Category: Skills / Knowledge / DIY
How to Make Pizza Sauce from Scratch + Pizza Bagels
My kids and I wanted to make our own pizzas but we didn’t have any pizza sauce so I looked up how to make pizza sauce and found quite a few recipes. I settled on this one from AllRecipes.com. Just thoroughly mix the following ingredients together: 1 can tomato sauce 1 can tomato paste 1 tbsp…
Time to Get Realistic About Your Credit Cards
Now that the holiday season is over, we’re into a New Year, and you’ve bought more than you should have from your Black Friday purchases it’s time to get realistic about your credit cards. Yes, those “magical” little cards that let you live beyond your means. I tried to point out a few months ago that Just Because They…
How to Make a DIY Diversion Safe from a Vegetable Can
I got this idea of making a diversion safe from a video but instead of using a larger can and mason jar I decided to use a typical vegetable can (green beans) and a pill bottle. The project went rather quickly and turned out pretty good. Here’s how I did it: Take any common vegetable…
Rainwater Harvesting: Why You Should Do It And How! (Guest Post)
Storing water almost always ends up at the top of a prepper’s checklist of essentials during SHTF situations, and understandably so as it is the most important aspect of a person’s survival. Having water in your body could spell the difference between life and death. Always remember that a person can last only three days,…
Be Your Own Handyman… When You Can
It seems to me that one of the MANY skills we’ve lost as a culture–especially as a result of our “disposable” goods mentality–is the ability to fix things and otherwise to make do with what we have. Don’t get me wrong, if I could honestly afford to always call a repairman to fix things for…
Best 5 Minute Soda Can Alcohol Stove!
No doubt there are quite a few designs for mini soda can alcohol stoves… it’s like people have a fascination with them or something. I guess I do too. 😉 Most soda can builds, it seems to me, require two soda cans and a bit more cutting than I’d prefer. This design, however, is quick…
Collect Pocket Change… You’d be Surprised at How Much You Can Collect!
Seeing as though most people (I assume) tend to use credit and debit cards for most purchases these days, cash tends to be far less “valuable” to have on-hand and, oh boy, let’s not consider keeping loose change around… talk about useless these days. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. In recent weeks–since…
Medieval Meat Pies as Survival Food!
Sing a song of six-pence, a pocket full of rye Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing. Now wasn’t that a tasty dish to set before the king! This article is about meat pies, most of us know them as the frozen “Pot Pie”.…
Sometimes Preps are Useful Even When it’s NOT an Emergency!
Last week or so our dryer decided it was going to stop working properly. As luck would have it, the washer and dryer and the ONLY two appliances we’re responsible for in our rental contract so until I figure out how to fix it or get someone else to do so, we’re stuck with either…
