We all know about the dangerous side effects of over-the-counter and prescription painkillers. But when your head is pounding, it’s hard not to reac...

Outhouse from the rear Besides taking for granted how simply water normally arrives into our homes, sometimes we also fail to consider how easily we c...

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 practice an...

How to build a low-cost 12 volt evaporative cooler.  My husband and I built two swamp coolers that we use to air condition our tent when we camp in h...

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 a man who had been […...

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 then, but readin...

In the 1960s, my father spit out the word “plastic” as if it were poison. To him, anything made of a substance other than real wood, metal or glas...

As part of my preps, water is high on the list of items I strive to ensure I have options and redundancy for. We have water stored in our home [&helli...

Building a pickup truck sleeping platform can be very beneficial for, not only camping, but for use as a bug out vehicle.  For those who don’t know...

If you have as one of your concerns a total collapse in society regardless of the reason, there are people out there who will tell you that you need t...

Livestock keeping requires some research. It seems obvious, but it’s apparently not. It really merits researching in great depth, because there are...

Imagine a gathering of 10,000 preppers at a convention somewhere in the heart of Las Vegas and at that convention every single prepper had brought the...