What would you do if the bedroom curtains caught fire from a candle, an oil fire ignited on your stove, or your car's engine caught fire? Instead of panicking and reaching for a tea towel or ...
The 9 Best Foods to Can for an Emergency
It's smart to keep around canned foods for making quick dinners and stocking up your pantry. Canning is also useful for preserving your garden harvest. But you should also consider keeping around some ...
7 Budget-Friendly Ways to Keep Warm in Winter If You’re Living Off-Grid
Can you wrap your head around the fact summer is almost gone and winter will be coming again soon? It makes me sad on one hand, but on the other, I’ll be glad for the break. If you’re living off ...
13 Survival Food Perfect for Your Bug Out Bag and Emergencies
To quote Ahmed Mostafa (with a slight modification): "It's not the stuff we face that defines us, it's how we deal with it." And with that in mind, how well prepared are you if some disaster were ...
13 Storm Shelter Ideas to Keep You and Your Family Safe
Storm shelter, bunker, safe room, bug-out shelter... Call it what you want. The aim is all the same - a safe hiding space for you and your family in case of a storm, tornado, home-invasion, terror ...
Burying Food for Preservation – Is It Still a Good Idea?
Would you ever consider burying your food out in your yard like a squirrel does his beloved nut? We might find this a little odd now, but our ancestors did this to preserve their food over the ...
Vital Aspects to Consider When Choosing a Bug Out Vehicle
Are you making your plans to be able to properly bug out if the time comes? You may have considered your bug out location, whether you should bug in or bug out, and what to include in your bug out ...
14 Practical Considerations When Looking for a Bug Out Location
Hollywood has made a fortune out of disaster movies, and we can all recall various images of the Statue of Liberty either demolished (Escape from New York), frozen (The Day After Tomorrow) or sunk ...
75 Emergency Supplies List You Should Always Stock at Home
Do you feel like you’d be prepared if a major crisis struck your area? I thought I was prepared until a major snowstorm was headed towards us. We don’t often get large snowstorms in my neck of ...