There’s a reason people say “don’t look down” when climbing. It’s a simple trick to not let fear interfere with your actions and to help you keep a level head. People that are outside of the prepping world often look at survivalists and peppers with the idea that they are a fearful group. What else …
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How to Get Kids Involved in Prepping and Survival
Getting an adult family member on board with prepping should be pretty easy. While it might take some time to convince your significant other that the bunker you want to build is totally worth it, the basic idea of getting someone you live with into the prepper mindset should be relatively simple. The same cannot …
Tents for Preppers
In the case of an emergency or natural disaster, it makes sense to make sure that your basic needs will be taken care of, especially those for food and water. A prepper’s basic objective is to ensure that their family has enough essentials to survive but are you prepared in terms of shelter? If you …
The Principles of Prepping
When you think about prepping, are there specific images that come to mind? You might envision stores of food and supplies stashed away in someone’s basement or spare bedroom. You might even think about those who plunder stores in the wake of an oncoming storm. Preppers themselves might come across as a little bizarre to …
How Did You Prep This Week?
Some people think of prepping as something that has an end point, an act that can be mapped out with a completion at the end. In actuality however prepping is not an act or even a group of acts; it is a lifestyle. Prepping is a mindset that you get into and use to …
Prepping 101 – Don’t Forget To Stockpile Morale Boosters
Beans, bullets, and bandages are of course a must. While budgeting for potentially life-saving staples and engaging in self-defense and survival training, don’t forget about the important role morale boosters play during a long-term natural or man-made emergency. Board games, cards, candy, and flavored drink mixes are commonly purchased preparedness morale boosters. Advanced planning by …
Prepping for Ebola: 5 Tips
Is An Ebola Epidemic Inevitable In America? And What Can People Do To Protect Themselves? With each successive day since the man (Thomas Eric Duncan) who flew from Liberia to Texas was diagnosed with the first case of the Ebola virus in the U.S., more and more unsettling facts are starting to emerge. As we …
How a Backpacking Trip Can Prepare You for Bugging Out
Bugging out is something we talk about often, but just as often the true meaning behind bugging out is forgotten. Bugging out isn’t a mythical mass egress from your house, but instead it’s simply the act of leaving where you are for someplace safer. More likely than not, the result of bugging out will be …
12 Bug Out Bag Items You Might Not Know About
There are more than enough posts out there that mean to tell you exactly how to pack your bug out bag, and while these are fine, there’s something personal about what you pack in your own bag, and how you do it. This is the reason why instead of telling you exactly what to carry …
Do You Have a SHTF Plan?
So you have a Bug Out Bag packed and ready, your emergency food stores are topped up, and maybe you even have a Bug Out Vehicle ready and waiting, but what about a plan to actually use all this stuff to protect you and get you safely out of a true SHTF moment? It’s best …