Here on the blog, we’ve been doing a lot of talk about five-gallon buckets recently. We’ve discussed how to get 5-gallon buckets for free or at least cheap. There was also a recent post on using a five-gallon bucket for a container garden. Today, we’re going to talk about how […]
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7 Questions to Help You Figure Out Where to Store All That Food
This article is a reprint of an article that I wrote for Daisy Luther at The Organic Prepper. About twelve years ago, my family decided to start storing food in case one of those dreaded “what ifs” happened in our lives. You know those “what ifs.” “What if we lose […]
How to Get FREE to Low-Cost Five-Gallon Food Storage Buckets
When people talk about what you need to buy as a prepper, I once heard it boiled down to: “Beans, Bullets, Bandaids.” I believe it was James Wesley Rawles of The Survival Blog that coined the phrase. The “Beans” in the saying represent your food storage. And if you have […]
Gourmet Food Storage – 5 Minute Way to Delight Your Sweet Tooth
Have you ever been to one of those little towns with a bunch of little boutique shops? You know the one. They have a hot sauce shop, a quilt material shop, a bookstore, a sweet shop, and about twenty shops with decorations for your home. I love finding those little […]
First 10 Significant Purchases a New Prepper Should Make
Prepping is first and foremost about situational awareness. Once situational awareness is achieved, it is about learning and filling your mind with knowledge that will help you and others. After you’ve got a GOOD start on learning, then you need to start doing. You should do things to make your […]
Five Food Storage Items People Forget to Buy
If I walked up to you on the street and handed you a prepaid $500 Mastercard credit card and said it’s yours to use, but you have to use it to stock a food storage pantry, what would you buy? After you picked your jaw up off the floor because […]
12 Books To Take Our Preparedness to the Next Level for 2021
If I said, “Preparedness books,” what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Foraging, survival, fire starting, bugging out? All of those things are important to preparedness, but they only scratch the surface. There are so many other important preparedness topics that should be learned and discussed. Today, we’re going […]
The Ultimate Convenience Breakfast Food – Homemade Oatmeal Packets
I love granola for breakfast. As a matter of fact, it’s one of the recipes I gave you in the blog post “Seven Simple Food Storage Breakfasts.” When it comes time to make breakfast it’s already ready and at my fingertips. Not that it’s a problem, but the downside to […]
Start Prepping Here – 11 Things (Under $20) a New Prepper Should Buy
If we stand back and just look at what’s going on around us, sometimes things can feel so overwhelming. The national debt is skyrocketing. Cancel Culture is ruining the lives of everyday people like you and me – let alone successful businesses. We watch the hypocrisy of tech companies de-platforming […]
Serious DIY Series! – Toothpaste – The Secret to Oral Hygiene
When we talk about preparedness, there are many different levels. For example, when we talk about Bugging out, I see your EDC, your vehicle kit, and your bug out bag as different levels of the same thing. But bugging out isn’t the only place which that principle comes into play. […]