Standing Your Ground Prepping Some of those who choose to have a bug in option as their plan A find they sometimes feel like the outcast within the prepping circles. They are called naïve by some, stubborn, and trapped by others. My personal stance is that if the SHTF event we are discussing is one that …
Carbon Monoxide Symptoms and Avoidance Often called winter’s silent killer. Carbon monoxide can occur anytime the space you’re in isn’t properly vented and there are dangerous fumes. Most often in the winter as that is when the majority of home dwellers are trying to keep the heat in and the cold out. But there are …
Why Have a Survival Cache? Even if You Plan to Bug In There is always a lot of banter on prepping, homesteading, and survival sites about survival caches. Most of the time the talk revolves around having a cache or two along the way from your home to your bug out location and/or between your workplace and …
Free Food Storage Inventory Spreadsheets These are really neat inventory spreadsheets that distinguish between types of storage. From dried goods to liquid and all the other things we stick aside for “just in case”. It is hard to mentally remember what you have enough of and what you still need to add to your storage. Once …
Food Storage – The 1st 20 Items Every pantry and every prepper’s food storage begins somewhere! You should always store what you and your family eats and eat in rotation what you have stored. There are items that unless you are preparing you probably don’t have sitting in your pantry. Like water… why store water …
Emergency Pantry Stocked for About $60.00 I am the first to admit that it isn’t easy to prepare for tomorrow while trying to keep a household going for today. I also realize that it is necessary to do! Once you have your basic pantry going it becomes easier and you are able to extend your preps to …
Protecting Your Home During Adverse Conditions Under normal circumstances home security is enough of a challenge. But add freezing cold, blistering heat or some other natural or manmade disaster and it becomes a real issue. Many unsavory characters out there lay in wait to take advantage of any sign of weakness. Add the pack mentality …
10 Tips to Make Your Home Your Fortress Our homes were always intended to be our safe havens. With crime rates rising, disastrous weather brewing and the ever-looming possibility of a major SHTF event to keep our homes our havens we must begin looking at them as our own little fortresses. Of course, building a …
Food Storage Mistakes You Could Be Making Sometimes we get so caught up in the bulk of our supplies that we overlook some of the complexities of food and water storage. I am in the mist of reorganizing my pantry and supply area because I have recently noted some duplicated purchases that were not necessary, …
Lessons Learned During Long-Term Power Outages How sure are you that you and your family are ready for a long-term power outage? I find there are always little things that turn into big things when you have forgotten them in advance! In only my personal opinion just shutting off the power for a day or …
