Purchasing a home is a major milestone in your financial life as well as your commitment to a particular place. After all, most people stay in a purchased home for a minimum of a few years, if not for the rest of their lives.
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Crisis Preparedness For Kids
Every parent wants their children to grow up in a safe environment, but reality forces us to think about dealing with the uglier side of society. It also means we have to decide how best to protect those we love. This involves more than making sure your home is safe and secured. You also have to teach your family how to protect themselves.
How To Store and Manage Your Survival Supplies
A pile of oddly shaped boxes looms out of the darkened corner of your basement, and a frantic wave of nervous anxiety mixes with a rush of adrenalin flooding into your stomach. You had only minutes to spare 10 minutes ago, and now, you’re rummaging through totes full of gear that will do you no good once you’re dead.
Pros and Cons Of 10 Emergency Lighting Options
Power outages happen all the time, and the U.S. power grid is unreliable under normal circumstances. Extreme weather—be it strong winds, ice, or excessive heat—make outages, blackout, and brownouts even more likely, and depending on the extent of the damage, you could be without power for days if not weeks.
Fire Safety Rules To Live By
In today’s survival literature, you can find a lot of information on how to build a campfire, what setup you should stick to, based on your survival needs, and various other tips to help you start and maintain a fire. However, there is little to no information when it comes to the dangers associated with fire, how you should control and extinguish a fire in case something goes wrong. Today we will cover the most important fire safety rules.
Roadside Emergencies – Keeping Your Getaway Vehicle Running
In a previous article, I wrote about acquiring a proper getaway vehicle and how to do it without losing money. Today, we are going to discuss roadside emergencies and how to keep that vehicle running.
Protecting Your Home From Fires
The number of domestic fires in the United States has steadily increased in the last decades. With all the advancements in detection and suppression, you would think that protecting your home from fires should be a fail-proof measure. However, the reality is quite different, and people all across the country still have a lot to learn.
10 Best MRE Meals in 2020 For Survival Scenarios And Emergency Preparedness
In the last ten years or so, MRE meals gained a lot of popularity amongst preppers and survivalists. Even more, the average Joe has realized the usefulness of having a decent quantity of MRE meals in his pantry as these foods offer peace of mind when the brown stuff hits the fan.
13 Essential Preps You Are Forgetting
Every year, more people wake up to the reality that preparedness is no longer optional. Natural disasters shut down entire regions, supply chains break without warning, and emergencies rarely unfold the way authorities promise they will. Emergency preparedness takes time, discipline, and planning, yet even experienced preppers routinely overlook essential preps that can determine whether a plan actually works when it matters.
Collecting Rainwater: Best Storage Options for Preppers
Collecting rainwater is one of the simplest and most reliable ways to build water independence for your home or homestead. As preppers know, water is the foundation of survival and in a grid-down scenario, wells and municipal systems may not be an option. By collecting rainwater and storing it safely, you create a renewable supply that can sustain your family, livestock, and garden even during extended droughts or emergencies.