• HISTORY CHANNEL Casting Call for Off-Grid Families

    HISTORY CHANNEL Casting Call for Off-Grid Families

    If you haven’t seen this yet on another blog it may be of interest to some…

  • This Has Nothing to do With Survival, But…

    This is really me just having to rant for a minute… Remember when I mentioned How I Saved a Thousand Dollars or More Buying a Car several months back? Well, one of the “perks” of having done so was that we got a free week rental from Hertz as a bonus. That wasn’t something we…

  • Have You Read: The Earthquake That Will Devastate The Pacific Northwest?

    Have You Read: The Earthquake That Will Devastate The Pacific Northwest?

    About a week or so ago this article titled “The Really Big One” by Kathryn Schulz from The New Yorker made the rounds on Facebook and it got me to really consider what a Cascadia earthquake meant for me (I live in the Pacific NW) as well as for the many millions of others who call this beautiful…

  • 4 Off-Grid Power Options (Guest Post)

    4 Off-Grid Power Options (Guest Post)

    Are we still Americans if we unplug? Power supply and appliances for successful off-grid living. As gas and energy prices rise, and the climate continues to fluctuate outside of its natural cycle, the number of people striving for an off-grid lifestyle is at an all-time high. Whether it’s to break away from the dependence of…

  • Why Fish Antibiotics Are Logical For Survival

    Dr. Alton (of DoomAndBloom.net) uses some good old fashioned logic sprinkled with some doctor know-how as to why fish antibiotics are–in most cases–no different than human antibiotics. Near the end he also points out that regulations may be coming soon to make it more difficult to purchase fish and bird antibiotics…

  • 25 Survival Uses for a Leather Belt

    Almost makes me wish for winter so I can wear pants, just so I can have a leather belt on me all the time. 😉 You can skip to about the 3:50 mark to view where he starts to talk about uses (the first few minutes is about leather belts in general)…

  • Cheesecloth as Bio-Hazard Mask? +10 Alternative Uses

    Cheesecloth as Bio-Hazard Mask? +10 Alternative Uses

    About the only way I’ve used cheesecloth in my life is to strain the pulp from almond milk. Yeah, I’m the adventurous sort. 🙂 To branch out, I thought I would research some ideas on how to use cheesecloth beyond the obvious one of making cheese (and apparently yogurt and tofu) and as a pulp…

  • 25 Survival Uses for WD-40 (Video by SensiblePrepper)

    I’ll bet that WD-40 isn’t something most people considered keeping around as a survival prep but SensiblePrepper shows us more than two dozen uses for it in a SHTF situation, I know I learned a few new tricks…

  • Could You, Would You, Should You Eat Bugs In A Survival Situation?

    Could You, Would You, Should You Eat Bugs In A Survival Situation?

    So there I was, standing in the bathroom staring at a near dead moth wondering what it would taste like. The thought quickly passed as I scooped it up and tossed it outside but for a moment, a mere moment, mind you… I pondered it. Now, I know eating a tiny moth would be nothing…