The first trading day of 2016 was full of chaos and panic. It started in Asia where the Nikkei was down 582 points, Hong Kong was down 587 points, and Chinese markets experienced an emergency shutdown after the CSI 300 tumbled … Continue reading
The goTenna is thin, sleek, and lightweight device designed to circumvent our dependence on the grid for communication in times when there is no signal. Spawning out of Brooklyn, New York, this is the an extremely cool sliver of tech that … Continue reading
Personal accountability and taking responsibility for your own decisions, is (or should be) central to any prepper. It is not as exciting as shiny knives, bug out bags or assembling a personal armory, I’ll admit. But every once in a … Continue reading
In any type of grid-down event, there will be the struggle to survive initially. Suppose you do make it through the stages of a PA event and you are building your community, maybe extending your family by taking in orphans … Continue reading
Too easy. Because Mother Nature will kill you the first chance she gets! Are you wondering why these allegations about the primary resource for the whole humanity? Read the following article to see how easy is to die in the … Continue reading
Spoiler Alert! Bad things are closer than they appear. By day three, all gasoline is gone, water is rare, and all FEMA food has been distributed. Now the fun begins. By day seven, the backup food supply is zeroed out, … Continue reading
A few generations ago farm kids were raised differently than children today. There was plenty of work, few toys, and little or no processed foods. Fun was interacting with your family, caring for animals, and playing with others through games … Continue reading
Originally I wasn’t going to write an article for the Prepper Writing Contest because I am BRAND NEW to prepping. I mean to say that it’s been about a month, so I feel totally unqualified to speak on the topic … Continue reading
Stockpiling medicine is not an easy task: it’s about money, it’s about making the best choice, it’s about availability. You should have at least a month’s medical supply, and the medications you stockpile can be easy to come by and are … Continue reading
When we’ll have no running water, no hyperactive emergency services, no electricity… we are going to turn back to what people did 100 years ago. Here you’ll find some “little” survival tricks popular in the early 1900’s and (some of them) useful … Continue reading
by Pocket Sized Product: True Utility Fixr Manufacturer: True Utility Amazon price: $13.95 Rating: 3.5/5 The good folks at True Utility are back with another ultra-small keyring tool. This time, they claim to have packed no less than 20 tools onto … Continue reading
There are different types of ‘terrorist attacks, but one of them we’ve been increasingly seeing in the news lately: Islamist Jihadists take over a public place or business and immediately create terror victims resulting from being taken hostage. The likelihood of … Continue reading
When a disaster strikes unexpectedly, there’s nearly always some kind of monkey wrench that causes your well-thought-out prepper plans to work less effectively than expected. When describing the situation, the person says sheepishly, “Normally we wouldn’t have had X circumstance going … Continue reading