When it comes to emergency planning, many households struggle to know where to begin. Unknowns are hard to plan for, especially creating a food stockpile with limited information. Number 10 cans, also written #10 cans, are really useful to you. There’s no telling what the problem will be. Is it an earthquake? Is it a […]
Everything You Need to Know About How To Make Pemmican
Survival is a fundamental human instinct. For thousands of years, people have adapted to a changing environment: withstanding changing climates, mutating diseases, and declining food sources. With food being essential to life, it has been one of the top topics of survivalists and the most important element, along with water, you can have in your […]
How To Store Food In Buckets And Other Food Storage Questions
Save Having a solid long-term food storage plan is an excellent step in emergency preparedness. Whether you are preparing for a natural disaster or sudden unemployment, having food storage buckets can drastically decrease stress and worry. If you are new to long-term food storage, the most important thing to keep in mind is to “just […]
Preparedness Tip: Should You Put an End to Normalcy Bias?
SaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave Are you the type of person who remains calm in an emergency, or do you freak out and lose your mind? Do you often see stories about people who have a serious disease and think it could never happen to you? What do you think about preparing for possible emergency situations? All of these […]
Preparedness Quick Tip #53: Leave a Voicemail Message
The hurricanes of 2017, Harvey, Irma, Maria and more has shown us that leaving a voicemail for our loved ones to keep in touch with us is so important – even when cell service is spotty. Imagine when you are trying to call your husband or child, and they aren’t answering their phone. You keep […]
Preparedness Quick Tip: Eat All the Ice Cream First!
A big storm is coming? We’re probably going to lose power? Let’s have an ice cream party! There you have it. The local news has announced that another hurricane is heading towards your house, and you know it’s going to knock out power for a few days. Or maybe you’ve lost power after an emergency, […]
Preparedness Quick Tip #51: Is City Hall Prepared?
You prepare your home, your car, your bags, your workplace, and your family …. but is your city prepared? How would you know? You simply ask. Most municipalities probably have a Civil Emergency plan in place, and as a taxpaying citizen, you have a right to know what it is. So ask! Call your city […]
Preparedness Quick Tip #50: It’s Not About Emergencies
PREPAREDNESS IS NOT ABOUT EMERGENCIES, IT’S ABOUT A LIFESTYLE. But not necessarily the lifestyle you think …. Scenario 1 Take the scenario of my friend who is highly focused on being prepared for an earthquake. He lives in the middle of earthquake country in California. He has bags at the ready, his family does routine […]
Quick Prep Tip #49: Make Stored Water Taste Better
There’s nothing like picking up a glass of water, expecting a nice refreshing drink, only to find it tastes ‘dirty’, ‘dusty’, ‘flat’, or tastes sort of like the chemicals it was treated with. If you’ve ever left a glass out on your nightstand for a day or two, you’ll know exactly that taste. Water gets […]
Preparedness Quick Tip #48: How to Boil Water in a Plastic Water Bottle
I love when I get a book that is fully of juicy tidbits for me to glean and learn from. Bernie Carr’s The Penny-Pinching Prepper is the latest of those books to have a home in My Preparedness Library. “HOW TO BOIL WATER IN A PLASTIC WATER BOTTLE Ideally, a metal container is best for […]