Tag Archives: preparedness
Where Is Your Best Off-The-Grid Location?
Both the United States and Canada offer a lot of opportunities for off-the-grid living. There are vast rural areas in both countries, where families can easily homestead and hide from society. So which country is a better place to go off the grid? Well, Canada is colder, but it has far more empty wilderness to hide ...
16 Food Storage Tips for the Space Challenged Prepper
One of the more common prepper challenges is finding room for stored food and water. Lucky you if you have a large home with a basement or cellar – you have plenty of space at just the right temperature. But the rest of us? Not so much. Many people live in apartments, condos, mobile homes, ...
Reasons You Need Salt in the Prepper Pantry
Editor's note: Be sure to that you do not consume table salt, as it contains harmful fillers. Unrefined sea salt and Himalayan salt are great alternatives. One of the very first things I did when I first started prepping was to bolster my pantry with basic staples that could be used for variety of purposes. When it was ...
26 Five Minute Prepping Projects
One of the excuses used for not prepping is that it takes a lot of time. True enough. Anything that you pursue with passion and intensity is going to take some time. On the other hand, there are plenty of prepping activities that can be undertaken in just five minutes. Come on. I said just five ...
Moving for Preppers
The prepping community is always full of well-meaning advice about “where” a prepper should move to increase the chances of survival during an SHTF scenario, but the information on “how” to move is hard to find. I’m in the process of getting ready for a big move – across the continent and into another country. I’ve ...
Getting a Bead on Setting Up a Simple Solar Panel Kit
When it comes to understanding electricity, my mind tends to blank out when it gets to the point where I have to determine volts, amps, amp-hours, voltage under load and other terms that are second nature to the electricity savvy. Let me make it clear that this is not a girl thing or a guy ...
A Primer on Propane for Prepping and Survival
Call it serendipity if you will but a couple of months ago when I was contacted by Chris Newman, developer of the InstaBed Cubic Garden System, I had no idea that I was about to meet and get to know a really smart guy with MacGyver like skills and knowledge in all aspects of prepping ...
Use Your Noodle: The Importance of Whole Foods in the Prepper’s Pantry (VIDEO)
Have you ever talked to a prepper who has highly processed, nutritionally-bereft foods stacked to the rafters? Oftentimes the logic behind the purchase of massive quantities of these inexpensive items is, “Well, it’s better than going hungry!” Actually, that’s not necessarily the case. If it comes to the point where you are completely dependent on your long-term ...
Embracing Phytochemicals for Health and Survival
In a survival situation, all of the gear in the world will be of no use if you do not have a sound mind and body. As far as the mind goes, you need to handle stress, cope and learn to roll with the punches. But the body? That is another story. Whether blessed with excellent ...
7 Critical Steps to Take Following a Disaster
Without question, when a major disaster hits an area, entire communities are affected in ways that are unimaginable. And while it is nice to think that the rescue squad will be trotting by to help at any moment, we all know that is not true. It is not for a lack of trying. Local responders such ...
The Persuasive Prepper: Convincing Loved Ones to Prepare
If you are a prepper, chances are that you have friends and family who consider you anywhere on the “nuts” scale from a bit eccentric to downright certifiable. This viewpoint, of course, makes it very difficult for you to talk with these loved ones and bring them over to the “dark side” of preparedness with you. ...
The Thirty Minute Semi-Annual Home Safety Inspection
From time to time, we all make resolutions and affirmations for improving our quality of life. We set goals and make strident attempts to improve ourselves, our preps and our relationships with both other people and things. The goal, always, is to make things better. But how do you define better? Let me toss this one out ...
25 Things That You Should Do To Get Prepared For The Coming Economic Collapse
Do you think that you know how to prepare for the collapse of the economy? If so, are you putting that knowledge into action? In America today, people are more concerned about the possibility of an economic collapse than ever before. It has been estimated that there are now three million preppers in the United ...
Survival Mindset: Preparedness As A Way Of Life – Part III
Before you can be mentally and psychologically prepared for a disaster, you will also need to be physically prepared. While the survival mindset is a mental awareness of the need to survive, you cannot get to that place until you have the confidence that you can take care of your physical needs and be self-sufficient ...
Survival Mindset: Preparedness As A Way Of Life – Part II
Coming to terms with the survival mindset is often the first hurdle that newbie prepper’s must overcome. Once doing so, however, the task of family preparedness becomes easier since each step along the way is defined by unique circumstances specific to geographical area, family situation and current economic status. Still, even accounting for those individual differences, ...
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