Category: Disaster Planning
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“But You Just Bathed Last Month!” Adjusting to a New SHTF Normal…
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…
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My 99 Cent Blunder That Nearly Ruined $100 Worth of Supplies!
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…
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Can Your Spouse and Kids Locate Your Preps if You’re Down and Out or MIA?
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…
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Don’t Follow My Lead, Get Your OPSEC in Order… NOW!
I’ll admit it. I’ve completely screwed up. 100%. There’s no doubt. My OPSEC is blown and has been for a long time. And, to be honest, it probably started with this website. Anybody who’s interested can figure out quite easily what I have, what I know, what I’ve done, and more. Heck, you might know more…
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How to Move About Post-SHTF Virtually Untouched: Make Yourself Look Diseased!
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…
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Remember to Bolster Your Shortcomings as well as Your Strengths and Interests
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…
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Bartering Post-SHTF is Unrealistic, Don’t Set Yourself up for Disappointment
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…
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What Would You Do if “IT” Happened Right Now, I Mean RIGHT Now? Here’s Where I Would Have Been…
I know you’re reading this on Monday so that means you’re probably at work or busy running around in your daily life. As for me, I wrote this yesterday morning while I was preparing for an easy and fun-filled day watching my hometown Kansas City Chief whoop up on the lowly Dallas Cowboys (hopefully) mostly so…
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4 Inherent Problems of Prepping With Very Young Children
To be clear, when I say very young children I’m thinking about children that are toddlers are younger, let’s say three years of age or less. I should also state that my children are getting older (almost 8 and 11 now… and going on 15 and 18 in attitude) and so I haven’t really had to consider…