Especially when you first begin to prepare it can be expensive. I am always being asked by the new prepper “How can I prepared for tomorrow, when I am struggling financially today?”. I always recommend you start slowly with the basics and learn as much as you can before you spend a dime. Make …
Helping Your Community in a Disaster There has been a major disaster. You survived the event. You have secured the wellbeing of your family or group. Now it is time to help your community. What do you have to offer? What would be best use of your skills? Where do you start? Who needs your …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Why Everyone Should Have an Alcohol Stash All preppers have some knowledge of the use of alcohol in a post SHTF world. Mainly it is well known to be one of the best items for barter. Even during the hardest of times like the great depression people seemed to …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Basic Survival Signaling One of the most important parts of a successful mission is communication. For our purposes the mission is to survive. To communicate over some distance or silently we will need to signal each other and others within our own groups. Even more importantly is the need …
Doomsday Clock Ticks Ever Closer Why? What does it mean? and Who sets it? Everyone has heard of doomsday. Some preppers even prepare for it as a regular expected event.. So Just what is the doomsday clock? It’s a clock face used as a timer or a count down to when humanity will destroy themselves. …
Run-Hide-Fight! Active Attacker Survival Tips I am sure you all remember the attack on Ohio State University students on November 28th 2016. Eleven people were injured. This attack was not an active shooter however. This attacker chose to use a vehicle and knives as his weapons. These stories are becoming all too frequent. Especially in our schools …
15 Ancient Shelter Designs If a SHTF event is longer term, you will need a more permanent shelter than a tent or bush shelter. Something more stable than those and for the longer stay. The elements will kill you long before the lack of food and even perhaps water. So what will you do if …
Alone for the End? Most of us prep with the hopes that it will be for the short term crisis. But factually we know any disaster scenario could cause long term supply shortages and could come with angry crowds of survivors who either lost their supplies or hadn’t prepared at all. Often this leads to …
Gray Man Secrets From a Surveillance Operative Other than this site, for the most part I live my life gray. I simply don’t choose to stand out. I do admit that if and when a time were to come when being gray would be less a choice and more a necessity I would have to adjust my …
Multi Purpose Survival Items You May Already Have Prepping isn’t always an inexpensive lifestyle or proposition. Face it you need good gear because if it fails when you need it there are no do overs. Very few of us have an unlimited budget and if surviving means bugging out there is only so much you …
