WD-40 is a supply that most preppers have in their home, but it’s likely that they’re not utilizing it nearly as much as they could be. The reality is WD-40 has more than a thousand uses, so if you don’t have any, it’s something you should get ASAP. WD-40 can be used for virtually anything,…

Safety is important, but it’ll become even more essential post-collapse when it’s likely the police will no longer be in charge of keeping everyone safe. In a world where every man and women must fend for themselves, this also means coming up with the proper means of keeping their home safe as well. As opposed…

Back in the day, when farming was considered a good enterprise, the pioneers learned a lot merely by experience. Some of their observations were written down and others simply came to us by word of mouth over the generations. Some sayings may seem odd and fanciful. Anything that uses a cow to predict rain today…

When the collapse is here, not only will you remember to use all of the survival skills you have learned through the years, but you’ll also be recalling random survival hacks that made you LOL when you watched them on YouTube. You’re well aware of these hacks — they’re the ones that at the time…

Slab City is called many things, from the “Last Free Place in America” to a community of squatters. Formerly a military base called Camp Dunlap; Slab City sits quietly in the desert about 140 miles east of San Diego. After World War II had ended, the military abandoned the camp but left slabs of concrete…

When SHTF, we won’t have time to pack. If your home suffers from a natural disaster like a collapse, flood or fire, you aren’t going to have much time to sift through the wreckage and take out the items you need. Even if your home isn’t destroyed in a disaster, you’re not going to be…

When the stock market crashed in 1929, the world changed forever. The economic crisis of the Great Depression went on to shape­ the course of history. Banks failed, people lost their savings; people lost their jobs. That’s not all either. Thousands of homeless families flocked to nearby parks, thousands of people waited in bread lines…

In our modern world of convenience, we are built to interact at the worldwide level. Contact with a friend in a different time zone is instantaneous. Making travel arrangements takes seconds. Making a purchase takes only the amount of time it takes to click your computer mouse. So, what would happen if the world suddenly…

It’s truly remarkable how many uses you can glean from a single tree out in the woods. Think about the never ending uses that come from a pine tree, for example. When Doomsday arrives and it suddenly dawns on you that you don’t have all of the supplies you need, a pine tree can be…

When we think about the values of our modern, consumer-driven lifestyle, it often comes down to two things: money, and stuff. Money to pay the bills, so we can buy more stuff. We go to school and generate debt because we think we have to to get the job. We get the job and often…

Homesteader, preppers and survivalist. That is us in a nutshell and while we have learned to hunt, can food, and prepare for when the SHTF, have we really thought about our homes and how environmentally sound they are? Honestly, it’s not just about helping Mother Earth for the children who will follow but when the…

There seems to be a movement towards simplicity. Almost in retaliation to the excess of luxury and lavish consumerism, we are seeing television shows about tiny home living, along with a trend in discussing philosophies on minimalism and “slow living,” where people make things from scratch and turn off their electronics. And it does sound…

When you’re on vacation for several days, heading home can be a point of relief. No more running around, and you get to sleep in your own bed again! But coming home to a fridge full of inedible food as a resulting power outage is probably not what you had in mind. Leaking puddles of…

Would you be willing to live tiny? Can you imagine downsizing your belongings to fit into 40-foot shipping containers? It does sound tempting: living off the grid, not having a mortgage, not paying utility bills. You would be living sustainably. Your water would be collected from the rain, your energy from the sun using solar…