Preparedness

Is your home prepared for life’s emergencies? A disaster of any kind rarely stops with the initial event and has the capacity to last days or longer. Because of this, it is important to have a well-rounded approach to your preparedness efforts. Our research-based resources on emergency scenarios, emergency checklists, and disaster scenarios offer family-based preparedness advice to create a multi-layered approach so your family can be prepared for anything! Learn more about survival food, potable water, safety and security issues, how to live in an off-grid environment with alternative power and how to get your pet prepared for emergencies.

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5 Short Term Methods to Store Water

We all have holes in our preparedness supplies. Here are five cost effective ways to store water for emergencies.

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5 Simple Ways to Grow an Emergency Fund

Organizing your finances and finding ways to free up some of your money for an emergency will help you create a personal safety net. Theses five tips and suggestions will help you get on the path to financial freedom.

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5 Steps to Become the Smartest Person in the Woods

I challenge you to try these steps. I guarantee you that you’ll learn something new even if you’re a master woodsman.

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5 Survivor Traits That Make a Prepper Successful

What can you do to better practice the traits of a successful prepper?

5 Things You Never Thought You Needed In Your Prepper Gear

These items are often overlooked, but in a situation that may mean life or death, these five obscure items could come in handy and might even make your apocalyptic situation seem a little more optimistic.

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5 Tips to Put Your Bug Out Bag on a Diet

If you have a bug out bag packed and waiting, it might be time to reevaluate what’s inside it and lighten things up a little while you’re still able to easily.

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5 Ways I Used Prepper Know-How at a Rock Concert

Being prepared is more than storing beans, bullets and band-aids – it’s a way to prepare yourself for going into everyday situations; to think about the worst case scenarios and being ready for them.

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5 Ways to Better Secure Your Home in an Emergency

These tips will help you prep your home for emergency security and keep yourself and your family safe.

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5 Ways to Make Candles From Household Items

Here are five creative ways to make candles using household items to help keep the lights on when the lights go out.

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50 Awesome Stocking Stuffers Every Prepper Will Love

While there are a lot of prepper-inspired products out there, this modest list of prepper-inspired products are the ones that really caught my eye. These tiny treasures have the gift of practicality and deserve a place on your preparedness shelves.

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50 Things To Do During Home Quarantine

 Mandatory quarantine increases the chances of sensory deprivation and can be overwhelming if you are not ready for it. Symptoms from sensory deprivation, often include anxiety, sensory illusions, or even distortions of time and perception. In animal experiments, solitude has been shown to cause psychosis. The best chance to avoid this is by knowing how to keep yourself busy.

6 Critical Tips You Need to Know In Order To Survive Being Stranded in Your Car in Freezing Temperatures

With the unusual winter weather that many parts of the country are experiencing, driving conditions will be harsh and potentially dangerous. Moreover, getting stranded in your vehicle could become a very real threat, especially if you are traveling in isolated parts of the country. If this happens, you have a potentially dangerous survival situation on your hands.

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