How To Be Ready For Cold Weather Emergencies It is vitally important to be prepared for a cold weather emergency. Sometimes the power goes out, stores are closed, the roads are blocked and cash machines are inoperable. Even if the store is open, and you have cash, the supplies may already be gone. The best …
The Best Survival Games of 2017 Personally I don’t play them. But I guess they actually could have some value depending upon how you look at them. Yes, survival games could actually have a purpose to real preppers and survivalist! They do improve small motor skills and can be used to teach strategic thinking. To this …
Are You an Effective & Organized Prepper? Most of us like to believe our prepping efforts are both organized and effective. The type of organization that this blog refers to however, isn’t how neatly your supplies are stored. When I first began seeing what I was doing as prepping, I realized I wasn’t really being …
Three Layers of 72 Hour Preparedness Priority one is always surviving the initial event. After that the next 72 hours are critical. If aid is available it is stretched extremely thin. People are dazed, injured and scared. At their most vulnerable and too often for some their most dangerous. If supplies are intact they …
Smart Strategies For Keeping A Low Profile During SHTF After the initial event, after the immediate chaos, you may want to become the go to guy. That is a personal choice completely dependent upon your unique personality, skills and situation. But during the event and immediately after, the last thing you want to do is …
DIY Wood Stove Heat Reclaimer No matter what method you use to heat your home you want it to be as effective as possible. This includes wood stoves. You want the fuel you use to stretch and be as efficient as possible. When heating with a wood stove, quite a bit of your heat is …
Could You Pass the Prep 5-5-5 Test? Most of us believe we fall into one of three categories of preparedness. The first is we are prepped for anything at any time. (If you feel you are in that category you may find that you have underestimated the fickleness of disasters) The second is that we …
Building a ferro-cement shed Most of us have wood or metal shed where we store our own overflow. Depending upon our unique locations and uses they have their pros and cons. Many of those issues are resolved when they are built with ferro-concrete. I thought that it would be much more expensive and labor intensive …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Burn Injuries On and Off The Grid Other than excessive bleeding these are the types of injuries that frighten me the most. I have I have a close relative who was burned badly enough to require skin grafts (much worse than is pictured above) and saw the pain, infection …
What You Need to Know About Hunkering Down Many of us have a plan to bug in or hunkering down in place. But do we really know what that entails? Imagine being confined to just your property or a portion there of for months at a time. Are your resources renewable? Are you prepared for …
