When you’re in a SHTF situation, you’ve got a lot on your mind. You’re hoping that your bug out bag is well stocked and that your bug out cabin is safe. Most likely, you’re not going to be stopping at the store to pick up some more Lysol wipes on the way. These convenient little…
12 Different Ways You Can Use Your Mylar Blanket In a Survival Situation
A tool that is in nearly every survival kit but is horribly underrepresented in survival circles is the mylar blanket, AKA the survival blanket. Designed to reflect as much as 95% of the user’s body heat back to them, these emergency blankets are often squirreled away into survival kits and bug out bags for use…
(VIDEO) Forgot Your Garage Code? Using Just a Toy, You Can Hack Into Your Garage in Seconds
One of the often overlooked areas of security in a home is the garage door. In an attached garage, this can offer an easy area of access to a home, particularly if a homeowner relies on the garage door as the main barrier towards entering the home, leaving the door into the house unlocked. This…
How to Build a Build a Pi-Powered Drone Disabler to Understand the Security Risks of Wireless Communications
With quadcopter drones becoming an ever more popular trend among gadget aficionados, photographers, and even businesses, it should come as no surprise that rising among the growing wave of drone pilots are some individuals who seek to use the drones to peep with photographs or to collect sensitive information. There are even potential applications for…
(VIDEO) Check Out This Clever Way to Make a Water Powered Generator From an Old Washing Machine
You are in desperate need of a generator, and you don’t have an unlimited budget. The cost of most generators can range from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars, and many of them are dangerous – they require careful maintenance and need to be monitored; you have to be careful of carbon…
Instead of Tossing Out Your Old CD Case, Try This!
If there is one thing you must have gathered by now, it’s that on this site we love to do one of two things. 1) We love finding an item and being able to use it multiple ways and 2) we love to repurpose! So, when an idea comes to us that is not just…
(VIDEO) He Scrubbed His Windshield With Steel Wool. What the Results Were? Shocking!
Look hard enough, and there are great hacks for just about any material and any use that you can imagine. A lot of great life hacks focus on cars, and how to make them improve better, more reliably, and safely. In this case, the problem posed is that the windshield is peppered with countless tiny…
(VIDEO) He Pressed His House Key Against a Piece of Tape. Why? This Hack Will Save Your Life!
Every once in a while, we will come across an idea that seems almost too simple to actually work. But when it does we just open our mouths in a big O and then shout: “Yes!” Okay, now we’ve seen those old movies where a spy will take a piece of clay, make a key…
(VIDEO) He Poured Salt Onto a Pan. Why He Did It? I Can’t Wait to Try This Hack!
There are a lot of hacks out there, but we love the ones with simple ingredients that solve a myriad of problems! When the SHTF, with possible food and supply shortages, we may be stuck with what we have in the pantry for a long period. This will really tax our self-sufficiently skills. Having lots…
(VIDEO) Break Into Any Master Combo Lock in Seconds – Here’s the Secret Code!
The field of codebreaking is known as cryptology, but you don’t have to work for the NSA to learn how to unlock any Master combination lock without fail. Of course, there are many times when this information would be useful, like getting into your storage unit when you misplaced the combination in a drawer months…
(VIDEO) Learn How to Make Birch Oil Using This Easy Method…
Birch oil can be extremely useful in survival situations. The oil has many health benefits: it can be used as a disinfectant and also a protector against bacterial infections, it can relieve joint pain, it can be used as a tonic, a stimulant, a diuretic, and it can reduce temperature during a fever. And that’s…
Here’s How to Successfully Turn Salt Water Into Drinking Water
Having access to clean drinking water is easily one of the most valuable resources you can have during a SHTF situation. Depending on what you’re going through, however, this task can be easier said than done. If you are stranded in an area with only salt water, such as the ocean or many of the…
6 Survival Tips You’re NOT Following That’ll Make You Suffer the Consequences
It’s easy to take advantage of the world we live in and get caught up in preparing for the worst possible outcome, even though we have no idea when this may be. A part of this means stocking up on the latest survival gear, which aids us in planning for that potential future when all…
(VIDEO) These Insanely Creative SHTF Uses for WD-40 Are Astonishing!
WD-40 is one of those things that everyone has around for pretty much every lubrication use around the home and in the garage. This is great because it means that in a survival or SHTF situation pretty much everyone is going to have this on hand to use as a resource. It’s also great because…
(VIDEO) DIY Mini BIC Lighter Mods for Your Survival Key Chain
Modifying tools to serve individual purposes has long been a hobby of people in every profession. Being a prepper is no different. All preppers have different ideas about what is most important in their gear and how they will make use of all of their supplies in the event of a SHTF situation. In this…
(VIDEO) Add Some Comfort to Your Bug Out Area With a DIY Raised Bed!
If you plan on spending time out in the wilderness, days or even weeks, you will have to bed down, and since to have to go to sleep anyway you might as well be comfortable! During that time the weather can turn from a beautiful evening to raging storm and the one thing you don’t…
(VIDEO) Simple Prepper Life Hacks You Can’t Afford to Miss
Life hacks are the greatest thing since ordering pizza online, and one of the richest areas of hackable information is the area of camping and survival prep. Camping is hard enough without having to worry about things like wet toilet paper and not having adequate lighting when you’ve spent too long on the trail and…
Twelve Random, Yet Useful Hacks That’ll Make Life a Heck of a Lot Easier!
When SHTF, not only will you be putting those survival skills to good use, but you’ll also be recalling all of those DIY hacks that made you laugh from the Internet and YouTube. It turns out that hacks that can make just about anyone laugh can all of a sudden come in handy post-collapse. You…
(VIDEO) These Practical Survival Uses From a Tampon Will Blow Your Mind
Tampons, of course, have their place in the world. They serve a very important purpose for those who need them, and they serve this purpose very well. Of course, survivalists wouldn’t be survivalists if they didn’t find some more uses for this bathroom necessity. As it turns out, what makes tampons so spectacular at their…
(VIDEO) How to Hot Wire a Car in Less Than Two Minutes
It’s an unfortunate situation: You have an important meeting to get to or your children need to be picked up from school, but you can’t find your car keys. Either they fell out of your pocket as you went throughout your day or you accidently set them down somewhere and forgot to pick them up.…