Auto Parts Stores for Preps or Last Minute Preps if the SHTF
Friday, as I was in the Strauss Auto Parts Store while they were changing my oil, rotating my tires, and replacing my air filter. It occurred to me that the auto parts / supply store is a veritable candy store of preps for your home, Bug Out Location, car. While every one is running to […]
One Suburban Apartment Preppers Plan
Taken from a survival forum and copied to a word document late last year for my own review going forward: Now some people live in apartments like myself, I figured we needed a thread for suggestions for folks like myself. I’m pretty creative and have some ideas that I will be enacting soon if not […]
Apartment Prepping for Fall and Winter
Well, the end of August is coming, and the weather is starting to change a bit; evenings are getting cooler, and days are starting to get a bit shorter. This to me is a clear sign of a few things. One, some of my Bug Out Bag contents need to be rotated out soon with […]
The New Free Suburban Survival Blog Classifieds Online!
Well, everyone, in an attempt to make it easier for you to find what you are looking for, The Suburban Survival Blog has launched our own Survival Classifieds section where you can post what it is you are looking to sell, and where those of you (us) are looking to buy can browse and do […]
National Preparedness Month is September
Check it. So I don’t know how relevant this is to the readers of this blog, but maybe the information can be used to spread the word to family, friends, and neighbors. National Preparedness Month is September. Ready.gov says that National Preparedness Month is “designed to encourage Americans to take simple steps to prepare for […]
Practical and Affordable Prepping, at the SurvivalBlog.com
JWR‘s blog, this morning has a good post on Practical and Affordable Prepping, that I think is worth the read. Here is a snippet and the link. The purpose of this submission is to establish that we all have real lives to lead while we remain vigilant about all possibilities, most of which others choose […]
The Core Concepts of Modern Survivalism, by Jack Spirko
Sitting in LAX airport, or any airport for that matter I enjoy catching up with my podcasts. To me the airports are “hurry up and wait” situations that offer some much needed personal downtime while I wait for the plane. Fortunately, today as well, I have WiFi access on the plane and can write a […]
How Stocked Should a Bug Out Location Be If You Have to Bug Out?
This is a thought that hit me this weekend as I was surfing the Web for survival topics so I could learn something new. I was looking up Bug Out Locations, and it hit me that, we (I) discuss prepping your primary home with preps primarily for Bugging In. But I started giving more thought […]
Goals for the Weekend.
This is more a personal post than anything else… I have had a long week. Traveled on business, and along with traveling for business came business dinners, entertaining, etc. I am really tired, and could have slept until Saturday morning from last evening; or at least that is how it feels. I could go to […]
Food Storage Guide
Here are two pages that list a wide variety of foods, condiments etc. and their approximate shelf life when stored at room temperature, and also when refrigerated or frozen. The web pages were archived from the North Dakota State University’s Agriculture website; the original document can be found here: http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/yf/foods/fn579-1.htm I found this on […]