Will They Target You Next?
Reading the recent headlines about the revelations that the IRS has been targeting conservative and Tea Party groups and that the Department of Justice has been caught tapping the phone…
Category Archives: Prepping 101
Information for the beginning Prepper.
Is your Bug Out Bag Going to Get You Killed?
A bug out bag is designed in theory to give you everything you may need to live for at least 72 hours outside of your home and should be considered…
How to convince someone about prepping
I received an email the other day asking for advice on how to get a loved one on board with prepping. This is a subject I have wanted to write…
Prepping 101 – Home Security
From the dawn of time, man has tried to build a home that would keep him and his family safe. From caves to small huts to castles with moats and…
Prepping 101 – Communication Options
Having a plan in place for Communication in a disaster or survival situation is important to your preparations. This may be a plan for communicating with your family if you…
The Pros and Cons 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 1900’s, or at…
Where There Is No Kitchen: Cooking When The Grid Goes Down
Many of you are familiar with the nearly famous books “Where There Is No Doctor” and “Where There Is No Dentist” that are the most widely used health education books…
Prepping 101 – Best Gun For Home Defense
There are few things more likely to start a fight than the discussion of firearms and more specifically, what the best options for a defensive weapon are if you are…
Prepping 101 – Food Preps: 30 Days Worth Of Food
When you start to consider prepping, one of the first things you need to start prepping for is food. Simply put, food is one essential you need to live and…
Bugging Out vs. Hunkering Down
A frequent topic in Preparedness and Survival circles is the subject of Bugging Out and more specifically the question of whether you plan to Bug Out or will you Hunker…
Prepping 101 – Get Home Bag
There are numerous concepts used in the Prepping community and the concept of a Get Home Bag is one of the easiest to understand because the rationale is very obvious…
Prepping 101 – OPSEC
What is OPSEC? OPSEC is short for Operations Security or Operational Security and encompasses identifying critical information to determine if your actions can be observed by adversaries. To boil that…
Prepping 101 – EDC
What is EDC? Well in case you mistakenly go out to Google “EDC ideas” for some inspiration; EDC does not in Prepper lingo stand for Electric Daisy Carnival. What is…
Prepping 101 – Baby Steps
There is always a very healthy dialog on all sides of any issue when it comes to Survival or the Preparedness movement. From Bug Out Bags to firearm recommendations and…
What Are You Afraid Of?
What are you afraid of? These are the words that I hear often from friends, strangers and the media. What was once normal has become “absurd” and self-reliance is now…
