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Review of SafeGuard Stealth Concealable Brand Vest Body Armor
I’ve been wanting to purchase body armor for a long time now. But, to be honest, I don’t know a darn thing about it and I’ve always felt like it was way too expensive for somebody like me to buy it… boy was I wrong! Anyway, I spent some time reading the info about body…
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If There’s Anything That I’ve Learned About Prepping The Past Few Months…
…it’s that I have no idea how I would really be able to survive if SHTF. Seriously. You see, there’s a weird conundrum afoot with respect to this particular problem. On the one hand we have the belief in OPSEC, save yourself (and your immediate family), too bad for everybody else mentality that is generally a…
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Egg Storage Experiment – Week 15 Results
This egg kind of reminds me to an egg from a few weeks ago. As per usual, the egg didn’t float and didn’t smell funny either: Upon cracking, the egg yolk (membrane) broke apart: And here it is cooking (it seemed to fall apart rather easily when flipping as I wasn’t trying to scramble it):…
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How to Evacuate in a Matter of Minutes
As much as I’m a “shelter in place” kinda guy, I do recognize the need to be able to evacuate your home should the need ever arise. There are many, many reasons for doing so, including natural disasters such as hurricanes, tsunamis, and wildfires to man-made ones such as a natural gas leak, and chemical spills.…
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Share Your 401K Savings With Me Or My Family and I Will Die (The Analogy That Says It ALL)
Here are two scenarios for you to consider… Scenario 1 Imagine this scenario: you and a very good friend (or brother/sister if you like) are very near retirement age. You’ve both had good careers, worked hard, taken care of your respective families, maybe even bar-b-qued every Sunday for that last twenty years together. Then one day it hits you…
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I Got Schooled by My Kids This Weekend (and what it means to your prepping)
Ok, I’m not proud of it but I did get “schooled” by my kids this weekend. Long story short, we were out and about trying to find what my kids called the “ladder” park which turned out to be a nearby playground at the local lake. After about 45 minutes of driving we finally found…
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Egg Storage Experiment – Week 14 Results
Results were eerily similar to last week… Here’s the mineral oil egg (it didn’t float or smell funny): And here it is cooking: Even though the yolk looked fairly well together I noticed it breaks down really easily (like last week): Again, I ate a few bites (it was late and I’m beginning to wonder…
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Why Vitamin and Mineral Supplements Are Important to Long Term Food Storage
Many people, me included, recommend vitamin supplements in your long term preps. Then, as I often do, I got to wondering how important they really were and if they’re possibly not needed at all. So, I figured the easiest way to decide this is to compare the numbers. Therefore, I looked for an easy to…
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Better Places to Find Last Minute Preps
The post on Monday asked whether pet stores were a “secret” place to find last minute preps and the answer was obviously NO. Today, however, I try to point out a few places where you could actually find last minutes supplies if you really had to. Now, even though I wrote an e-book about last minute…