50+ Homemade Staples PDF Download
I decided to make a boxed cake last week mid-afternoon. I’m no gourmet cook, but I can follow directions when pressed. But then I realized that a plain cake just isn’t that good, so I meandered to the basement and grabbed a vanilla frosting, one of the store-bought kind that comes in little round jars.…
The Complete Pet Prepper’s Guide: Keeping Your Dogs and Cats Alive When Everything Else Falls Apart
A catastrophe strikes. The stores are stripped of supplies, and the aid response is slow. With the power off, you may not have access to water or a way to refrigerate items. Once disaster arrives, preparing is no longer a thought in the back of your mind. The choices you made yesterday affect your pets…
Gold and Silver at All-Time Highs, Yikes!
Gold and silver recently hit all-time highs, and I didn’t even realize they were heading towards the stratosphere. (At the time of this writing, silver is over $90 and gold is over $4600.) I haven’t bought precious metals in years, and honestly, I’m kicking myself a bit. Like many preppers, I purchased some gold and…
5 Must-Know Pet First Aid Skills
I know we, as preppers, spend a lot of time thinking about our two-legged family’s survival and preparedness, but our four-legged friends have needs too. And a disaster is a prime time for dogs and cats to suffer problems. Worse? There might not be any veterinarian help available. Thus, it’s wise to know what you…
Who Will Be the Bankers After SHTF?
I read an interesting forum discussion recently that asked a question I hadn’t considered much: who will the bankers be in a post-SHTF society? The original poster wondered if banking would even exist after a collapse, and if so, who would fill that role. It’s a thought-provoking question that gets at something important about how…
If I Were a Thief…
I recently read about a bank heist in Germany where thieves made off with the contents of numerous safe deposit boxes. The audacity of it got me thinking about a different scenario entirely. What if you knew a major SHTF event was imminent (say, an EMP strike or massive solar flare) when most people didn’t…
Interested in a Survival Workbook?
I sat there over the holidays wondering what I was going to do in 2026. After all, I’ve been discussing preparedness online for a long time; I think I’ve had my blog since about 2009, which is a long time to keep at something. For years, it was fun because I was learning and I…
PSA: Water Filter Storage Concerns
I feel like I prefer to learn things the hard way. As much as I know about preparedness, there’s always some “little” thing that gets me. I discussed one example months ago where I used “low splash” bleach for my water barrels, something I’d never done before, only to later discover that they often contain…
Why Lithium Batteries Are So Dangerous
I came across this first video (there are two below) over the weekend and realized it was a good one to share. In it, the man demonstrates just what happens when a single AA-sized lithium battery is damaged in one of four ways: by being submerged in water, set on fire, punctured, and short-circuited. Surprisingly,…
