Testing Home Canning For Seal & Spoilage Very important information especially for new canners! We work very hard to make sure our home grown produce are tasty and safe. The last thing we want is to make anyone sick with our efforts! Please always test any preserved food whether store bought or home canned. Be …
Things a Burglar Won’t Tell You Should you invest in a security alarm? Would having a wired alarm actually make your family and home safer? What about a dog? or a gun? These aren’t always the tools a burglar looks for when choosing your home as his target. Reader’s Digest gives us a look at …
Bugging In? Tips to Fortify Your Home In an emergency situation or just part of everyday normal life we all want our homes to be our castles and as safe as possible for ourselves and our families. Our home should always be our safe haven from the rest of the world. In a SHTF scenario …
Prepped College Kid Stops Shooter Teaching Your Children can Pay Off with Their Lives We discuss being prepared at all times and as adults we are relieved as each day passes that we aren’t called upon to use those special skills and or preps. Even harder is teaching our kids to be prepared. School is …
Preparing a Gunshot Survival Kit To most of us suffering a gunshot post-SHTF is a terrifying possibility. Being shot at any time is not on the top of anyone’s to do list! But when medical care is not readily available it is even more frightening. Nothing can substitute having the real life saving skills …
Bugging In – Got a Plan? Not everyone plans to bug out! Many plan on bugging in. Some are physically unable, some have no where in particular to go and some will stay and defend their homes. I believe that unless it is something I can out run… I am better off here where …
BOB Ideas You May Not Have Thought Of Think you thought of everything for your bug out bag? For sure the featured article will give you at least one BOB idea that you hadn’t thought of! This post goes the extra step and is focused on trying to give you some ideas of things you could use in your bug …
How to Identify Poison Ivy I have attempted to enlarge this enough to make it readable! I have never had poison ivy and hope by being aware and cautious never will! This is an aggregated site. Please be aware some of the sites we link you to could have pop ups. We have no …
Get Home Safe Plans One of the biggest fears expressed by most of us is that disasters are not predictable. We never know where we might be when it strikes. How can we insure that we get safely back to our families or get them safely home to us? We need a plan that everyone …
Prepping Your Shelter For Chemicals or Radiation This is very important information if you are bugging in or there is a flash attack. This could save you and your family’s life. Radiation and chemicals are killers immediately and over the longer term. Until you can evacuate safely you will need to shelter in place. Pre-cut plastic to …
