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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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Extending Food Storage by Purposely Limiting Meals – Useful Idea or Not?
A while back I was watching the WW2 in HD videos with my kids for our history lesson. Near the end they showed video of the Nazi concentration camps and one of the images that stood out to my kids was how emaciated the prisoners were and, to be honest, it’s always stood out in…
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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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How to Plan a 2000 Mile Cross-Country Bug Out Trip – It Could Literally Save Your Life!
Seeing as though we have our upcoming and ridiculously long drive from Kansas City to Seattle in a few days, I figured I would share how I went about planning the drive. Simply put, I treated it as a REALLY long bug out trip. In fact, I intend on keeping the information I compiled for…
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Living Ready Pocket Manual – First Aid: Fundamentals for Survival… The First Real Look!
One of the few benefits of running a survival blog is that occasionally people will ask me to review their stuff, be it a piece of body armor, flashlight, or perhaps the most important piece… some very useful knowledge. In this case, I was asked by Dr. Hubbard of TheSurvivalDoctor.com to review his upcoming paperback…
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The Best Way to Stay Safe While Holiday Shopping: It’s as Easy as Click-Click-Click!
I keep reading tips and suggestions from other sites that aim to help you stay safe while holiday shopping this year and much of it is very good advice, stuff I would tell you to do myself. The thing is that most of the advice is really geared towards your situational awareness, you know… your…
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Supercharge Your Bicycle With the Hill Topper Electric Bike Kit!
Where we live there are some significant hills that are simply no fun to ride a bicycle up. Downhill? That’s a breeze… but wherever there’s a downhill slope, there’s an uphill one too. As such–and more likely because I’m just getting older–I don’t get my bicycle out much any more. Ignoring the lack of exercise…
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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,…
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So My Wife Was Approached By a Guy at the Gas Station The Other Day…
It was about 1:30 in the afternoon and my wife called, “Guess what just happened?” in a partly excited voice but not obviously happy, at least not initially. I figured she got rear-ended, my kids broke her phone, she ran out of gas… who knows. It’s the pessimist in me. She then proceeded to tell…