18 Low-Cost Ways to Start Prepping
When the need to prepare for an uncertain future becomes a pressing reality for the new prepper, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. There are so...
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New Executive Order: “Obama Has Just Given Himself the Authority to Seize Your Assets”
On Monday the U.S. government took steps to seize the US-based assets of Russian lawmakers and anyone else that the US government deemed complicit in...
How To Use Cayenne Pepper To Stop Bleeding
Properties Cayenne pepper does more than add a dash of spice to a plate of eggs. Long hailed as a miracle-working substance, cayenne pepper can stop...
10 Reasons Why Building a Community is Key When the SHTF
Editor’s Note: The following article from Survivor Mike at The Home for Survival details strategies for community building before and after an SHTF event. While many preppers...
When Chaos Hits And A Country’s Infrastructure Crumbles Into Powder: Ten Things You Must Do To Defend Yourself
They will take everything if you don’t stop them. At first glance a statement like this brings up thoughts of the government coming for all...
17 Lessons Learned the Hard Way About Food Storage
This is our fourth year of prepping, and we are planning to make a full-time move to our retreat location by spring. We believe the...
How to Pick a Lock With Hairpins
Lock picking isn’t just for locksmiths and criminals, in fact it’s a skill that could very well save your life someday. Criminals are more likely...
100 Items that will disappear first in a SHTF Situation (Revised and Updated)
I’m sure at this point everyone has seen this list, it has circulated all over the internet for years now. I don’t agree with the...
SCAVENGING FOR FOOD AND SUPPLIES IN A POST-APOCALYPTIC WASTELAND
FOOD AND SUPPLIES IN A POST-APOCALYPTIC Here is a guide to scavenging for food and supplies during a disaster. Most of the ideas stem from...
Learning Survival from Recent Events: What Did You Learn from the 2014 Snowpocalypse?
As the weather begins to heat up again and the snow begins to melt away, it seems like a good time to take stock of...
Low-Cost Survival Lighting: Creating Emergency Lamps from a Lightbulb
In an extended emergency, being able to reuse otherwise worthless items is a major boon. There are few things that will be in greater demand...
A Simple Guide to EMP
An EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) is a devastating event that could cripple the entirety of the United States in a matter of minutes. But with...