Ladies, this is for you. When it comes to carrying survival items with you wherever you go, you’re extremely fortunate. You have an entire purse at your disposal to stash as many survival items as you want. In what follows ...
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Essential Survival Prep You Can Do Right Now For FREE
It seems that most discussions about preparedness often revolve around guns, tools and gear. Sometimes we overspend, but today let’s take a look at things you can do that won’t cost you a dime. Sometimes it’s good to take a ...
Read More »3 Pests That Might Eat Your Stockpile Before You Do
What can be worse than to open up your stockpile, only to find that all of your food supplies have been eaten by something else? Stockpiling supplies isn’t enough. You need to protect all of them from the pests ...
Read More »3 Ways To Determine If Old Food Is Edible
Whether you stockpile food in your pantry, basement, root cellar or your bug-out bag, the biggest problem is that some or most of it will go bad at some point. Plus, the bigger the stockpile, the harder it is ...
Read More »7 EDC Items Every Person Should Carry EVERY DAY
The topic of everyday carry is not that popular on many survival blogs. I think the reason is that a lot of people worry too much about EMPs and other large-scale disasters and catastrophes — and too little about personal ...
Read More »The First 5 Items That Should Be In EVERYONE’S Everyday Carry
You likely already know that what you carry with you on a daily basis is influenced by whether you live in the city, in a small town or on a farm, as well as by the job you have and ...
Read More »4 Overlooked Crises You’re Probably Not Prepared For … But Should Be
It seems that preparedness is like fashion. At any point in time, there’s one disaster that seems to be in the spotlight more than others. I would say the “disaster of the moment” is the fear of an EMP, but ...
Read More »9 Multi-Purpose, Do-Everything Items That Better Be In Your Bug-out Bag
We all know that survival kits and bug-out bags need to be as lightweight as possible. Unless you’re comfortable carrying 40 or 50 pounds on your back, you don’t know how long you’ll last with one on your back. This ...
Read More »Everyday Carry: The 5 Dumbest, Craziest Mistakes People Make (Do No. 4 And You May Lose All Your Gear)
In a way, our everyday carry kit is our bodyguard: It’s always with us to keep us safe. But even bodyguards make mistakes, and the EDC is one aspect of survival that needs to be fine-tuned. One way of adjusting ...
Read More »Overlooked Survival Skills That Even The Experts Haven’t Mastered
The list of skills that would be useful in a survival situation is a very long one, and it’s nearly impossible for a single human being to be adept at all of them. But are there really skills that even ...
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