Tag: security

Dealing with the Unprepared after SHTF

  You saved and pinched pennies. You prepared, practiced and taught your children survival techniques. You even warned your friends, family and in some cases your neighbors. Now the disaster has hit, you and your immediate group are safely in your home, tents, or bug out location. There are those you will welcome into your mist at that point of …

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Post SHTF Security – Covering All The Bases

Post SHTF Security- Covering All The Bases

Post SHTF Security- Covering All The Bases   This article is designed to get you thinking about the security of your property. Ask yourself how a criminal would assess the situation if they came across it randomly. You can barricade yourself inside and hope that the criminals will get tired of trying to break the door …

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Considerations When Burying a Cache

Considerations When Burying a Cache A cache is actually less a thing and more a place. A secret hiding place where valuables are hidden with the assumption that you will come back at some point to retrieve them. Caches do not have to be buried in the ground necessarily. But burying survival supplies makes sense in most situations. …

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DIY Hidden Pivot Bookcase

 DIY Hidden Pivot Bookcase (Two links! 1 for the complete DIY’er and 1 for the DIY’er kit) One universal issue shared by all those that prep, have children or low square footage homes, is storage space! How and where do we find more space and if possible can it be hidden in plain sight? Also quite popular with …

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Principles of Preparedness

Principles of Preparedness   There are basic principles that represent the keys to being prepared.  There is the financial security and peace of mind that comes from having car insurance, home insurance, medical insurance, etc.  Personally, I have resented paying the constant rising costs associated with health insurance until I needed it! Now paying that insurance fee seems like dropping pennies in an old coffee can in comparison …

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Know Your Rights! The right to remain out of prison

Know Your Rights! The right to remain out of prison     This is an aggregated site. Please be aware some of the sites we link you to could have pop ups. We have no control over them. However, we will never link you to a site that requires you to make any purchase to …

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Being the Gray Man While SHTF

Being the Gray Man While SHTF What does being grey mean? It’s the idea that you want to blend in so well with your surroundings or into the crowd that you’re not noticeable. In a SHTF scenario this concept could save you and your preps. You don’t want to draw attention to yourself or your …

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What Is the Plan when SHTF?

What Is the Plan when SHTF?

What Is the Plan when SHTF?   Waiting until the disaster is eminent could leave you and your family out in the storm. Emergency items clear the shelves quickly just before and just after a natural disaster and disasters never just seem to happen when we are in a financial situation to easily run out and …

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8 Critical Urban Survival Skills

8 Critical Urban Survival Skills Not everyone can live in a rural area and bugging out can be difficult or even impossible. Especially for the disabled, those without private vehicles or for those who don’t have a privately owned rural property to bug out too. Roads can be blocked with other people trying to leave …

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Beginner’s Prepping Guide

Beginner’s Prepping Guide If you have medical, auto, home owners or life insurance you are already preparing for situations that you can’t control. None of us can control the actions of others or of nature. But we can strengthen our chances of surviving them. Through self-reliance and self-sufficiency we can insure that our personal and family’s recovery is …

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