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Apartment Prepping, the Real Deal In My Opinion

I hesitated writing this because I wanted it to be comprehensive, but I don’t want it to be a book. However, I am going to let it be as long as it needs to be at this point.  Yesterday, I was out at my NJ Preparedness Meetup and one of the people asked me how […]

Glenn Beck on Being Prepared and Prepping

Go into this video to about 11:00 minutes into the video, and Glenn starts talking about being prepared for the future.  As he usually does, he rants a bit, but he makes some serious valid points here.  This aired on November 15th.  He touches on Food storage, but I think he should go into more […]

Review of Ron Hood’s Urban Master Volume 1, The Home

After it sitting on my shelf of a couple of months, I slipped Ron Hood’s DVD on Urban Survival in the DVD player this weekend.   In the first volume Ron discusses Urban Survival tactics for the following categories: Home Away from Home Threats to Your Person Urban Skills Recovery

Prepping For A Personal SHTF

Today I want to take the time to talk a little about something I have not.  The title says it all, I think, with the exception of defining what a “Personal SHTF” is because, well, it’s personal.  In today’s economy, I think that most people might define a personal SHTF as a job loss.  it […]

Mom, Dad, Prepping, and Politics

This weekend I admitted to my parents, who frankly, would think I was a bit of a wacko if I fully admitted I was a prepper.  I admitted to them that I had about three months worth of food in my apartment for any hard times ahead.  They both, surprisingly thought that was smart.   […]

What Would You Do If Technology Failed?

Recently, I picked up the book “When Technology Fails” although I have not started reading it yet, I came across this video this morning, and wanted to share it with you. Before I even start to read When Technology Fails, I was starting to ponder, what might happen if it were to fail.  I don’t […]

Prepping Is The Morally Right Thing To Do

You read it right.  And, frankly this is just a theory I am developing based on a conversation I had today with someone.  Prepping is morally, the right thing to do.  I say this because being prepared for ANY type of disaster no matter what you prep for will ease your decision to have to […]

Unlikely Places to Find Survival Information Online

Here is a small list of unlikely places to find information on survival.  This is more fun I think, to most of the readers than informative, but when I started looking around for these I only found a few places online that I could draw from. Primer Magazine Online The Anatomy of an Emergency How […]

Another Place To Consider for Preps or Last Minute Preps

It’s Sunday morning, or it was Sunday morning, I should say.  I was sitting at Starbucks for the first time in a couple of months, sipping on a coffee trying to read a book, when a couple of older women sat down next to me, and started yapping and gossiping, being, frankly loud and obnoxious. […]

Lessons in Preserving Meats and Poultry

This past labor day weekend, a buddy and I went camping.  Not like real camping, however, in the woods with no facilities, and no one around for miles, but to a piece of property his family owns that he will likely use as a Bug Out Location.  It has a 5th Wheel on it, as […]