When preparing for emergencies or disasters, having the right supplies can make all the difference. However, as preppers we need to think outside the box and past an item's stated purpose. In an emergency, the rules and structures of everyday life can break down quickly, leaving people scrambling to survive. This is where thinking outside the box, or "prepping outside the … [Read more...] about 25 Multi-Use Prepping Supplies & Survival Tools
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Bad Advice About Prepping You Should Avoid
Preparing for any emergency is essential, and preppers are among the most prepared. However, there are some terrible advice preppers should avoid as they can be dangerous or just plain wrong. This article will discuss the most common bad advice that every prepper will hear at some point and should keep in mind when preparing for an emergency. I’ll cover topics such as … [Read more...] about Bad Advice About Prepping You Should Avoid
Understanding Different Personalities & Prepping
One of the biggest influences on our prepping plans is people, and how they react in different situations. This will include people in our preparedness plans, and people we may come across. Understanding how to deal with different personality types is critical to getting the best results in any given situation. The way you interact with someone will determine their reaction … [Read more...] about Understanding Different Personalities & Prepping
Travel Planning and Safety Tips
Although most of us can’t go as much as we would like,taking vacations and traveling is something we are bound to do at one point or another. This could be for work, for family events, or just to take a break from the daily grind. Whether for work or for play, it’s important we plan out our trips and understand the dangers we may face. While going on vacation is a great way … [Read more...] about Travel Planning and Safety Tips
Cyber Security for Preppers
With technology advancing on a seemingly daily basis, and with everything being connected to everything, cyber security for preppers is becoming increasingly important. With governments and companies gathering your data, and tracking every move you make, and hackers trying to take every dime you have, protecting ourselves is a full time job. Last week we talked about how the … [Read more...] about Cyber Security for Preppers
15 DIY Prepping Ideas to Learn New Skills
When 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 … [Read more...] about 15 DIY Prepping Ideas to Learn New Skills
10 Everyday Items You Can Barter With
The following is a guest post from Dan Sullivan: We’ve all seen those articles outlining 40 or 50 or 100 items we can use to barter in a post-collapse world in order to get food, water, ammo and other things that we might desperately need. After reading them, the main thing I learned (apart from the fact that toilet paper and feminine hygiene products are always at the top of … [Read more...] about 10 Everyday Items You Can Barter With
How to Build a DIY Portable Solar Generator
In a recent podcast I did with Ken from the Prepper Podcast we talked about grid down scenarios and what we can do about them. Right after that podcast I decided to build my own DIY portable solar generator. My plans are to build a solar generator that will run my well pump in a grid down event, and while this generator does not have the power to continually run it, I have … [Read more...] about How to Build a DIY Portable Solar Generator