We all know that we need to store at least some water for an emergency. Once you have done the first step and determined how much water you actually need and want to store, you can start thinking about how and where you will want to put that water. Now, there are plenty of ways to…
When the taps go dry, things can get very ugly pretty quickly. A normal North American household uses about 100 gallons of indoor water use per day. When the taps go dry, you will realize that you can get by on a fraction of that number. In fact, some can get by on only 1%…
A lot of what people know about preppers and survivalists comes from the critical side of the media. Whether someone has heard a negative news item like the ‘survivalist’ who killed cops in Pennsylvania, or heard about the TV show Doomsday Preppers, which just by it’s very name can sound fairly extreme, there is plenty of…
Since it’s important to be prepared, I figured I’d look up some statistics to see what were the events that we had the most chances of encountering in our daily lives. That way, knowing that information, I would be able to prioritize what to prepare for. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a good list of events…
If you are just starting out with your water storage and preparedness, you’ll notice that there’s lots of information and products concerning water purification and filtration. Although both processes remove contaminates from the water, they are not the same and should not be used interchangeably, although they often are. So in this article I just…
Solar Disinfection, or SODIS for short, is a super simple way to clear water of pathogens. For some reason it doesn’t some up often when looking at water purifcation methods. You usually find the standard; boiling, chemical tablets, carbon/ceramic filtration advice, but rarely do you see the SODIS method. Actually it is similar to using artificial UV…
Although we all have some plans in place to be able to eat during a SHTF scenario, whether that be having stored food, or even homesteading with animals. We can never predict everything and there is always the chance that we need to abandon our place of security and set out for a new safe…
In my quest for ever more prepper information, I came across the site of a high end real estate developer that is catering to the growing concerns of the realization that the SHTF may actually happen in the near future. Here is some information from their press release: The Survival Condo project is an undertaking to convert…
A prepared individual might be saying, ‘I won’t be needing to forage at all, I’ve got enough food stored up to last me for months/years’, or ‘I’ve got a garden so I’ll be fine with what I grow’, etc… While it might be true that you would do perfectly fine at your bug out/in location…
A large part of getting prepared is stocking your pantry with food. But if you have a large amount of food stored, it sometimes can get complicated keeping track what is going to expire when, and how best to rotate those items so nothing gets wasted. Fortunately, the food items listed in this article, will…