Quickly Stop Bleeding Nothing scares a parent more than an injured and bleeding child. It is equally as scary when someone is bleeding profusely, and you are the only other person there to assist while waiting for first responders to arrive. Even those trained to deal with medical trauma find large amounts of blood flowing …
Convert a Gum Wrapper Into a Fire Starter! They say need is the mother of invention. But knowing how to make fire any way possible is a pre-need we should all learn! There will eventually come a day where there will be a need. That doesn’t necessarily mean it will be a disaster or a …
Tips I Wish I Had Known When I Began Prepping! Every path we choose to follow in our lives has a number of smaller choices we make along the way. Even if we research, listen to the pros and cons of those who went before us, and trust our guts, there are always things that …
Items That Should be Stocked but Probably Aren’t Anyone with a lick of sense has at a minimum of 3 or 4 days of household supplies, food and water storage and a first aid kit of some sort. This is the norm for non-prepping families in most parts of the world. Unlike the majority of …
Tips For Surviving Journeys in the Wild The featured article comes from the viewpoint that you have somehow been stranded in the wilderness. By a crisis while hiking or camping or even more serious you have survived a plane crash. If you think those instances are rare, I recall a small plane crashing into a …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. The First Mile is the Hardest- Reluctant Prepping Not everyone has always lived a prepper or homesteading lifestyle. Making the changes necessary to be more self-sufficient in your life isn’t easy if it is new to you! Many of this generation’s adults grew up raised by the baby boomers …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Gray? No Way! We talk a bunch about being gray when in a crisis situation where the population around you is not only in a panic but unknown to you personally. The gray man concept is a well-known tactic for staying under the radar and moving about unnoticed when …
The Black Dot Campaign This is another one of those great ideas that could backfire badly! The purpose of the black dot on the palm of your hand is to identify yourself as an abuse victim who needs assistance but can’t for whatever reason verbally express that need to those around you. It is a …
Four Essentials Of Off Grid Solar An off-grid solar (photo-voltaic) electric power system is an ideal prep for modern survival in that it can partially or totally relinquish you from dependence upon other systems, which themselves are vulnerable to disruption or breakdown. Off-grid systems also enable the ability to live away from the mainstream, …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Medical Supplies for Barter Medical supplies are an excellent barter item. First in a time of disaster you can’t have too many medical supplies. For the most part medical supplies don’t expire or go bad over a length of time and right now in normal times they are relatively …
