calm. I know that is much easier said than …