Prepping
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Planning For the Unexpected – Choosing and Wearing the Right Footwear Everyday
In a high percentage of survival situations; you might argue all of them, clothing is a major component. For your Bug Out Bag we generally...
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Beyond the Bug Out Bag
Before I start this article, I want to make it plain that I am not a combat trained individual, at least in a military sense....
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Plan To Survive: The Tactics Of Living
When you read the various Prepper and Survival blogs and comments on Prepping, it’s hard to avoid the constant chatter about guns and defensive warfare…...
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Preppers Always Have a Plan in Place
If your community gets hit by a disaster, like a hurricane, flood, radiological release, or even an earthquake, how would you and your family fare?...
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What to Look for in a Survival Retreat
Prepping in some cases is about taking proactive steps to avoid or mitigate the risk of danger. Usually when we think of prepping nirvana the...
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10 Food Ideas for Your Bug Out Bag
Bug Out Bags come with their own set of problems just as complex in some cases as the myriad of reasons why you could be...
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10 Ways Your First Backpacking Trip will Better Prepare you for Bugging Out
There are two recurring themes we have in prepping and survival blogs around preparing for disasters of any type. The first is the need to...
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3 Questions Regarding the Prepping Movement
I was approached via email back in June of this year by a reporter in New York State who was covering a local story about...
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Scraping the Bottom of the Oil Barrel
In late 2009 my boss plunked a book with a hazard-yellow cover on my desk and said, “This might interest you.” I didn’t know it...
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One Size Doesn’t fit all when it comes to Prepper Plans
When we are planning for our family’s safety, preppers employ a wide spectrum of ideas, plans and approaches to getting their family out of danger...
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What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us – Livestock Edition
Livestock keeping requires some research. It seems obvious, but it’s apparently not. It really merits researching in great depth, because there are a lot of...
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5 Affordable Steps You Can Take to be More Prepared
Oh, if I only had a million dollars I could purchase everything I think I could need if the grid went down for good. I...
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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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12 Survival Items You May Have Overlooked
When we talk about survival, there are certain items that immediately come to mind. We start with the discussion of beans, bullets and band-aids. This...
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Household Survival – 15 Lifesaving Items You Probably Already Have
Many of us who are new to prepping become wrapped up in the things we don’t have. We scour the internet looking for prepper checklists...
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Where Are You on the Arc of Preparedness?
Life is often about measuring ourselves against a standard. The standard changes with the situation but there is always some metaphorical yardstick we are trying to use...
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6 One-Day Preparedness Projects & Skills
A ton of preparedness projects and skills can be completed in as little as an afternoon, regularly with minimal outlay of cost. Some of them...
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Simple Tips To Keep Your Stuff Safe
How do you go about protecting all those new gadgets and gizmos you got at Christmas or your birthday? You might be surprised to discover...
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Paracord – NEVER leave home Without it!
NEVER! If there is one “miracle” survival product it is paracord. It can handle so many jobs, it can be packed efficiently, it can be used,...
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Must-Have Multipurpose Items for Your BOB
The list of items to pack in your bug out bag (BOB) can seem limitless. However, you cannot afford to pack all of them due...
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If There Is No Place Left To Hide: Why Bother Hiding?
Each day it seems we are greeted by another plan for government surveillance, under the guise of national security of course, in order to access...
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Self-Reliance for Everyone
“Is it not already too late if one waits until one is thirsty to begin digging a well?” — Chinese Proverb When you mention “self-reliance,”...
