7 Critical and Specific Components of a Prepared Home This article is more about preparing the specifics of the family in the home than the house, after all isn’t it the family that makes the house a home? The whole point of preparedness is to preserve the lives of ourselves and families as well as …
DIY Quick Easy Fruit Picker I so wish we had been clever enough to think of making a fruit picker when we were kids picking apples. Our brilliant idea for those fruits we couldn’t reach from our step stool (our mother was clever enough not to allow us a ladder) was one of my siblings …
Accurately calculate how much food you need for SHTF We are given estimates on how much food we need to store per person for a SHTF event. But have you really looked at the serving size on some foods? I was looking at the serving size on a bottle of salad dressing the other day …
Scary Prepping Statistics Why is it so rare to see statistics on the positives? Probably for a couple of reasons, 1st because positive never gets as much attention as does the negative. Secondly especially when it comes to subjects like preparedness the positive statistics are hard to find and prove. It’s much easier to count …
Surviving a Vehicular Terror Attack Yes, I know as with guns, vehicles don’t kill, people do. But if you have a several ton vehicles baring down on you on your local sidewalk, are you really going to debate what is happening? Just like guns, vehicles are being used against civilians as a method of …
Are You Ready For a Venezuelan Style Collapse? It is always said if we don’t learn from the past, we are bound to repeat the mistakes. This can be true when it isn’t your direct past. As the world watches the devastation of Venezuela after their total economic collapse, I can only hope that we …
Make It Yourself Rhubarb Cherry Wine Rhubarb is a tart veggie that often passes as a fruit. It blends wonderfully with sweet fruits like cherries and strawberries. Most often used in desserts and drinks. Just seeing it in the bottle pictured above makes my mouth water! The combination of the tart rhubarb wit the sweet …
Non Fear Based Reasons to Prep There are a lot of fear-based reasons to prep. Natural disasters, manmade disasters, political disasters, economic crisis, and personal to your own situation SHTF events. I don’t think the featured writing from the Modern Survival Blog is talking about the terror kind of fear that we can feel while …
Easy to Grow Medicinal Plants If there is a major SHTF event there will be a problem accessing medical care. We see this in Venezuela since their economic collapse and we have seen it in the past in war torn countries. We have also seen this issue in shorter term natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina. …
Could Your Protective Parental Instinct Put Your Child in Danger? Human beings are mammals, and we tend to instinctively protect our young as do other mammals. By either aggressively attacking a threat or by fleeing the threat with our children closely in tow. Either way our parental instinct is to physically shield our child. There …
