Category: Disaster Planning / EDC

Of the television survival personalities I’ve grown to like Les the best. He seems to be very genuine and humble. And, most importantly to me, he doesn’t act like he knows it all. As such, I still enjoy watching his Survivorman episodes on occasion. A while back he did a show where he was pretending…

I’m sure there will be plenty of potential adjustments in a SHTF society. One of those adjustments, I feel, will be getting comfortable with a new normal, especially your routines and expectations. Daily Necessities For example, one of the actions I suspect you do is to bathe each day, right? Well, post-SHTF I would imagine…

I admit it: sometimes I do dumb things. Stuff I should know better. Stuff I would tell you NOT to do if you’d only asked! What is that I did wrong? We’ll get to that in a moment… Let me first state that one of the actions I suggest you do–and that I do–is to…

A few weeks ago I wrote a post titled Survival Crap You Should Never Buy, Use, or Bet Your Life On! and a commenter got me to thinking about one problem with purchasing a pre-packaged kit (be it an emergency bag or first aid kit) that I didn’t touch upon and that’s the simple fact…

I was surfing Pinterest the other day came across this photo (you see lots of this type of stuff because Halloween is coming up) and I immediately remembered a comment somebody made a while back about purposely including a makeup kit in order to make himself look sickly in a post-shtf world. I thought it…

We all have our strengths and weaknesses as well as interests and even things we don’t much care about. I know I do. With respect to preparedness, however, neglecting your shortcomings can be disastrous. We all know this, perhaps instinctively, but I wonder if we subconsciously foster our strengths and interests and willfully neglect that…

A few days ago I posted a YouTube video by The Lord Humungus titled Think you are going to barter when SHTF? Think again! that I generally agreed with, though, some of his specific examples as to why bartering wouldn’t work probably won’t apply in a SHTF situation, in my opinion. Regardless, I have many…