One of the nastiest prospects of living completely off the grid when SHTF is having to forgo the pleasures of hot water for bathing and cleaning. Of course, many people will combat this with either high-tech systems of solar or wind to power their water heaters, or they will simply heat large pots of water…
Why Using Sawdust During SHTF Can Lead to Many Beneficial Projects
If you’re a homesteader, prepper, or just a handyman (or handywoman), chances are you’ve run into the problem from time to time of what to do with sawdust at the end of a woodworking project. You don’t want just to throw it away because of a nagging feeling in your gut that every handful of…
(Video) Learn how to Defrost a Windshield in Seconds Without Running Hot Water on it or Scraping the Snow Off!
It’s a constant Winter struggle. You wake-up in the morning, prepare to go to work, then look outside and see that snow is on the ground. That can mean only one thing – someone has to go out and clean off the windshield before you go. You may look over a shoulder at the spouse,…
The Mind Boggling Off-Grid Benefits of Bats
Let’s face it: for most people, bats are the stuff of nightmares. After all, they’re in the backdrop of every Scooby-Doo episode for a reason. Making appearances in horror movies and acting as one of Dracula’s many frightening forms, bats have long held a position of terror for mankind. This is largely due to the…
10 Insane Underground Homes Anyone Would Want to Live in During Doomsday
When we consider our future when the grid goes down we have a few options to consider. We can bug in and stay in the house that we’ve hopefully prepped for SHTF, bug out, or head to a bug out home somewhere. As preppers, many of us already have a plan of action in place.…
Thumbdial: How a Lost Survivalist Can Find Their Way Through the Fog
People are bound to get lost every once in a while. After all, even the best of us have found ourselves a little lost while exploring the great outdoors. However, if and when we do get lost, it’s important not to get nervous. It’s especially vital to stay calm when getting lost in the wilderness…
How Much Does it Really Cost to Live Off the Grid?
There are a million reasons why you may be contemplating a life living off the grid. Maybe you long for simpler times when everyone took care of themselves and relied on their own skills to get through the day. Maybe you’ve been looking at the world today and see the need to be able to…
(Video) 2 Week Food Storage: How a Prepper Can Get Started
When preppers think about prepping for a SHTF situation, they likely think about buying a ton of freee dried food and gallons upon gallons of water. However, is something you can do when you first start prepping? For many the answer is realistically no since it costs a lot of money and most preppers cannot…
How to Make Whiskey Step by Step Post-Collapse
It should go without saying that one of the hottest commodities post-collapse will be alcohol. It has been a form of currency ever since it was invented thousands of years ago. Chances are, thousands of years from now, we’ll still be trading cases of beer to get our friends to help us move into our…
20 Affordable Items That’ll be Priceless Post-Collapse
There are so many things we take for granted. Little things like toilet paper, for instance, will be worth its weight in gold post-collapse. Think about it logically. When SHTF stores are bought out, or everything will be looted, and trains, trucks, and planes that usually bring items into the states will be few and…
An Effective Way to Tan a Hide Post-Collapse
Since the dawn of mankind, our species has taken strongly to hunting game of all sorts, not only to fill our bellies, but also to stock up on essential materials for survival. One such material was animal hides. Used around the world for clothing, tools, and housing material, animal hides have always been one of…
Predicting the Weather – Old School!
One of the consistent realities of modern life is that weather prediction is at best an educated guess and hardly a science. How many times have you heard the phrase “if the storm track just shifts 50 miles to the… it could be an entirely different story?” Weather prediction today is a formulation of data,…
15 Survival Skills a Child Should Master Prior to SHTF
Our children are our future. It is our natural instinct to protect them from the dangers of the world. But as adults, we also have a tendency to want to shield them from the things we feel that they’re not ready to learn. While our intentions are good, we are doing a great disservice to…
40 Signs That’ll Tell a Person Whether They’re a Hardcore Prepper or Not
As preppers, there are certain things we do on a daily basis to help prepare us for that day when the collapse is here. For example, we might have a bunker full of food and supplies and several weapons stored somewhere safe in our house. We may also know how to identify edible plants in…
How Prepping and Homesteading Are Similar
Some people prefer to be called preppers over homesteaders and visa versa. We were always a little confused over the difference between the two. Even when writing articles, whenever discussing alternate SHTF lifestyles we would always list them as: “ … preppers, homesteaders, survivalists …” without truly knowing the difference between the two of the…
5 Primitive Shelters That’ll Protect Survivalists From the Elements When a Collapse Takes Place
When put in a SHTF situation it can be difficult deciding on what type of shelter you should construct. The kind of shelter you need mostly depends on the building materials, tools, and conditions you’re faced with. In addition to figuring out what type of shelter to build, you should also consider whether it’s even…
(Video) This Family Lives in a 168-Square-Foot Tiny Home. I Still Can’t Believe What’s Inside!
Through the years the recession has affected a lot of people, resulting in a prepping movement. Survivalists who have personally dealt with the results of an economic shift have begun to create ways of preparing for a collapse and also have created new ways of being frugal. The recession also resulted in a trend called…
Running Out of Water? Here are 4 Methods to Turn Salt Water Into Safe Drinking Water.
Finding and drinking clean water, especially when you’re bugging out or are dealing with a SHTF situation is easier said than done. Sure, you can ensure you have safe drinking water but fresh drinking water will only last you so long. If you end up having to stay where you’re at and are quickly running…
What Preppers Need to Know About Fermenting Food
Want to keep your GI tract healthy? Trying fermenting your food! There are things that you need to know first to ferment your food. Luckily no special equipment is needed. All you need is vegetables, a starter (sugar, whey, salt or – seaweed!), some water, and an air-free container. Just a note: Some foods don’t…
20 Affordable Items That’ll be Priceless After SHTF
There are so many things we take for granted. From toilet paper to cleaning supplies, these inexpensive yet useful items will be worth their weight in gold after SHTF! Are you not sure? Think about this logically. Stores will get bought out or destroyed and looted in many cases. Plus, trains, trucks, and planes that…