Month: June 2013
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Are Most of Us Really Armchair Preppers?
I’m sure you’ve heard the term “armchair quarterback” before. The term usually refers to a person who didn’t do the job or perform the act later stating what should have been done or how “they would have done it” after the fact… it can be about anything really, from an actual football game to how…
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Friday is Random Act of Kindness Day… Care to Join Us?
A week or so ago my wife found a Pinterest pin where a woman wanted to celebrate her 38th birthday with performing one “random” act of kindness for each year of life and ended up spending an entire day doing so. FYI, here’s a link to her original article. My wife decided it would be…
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Survival Medicine Handbook – 2nd Ed. is NOW Available on Amazon
I just found out that a book I REALLY enjoy and recommend–The Survival Medicine Handbook by Dr. Joe and Amy Alton–now has a successor: The Survival Medicine Handbook: A guide for when help is NOT on the way. I intend on buying a copy in the very near future and suggest you do as well……
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LifeStraw Review and Giveaway! (by AreWeCrazyOrWhat?)
I recently got turned on to this blog (AreWeCrazyOrWhat.net) and I like what I see. This week she’s doing a review of the LifeStraw water filter, explaining all the in’s and out’s and is even throwing in a giveaway for the next handful of days. You can enter via Facebook or for those who refuse FB you…
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Contest Post: Mil-Tec Flecktarn 50L Pack Review by T.R., EAL
Today I want to talk a little bit about a very handy piece of equipment that I have used on a daily basis for over a year and a half now. It’s the Mil-Tec 50 Liter backpack. I had, and I guess still have, a German Flecktarn camo pattern obsession. I used to travel quite…
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I Woke Up to Brown, Sputtering Water… and What Really Bothered Me About It
Yesterday was like any other day expect for the fact that I woke up to brown, sputtering water… yuk! It actually started out clear yet sputtering (like we’d lost water pressure) and then turned funny colors which was an obvious indication not to use it. Certainly, I wasn’t worried as we had plenty of water…
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So I Was Looking for a Copy of Moby Dick Online…
A month or so ago I was looking for a copy of Moby Dick as I had never read it (I think it was mentioned in a movie I watched) and I thought to myself “hey, self, you should read that” and then I thought “hey… I should read other classics too!” I used to…
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Are You Committing These Security Blunders?
For most of us it’s easy to let your home and personal security lapse. After all, how often is your life or property ever really in danger due to other people’s actions? Unless you live or work in “bad neighborhoods” or just have bad luck I would guess it’s a relatively rare occurrence… I know…
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What Did We Ever Do Without Plastic? …The Many Plastic Preps We Rely Upon
I’m still amazed at how pervasive plastics are–in all of its forms–in our modern society. The most amazing part is that the plastics we’re accustomed to using really didn’t become mass produced until around WWII or so. In just a matter of a few generations, plastics have become so ingrained that you simply cannot get…