Author: Damian Brindle
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The Simple Survival SMART Book Review
A few days ago I was asked to review this book titled The Simple Survival Smart Book by Patrick Shrier. As I’m always happy to try and learn more, especially from people usually smarter than I am, I obliged. And, amazingly enough I read the whole darn thing (most of it, anyway) the first two…
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A Candle That WON’T Burn Your House Down!? Ok, I Had to Try It…
A few weeks back I was contacted by Kevin’s Kandles as something I may want to share you fine folks. They’re touted as “A Safer, Cost-Effective, and Environmentally Friendly Emergency Candle” and more specifically one that won’t burn your house down, well, they didn’t put it *exactly* like this but that’s the idea, after all. And,…
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I Was Walking Through Walmart the Other Day, Saw This, and *Almost* Had Tears of Joy…
I, perhaps like you, have a love/hate relationship with Walmart. It’s darn hard to stay out of the place because everything is so darn cheap… I meant, inexpensive. 😉 At the same time I usually try to avoid shopping there for a variety of reasons but since we’ve recently moved and I can easily find…
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Review of Family Survival System Course
Well over a year ago now, I spent some time and reviewed David Morris’ Survive in Place Course and was relatively happy with it as the course provided me with more information that I honestly expected. This year I decided I was going to keep searching for other useful survival courses, those that I could learn…
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Do You Have a Potential Fireball Attached to the Side of Your House?
Today I was searching for Mythbusters clips online (because I was a bit bored) and happened upon this Mythbusters clip where they test a James Bond myth of him shooting a propane tank to cause an explosion so he could get away, or something like that. Spoiler alert: the Mythbusters crew couldn’t get the propane…
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Dryer Heat Keeper: Pump the Heat Back into Your House, Save Money on Bills!
EDIT: People keep telling me I may wind up with some significant mold issues in the near future doing this, so, I’ll warn you that “your mileage may vary” and I’ll have to keep tweaking when I flip the vent open (probably need to wait much longer than 10 minutes for sure) so that I…
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Safeguard Armor GHOST Body Armor: Almost What I Wanted, Not Quite What I Expected
Last year I had the opportunity to Review the SafeGuard Stealth Concealable Brand Vest Body Armor and I can say I was quite pleased with the vest. It fit well, seemed to be unnoticed by others, wasn’t horribly heavy or otherwise uncomfortable, and so on. I have, in fact, worn it a few times since then–just…
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All the Things I STILL Have to Update and Accomplish Because of Our Move…
Moving is both a blessing and a curse. As I pointed out in a previous post, moving was a great time to get re-organized and even caused me to do a major overhaul of my preps which was long overdue. The problem, however, is that I have to literally re-do many things that had already…
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Prepping Supplies I Left Behind Due to Our Long Distance Move
When we first planned to move ourselves from Kansas City to Seattle (about 2000 miles) we intended to rent a large U-haul van because that’s what we’ve always done when we moved. The thing is that we’ve never moved cross-country, not as an adult anyway, and the more we thought about it, driving a large…