You saved and pinched pennies. You prepared, practiced and taught your children survival techniques. You even warned your friends, family and in some cases your neighbors. Now the disaster has hit, you and your immediate group are safely in your home, tents, or bug out location. There are those you will welcome into your mist at that point of …
Post SHTF Security- Covering All The Bases This article is designed to get you thinking about the security of your property. Ask yourself how a criminal would assess the situation if they came across it randomly. You can barricade yourself inside and hope that the criminals will get tired of trying to break the door …
Salt Survival Purposes If you were to find yourself in a survival situation salt would be a valuable commodity, one might even say, a lifesaving commodity.Your body needs salt (sodium chloride). Your body does not produce it. Sodium and chloride is required for blood, sweat, digestive juices and efficient nerve transmission. In many countries iodine is added to …
DIY Small Diameter Well Having clean water available in any situation is obviously ideal. If you live where there is no well nearby and there is SHTF event you may find yourself out of water. Believe me you get thirsty quicker than you think. This is a perfect DIY project something I feel sure we all could …
Considerations When Burying a Cache A cache is actually less a thing and more a place. A secret hiding place where valuables are hidden with the assumption that you will come back at some point to retrieve them. Caches do not have to be buried in the ground necessarily. But burying survival supplies makes sense in most situations. …
What You Didn’t Know About Bugging Out Here are some things that you might never experience if you haven’t strapped your gear on your back (more properly, your hips) and traced your planned bug out route. You can’t know for sure what will work and what will not. You can’t choose to add or remove items from …
DIY Hidden Pivot Bookcase (Two links! 1 for the complete DIY’er and 1 for the DIY’er kit) One universal issue shared by all those that prep, have children or low square footage homes, is storage space! How and where do we find more space and if possible can it be hidden in plain sight? Also quite popular with …
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 …
DIY Chispito Wind Generator Plans Sooner or later one way or another we are all going to go off the grid eventually. It might be by choice to cut utility bills, or required because the grid is down long term. Either way wind power is a really viable option because in almost every location has at …
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 …
