Month: August 2014
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Smoke Alarms “Go Bad” and Carbon Monoxide Detectors Programmed to Fail: Safety Saturdays
Smoke alarms are a vital part of your home safety plan. I firmly believe that nearly every room in the house should have one, from the bedrooms to the kitchen and the hallways in-between, smoke alarms should be everywhere! When every second counts you want all the warning you can get. Smoke alarms “go bad”…
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Maximizing the Use of Local Library Resources
This week we made a trip to the local library in preparation for the upcoming start of school. Now, I know the library may seem like an antiquated resource these days, you know, with the advent of the Internet and all, but I think it’s still a wonderful resource we should make use of, especially…
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This Threat from Above Could Stop Your Bug Out Plan Before it Even Gets Started!
I’m still getting used to where we live in the Pacific Northwest… things are just a bit different than where I moved from in the Midwest. There are so many tall trees and the layout of roads and homes is a bit different. This makes developing a healthy bug out plan a problem. While there are…
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How to Purify Water With “More Concentrated” Bleach
If you want to know how to purify water with the “new” bleach, you’ve come to the right place…. I was at Walmart the other day and remembered that I needed a new bottle of bleach and apparently it’s been a while because every bottle I looked at said “More Concentrated” on the label. I mean EVERY…
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Champ Bodyguard Battery: Power Bank, Flashlight, Siren
It seems that small portable power banks are all the rage these days and to an extent they should be. After all, they can be used to recharge one of your most useful assets during an emergency: the cell phone. Now, I know there are people who say you shouldn’t rely on a cell phone and…
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The Practical Preppers Book: Complete Guide to Disaster Preparedness
If you know who Practical Preppers are then you’ll want to pay attention. If you don’t know who they are, Practical Preppers are two well-known YouTube personalities, Scott Hunt (aka. Engineer775) and David Kobler (aka., SouthernPrepper1), who are two wonderful people you should be paying attention to in the preparedness community. Practical Preppers Books Recently,…
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Why You Should Make a List and NEVER Buy for 30 Days: Frugal Fridays
There’s an obvious difference between needs and wants. There are very few items we NEED in life but with the advent of “easy money” via credit cards and debit cards, wants have surely become equivalent to needs. I’ll admit it, there are plenty of items I felt I needed, especially when it comes to my preps.…
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Emergency Weather Radio: Champ Survival Skybox
Once upon a time I had purchased an Eton Emergency Weather Radio and I wasn’t very impressed for the $50 I spent. Sure it had all the bells and whistles but there was something about it that I didn’t like… perhaps the hand crank, I don’t know. Seems I got rid of it –probably gave…
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How to Thoroughly Clean Your Berkey Water Filter Inside and Out
It’s been several months since we took the plunge and purchased our Berkey Water filter system. Thus far it’s been super easy to care for… we’ve done literally nothing to it except fill it with water each day. 😉 Regardless, I figured it would be a wise decision to give it a thorough cleaning inside and…