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7 Foods You Should Never (Ever) Stockpile

As we head into winter, you might have canning and long-term food storage on your mind. If you are building up your food supplies for an emergency situation, you want to make the most of your resources and your space. However, it pays to be picky...

Carol Mitchum

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50 Ways to Prepare Your Homestead for SHTF

The truth is although you may get some advanced warning of a SHTF situation, no one will predict it with absolute certainty. There are however some predicted behaviors and events that experts can predict may happen leading up to the chaos and...

Eugene Wade

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How to Safely Bug Out from the City

There are different types of disasters that could destroy life as you know it in a city (natural causes, or caused by mankind). The worst thing you can do as a prepper, is not have a plan for the worst-case scenario. If a disaster strikes the city...

Carol Mitchum

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The Gurkhas: Who Are They And What Can We Learn From Them?

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How to be a Gray Man

Living in the city, especially in densely populated areas, poses many dangers. Sad as it may seem, there will always be people willing to take down anyone to save their own skin. For them, the weak and unsuspecting people usually make easy targets...

Eugene Wade

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Latest Articles

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Building A Blackout Kit

So you’ve got your bug out bag or BOB, you’ve squared away your EDC or Every Day Carry and you’ve packed your INCH bag (I’m Not Coming Home). Did you know there is another pack that is just as, if not MORE important...

Carol Mitchum

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10 Foods And Items You Might Not Have In Your Prepper Supplies

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The Ultimate Urban Survival Guide

More than 80% of the American population lives in urban centers and some of those urban centers are huge! That means that when the SHTF, a hell of a lot of people are going to be stuck in the cities, and chances are...

Carol Mitchum

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10 Self Defense Tips for Women

Carol Mitchum

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Building a Security Plan for Your Community

Over the years there has been several articles on numerous blogs that talk about one of our oldest dilemmas of the prepper world…to bug in or to bug out. Well, over the last year I have been thinking that staying put...

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How to Survive a Power Grid Attack

Should significant parts of the electrical power infrastructure be lost for any substantial period of time, the Commission believes that the consequences are likely to be catastrophic, and many people may ultimately die...

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How To Store Water Correctly: Two Things You Need To Be Using

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Flood Survival Tips

With the recent flooding in Texas, this natural disaster is in the forefront of our minds. It can strike almost any region.

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11 Ways to Make Fire without Matches

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Why You Should Consider a Root Cellar

Food preservation and storage is a large part of being a prepper. For most of us, our very first action as a prepper was to buy some food (probably rice and beans) and put it away in our basement or pantry. We...

Carol Mitchum

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Starting a Fire with Steel Wool & 9V Battery! (in 3 steps)

In a survival situation, getting a fire started can be the difference between life and death. I could go on and on about that, but I know that is pretty much common knowledge!

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Building a Faraday Cage the Easy Way

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When Does a Flu Become a Pandemic?

The flu is running rampant in the US right now, with H3N2 not being the predicted strain by vaccine developers. It has spread rapidly and earlier than usual, and the death toll is rising. Flu deaths are nothing new...

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Is Urban Survival Even Possible?

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How to Make Your Own Water Distiller

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How to Build an Automatic Watering Tube for Chickens

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Establishing If The Meat Is Edible When Butchering Domestic Or Wild Animals

Meat hygiene is not a mere luxury which might be handled lightly, or worse, entirely overlooked. Butchering meat should be given the same thought and preparation as any other important life-sustaining work. No matter if...

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Why You Should Consider a Root Cellar

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16 Fruits and Veggies You Can Store in a Root Cellar

At one time, root cellars were a common part of life. It was an essential part of nearly every home before you can purchase fresh produce all year-round. If you purchase an older home, you might even have a root cellar...

Carol Mitchum

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11 Uses for Olive Oil

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Literally Every Way to Preserve Food

While food is not the top priority in survival situations, it is still one of the four pillars of survival. If you go long enough without food, your body starts to eat itself. It starts by breaking down fat. Then it...

Carol Mitchum

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Health & First Aid

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Emergency Essentials for SHTF

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Using Super Glue For Cuts?

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First Aid and Health Preparedness Survival

32 Things to Include in Your Survival First Aid Kit Checklist

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First Aid and Health

Personal Hygiene First Aid

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Wild Lettuce Effects & Benefits

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10 Most Dangerous Snakes

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Survival

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Home Invasions: The Ins And Outs of Defending Your Turf

Just to be clear, when I say “home invasion”, I’m also referring to your bug-out location which should also be fortified. The fact that you don’t visit your second home much makes it that more vulnerable to people who...

Carol Mitchum

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How To Prepare For and Survive a Nuclear War

With increased activity in testing of nuclear devices, North Korea is one step closer to making good on its threat to nuke some portion of the USA or its territories. It is still not an imminent threat since North...

Carol Mitchum

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Shocking CIA Spy Secret Could Save Your Life

Guest Posting By Chris Campbell Last March, I was handcuffed and locked in the trunk of a 2014 Volvo. Don’t worry, it was by an ex-CIA officer. Let me rephrase that… Last March, I was being trained on how to spy...

Carol Mitchum

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Understanding EMP: What Preppers Should Know

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9 Ways to Heat Yourself Post-SHTF

When SHTF, the first things most people will focus on is trying to find food and water. But if you’re a prepper you know that while water is critically important to your long-term survival, the ability to stay warm and...

Carol Mitchum

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