Preparing Your Children for Family Separation in Emergencies
Unwanted as they may be, emergencies do occur, and they are never planned. Amid the chaos that reigns during a natural, technological and even human-caused disaster, there’s a high...
The 7 Survival Uses of Egg Shells
Eggs may be scrumptious, especially when paired with a generous side of mouthwatering bacon, but there’s a lot more to them than that. Ever stop to consider the eggshell?...
10 Out-of-the-box Ways to Use a T-Shirt in a Survival-Type Situation
What could be more common than a T-shirt? Great for just any type of social situation, comfy, and ridiculously cheap. It almost seems too unimportant to be the headline...
The Advantage and Disadvantage of Bartering
Bartering is the key. This will be the solution to all our problems when the grid goes down and society devolves back to somewhere around the early 1900s, or...
How Cherokees Used Trees of Southern Appalachia for Food, Medicine, and Craft
Foraging wild food requires practice, knowledge and experience on your landscape. Note that I used the word your land. Perhaps what you read in books and watched on YouTube...
5 Important Preps that Make You Side Money
The quest for preparedness often rubs up against the realities of our monthly budgets. When you come to realize that the earth and its people are threatened by so...
What Should You Do With Your Canned Foods After the Expiration Date?
The winches strained and squealed and gradually the steamboat Bertrand was excavated from the silt and sand of the Missouri River and brought to the surface. The year was...
Remove These 14 Things from Your Medicine Cabinet Immediately
Medicine cabinets are items of interest. While it's useful for storing drugs and other items we need, others seem to be turning into a black hole. Anything that gets...
BOB from the Dollar Store for $50
Let’s face it, prepping can be expensive. That one problem has kept a lot of people from prepping through the years. It also makes things difficult for those of...
3 Quick Shelters (The Last One is Invisible!)
The most powerful thing about being in the wilderness is the idea that there is zero concern about your wellbeing. Whether you live or die or get eaten alive...
