Author: Damian Brindle
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How to Make Natural Toothpaste Infographic
Another one for your pleasure!…
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Egg Storage Experiment – Week 1 Results
Last Monday I posted about my interest in storing eggs with mineral oil for long term storage. FYI, I have one carton of eggs stored with mineral oil and one carton as a control group (no mineral oil) both of which are setting out on my countertop. Well, week one is over (I actually started this experiment a…
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My Failed Passive Solar Heater Experiment (And What I Learned From It)
Like most bloggers, I want to be able to show you cool things, tell you everything is wonderful, and especially share my successes. I was optimistically expected to be able to do just that today but it’s not the case. You see, it all went wrong when I decided to do my own thing and…
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An Often Missed Prep: Your Home Inventory
One area of preparedness that I don’t think we preppers take as seriously as we should is inventorying our household possessions for an emergency situation. I’m not talking about organizing your supplies (I’ve written about that in the past here). This post is purely about “what happens if it’s all lost and now I need…
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Review of PRI-G Fuel Stabilizer (Hands-Down the Best Available)
I had an opportunity this week to get my hands on a bottle of PRI-G fuel stabilizer, something I had been meaning to do for quite some time. For many, many years I’ve always used Stabil as my fuel stabilizer because it’s what’s been available locally. Sadly, PRI-G is difficult to find at times but…
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My Egg Storage With Mineral Oil Saga Starts This Week!
I finally found a bottle of mineral oil at my local Walmart. I had been looking for the better part of month at Walmart and Target without any luck. I was beginning to wonder if everyone else had the same idea in mind, though, that’s probably not the case. 😉 Anyway, if you’re unaware, the idea…
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Sunlight Equals Potable Water! Infographic
Here’s my second attempt at an infographic, this time about using SODIS. Enjoy!…
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Another Small Example of Being Prepared: No Grocery Shopping This Week
I thought I would mention another good reason why being prepared is obviously useful and that is the simple fact that we didn’t have to go to the grocery store this week. Typically, however, we do go grocery shopping for a few things each week. Anyway, my wife was asking me yesterday morning what we needed…
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Using IBC Totes as Thermal Heat Storage
I recently wondered about how to store heat, yes, heat. Granted, typical wall insulation is fairly good at slowing down the transfer of heat (usually from your home to the outside air) but I wanted something more “passively active” if that makes any sense. Apparently, it’s a well-known concpet among interested folks that you can store…