Gear
26 Survival Uses for Bandanas
Twenty six ways to use a dollar's worth of cloth. Tourniquet, water pre-filter, sling, signal flag, trail marker, sweatband. Toss a few in every bag and vehicle you own.
Gear
DIY
Power Down? Household Appliances You Can Re-create Off the Grid
Your refrigerator dies the moment the power does. A buried cooler makes a working root cellar, two nested clay pots become a desert fridge, and a bucket with a plunger washes clothes. These are not theories. They work.
Gear
Packing an Office Bug Out Bag
If the SHTF while you are at your desk, your home supplies are useless. Stash walking shoes, a water filter, emergency food, and a change of clothes at the office. Getting home is the mission. This bag gets you there.
Gear
9 Bug Out Supplies for Your Purse (or Pocket!)
Your bug-out bag means nothing if you are nowhere near it. Nine pocket-sized items bridge the gap: a bandana, flashlight, lighter, multi-tool, cordage, cash, water tabs, and basic first aid. Carry them everywhere you go.
Defense
Earthquakes: Prepping to Survive the Aftermath Part II
The shaking stops. Then the real problems start. Broken gas lines, dead power, and no working toilets. Have a generator or battery bank ready. Line your toilet with garbage bags. Know where your gas shutoff is and how to use it before the ground moves.
DIY
Making a Mini Bug Out Bag for Your Kids’ School Backpack
Most preppers with families know how important it is to make sure your children are prepared. Every member in your family should have a bug out bag, preferably one that will cover at least 72 hours in a survival situation. But what happens when your kid is at school and separated from you and the...
DIY
6 Steps to Turn a Backyard Camping Trip into a Kid’s Survival Course
Everyone loves a backyard camping trip, it’s great fun for everyone, but it’s also a great opportunity for learning. It is a fun way to teach your kids the basics of self-reliance, without them realizing they are learning anything because they’ll be having so much fun. Start with ground rules tha...
DIY
Top 5 Survival Hacks
In a perfect world when a disaster happens you would have everything needed to survive. Of course, in a perfect world disaster and catastrophes would obligingly never happen. Yet having to contend with those frequent bad things that befall us at the most inconvenient times is a consequence of liv...
DIY
Duct Tape And 9 Other Survival Tools You Already Own
The advent of the prepper trend running on the heels of a dreaded solar flare, predictions of global economic collapse, or even fears of the zombie apocalypse, has brought along with it a whole assortment of gadgetry designed for every niche duty one can imagine. But what if most of what you need...
Defense
Bushcraft Survival In The Wilderness
Quick raise of hands, Who has gotten turned around in the forest, out hiking or on a hunting trip? I bet anyone who’s ventured out into the wilderness can testify to a slight tinge of panic that rises from deep down in the belly before finding your bearings again. Most of the time this is […]
Food
What Does Living Off The Grid Mean To You?
Over the past few years, the concept of disaster prepping has changed, evolved if you will. Demographics have broadened to include a diverse mix of people delving into the prepper world. Perhaps, this change was birthed by the mass shift in economic uncertainty brought on by the Great Recession o...
DIY
The OTHER Solar Power
When conversations or debates turn to getting off the grid, the usual candidates for doing so, wind and solar power, will always make their obligatory appearance. Perhaps geothermal will get some airtime but what seems to be left out of the back and forth, and what probably wouldn’t even be consi...