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Prepping on a Budget in 2014
Being a prepper is all about setting priorities and being responsible. If you’ve been on any survival forums or watched doomsday prepping shows on television, you’ve likely seen individuals that have committed an enormous amount of their time and money into preparing for TEOTWAWKI. By all means, if you have the disposable income and resources […]
If Preppers are the Punch Line, What is the Joke?
What do you call a group of people that are prepared to deal with natural disasters, infrastructure collapse or a global disaster? Preppers. While that doesn’t sound like much of a joke, the mainstream media would like you to believe it is. Ready to discredit the community and dismiss them as “paranoid” and “crazy”, the […]
The Ultimate Zombie Weapons Guide
It is a nightmare everyone can relate to; you wake up one morning and, suddenly, inexplicably, the undead are everywhere! A zombie apocalypse is one potential world disaster that takes a great deal of preparation and planning. One of the most important things to consider for a zombie apocalypse is what your weapon of choice […]
The Most Likely Cause of Doomsday is….
Recently we held a poll of what readers thought would be the biggest catastrophic event of the next 10 years. An engineered virus was voted the most likely by our readers. This info-graphic is based on a similar poll from SimplyHike.co.uk. The results are slightly different from our mostly US based readership. Check it out […]
How To Distill Water
You may have read our previous article on purifying water and have an understanding that boiling water for the right amount of time will make most water safe enough to drink. While bringing water to its boiling point is enough to sterilize the liquid and kill water-born pathogens and bacteria, doing so will not remove […]
When Disasters Strike Part 1
Depending on what part of the country you live in, you are most likely to be very familiar with the typical types of disasters that could strike. For example, if you live on the west coast you’re aware of and hopefully prepared for an earthquake. If you live in the mid-west, you’re aware of and […]
Using Antibiotics When The SHTF: Knowing This May Save Your Life
Every prepper can agree upon the importance of a properly stocked first-aid kid in a SHTF scenario. With that said, not many go beyond a few bandages, gauze, painkillers, and antibiotic ointment. Those things will work for a scrape or headache, but failure to treat a serious infection during a disaster could result in your […]
The Psychology of Survival
It’s not the strong who survive; it’s the calm well prepared person or group. To survive and thrive in a crisis you must be prepared and confident in your preparations, skills and supplies. How would your outlook on life change if today you became debt free? Of course you would feel much more satisfied, more […]
Doomsday Prepping – Are You Crazy For Preparing?
Doomsday Prepping and Doomsday Preppers are terms that have become more mainstream over these last few years. This has resulted in two different things one good, and one bad. The good thing is sparking the curiosity of a lot of people and some of these people have joined the prepper movement. The bad thing is […]
The Ultimate Zombie Survival Gear?
The Gerber Zombie Survival Gear is an array of pre-packaged blades whose popularity has skyrocketed due to its association with AMC’s The Walking Dead television series. The product descriptions are written with a touch of humor, hinting at the various ways in which the tools can kill zombies, but the blades themselves are indeed good […]
