Before modern metal tools and amazing inventions which have made living like cavemen obsolete, our ancestors utilized literally every resource at their disposal to just live from one day to the next. This often meant crafting tools from scratch using stones and sticks gathered from the forest around them and taking hours, and sometimes days,…

After the collapse, people who were marketing professionals, writers, bloggers, or full-time customer service reps, for example, may struggle to survive. It’s the same for anyone who has an 8-5 office job, or their job relies on the Internet day in and day out. Take the time to think about it — today or society…

Stranded in the wilderness with nothing but your wits and your good health, and even the greatest among us can fail. Deprived of our basic conveniences, most people would simply curl up and pray to be rescued. While staying put is an excellent idea, an even better one is to stay put and make yourself…

When it comes to survival in the wilderness, or even urban survival, you can never have too many supplies. It pretty well goes hand in hand that the more you have at your disposal, the easier time you will have at attempting to make it through the SHTF, largely because you will be able to…

Survival Lilly, a prepper who enjoys anything that has to do with the wilderness, has many videos showing us everything from creating your own bug-out space to lighting fires in many unique and interesting ways. However, we really love it when she shows us survival tools and in the video on the next page we…

When you least expect it, a collapse can take place, and suddenly you’re in a life or death situation. You’re unable to communication with your family and team members and are not sure what to do. So what steps do you take next and can you communicate successfully without being discovered? This could happen in…

Any good survivalist pretty much has their backpack or bug-out bag ready. You have your food and supplies hiding inside, and you are ready to go. We like to think of our friends and neighbors who might not be as ready. They might be the ones who have a pack but because they really are…

Any professional in any field knows that the quality of the tools you use can make or break you. A web content writer isn’t going to rely on Windows 98, an investment banker isn’t going to use an abacus, and an English teacher isn’t going to use Urban Dictionary. Why should an outdoorsman or a…

It almost goes without saying that duct tape is one of the most useful tools you can have at your disposal in a survival situation. It can be used for binding, making repairs, construction, and reducing friction between joints. It can be used to make hasty repairs to boats, make an airplane flight-ready, and can…

Zip ties certainly have their uses, but many people underestimate this common household tool. Often relegated to the dull world of emergency car repair (holding something in place that doesn’t want to sit still, like a hose) or slowly making their way to the bottom of a tool box, zip ties are in fact one…

Fishing is a fantastic way to not only pass the time away while you’re enjoying the great outdoors but when you’re bugging out and need some food, fishing can take care of that too. Many fishermen and survivalists rely on their fishing rod to help them catch fish, but with too much use or a battle…

It’s safe to say that in most emergency situations, electricity becomes a highly sought-after resource. We’ve seen countless cases where very few people will have power in their homes and will run an extension cord out to the yard so that others can charge their cell phones and get in touch with their loved ones.…

Zippos have been around since before WWII, and these iconic lighters have survived to this day despite the constant competition from cheap disposable lighters available at gas station checkouts. Perhaps it is due to Hollywood marketing that always has Zippo lighters in action movies in which the hero casually pulls his trusty Zippo from his…

Very few people realize just how valuable folding saws can be in a bug out bag or just to have on a backpacking or camping trip. A lot of emphases is placed on how important it is to have an ax or a hatchet. This praise is well-deserved, as we’ve used variations of axes for…