4 INEXPENSIVE ITEMS FOR THE PREPPER ON A BUDGET by Mac Slavo for SHTFPlan For those of us on a budget, prepping is often relegated to the back burner. But prepping doesn’t have to be expensive and if you’re a beginner prepper, having these 4 cheap items in your gear or bug out bag will give you a leg up in a catastrophic SHTF situation. If you’re not a beginner prepper, these items are likely already in your supply. But if you’re just getting into preparedness, this is will be…
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What Are The Potential Mistakes A Prepper Could Make?
What Are The Potential Mistakes A Prepper Could Make? by Ken Jorgustin for Modern Survival Blog Preparedness Mistakes To Avoid We all make mistakes. Sometimes we avoid mistakes by understanding what mistakes NOT to make. It’s no different with preparedness / prepping. So I’m asking you, “What are some of the mistakes you’ve made with your overall preparedness?” and/or “Even if you haven’t made them, what potential mistakes would you point out for others to avoid?” Spending Beyond Your Means One general issue which comes to mind is that of money. There are those…
READ MOREUrban Foraging: 27 Edibles You Can Find in the City Post Collapse
Urban Foraging: 27 Edibles You Can Find in the City Post Collapse by Megan Stewart for The Survivalist Blog oraging in the countryside is a great way to find edible food post collapse. But what if you’re one of the unfortunate ones who is forced to survive in an urban environment? If you’ve ever wondered whether you could find food in the concrete jungle, take heart. Urban foraging has become a whole movement and if you know what you’re looking for, there are a lot of edibles you can find…
READ MOREAs The Perfect Storm Hits America’s Food Supply All At Once, ‘Miracle Foods’ & Hydroponics Will Be The Keys To Long-Term Survival
As The Perfect Storm Hits America’s Food Supply All At Once, ‘Miracle Foods’ & Hydroponics Will Be The Keys To Long-Term Survival By Susan Duclos – All News PipeLine – Control The Food, Control The People With this Spring’s flooding in the Midwest decimating many crops, with millions of calves lost during the flooding, along with the recent barrage of tornadoes leaving a path of destruction from Kansas to Pennsylvania, along with the recent news of Asian “pig ebola” sending “shock waves through the global food chain,” we have seen and written a number of…
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Finding Community Prepping Resources by 3ADScout for Survival Blog I’ll start by saying that most of the Prepper resources in your community will probably not be advertised or presented as Prepper or Survival resources. That isn’t to say that none will be advertised as for Preppers and Survivalist. We need to be aware that many resources that are in our community, that are Prepper or Survival related, may appeal to many people outside the Prepper or Survivalist Community. The good news in this is, that since these resources are of…
READ MOREHow to Survive a Tornado
How to Survive a Tornado by Daisy Luther for The Organic Prepper Anyone who lives in certain parts of the country knows the signs of an approaching tornado. The wind is whipping things around and the sky turns an indescribably dark yellow-green color. Sometimes there’s hail and heavy rain that suddenly stops. The wind changes. And there’s nearly always a loud, persistent roar that becomes more deafening the closer the tornado gets. When you see signs like that, you know it’s time to take shelter immediately. These days, we have…
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7 Critical Bugging Out Mistakes by Dan Sullivan for The Survivalist Blog think we can all agree that bugging out will probably be the most dangerous and important journey any of us will ever take. We become migrants, and if we look at others migrants’ journeys (Syrians, Central Americans), we can see just how dangerous it ca be. I’m not saying bugging in isn’t the best option, it most definitely is, but bugging out should always be taken into account, for the simple reason that no place on this Earth…
READ MOREIs Civilization Just A Thin Veneer Between Civility And Civil Breakdown?
Is Civilization Just A Thin Veneer Between Civility And Civil Breakdown? by Ken Jorgustin for Modern Survival Blog The veneer of civilization truly is thin. You might say it’s layered. When the thin veneer layers are peeled back, it’s not a pretty sight. In fact it can be downright ugly. What is civilization? The root of the word ‘Civilization’ is ‘Civ’ which comes from the Latin civis (CITIZEN). ‘Civil’, which is also derived from the same latin word, relates to citizens that are ‘trained’, ‘refined’. It is considered the cultural development of…
READ MOREClever Places to Hide Your Guns
Clever Places to Hide Your Guns by Charles Yor for The Survivalist Blog Securing your guns from unauthorized users is an integral component of ownership. A gun will serve hero or criminal, expert or fool alike with no prejudice. If an unauthorized user should find your gun, like a child, tragedy will be following shortly behind. If a criminal finds your gun while ransacking your home or car in the midst of a burglary, you can rest assured it will be stolen and employed for no virtuous end, with your…
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SELCO: What Combat Is Really Like (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT) by Selco for The Organic Prepper This is an excerpt from Selco’s book, The Dark Secrets of SHTF Survival. When SHTF, nobody told me how hard is gonna be and what things I would have to do to survive. There was no training or simulations. Most of the stuff I was going through for the first time in my life. I was hoping it was only a temporary situation, that it not going to last for a whole year. A few events…
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