Tag: Frugal

DIY Box Traps

DIY Box Traps Traps of any kind will be needed in a long term SHTF event. No wasting ammo and after setting the trap you are free to go about other chores that will have to be done until the trap has done it’s job and you have captured prey. There are kill traps, however …

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Survival uses for Leaves

Survival uses for Leaves When in a survival situation everything around you if you are creative can become a survival tool. Even the leaves right off the trees and plants around you. In the Polynesian Islands cooking with leaves is a very common practice. Spinach and Taro are the most commonly used and serve both as …

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Fortify Your Home – Bugging In

Fortify Your Home – Bugging In So you’ve determined it is in your and your family’s best interests to bug in and hunker down.  Now you need to prep your home to do so. No home is fortified for survival purposes by your average builder! Unless you can do the plans and building yourself, your home …

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DIY Bug Out Trailers

Some posts may contain affiliate links. DIY Bug Out Trailers What is cooler than having a bug out vehicle that is specific to you and your needs? Not everyone can afford to have a custom trailer built to their specifications. Although ordering one to your specs is awesome if you can do it, but there …

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DIY No Welding Required Bike Trailer

DIY No Welding Required Bike Trailer There are crisis scenarios where your bug out vehicle could be or should be a bicycle If you need to move about quicker than you could walk and further than you could run then a bike would be a great option. If you need to maneuver around debris through …

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Hackers Hit Big…Again & Again

Hackers Hit Big…Again & Again Over and over again we hear about major computer hacks that compromise your personal data. From your medical records to your banking information. Don’t think you have ever been effected? Check out this page which provides information on major hacks linked below… then click on the bubble that you choose …

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Natural Antibiotics that Destroy (non-COVID) Super Bugs

Natural Antibiotics that Destroy (non-COVID) Super Bugs After a major event there will be injuries and with the poor conditions that are likely to exist after word very like many of those injuries will become infected. Super bugs like MRSA will have an open breeding ground. Without appropriate medical care and pharmaceuticals readily available enter …

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Pain Relief Hiding in the Pantry

Pain Relief Hiding in the Pantry No matter how good your health may be most of us suffer little irritants and small injuries at home. Not bad enough to go in to see the doctor and certainly when after hours not bad enough to sit for hours and hours in the local ER. But uncomfortable …

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Safety Rules for Foraging

Safety Rules for Foraging Learning to forage is a lifesaving skill during many types of crises. History shows with a long-term food shortage of any kind the foragers and gathers are the survivors. But not everything that grows or that is green or even that tastes good to us humans is safe for us to …

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Reusing Plastic Water Bottles

Reusing Plastic Water Bottles There has been a lot of controversy regarding reusing plastic water bottles. It only seems logical that since they only had clear water in them that simply refilling them with more clean water should be safe enough a time or two. There are those that feel that reusing a plastic water …

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