How to prepare your family to survive and thrive in todays uncertain world
Lately I’ve been considering the plight of people who are new to preparedness. How overwhelming this must be for them. Even for those of us who have been prepping for years it can still be overwhelming and intimidating. I imagine that for people that are new the task ahead must look like Mount Everest. Most [...]
Preparedness is a mindset. You have to realize that getting prepared isn’t a one-time thing. It’s a fundamental shift to the way that you think and the way that you live your life. And honestly, everyone is different and everyone will have a different level of preparedness that they’re comfortable with. And there’s nothing wrong [...]
I promised an announcement today, here it is! Some of you have been asking me to show you how to put together a long term storage plan in more detail. After thinking about it a bit and discussing it with my wife, we’ve realized that this is a huge undertaking and one that needs to [...]
My day job, aside from being a loving father and adoring husband is a very technology centric occupation. I work at a desk and it is somewhat difficult to find jobs in my field outside of urban areas. This does not fit well with our desired lifestyle nor do I find the suburbs a particularly [...]
I had an interesting conversation via email with one of my readers this week. She was responding to my winter storm scenario and wanted to know more about alternate power arrangements in the case of a grid failure. We ran through some scenarios and I explained to her HOW to go about figuring all this [...]
Anyone who has read some of the survival and preparedness sites on the internet has undoubtedly read about people planning to ‘Bug Out’ or Head for the Hills when TEOTWAWKI (The End of the World As We Know It) strikes. While the idea of striking out on your own, heading for the hills too hunt, [...]
Guys, you’ve heard it before. “Honey, we’re out of toilet paper.” When you hear that today you can just run down to the store and save the day, hero that you are. You may not be so lucky down the road. This isn’t just for toilet paper though … other non food items are pretty [...]
So if you remember the Rule of Threes, you know that it’s time to talk about food now that we have water sorta covered. When you say food storage, most people picture 50 lb bags of rice and buckets of wheat stored in the corner of the garage, and boxes of freeze dried food on [...]
So according to studies, and we all know how accurate they are, your average American uses about 50 gallons of water a day. Great Caesar’s Ghost! And here I am telling you that you should have not days, not weeks, but MONTHS of water stored. Why, that’s 1,500 gallons of water per person, or 6,000 [...]
Everyone knows that you need oxygen, water, food, shelter, and so on to survive. We all get that at a gut level. What many folks don’t realize is that there’s a pretty simple way to triage those things. It’s often referred to as the Rule of Threes. The rule is simple: You can survive for [...]
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