Category: Interesting Stuff
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If I Had the Chance to Start Prepping All Over Again, Here’s What I Would Have Done…
There’s no doubt that prepping is a journey, a life-long one, in fact… at least for anyone who takes it seriously. And, even though I’ve been at this seriously for a few years now and “interested” for several years, I often feel like I wasted too much time and money and could have been far…
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There are Only Two Types of People Post-SHTF: Assets and Liabilities. Which Are You?
People can be classified in all sorts of ways if you like: tall or short, pretty or ugly, predator or victim. In a post-SHTF world I like to look at people as either assets or liabilities. This means EVERYBODY, including people you expect to be in your survival group, people that show up on your…
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What do You Think, Should I Sell Out or Not? Survival Blogs Worth Money!!
The folks over at SurvivalReader.com recently sent me this post on The Best Prep Nobody Talks About: Make a Survival Blog? and I realized that I recognized both sites. In fact, I had some correspondence with the previous owner of PrepHappy.com quite a while back trying to help her get her blog going. Anyway, I have…
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If Prepping Was a Club, My Family Would Have Got Me Kicked Out Years Ago!
I got to thinking about my college fraternity recently–most likely because they keep sending emails wanting me to update my contact info–and for some reason I started contemplating that “if prepping were a club, like my college fraternity, I’m positive my family would have got me kicked out years ago!” Why? It’s really all about…
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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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Hearing Gunshots Off in the Distance Makes Me Smile…
One of the things we have to get used to now that we’re living in a whole new part of the country (near Seattle) are new sights and sounds. Granted, there are many things to learn, including local plant life, wildlife–I’m told there are black bears and coyotes though I haven’t seen any yet–local culture,…
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Beginner’s Guide to Precious Metals
by Gainesville Coins Whether you’re prepping for a minor power outage and SHTF, or just to collect coins for whatever reason, there are a ton of benefits to investing in precious metals. So what exactly are precious metals? According to Investopedia.com, precious metals are, “A classification of metals that are considered to be rare and/or…
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PULSE Jump Rope: Off-Grid Kinetic Power Generator! Well, Not Quite…
I figured since it’s officially Christmas day we should allow ourselves to dream a bit… I ran across this PULSE Jump Rope idea from a post today titled Owning Off Grid Energy Equipment and since the idea intrigued me I figured I would share the idea briefly here. First, this appears to be a jump rope…
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Well, Now I REALLY Feel Like I Have Nothing…
A few weeks back I complained about travelling by airplane in this post titled I Always Feel Naked When I Travel by Airplane, How About You? because I despise all the restrictions they impose, but now I REALLY feel like I have nothing. Why, you ask? Because I literally have all of my worldly possessions and,…