Flash Drives and Cloud Backups for Survival

flash drives

Survival isn’t just about avoiding death and maiming due to disasters and crisis events. It’s also about having the ability to restart your life after such an event, with as little loss as possible. That’s where a good backup plan comes in, and for important electronic documents, that means using flash drives, cloud storage and … Read more

Prepping for Seniors

I wrote this article for senior citizens who are just getting started in prepping. This article is NOT written for someone who has been prepping for years. However, you may pick up some useful information. There are many articles written about all of the aspects of prepping. However, there are very few articles written with … Read more

FIREARMS WEEK: Glock 17 Gen 3 Review

  by J Dodson Earlier this year I decided to buy a semi–automatic handgun. The purpose of this pistol would be home defense and SHTF, if it came to that. Considering I hadn’t bought a pistol in 15-20 years, I was excited to see what was being offered. Early on I determined the cost of … Read more

Top 50 Budget Preparedness Items on Amazon

Frequent readers will know that I am a huge fan of Amazon.com for purchasing preparedness stuff – as well as all kinds of other items. Low prices, huge selection, and Free Shipping on most orders is what has be coming back month after month. Amazon offers a Prime membership, which provides benefits such as free … Read more

Ready Made Resources…..

Ready Made Resources was one of my very first sponsors. As a longtime leader in the preparedness market these folks don’t just preach preparedness – they practice it. Owner Robert Griswold lives on a 25 acre homestead in the heart of the Smokey Mountain. Whether it is a complete off-grid solar system or preparing for … Read more

Building a Security Plan for Your Community

By BG Over the years there has been several articles on numerous blogs that talk about one of our oldest dilemmas of the prepper world…to bug in or to bug out.  Well, over the last year I have been thinking that staying put is what we need to do as a family.  Every individual and … Read more