All posts by Guest Contributor
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Training Your Children for Self Sustainability
Being able to take care of one’s own self. I cannot express the importance of this simple phrase. We are a family of ten. Yes,...
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Winter Prepper Project Ideas – Outdoors
Winter Property Assessments When we think of winter prepper project idea, we commonly think of things that can help us beat or evade the cold...
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Abandoned Mines: SHTF Survival Shelter Option? Pt. 2
Caching Supplies There are numerous articles dealing with the caching of supplies on this and other Prepper sites. Within the context of abandoned mines, my principal...
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Abandoned Mines: SHTF Survival Shelter Option? Pt. 1
What lured the early settlers and adventure seekers to the vast territory of the American West? In a word: Gold. Early exploitation of minerals and...
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Wilderness Safety Tips for Women
In today’s world, when a calamity knocks, people would go after one another to offer help and support each other all the way. However,...
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10 Survivor Traits Every Prepper Should Have
Sometimes, you can instantly spot the characteristics of a prepper. On the other hand, in certain times,...
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No Excuses – You Have to Do Something Now
This digging spurred me on in my prepping efforts and became my motivation for a lot of different beliefs but I have learned over time...
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Survival Skills: Scavenge A Vehicle For Survival
But if you end up in an emergency situation, and you need to tear up your ride for the raw materials as a matter of...
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How to Tie a Hangman’s Noose Knot
Before I get the angry emails about how many people have been found innocent and are exonerated by DNA evidence let me clarify what I...
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How To Make A Shelter In The Woods
You can live 3 hours without shelter.
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20 Edible Plants That Could Save Your Life
Sometimes, you have to think outside of the freeze-dried food paradigm. You may find yourself in the woods forced to run from your home or...
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You Won’t Get to Pick the Disaster
I probably wouldn’t have been a good candidate for a prepper on Doomsday Preppers for a lot of reasons not the least of which is...
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Looting vs Scavenging
For many of us, just about any recent examples of disasters, protests, sports riots or uprisings in various forms illustrate a certain amount of looting....
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How To Keep In Touch With Loved Ones During Disasters
I was reading an article about the mega disaster in Japan in 2011 and how difficult it was for the victims to ask for medical...
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4 Tips to Keep Fear from Wrecking Your Prepping Plans
Fear can be the ultimate motivator. People in a plane that is rapidly plummeting to the ground are suddenly motivated to clasp their hands together...
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Power to Go!
We recently wrote of batteries for electric devices, the value of rechargeable, assuming a reliable power source, as well as home generators, something to the...
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Training Day – Putting your Bug Out Bag to the Test in the Real World
Our family decided to go on a backpacking trip for a few days into the wilderness. For this trip we would be staying overnight in...
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Choosing Your Shelter: BOLs vs. Bunkers
When it comes to surviving TEOTWAWKI, nothing is more important than choosing your shelter whether that is your bunker situated near your home, or somewhere...
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How to Prepare for a Power Grid Outage
Anyone who’s lived in Florida during hurricane season knows that you can’t always rely on the power grid for electricity. Residents of Texas also know...
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10 Self Defense Tips for Women
In a perfect world, one would like to think that when disaster strikes, people would rush to help and support each other through it. And...
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Safe Water If the Grid Goes Down – Part II
In Part 1, we discussed the conundrum of water; how it was necessary, but safe water is not always available. We listed what could contaminate...
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Simple Winter Car Survival Kit
There were lots of times when people were stranded in their cars, forced to sleep in the floors of local stores and cities that looked...
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Safe Water If the Grid Goes Down – Part I
Water is a critical component of life. Go without any for three days, and your chances of being dead are very high. We are used...
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9 Prepping Lessons from American Blackout
Like millions of others, I plopped down to watch National Geographic’s American Blackout. I was curious to see how the hypothetical scenario of a 10...
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Hard Decisions: Knowing When to Bug Out – Pt. 1
What Are Your Bug Out Triggers? What conditions would have to exist for you to decide that you had to abandon your home; that...
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10 Must Have Prepper Skills for Survival
There will always be arguments over style, but it seems that the ideas behind the motivation to prepare are catching on. News reports actually reference...
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Prepping After 60
Ever wonder how you will live if the SHTF? Ever try to answer all the questions that you ask yourself about how you will survive...
