Prepper news and tips for survival, self-sufficiency, self-reliance, and disaster preparedness.
By Gaye Levy “Everyone who lives in the city is going to die when the SHTF.” Have you ever been on a preparedness website and read that? It makes my blood boil, and not just because it’s a negative and discouraging thing to say….
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By Gaye Levy According to the CDC, there’s a public health epidemic you need to be on the lookout for. It’s not contagious, but has spread due to the North American lifestyle. You may have suffered from it yourself, without even realizing you were part…
By Daisy Luther As many of you know, we recently moved to a small home on a farm. Our house is about 900 square feet, and I live there with my youngest daughter and all of our preps. One of my favorite things on Pinterest…
By Daisy Luther Facing the zombie apocalypse as a super-wealthy person sure is different than it is for the rest of us mere mortals. While most of us would be ecstatically happy with a homemade bunker on the back 40 of our property, these luxury…
By Gaye Levy There comes a time when every prepper finally says, “Enough with all of the food and enough with all of the gear!” After years of seeking out the best stuff at the best prices, creating a stockpile, and purchasing equipment, you just…
AP Photo/Spyros Tsakiris By Heather Callaghan Greeks don’t want austerity, but the future is bleak and unknown. As of Friday, grocery shelves were being stripped bare of staple cooking goods, and pharmacies ran out of crucial medicines like thyroxine (thyroid treatment). More than half of…
By Daisy Luther Sometimes people think that a sumer power outage is easier to deal with than a winter one. After all, in the summer, you don’t have to worry about freezing to death, which is a very real threat during a long-lasting winter outage….
By Gaye Levy This is the time of year when families travel to visit friends and relatives near and far. When taking a road trip, it is easy to throw a bug-out bag and extra food and clothing into the trunk of your car but…
By Daisy Luther In the prepper world, everyone always talks about “strategic relocation” but it’s rare to hear about the actual act of moving the enormous amount of stuff that we accumulate. We’re preparing for what I hope is my final move ever. We have…
By Catherine J. Frompovich What’s EMP, readers may be asking? It refers to Electromagnetic Pulses, and warfare! Yes, warfare, which very few folks realize probably will become the choice “winner takes all spoils” eventual destructive weapon of modern civilization. Why do I say that? The…
By Gaye Levy Whenever I think of glow sticks, my first thoughts are of kids’ sleepovers or rock concerts. Despite the visions of the Dollar Store party supply section that are probably dancing through your head, the bright tubes are actually a great addition to…
By Daisy Luther Did you ever read a blog post on a prepper site and sigh, because the person writing the post seemed to have been born a survivalist? In your mind’s eye, you could envision them at the tender age of six, weaving a…
By Daisy Luther Nothing warms my prepper’s heart more than a good disaster movie that supports my hypotheses about a specific event, and the recent movie San Andreas was no exception. Okay, sure, there was some pretty unrealistic stuff like when The Rock was driving a…
By Daisy Luther Are you truly prepared for a water emergency? How long could your family survive if the water stopped flowing from the municipal supply and none was available at the store? If the answer is not “indefinitely” then you need to check out…
By Daisy Luther Did you ever stop to put some thought into the flushing power of your toilet? It’s one of those things we in modern society take for granted. We use the restroom, then we flush, wash our hands, and forget it. But during…
By Gaye Levy With all of the varying complexities of food storage and food storage companies, it may be difficult to sort through and prioritize what is important and what is not. I don’t know about you but with the dizzying array of things to…
By Daisy Luther There’s no denying that for many of us, times are tight. Many homes have a basket by the door full of unopened bills. Bank accounts are in overdraft. Every week the charges at the grocery store are a little bit higher than…
By Daisy Luther Excerpt from The Pantry Primer: A Prepper’s Guide to Whole Food on a Half-Price Budget *** Another important consideration when building your pantry is the restrictions of family members with food-related issues. There are many people who must eliminate certain foods or…
By Tess Pennington Each of us has every intention of ensuring our family has what it needs to survive and thrive. Part of your disaster mitigation plan should be planning for the possibility of having to evacuate from your bug-out location and living off of stored rations from…
