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Organization and Storage Ideas for Preppers

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Organization and Storage Ideas for PreppersAs we get more and more into preparedness we end up with more stuff than we can we have room for. Because of this it’s important to learn about organization and storage ideas for preppers. The more prepared we become, the more challenging finding places to store everything becomes.

It’s not only important to keep everything organized to maintain your sanity, it’s important for managing inventory and expiration dates. As I tell my children, it’s much easier to take 5 minutes a day to straighten up their rooms than it is to wait a month and have a disaster on their hands.

Being unorganized and not using our storage space wisely can lead to complacency and even arguments with the spouse. If we have the closets packed full of prepping supplies and food storage, we are less likely to keep the ball rolling. If your husband or wife is not on board with prepping, this could lead them to become resentful about your prepping.

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DIY Under The Bed Easy Access Storage Slider

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DIY Under The Bed Easy Access Storage SliderAs a prepper I am always looking for more ways to maximize the space I have for storage. That’s why I decided to make a under the bed storage slider. While one of these isn’t “absolutely” necessary because you can put anything under the bed with a kick of the foot, it does make things much more convenient.

The reason I decided to make this slider for under the bed is because putting things under the bed is easy…getting them out can be a chore. You need to grab a flashlight, kneel over and search around until you find what you are looking for.

While there are other options like storage totes and wire baskets, I wanted to maximize the storage space under my bed. As preppers we have so much stuff that we are always looking for different ways to store and organize.

Even if you don’t decide to store canned food, bottled water or anything else preparedness related, it’s still a great “out of sight, out of mind” storage solution. I’m sure Lisa’s side will be at least half filled with shoes and photo albums.

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How to Make a Cheap Homemade DIY Chicken Brooder

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How to Make a Homemade DIY Chicken Brooder CheapEvery couple of years we add a few chickens to our flock, most of the time we just use a plastic storage bin as a brooder because we only get a couple of chickens. This time was a little different. This time we got 12 chickens and needed more room, so I needed a way to build a cheap homemade DIY chicken brooder that would stay warm, and be roomy enough as the chicks got bigger.

After doing some research I found I had 3 options. I could turn the bathtub into a temporary chicken brooder, I could spend a couple hundred dollars on a premade brooder, or I could just make one myself for less than $50.

Because I didn’t want to spend that much money on something I will rarely use, and because Lisa wanted no part of turning the bathroom into a brooder, I decided to just bite the bullet and build one.

Building Your Chicken Brooder

DIY Chicken Brooder DoneThis brooder is 39″ X 20″ X 2’ tall, but you can take these directions and make a chicken brooder of any size that fits your needs.

First let’s start with the supplies you will need, and then we’ll get into how to put this together. I am going to link to these on eBay, but all of this is available at Home Depot as well. You might even have some of this laying around your house which will save you even more money.

Estimated Time: 2 hours

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Staying Healthy when Sickness is Everywhere

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Staying Healthy when Sickness is EverywhereThis time of year it seems like everyone is getting sick. Colds and flu are prevalent and very contagious. Just as an example, the office that I work in has had a large majority of the workers ill. Some do the right thing and stay home, but others feel they have to come to work, so they in turn expose everyone who is healthy to their dirty germs.

So if this happens to you, how do you stay healthy? How do you keep the dirty little germs away from you, so you don’t take it home to share with your family? And if you do end up getting sick, how do you ensure that it will not be a long lasting illness?

There are many things you can do to keep yourself healthy, and keep the germs away. First things first, you have to boost your own immune system. How can you do this? It is a process, and will not happen overnight, but if you can keep your immune system functioning at its highest level, your body will be better prepared to fight off invading organisms, whether it is viral, or bacterial.

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Emergency Cooking Ideas and Operational Security

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Emergency Cooking Ideas and Operational SecurityThese days we have the convenience of turning on a stove or grill and cooking a nice juicy steak, or turning on the oven at the flip of a switch and baking fresh bread for the family, but what would you do if that wasn’t an option?

Or worse yet, what would you do if it was an option, but the delicious smell it put off was ringing the dinner bell for unwanted guests?

