Some posts may contain affiliate links. Concrete Home Survives Wildfires and Building Info (2 links) If you live anywhere where wildfires are an issue, you are well aware of the danger and property damage they cause. This year the fires have been particularly bad in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. To date just …
Dealing With Looters You will see this question discussed on almost every prepping, survival, or homesteading site. What do we do with the looters? I am personally fed up with the idea that every upsetting event is an excuse for looting. Destroying your own neighborhood, your neighbor’s place of employment, your community’s businesses doesn’t solve …
Should You Have Cash in Your BOB? This a real common question and my answer is always the same… YES! More often than not if you need to bug out of a situation there has been an emergency that doesn’t, yet anyway, involve an economic collapse. Why do I say that? Because if you are …
A Prepper “Honey do” List Male or female whoever does the household repairs around your home knows what a ‘honey do’ list is. Unfortunately, around here that someone is me! Whether you are doing the upkeep or you have someone else who does it or helps do that, (in my case which ever child happens …
Stop Trench Foot Before It Stops You (Bug Out Crisis!) If you ask any solider or hiker, actually anyone who spends a lot of time walking, marching or running. They will tell you if you take good care of your feet, they will take good care of you. This is truer than most of us realize. …
How Long Would You Survive Quiz This is another of those just for fun quizzes. Don’t put too much weight on how it rates you! It can however if you come to a question that has you scratching your head tell you that is an area where you need to do a little more research. This particular …
Poisonous plants quiz At this point I usually tell you that quizzes are really just a fun testing tool and not to take them too seriously. To just use the quiz as a tool to tell you what areas you might want to do some more research. After all who writes them? and what are their …
50 Uses for an Emergency Blanket Just a few days ago we featured an article from Gray Wolf Survival with his opinion that the mylar emergency blanket wasn’t to his liking but had other uses. If you missed that posting, you can see it here>> Do Mylar Emergency Blankets Really Work? In that article he also …
Off-grid When the Stockpile Is Gone Stockpiling some food products is only smart for a long- or short-term crisis scenario. Many people disagree saying that for the long term a stockpile will do you no good. It will eventually run out and then where will you be? I both agree and disagree with that statement and …
Do Mylar Emergency Blankets Really Work? This is one of those articles where the author and I don’t agree. As an aggregated page we always try to present as many angles on every subject broached as possible. We realize that everyone has their own point of view and opinion and the more of those we …
