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For as long as I can remember, I have understood the concept that emergencies can easily happen while I’m out and about. Because of that, I started preparing my backpack for everyday emergencies. As it is, my mom already calls my backpack a suitcase. Yea, it can be that heavy. […]
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October. It’s usually in October when the days get crisp and the nights start to feel frigid. There usually comes one day that I just can’t take it any further. I feel the overwhelming obligation to flip the switch on our thermostat from “cool” to “heat.” On that evening that […]
Americans are known for lots of things. We are known for our love of baseball and football, for apple pie, eating out, pick up trucks, and DEBT. The average person in the United States currently carries more debt than we ever have before. According to Money Magazine as a people in […]
This year our college Freshmen (or Sophomores, Juniors, or even Seniors) are likely to have a radically different college experience than they would have had last year. Preparing your older teen or young 20-something to get ready for college can be an emotional experience for the parents. This year, we’ve […]
We’ve done a lot of talking about “The End of the World as We Know It” or TEOTWAWKI. In the first post that kicked off this series, “Bugging Out vs. TEOTWAWKI – Don’t Get Them Confused,” our whole premise was that just because TEOTWAWKI happened, doesn’t mean that we are […]
It’s August already, can you believe it? I’ve already seen people announcing that there are only142 days until Christmas. I mean, like really?!? But without clicking away too soon, let’s talk Christmas just for a second. Each of us handles Christmas differently. Usually, I’ve started purchasing my Christmas gifts already, […]
If you are working a steady 9-5 type job and you work for only one employer, you are still in the majority. There is another type of person going from one job to another either during the same day or in the form of temporary work or they work for multiple […]
For as long as I can remember, I have understood the concept that emergencies can easily happen while I’m out and about. Because of that, I started preparing my purse for everyday emergencies. As it is, my mom already calls my purse a suitcase. Yea, it can be that heavy. […]
I think that some people shy away from being prepared for basic things because they believe that ‘preparedness’ means we’re preparing for something that will never happen – like the zombie apocalypse. If you fall into that group of people I have good news for you. Preparedness or self-sufficiency is […]
About a year ago, a friend texted me around 8:30 at night asking if my oldest daughter could babysit her kids the next day because she had to go to a birth. She’s a midwife. But before the next morning, it started snowing. We were only supposed to get 3-6 […]
Okay, I can see the look on some of your faces. There’s no way to predict a riot, so how can you prepare? Well, truth be told, you can’t predict a tornado, a stock market collapse, or a wildfire. So really while preparing for a riot FEELS different, it’s really […]
Simple, Helpful, Effective Prepper Tasks Sometimes we know we need to accomplish preparedness tasks, but we don’t know where to start. Today’s blog post is simply about helping give you ideas to start moving your preparedness journey forward again in case you’re stuck. All of them should be able to […]
We are all busy people. Despite all of our time-saving gadgets, our days fill to overflowing so quickly. We all want to keep up with our prepping tasks, but there are aspects to preparedness that just take time, and there’s no way around them. If you are going to […]
As much as you may not want to hear this, Christmas is just around the corner! Do you have a family member that you’d like to see more prepared, but they are a bit resistant to it? These 20 Prepper Christmas Gifts may be just what you’re looking for. Helping […]