While there are is no shortage of emergency cooking ideas (and I am going to list some here) and operational security is critical when you are cooking, and no one else in the neighborhood has food.

Unless you feel like opening up a SHTF soup kitchen, there are some things that need to be considered, and this means more than what you are cooking. [Read more…]

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15 DIY Prepping Ideas to Learn New Skills

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15 DIY Prepping Ideas to Learn New SkillsWhen it comes to prepping there is no shortage of DIY ideas and projects that we can find. Let’s face it, if we spent money on all the products we wanted like food storage shelving units, long term food storage, solar generators, rocket stoves and sun ovens it would break the bank.

DIY prepping isn’t just about saving money or being cheap like I am, it’s also about learning new skills that might be useful if our lives get turned upside down and the resources we are used to are not available.

Last week I talked about why buying an older vehicle is not only good in the event of an EMP, but it also gives you an opportunity to do your own repairs on the vehicle, and gives you a better understanding about how everything works in the event that an auto mechanic is not an option. [Read more…]

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A Preppers Food Storage: One Sizes Does not Fit All

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A Preppers Food Storage One Sizes Does not Fit AllWhen it comes to a preppers food storage, one size does not fit all. We all have certain limitation whether that be financial or storage space. Our list of what we feel like we need to have, and our list of what we actually have can be to entirely different things.

Storage space is something we can overcome with a little critical thinking, but not having the funds for food storage can put a kink in our preparedness plans.

In this article we are going to go over a few of the different methods of storing food, and not wasting money on food because of improper storage or loss caused by expiration.

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Duck Processing: Too Many Cock-A-Doodle-Dos

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Duck Processing Too Many Cock-A-Doodle-Dos

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Cliff Fowler

Raising backyard chickens is becoming more and more popular these days. And why shouldn’t it, after all, they provide an endless supply of food if bred periodically. But, what do you do when a hen stops laying? Or, what do you do with those roosters that hatch out every now and again?

Sure, that cock-a-doodle-do at the crack of dawn can seem like peaceful life on a farm, but if you’re not going to use those roosters for breeding, then they will have to be culled.

They can be sold to make an extra buck, or you can just throw them in a pot. It may sound like a daunting task, but processing chickens is not that hard to do if you have the right tools, a decent workstation, and the stomach for it. [Read more…]

Homemade Smoked Alaskan Salmon Recipe

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SHTF means grid down. Grid down means no electricity. No electricity means no freezer for long term food storage. Get it? SHTF means possible starvation in less than a week unless you know

Vacuum Packed Salmon
Vacuum Packed Salmon

how to preserve food to be kept at room temperatures.

What’s that you say? Oh, you have a room full of canned goods and dried meals? Have you ever tried to live on those dried meals? If you haven’t then I suggest you do. Yes, store bought dried meals will keep you alive. After about a week, you might choose death over eating another one of those. Have you ever considered how vulnerable your food cache is?

My point here folks is that reality smacks us dead in the face with this fact: Food stores have limited value due to quality of the food and vulnerability. Your better chance for survival is your knowledge and skills. In this case, your knowledge of how to acquire and preserve fresh foods from mother earth, not mother grocery store.

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Smoked Salmon

Smoked, cured, canned, preserved meats and vegetables is an ancient practice. This process for storing food to be consumed at a later date was used for tens of thousands of years. It is only within the last century that humans began to use reliable electrical grids to power up freezers to store food. Your great grand parents, and  mine, knew and cared nothing about deep freezers full of Ziploc bags stuffed with various frozen items. It is far more likely that the “old folks” preferred their personally preserved food even if they did have access to full stocked grocery stores. [Read more…]

How to Build a Super Simple Chicken Coop

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How to Build a Super Simple Chicken Coop If you are thinking about getting chickens or have chickens already you know (or will know) that buying a chicken coop is a large investment. In this article I will explain how to build a super simple chicken coop, but depending on your needs this might or might not be the best option for you.

When we decided to start raising chickens about 3 years ago we went the quick and easy route and decided to buy a premade chicken coop, and after I saw the prices of some of these chicken coops I basically purchased the cheapest chicken coop I could find. [Read more…]

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