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50 Things to Disappear During an Emergency
There are lots of lists floating around the web citing the top items that will disappear following a disaster or emergency. Heck, I even posted a list a couple of years ago titled 100
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16 Food Storage Tips for the Space Challenged Prepper
One of the more common prepper challenges is finding room for stored food and water. Lucky you if you have a large home with a basement or cellar – you have plenty of space
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The Top 50 Things to Disappear from Store Shelves during an Emergency
Have you ever noticed how, whenever a big storm is predicted, people start rushing to stores to clean them out of ever food item and supply they have on the shelves? In one sense,
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25 Things That You Should Do To Get Prepared For The Coming Economic Collapse
Do you think that you know how to prepare for the collapse of the economy? If so, are you putting that knowledge into action? In America today, people are more concerned about
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25 Must Have Survival Foods: Put Them In Your Pantry Now
One of my favorite phrases that I tell new preppers is that “your preps are your lifeline.” We must put measures in place before a disaster is upon us in order to have these
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25 Survival Uses For Duct Tape
If there ever was a miracle product better than spray-on-hair or the ShamWow, it is duct tape. Over the past 70 years of its existence, this staple product of fix-it-yourselfers has been used by
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FEMA Says, Get a Survival Kit – What Do They Know?
This is a ‘re-post’, reminder that FEMA served up a public service announcement suggesting that we all get a survival kit, in case our ‘world is turned upside down’
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How To Extract Water From Thin Air
Imagine if one day the power goes out on a nationwide scale, the water stops running and becomes scarce. How will you survive? Start thinking about collecting water from the atmosphere, there is over
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11 Important Skills and Qualities For Preppers
There comes a time when every prepper will say enough with all of the food and enough with all of the gear. After a year or more of seeking out the best stuff at
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The Preparedness Primer: How To Get Started
Above is the most popular version of this quote by ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu. But I’ve always kind of liked the more literal translation, which is, “A journey of a thousand miles must
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Is NJ law enforcement targeting “Doomsday Preppers”?
As the world visibly collapses all around us, the idea of survivalism -- or prepping -- has gone mainstream. No longer should either word signify paranoia; rather, these words should signify adaptability in
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7 Tips to Help You Prepare for Hard Times
Once you have been blogging for awhile, you begin to realize that bad news – and by bad news I mean the unthinkable – sells. Funny how that works, but following a natural disaster
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Tips To Stay Safe During A House Fire
React when you hear your smoke alarm. If you hear your smoke detector or alarm going off, get out of bed, wrap yourself in a blanket if there’s one handy and get the heck
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List of ‘Collapse’ Medical Supplies
Here’s my list of Collapse medical supplies with natural remedies included (we should have these as back-ups or for first use supplies to save commercially made items!). Dr.Bones and I spend a lot of
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Infographic: Using Cell Phone Parts for Survival
Cell phones today are capable of amazing things. You can talk, text, tweet, browse, shop, or buy form anywhere in the world. But did you know your phone can become pretty handy in a
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50 Shocking Questions That You Should Ask To Anyone That Is Not A Prepper Yet
Share this list of shocking questions with everyone you know that needs to wake up. Sometimes asking good questions is the best way to get someone that you care about to understand something.
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The 10 Commandments of Survival
These days, it is easy to go about our business of survival and preparedness without stopping to think about the rules of engagement. For most of us, these rules are not written and are
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Preppers, Patriots and Pirates
Now that the prospects of a second Obama administration are hitting home, the pace of a rapid deterioration are confronting all thinking Americans. The radical transformation that is centrally planned for the economy and
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It’s the Little Things That Matter: 100 Survival Items To Help Keep A Sense of Normality and Sanity After the Collapse
Bullets…check. Beans…check. Band Aids…check. The list goes on and on sometimes doesn’t it? As preppers, we all are stockpiling the items and supplies that we plan on needing if and
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Is It Too Late to Start Prepping?
A lot of new folks are starting to realize that the outlook in North America is every bit as grim as the reality in European countries like Greece, Spain, Portugal and a host of
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