9 Items for your Glove Box Whether you Survive or not is most predictable by attitude. Without the right attitude all the appropriate skills and tools in the world won’t help you get through an emergency. But with the right attitude and some very basic tools within hands reach in your glove box, you can get through. To …
Quitting Money I admit and I am willing to bet that many others have at one time or another have considered what it would be like to live a cash-less world. I have even wondered about the difference between living without money in our current money driven world. How hard would it be? Just what …
Learn Morse Code-Simplified In an urgent situation you will want to be able to let authorities know that you and/or your group are in need of assistance or rescue. Morse code may be the only way to do it when the power is out during a storm or other major emergency is literally a life saving communication. Post SHTF you will be …
Be Prepared Before Tornado Season As we saunter through the fall season and ready ourselves for the winter months and storms. That spring will soon follow shouldn’t be forgotten! Spring is that wonderful time of year when winter finally steps aside to let lawns turn green, trees’ leaf out, flowers bloom and birds sing. But …
Urban Foraging Regardless of your environment, you can find plants that it will provide you with nourishment in a survival situation. But you must know what to look for and know where to look for it. This includes non-traditional growing seasons! Some plants are entirely edible from the fruit to the roots. Roots can be found year …
Harvesting and Using Dandelion Roots We talk a lot about what can be made from the dandelion flower and stalk. We actually have provided our readers with a number of recipes like these …….. Dad’s Dandelion Wine MIY Dandelion Bread Dandelion Jelly But the dandelion root itself is not only editable but can also be …
Making Reflector Oven Bread Wheat, flour, cattail, or rice based bread and pastries could quickly become stables in our post SHTF diets. Knowing how to prepare and bake them under primitive circumstances will be a valued skill and one we can practice on during hunting trips, camping trips, back yard bbq’s Too see how …
Shingles & Siding From Soda or Beer Cans A unique and very useful way to recycle and reuse aluminum cans. In the featured article, they are using the aluminum shingles on a chicken coop but with the proper insulation and installation they could be a viable alternative for other purposes. Personally If you have an …
Principles of Preparedness There are basic principles that represent the keys to being prepared. There is the financial security and peace of mind that comes from having car insurance, home insurance, medical insurance, etc. Personally, I have resented paying the constant rising costs associated with health insurance until I needed it! Now paying that insurance fee seems like dropping pennies in an old coffee can in comparison …
The Path of the Prepper I think this is a pretty good explanation of how the building of a prepper begins. We are the minority of the population in most places. But as times become harder, more and more people are beginning to follow us as we lead the way to a more self sufficient …
