• Oven Canning Crackers for Long Term Storage

    Warning: I’m told this may be both unsafe and dangerous. Attempt at your own risk! See comments below. I’ve never tried to can crackers for long term storage but if you don’t have kids who consume all snack foods as soon as you buy them, then this may be a good idea. I think I’ll give it…

  • Cooking With The “Solar Death Ray”

    If you’ve been following my blog for years now you may remember when I used to post about my sun oven cooking experiments… I miss those days. 🙂 Sadly, all of the large trees around my house tend to block out most of the sunshine and so my lack of willingness to work around that…

  • 8 Effective Steps To Get More Prepared For SHTF Today

    This is a guest post by John Lewis of Epic Wilderness. He’s got a lot of good things going on over there, you should check it out today. Introduction Prepping for the next SHTF situation can be quite costly if you are aiming to purchase the most sophisticated gear to keep you alive. In actual fact, I believe that knowledge…

  • Neat to See This at Home Depot

    Neat to See This at Home Depot

    I was at a Home Depot recently in mid-Missouri while visiting my folks and as I walked into the front door I immediately noticed this TwisterPod storm shelter by Survive-A-Storm Shelters: As I was intrigued I took a closer look: Sadly, there isn’t anything inside to get excited about. Just two seats on either side…

  • 800+ Free Survival Manuals

    800+ Free Survival Manuals

    I was recently made aware of a huge survival guide resource at PatriotRising.com. It seems this page alone has over 800 free resources (by my rough count) which you may freely download, though the subheadings claim nearly 3000 resources… I’m not quite sure where the other 2200 are at. Regardless, every topic seems covered, from NBC…

  • Electric Knife Sharpener for SHTF Survival

    Electric Knife Sharpener for SHTF Survival

    I finally broke down and purchased an electric knife sharpener, a Presto Eversharp, which cost me just under $30 total on Amazon: Yes, I’ve NEVER owned an electric sharpener until this purchase preferring, instead, to sharpen knives by hand perhaps because I wanted to be “manly”… or just because I figured I shouldn’t rely on anything electric…

  • Check Your First Aid Supplies Lately? I Just Did And I Was Shocked At My Failure…

    Check Your First Aid Supplies Lately? I Just Did And I Was Shocked At My Failure…

    The other day my kid was feeling sick with sinus pressure so I went looking for some Children’s Mucinex and, while I had two bottles, they had apparently “expired” about three years ago. Now, normally I wouldn’t pay too much attention to expiration dates but since it was a liquid medication (they tend to go bad…

  • Are Hard Times Really Coming?

    How often do you see posts for “living in hard times” or the “coming hard times” or something like that? I might see a new post like that once a week or so. But, are these folks right? Are hard times REALLY coming? After all, one might suggest that things are great for most of…

  • Trash Piles Up After Only Two Days In A Disaster!

    Trash Piles Up After Only Two Days In A Disaster!

    Bernie from ApartmentPrepper.com recently had an eye-opening experience where trash service didn’t pick up his apartment complex trash for two days because of a storm and, as a result, things started to turn ugly quickly… the garbage situation, that is. Sanitation is, in my opinion, one of the most overlooked areas of emergency preparedness and…