WD-40 is one of those household items that literally has thousands of uses – including solving a lot of issues that can arise during a survival situation. It is so versatile that it should be included in your survival kit and bug-out bag – you can buy smaller cans if space is an issue – apart…
10 Epic Survival Uses For Duct Tape
If you are a DIY’er as well as a survivalist (they are two different things after all,) chances are that you already know the amazing qualities and versatility of duct tape. I’ve used duct tape on my truck, to hold piping together, as a marker for a property line, to pull two pieces of vinyl…
Check Out This Amazing Hack That Creates A Stronger Battery
Re-purposing common household items in a survival situation is a skill set you must perfect as you try and maintain as normal a life as possible. One hack that anyone can do involves the A23 Energizer Battery and it is particularly useful if you have a lot of smaller electronics you need to keep energized.…
How To Create Fire Logs From Paper
You never know when a crisis can hit. In a blink of an eye, a life-threatening situation can emerge. And as a survivalist, it’s critical for you to be prepared if and when that happens. Store food and other supplies in an event of an emergency. Also, burning fire logs or fire bricks could be a…
Emergency Fishing Techniques Survivalists Need To Know
The next time you’re on a wilderness adventure, you need to be prepared if you should ever get separated from your gear. Berries will sustain you for a minimal amount of time, but you need a more substantial meal. In a survivalist situation, you need to know what to eat and learning the correct fishing techniques…
[VIDEO] Build Your Own ‘Business Bucket’ For When Nature Calls
A common maxim in survival philosophy is that creature comforts, those little things that make life easier or more comfortable, but that we take for granted, can move a survival situation from miserable to bearable. This is because those little comforts help build and sustain morale, which improves one’s outlook on the entire situation. In…
[VIDEO] Make This DIY Tripwire Alarm For Under $1
Securing your survival space, particularly in a crisis, is paramount. In a SHTF moment, anyone who is prepared will eventually be viewed as a target by those who are unprepared. That fact is an inevitable and grim reality and the risk of someone attempting to breach the prepared survivalist’s space grows exponentially as long as the…
Epic Uses For Wood Ash You’ll Wish You Knew About Sooner
Winter is over and you’re now preparing for the hot Summer months. This means you’re cleaning out the fireplace and chimney. It’s incredible how much wood ash can pile up in there. It’s dirty and a good whiff of it makes you cough. In a word: Yuck. But what do you do with it? If you’re like us,…
[VIDEO] How To Turn A Cigarette Into A Sharp Weapon
One of the most critical skills a survivalist can possess and master is the ability to improvise and utilize anything at hand to achieve the tasks and work needed to survive a SHTF moment. That means being able to take common items and use them for purposes they were not intended to be used for…
[VIDEO] Try This Effective Fishing Technique Using Aluminum Foil
In a survival situation, fishing for food is one way of keeping yourself alive that requires relatively little in the way of special equipment. If you can locate a fishing rod (or make your own) a reel with line (or you can jig with just a pole and line) and a hook, you can fish…
[VIDEO] Check Out These 10 Awesome Hacks For Emergencies and SHTF Scenarios!
The key to surviving a SHTF situation is being able to improvise and use whatever is at hand to get what you need done. Being able to improvise and adapt is something we teach our military and most survival training schools place a major emphasis on both. In short, improvisation and adaptation can be the…
Re-Charging Alkaline Batteries Quickly, Easily and Inexpensively!
Most of us use alkaline batteries in some way and when they are through discard them. In most cases, this is a huge waste of money and potential. Those “used up” batteries likely can be recharged and reused at least one more time and in some cases, multiple times! If you have a lot of gadgets…
[VIDEO] Go Green And Heat Your Home…….. For Free!
Within reason, most of us are interested in alternate ways to “go green” if it is not too much of an inconvenience or does not cost too much. If going green means saving money as well, well, that is just all the more reason to do it. This particularly applies to heating your home. The last few…
40 Epic Alternate Uses for Tea Tree Oil
Essential oils have played a role in healing common and more tricky wounds, illnesses, rashes for centuries. They have also been used as disinfectants and to boost immune systems. Long before pharmaceutical breakthroughs became the norm, people relied on essential oils to keep healthy, clean their homes, treat wounds, even to alleviate symptoms of blisters!…
Tips For Keeping A Cool House This Summer WITHOUT Running AC
Keeping your place cool in the summer without using an air conditioner is a challenge for virtually everyone. Even colder climes have extremely hot days and often they come in the form of a heatwave that can last for multiple days, even weeks. In some places, the hot weather starts in March and does not…
[VIDEO] Learn How To Open A Can With Your Bare Hands!
One of the most important skills a person can possess in a doomsday or survival situation is the ability to adapt and improvise. This is a critical skill because survival situations can pop up at any moment and unless a person is hyper-prepared, the chances are they will not have all the tools they would…
Stop Throwing Out Those Silica Gel Packets- They’ve Got Some Awesome Alternate Uses!
Whether you purchased a new pair of shoes, an electronic item or pretty much anything these days… the box containing these items has silica gel packets. They are ubiquitous to any product where moisture can potentially ruin a product, but most of us throw away Silica Gel Packets without giving them a second thought. In…
9 Awesome Alternate Uses For Pantyhose
Pantyhose – They’re not just for robbing banks anymore! This amazing product is cheap, lightweight, flexible, durable and able to be used in dozens and dozens of ways. Almost every household has a few and as they outlive their intended purpose, the innovative survivalist can re-purpose them; our household has a bag in the cellar-way that is…
[VIDEO] Survivalists Guide To Filet Fish
Whether you are in a survival situation or just wrapping up an awesome day of fishing, no one likes cleaning and fileting fish. With big fish it can get messy if you do not know what you are doing and with little fish, downright impossible. Even for lifelong fisher-persons, fileting is the one chore that has…
Hide Your Gun In Plain Sight: This Is Badass!
One of the greatest responsibilities of a gun owner is to make sure their firearm is safely handled and stored at all times. A major responsibility for anyone facing a SHTF moment, however, is to make sure that they have quick access to a firearm should the need arise. When you are faced with a…