Prepper news and tips for survival, self-sufficiency, self-reliance, and disaster preparedness.
Natural Blaze Ladies…and gentleman! Perish the thought you ever find your hands bound in duct tape, but if you do here’s how to get out. With a proper use of force, you can use your arms to break free. That’s the important factor. By raising…
By Heather Callaghan Do you have some chocolate? An aluminum can? Cloth? Tinder and wood? Throw in some sunlight and you got fire! It doesn’t seem that this would be your best bet to start fire in a survival situation – but that’s what this…
By Natural Blaze “Using candles will never be the same!” say the inventors of the Egloo candle-powered heater. “Heat your room for 10 cents a day!” The simple device is designed to harness and amplify the heat given off from candles by “taking advantage of…
by Daisy Luther Over the past couple of years, here in America…. Contaminated water caused a complete loss of municipal services in both Ohio and West Virginia, resulting in almost a million people vying for the stock in local stores. A freak confluence of storms…
by Gaye Levy One of the key strategies for every prepper is the formation of a prepper community. Yet, as strategic as this may be, it is conceivably the most difficult of all of the prepper strategies. There are issues, not the least of which…
by Lizzie Bennett Our homes, cars, offices and even dustbins are full of stuff that we barely give a second glance to. Many of those items are multi-purpose and can be used for prepping and/or in situations where our survival is challenged. Being able to…
by Daisy Luther In an everyday situation, poor vision is just an inconvenience. The modern world has provided us with lots of easy solutions: glasses and contact lenses are readily available. Personally, I have required vision correction since I was 7 years old. I can…
by Gaye Levy During a recent book giveaway, the question asked was “What piece of prepping gear is at the top of your bucket list?” Needless to say, I was more than a little bit surprised to find that the top response was water storage,…
by Daisy Luther I really don’t like to make predictions. I’m not Zoltan, the fortune-telling dude in the machine – you know, the one with the turban who waves his mechanical hands dramatically over a crystal ball and tells you of your future in a…
by Daisy Luther Is your house like an unfortunate cross between Doomsday Preppers and Hoarders? How do you store your preps? Are they neatly organized, where you can grab what you need at a moment’s notice? Are they a jumbled mess that makes your house…
by Gaye Levy No one really knows how many preppers exist in the world but it is safe to say that there are three to four million in the United states alone. Even though at first blush this sounds like a huge segment of the…
by Gaye Levy Having a survival mindset means you are always ready to take on new challenges, right? Although I fully believe that new challenges are a good thing, it is sometimes downright frustrating to recognize that prep as we do, we are never really ready….
by Daisy Luther What is a more uncomfortable feeling than relinquishing all of the items that are normally part of your EDC kit? Here’s one: relinquishing those items and boarding a plane to fly across the country. For many preppers, a worst-case scenario for us would…
by Daisy Luther When most people think about preppers, they envision a family that lives in a remote area, growing their own food, raising livestock, and sitting around a cozy fire at night. However warm and lovely that image may be, the reality of the…
by Gaye Levy There is a popular school of thought that dictates that your survival kit should follow you everywhere. Within this context I am not referring to a bug-out-bag or a vehicle emergency kit but rather a small, portable survival kit that you carry…
Natural Blaze Help isn’t coming! We live in a world where most people would rather outsource their survival to some random government agency instead of taking the tough, but necessary steps to ensure their own health and safety. But when disaster strikes, the reality of…
by Gaye Levy Webster defines an expert as a person “who has a comprehensive and authoritative knowledge of or skill in a particular area” That being said, when it comes to preparedness, is anyone ever really an expert? Let’s be realistic. Every prepper, myself included,…
by Joshua Krause Last week, esteemed physicist Michio Kaku made a rather dire and unexpected announcement on CBS. A massive cold front is moving down the continental United States, that is being caused by Superstorm Nuri. As the storm combines with the jetstream, it’s going…
by Daisy Luther If you turn on the news or look at any type of social media today, the theme of the day is….Brrrrr…. That’s because most of the United States is getting hit with the first storm of the winter – and it’s a…
by Daisy Luther A while back, I wrote an article called “30 Signs That You’re One of Those Crazy Preppers.” Lots of readers got into the spirit of things, since it was pretty darned relatable. We all know these are actually signs of sanity, but we’re…
