Category: Shelter

Essential Diagrams For Camping

Essential Diagrams For Camping

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Essential Diagrams For Camping Camping for pleasure or out of necessity due to a disaster, either way making it easier is a plus! I also enjoy infographics which are so much easier to print out and follow. No offense fellas but it is also easier to get a husband, …

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Creating a Safe Room

Creating a Safe Room Most of us remember the Jodie Foster movie “Panic Room”. Now that was a safe room! What about the rest of us? Those of us who don’t have riches? Do we need a safe room? Yes, I think we do. Not necessarily in the style of the panic room but somewhere …

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Concrete Home Survives Wildfires and Building Info

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Concrete Home Survives Wildfires and Building Info (2 links) If you live anywhere where wildfires are an issue, you are well aware of the danger and property damage they cause. This year the fires have been particularly bad in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. To date just …

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A Prepper “Honey do” List

A Prepper “Honey do” List Male or female whoever does the household repairs around your home knows what a ‘honey do’ list is. Unfortunately, around here that someone is me! Whether you are doing the upkeep or you have someone else who does it or helps do that, (in my case which ever child happens …

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Building A Wattle Shelter W/O Tools

Building A Wattle Shelter W/O Tools When I think of a shelter built in the woods without the use of tools what comes to mind is not what you can watch this young man build in the video below! My first thought is a debris shelter with just enough room and protection from the elements …

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Prepper’s Guide to Safe Guarding Your Home

Prepper’s Guide to Safe Guarding Your Home I can’t speak about your community, but I will tell you that in my own community crime rates have shot up and out of sight. Before I purchased property here, I did the normal research, checked the school’s rating, checked the crime stats, the property tax rate, insured …

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Living in Your Car Successfully

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Living in Your Car Successfully Living in your car is not a situation that most of us ever expect and certainly don’t aspire to. No child that I have ever heard says “I can’t wait to grow up so I can live in my car!” It isn’t even comparable to those …

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Easiest Survival Shelters

Easiest Survival Shelters Shelter is the number one concern when caught in a SHTF event right after surviving the actual event. The elements can kill you faster than being without food or water and if the event is manmade getting out of immediate view can also be a priority. You cannot count on having any …

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Taking Your Home Back From SHTF Squatters

Either you have finally made it home after a disaster or you have returned now that it appears safe to do so after a SHTF event. You are tired, almost out or actually out of supplies and so ready to be home in your own bed once again. Your supplies have been carefully prepared and …

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Bike Campers

Bike Campers Now this is a nifty idea combining both the most mobile of bug out locations–the camper, and the most versatile of the bug out vehicles –the bike. A bike can maneuver across debris covered roads carrying both you and supplies back to the camper. Once an area has become too populated, too picked …

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