Asthma can be a debilitating ailment in the best of times. Throw in the stress of a bug out and you could soon find yourself or someone you love gasping for air more often than not. To make matters worse, asthma inhalers and medications can only last for so long, after which point you will…
The Top 7 Survival Supplies You Should Carry With You at All Times
Being packed and ready to go at all times is the bread and butter of the prepping lifestyle. Unfortunately, s*** happens, so you need to recognize your limitations in being able to carry a survival arsenal everywhere you go. It’s difficult to predict these sorts of things, so at the very least you should have…
With This Easy Trick, You Can Remove Sticky Stuff From Just About Any Surface
Removing sticky residue from labels, stickers, and price tags is pretty much a full-time job if you are of a thrifty mindset. By this I mean you save jars from peanut butter, jelly, salsa, spaghetti sauce, etc. only to have to deal with removing that sticky residue that remains when you try to remove the…
Worried About Your Smart Phone Dying When SHTF? Keep Your Battery Going With This DIY Solar USB Charger!
Having your cell phone or any other device when SHTF is all well and good. Until the battery runs out. If you have no way to charge it, then essentially you have a $600 paperweight (and as smartphones get lighter and lighter, it may not even be good for that). What you need, then, is…
(VIDEO) This Bug Out Bag is PERFECT – Now I’m Going to Have to Redo Mine to Match the Contents in His Bag!
Constantly on the lookout for more ideas for their bug out bags, survivalists and preppers really like to watch videos of other survivalists and preppers. More specifically, we all want to know what everyone else is packing in their bug out bags. If the world were to end today, we’d like to think that we…
(VIDEO) Wait Until You See These Improvised Survival Weapons – I Can’t Believe I Hadn’t Thought of Some of These Before!
Survival kits run the gamut. From little tins holding all of your fire starting tools, to little tins holding all of your improvised survival tools, to little tins holding all of your cooking tools. You see where we’re going with this. How about a little tin filled with improvised weapons tools? While a lot of…
Getting Bitten by a Venomous Snake is Serious Business. Here’s How to Stay Alive While Waiting for Help to Arrive.
While there are many rules you can follow for avoiding snakes, and, therefore, snakebites, it’s impossible to predict the actions of all snakes. You may one day find yourself on the receiving end of an angry reptile, and in that circumstance, you’ll want to know what you can do to alleviate your suffering and, hopefully,…
Lost During a Collapse? Learn How to Make Aspirin From a Willow Tree:
In a bug out situation, or even just camping out in the wilderness for awhile, you may not be able to bring all of the medicine you wish you could. Even if you do manage to bring some pills with you, circumstances may be that you run out of your medicine until the end of…
When the Collapse Happens, SHTF Won’t Care About These 10 Things
Get ready for the biggest wake-up call of your prepping life. If you are of a procrastinating nature, maybe you’ve been putting off loading up on your SHTF supplies as well. We’ve all been there: “Oh, I’ll do that when I have a little more money.” Or “Now’s not a good time, I’ll do that…
Post Collapse First Aid: What You Need to Understand to Survive
A fact often neglected in many bug out preparations is the harsh reality of having a first aid kit: You are definitely going to need it. It’s easy to treat simple scrapes and cuts in our day to day life, but when you’re out in a dirty environment with no access to medical aid, a…
4 Compelling Reasons Why You Should Add a Pellet Air Gun to Your Arsenal
Pellet guns, along with BB guns and airsoft guns, are the starting point of many young shooters and outdoorsmen. They are cheap, easy to use, and are remarkably durable. As shooters grow up, they tend to put these guns down and begin focusing on the larger calibers for their increased killing ability and simply because…
Here’s Everything You Need to Have in a Earthquake Survival Kit and How to Build One
Most people will not have to worry about packing an emergency earthquake survival kit. While earthquakes can technically happen pretty much anywhere (there are a lot more fault lines than just the big ones at the edges of the tectonic plates), a good bug out bag consists of things you’ll need in the most common…
12 Insanely Clever Survival Uses for… Plastic Bags!
Plastic bags are everywhere. Despite some large cities beginning to ban the bags due to environmental concerns, they will likely still be here for a long time to come. Plastic bags are everywhere because they are cheap to manufacture, and their light weight means more of them can be transported at lower costs than paper…
(VIDEO) Learn How to Tie a Square Lashing Without Breaking a Sweat
Knots and lashings are difficult for a lot of people. Even in the Boy Scouts, lashings are considered by some to be so difficult to learn that a lot of scouts only memorize one basic knot and all rely on that one lashing to get everything done. This isn’t an effective method to rely on;…
(VIDEO) During the Collapse, You May Need to Disarm a Gunman. Here’s How in Just 4 Steps:
In a SHTF situation, you can bet your bottom dollar that there will be droves of armed people in the streets trying to figure out where they should go or what they should do. You can also bet that a few of them won’t necessarily have the best intentions in mind. History is rife with…
Everything You Need to Know About Zippos and Lighter Fuel
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…
(VIDEO) When SHTF, Here’s the Food That’ll Keep You From Starving
One of the most pressing matters that will be on everyone’s mind when SHTF is food. More specifically: what food is still safe to eat? Many people know how to decontaminate water for drinking, but very few people these days know how to acquire safe food without the aid of a supermarket. That’s why when…
(VIDEO) With This Small Everyday Item You Can Learn How to Open a Padlock – Incredible!
There will be many times in your life when you lose your keys and find yourself having to deal with the problem of calling a locksmith and having to prove that the lock you wish to bust is your own. Being in this type of situation is just an embarrassment that no one should have…
6 Real Life Threats That Could Happen at Any Time – Be Prepared NOW!
Prepping for the apocalypse is fun, which is why everyone jokes about doing it. Being prepared for a significant and life-threatening collapse is pretty much a nationally accepted pastime. However, when people start joking about planning for the apocalypse, it overshadows the fact that there are very real and very common things people should be…
(VIDEO) Shoot Full Size Arrows by Making This DIY Slingshot Mod – It’s Insane!
An excellent tool to have for survival is a simple slingshot. They’ve been used for thousands of years as a legitimate hunting weapon, as well as a weapon of war (heard of David and Goliath?). In modern times, slingshots have evolved into simple weapons that utilize two prongs for holding an elastic tubing. Line up…