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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Bugging Out With Man’s Best Friend

Dogs can serve multiple purposes in a SHTF scenario, but in a bug out scenario they also have a job to do – to help you get to your bug out location.

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Bugging Out With the Joneses

Doing the “neighborly thing” doesn’t mean that you have to let the entire neighborhood into your house to consume your preparedness supplies. Learn ways to empower your neighbors to be a stronger, more prepared community.

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Bugging Out with Your Data

When you are in a bug out situation, carrying around a bunch of paperwork (along with all of your other gear) is the last thing on your mind. Thanks to the power of technology, you have options for storing and backing up pertinent data.

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Build a Pantry for Pennies: 5 Frugal Shopping Strategies

A pantry is a work in progress, and a whole new type of personal economy. You can save a fortune on your food budget by shopping carefully and in quantity.

Build the Ultimate School Bug Out Kit for your Kids

Build the Ultimate School Bug Out Kit for your Kids

Is your child prepared to bug out from school?

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Building Your SHTF Gunshot Survival Kit

The potential for a violent event in your personal life in the near future is very real. Accept this fact, prepare, and continue to live confidently in the knowledge that if the worst happens, you did everything you could to be ready for it.

Bungee cords can make life a lot easier: at home, out in the woods, or when a disaster strikes...you want to stock up on these guys, and know how to use them.

Bungee Cords and Their Uses in Off-Grid and Survival Situations

Bungee cords can make life a lot easier: at home, out in the woods, or when a disaster strikes…you want to stock up on these guys, and know how to use them.

Bushcraft Emergency Lighting

When it comes to long-term preparedness, we need only look back on our ancestors’ knowledge to affirm that their methods for surviving, often considered primitive by modern standards, are effective in their own right and are applicable in the event that our modern day conveniences are disrupted.

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Cal Wildfire Survivors Claim They Never Received Evacuation Notice

Even when they do have a good handle on the situation, they don’t know everything. Only you can know with 100% certainty, when your life is danger.

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Can You Guess Which Firearm Calibers Are the Most Popular?

If we’re trying to prepare for a world that lacks the sophisticated system of global logistics that we know and love today, then we shouldn’t buy overpriced guns in niche calibers that would be hard to come by.

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Can You Reload A Pistol With One Hand? Here’s How It’s Done

Whatever the case may be, you should learn how to fire and reload a pistol with only one hand. It’s a very easy to learn, and could easily save your life one day.

Can’t-Do Generation: “Expect Everything to Just Work,” and Throw Out What They Can’t Fix

While the tech revolution of the past few decades has put the tools of innovation in everyone’s reach, many simply aren’t reaching at all for answers. They are waiting to be spoonfed new toys and electronics.

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