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Lackluster Top Blogs, Retort Canning, and Some Vindication for Me
I figured I would share a few things that have been on my mind lately… Lackluster top blogs… If it isn’t obvious to long time readers by now, I spend a lot of my time following MANY blogs in order to bring you the most interesting and useful content each day. Of these blogs, I…
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You Really Need a Different Outlook on Laundry During and After a Disaster
The washing machine and dryer seem to always have a load of something going, from clothes to bath towels and bedsheets. And, with the recent experience of the washing machine breaking while many people were in town, the laundry really did pile up. Even if it were just us, going a week or two without doing any…
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Review of Columbus Family Size Washboard
The very first thing I noticed about this Columbus Family Size Washboard is that it was much smaller than I had anticipated. It stands at most two feet tall and includes a rubbing surface area of roughly 11″ x 11″. I guess I didn’t bother to pay much attention to the dimensions when I bought it…
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What if The Shoe Were on The Other Foot and You Were The Safe Haven?
With a ton of family in town this past week (especially over the weekend) I got to thinking what if the shoe were on the other foot? That is, what if we had to be the safe haven for family and friends who had to evacuate? Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy are prime examples. In this case,…
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COMMUNICATIONS: A Different Side Of The Story by MorrisB
We all recognize the importance of communications in an emergency and hopefully most of us have taken steps to address that need. Many articles, in fact have been written stressing the importance of being able to communicate for families trying to locate whereabouts of family members when a disaster hits; group link-ups, caravan coordination and…
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Egg Storage Experiment – Week 5 Results
Real quick, here are the results from week 5 of the experiment… This is the mineral oil egg. It didn’t float, smelled fine, looked good: This is the control egg. It floated (just like last week), the yolk is broken down, and I thought it might have smelled a bit funny but I was in…
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List of No-Cook, Ready to Eat Foods
As much as we like to live well as preppers and maybe even cook the occasional gourmet food storage meal, there’s also plenty of room for making your life as easy as possible when times are tough. In this case, it’s about food that can be eaten without much–if any–work whatsoever. This list of no-cook…
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5 Skills Every Prepper Should Learn
I happened upon a link to a post at SurvivalPreparednessBlog.com with a very similar title (I “borrowed heavily” for this post) and began reading because, after all, who doesn’t like lists? To summarize, the list included 10 skills: stick welding, small engine repair, how to fish, how to butcher animals, learn to trap, gunsmithing, basic…
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Review of Tenergy T-2299 Universal Smart Battery Charger With AC/DC Plugs
A while back I purchased this Tenergy Universal Smart Battery Charger as my primary battery charger. I did so for two main reasons: it has the capability to plug directly into a car’s auxiliary outlet using a provided DC plug and it can charge all manner of rechargeable batteries, from the common AAA- and AA-cells…