I know tons of people who haven’t prepped because they have big plans and just can’t seem to get started. If you’re one of those people, this plan is for you. Follow these 10 easy steps to get ready for an ice storm, a blackout, or an economic meltdown. Just a few hours’ work can make the difference between life and death.
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Building an Emergency Shelter With Whatever You Have
The key to building an emergency shelter is knowing how to improvise. Whatever the situation, whatever materials you have, if you need shelter from the elements, you’ll have to make do. Be efficient; every calorie spent is a calorie you’ll have to replace, so build your shelter using the least time and energy you can.
Basics of Building an Emergency Shelter
In Part 2 of the Emergency Shelter series, you’ll learn the three main considerations in deciding where and how to build your shelter: Location, Situation, and Orientation.
Survival Plan 10 – How to Build an Emergency Survival Shelter – Intro
Assessing the environment, climate, your physical condition, and materials on hand are the first steps in understanding your immediate emergency shelter needs
Emergency Food in Your Garden
Most of us have a garden in order to have delicious fresh produce, not to live off of its production. However, if you’re already gardening, it’s only a little more trouble to prepare some crops for storage. During the rest of the year we’ll find out what I can do in a small garden space. [...]
Emergency Food Stock Management
Now that you have an emergency food stock, you need to maintain it. Emergency food supply management is simple, and it returns enormous dividends. There are three essential steps to follow in maintaining an emergency or survival food supply: testing, inspection, and rotation. Food Stock Testing This is not about testing to make sure the [...]
Build Your Emergency Food Supply in Six Months
Survivalists and grandparents tend to measure wealth differently than the Gameboy generation. If you’re the kind of person who’s concerned about emergency preparation, a large food stock truly is wealth.
Life Skills for Kids
It’s a fundamental principle of economics that you get more of whatever you subsidize. If you subsidize corn production, you’ll get more corn. If you subsidize unemployment, you’ll get more unemployment. And if you subsidize non-productive, irresponsible, dependent, accident-prone children, that’s what you’ll get. All I have to do is say “government schools” to prove my point.
How to Build A Fire
The ability to build a fire is the paradigmatic survival skill. Whatever else you’ve done to prepare for emergency situations, if you can’t build a fire you might as well give up and die. Well, maybe it’s not quite that bad.
Filtered Water Bottle for Emergencies and Every Day Use
A water bottle with a built-in filter is ideal for survival situations, and an essential part of your emergency preparedness plan. Watch the video for a demonstration of the Sport Berkey filtration bottle.
The Right Gun for Survival or Emergency Situations
You’ll need to consider several factors to get the right gun for a survival or emergency situation. We draw on many years of experience with many guns to make our recommendations.
How to Survive Without Disposable Diapers
Disposable diapers are a wonderful modern convenience, especially when traveling, but what are your options if you run out?
Family Disaster Recovery Planning
This guide will help you design the right disaster recovery plan for your family. Whether it’s war, storm, or economic meltdown, you can be prepared.
Make Your Emergency Plan During National Preparedness Month
September 2010 is officially National Preparedness Month, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Here are some tips as you begin your family emergency preparedness plan.
Living Off the Grid
Let’s not kid ourselves. Living entirely off-grid calls for a massive lifestyle change that most of us are not willing to undertake. But there may come a day when the grid goes off-line whether you like it or not. What will you do then?
Survival Plan for a Road Trip
Survival planning and emergency preparedness for road trips used to be a matter of course, but in a day with roadside assistance, credit cards, and cell phones, people have lost a bit of their self-reliant mindset.
Survival Plan 5 – Long Term Power and Communication Outage
Preparation for long-term survival situations never ends because it involves both infrastructure development and supply management. Fortunately, the marginal return on long-term emergency prep is exponential.
Safety in Numbers — How to Build a Survival Network
A survival network is the real safety net corrupt politicians and clueless bureaucrats simply can’t provide.
Survival Plan 4 — Short Term Power Outage
These simple emergency planning can reduce short term power outages to a mere inconvenience.
Survival Plan 6 – Emergency Water Supply
Before you design your emergency water supply, understand how it fits in to your overall survival plan.
