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What the Prepper Needs to Know about Emergency Caches and How to Protect Them From the Hordes

Make no mistake: those who prepare this kind of thing beforehand are going to have it a lot easier than those who wait until the last minute or try to do it “post-collapse.”

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What Will Be the Best Form of Communication If the Grid Goes Down?

We should ask ourselves what the most useful forms of communication would be, should the grid ever go down permanently; not only to keep in touch with other survivors, but to help rebuild society after the cataclysm has passed.

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What’s the Best Survival Knife?

Knives can be very crucial tools when the need arises, sometimes being critical to stay alive. Find out which ones are the preferred models for serious preppers.

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Why Advice from Survival Ultracrepidarians Should be Avoided

In matters of survival and self-reliance, you don’t have to look far to find keyboard commandos telling you how-to do stuff. Who you choose to listen to is your choice. However, advice of self-proclaimed ‘experts’ is at times just plain stupid – and if practiced, could be deadly. So who should you listen to?

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Why Being a “Tree Hugger” Builds Self-Reliance

Embrace your love of trees and learn to be stewards of these towers of the forest!

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Why It Is Imperative to Maintain Fishing Gear for Long-Term Survival

In a disaster or a collapse, you’ll need to feed the family. Fishing gear that is both clean and maintained in working order will not then be leisure toys: your gear will be survival tools.

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Wild-Crafting Herbs: A Good Plan Yields Great Rewards

How to plan herb-gathering excursions, organize notes, and field reference guides and tools needed for a well-rounded experience.

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Winter Survival: 10 Must-Have First Aid Supplies for Preventing Hypothermia

Your very survival may depend on the supplies you carry, If you find yourself injured in the outdoors. These ten supplies are a must-have to maintain your core temperature and prevent hypothermia.

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You Will Not Believe How We Used to Get Moisturizer

For those without a pot full of money there was only one choice back in the day and that was lanolin.

Women are usually seen as the "weaker sex" and it doesn't matter whether we like it or not. Those who have more body mass will likely try to take advantage of those with less body mass, especially when supplies dwindle and the grocery stores run out of that last can of corn. So what then?

Prepping For Women: A Self-Defense Guide (Part 5)

Women are usually seen as the “weaker sex” and it doesn’t matter whether we like it or not. Those who have more body mass will likely try to take advantage of those with less body mass, especially when supplies dwindle and the grocery stores run out of that last can of corn. So what then?

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39 Manly Uses for Coconut Oil in Your Bushcraft Kit

Manly woodsmen, listen up. The women folk are more aware of the benefits and well ahead of us in using this stuff. Time to catch up!

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50 Clever Ways to Reuse Your Trash and Not Play into the Throw-Away Society

Stop being a member of the throw-away society and be part of the sustainable solution. Here are 50 of the most thrown away items and clever ways to reuse them.

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