Preppers aren’t immune to stress and anxiety. Many people are simply unable to properly handle stress and anxiety and will eventually have panic attacks. Those who experience panic attacks work extremely hard to control the attacks in a variety of ways. I’m not any type of medical professional, but I am a long time prepper […]
This is a guest post written by: I’m Andrew Craig– I’m just your average prepper, a nurse, and the guy behind Easy MRE. For several years, I’ve been working towards self-sufficiency to help myself and loved ones become more prepared for these uncertain times. I started Easy MRE to share my interest in prepping, survival […]
This is a guest post written by: Derrick James has been prepping in various forms for well over a decade. He founded SHTFblog in 2007 and then Prepper Press in 2011. Earlier this year I began the arduous task of creating a complete list of post-apocalyptic movies. Continuously growing from reader input, the list now has well over one […]
Archery can be learned at any point of your life. Most people think archery is as simple as picking up a bow, knocking an arrow and letting it fly. While that’s essentially the basic concept, like with most things, there’s significant training and practice that’s involved. I’ve been an archer for almost 15 years. I […]
With everything going on in 2020 with protests, unrest, division and the upcoming elections, now is a good time to think about upping your ammo supply. When the store shelves are empty, there’s a plethora of places to buy online. But we also have to keep in mind that in high demand times, such as […]
I love dehydrating my own food at home. Not only is it cost effective but I get to make my own dehydrated meals. For a long time, I was dehydrating with a round Nesco dehydrator that had an on and off switch and that was that. It worked really well for many, many years. As […]
Feel like there’s never enough time for anything YOU want to do? You know you WANT to get prepared, but just can’t find the time? Don’t feel like anything you’d do would make any difference to being prepared? Would you rather be sleeping? I get it. I have 2 kids, building a homestead and running […]
With police walking out on the job all over the US, and most recently in Atlanta where officers are walking out, nobody can respond to 911 calls and the citizens at a loss of what to do. How much do you rely on the police? Even during ‘peacetime’, police response times on average are about […]
You want to get prepared! Right? Well let’s do it! Here are my top 25 tips to help you get prepared: Focus on you and your journey Focus on YOU and YOUR preparedness journey. We all compare ourselves to others, it’s human nature. I do it every single day, but I always come back to […]
Do you know how to survive and thrive in an economic collapse? The US, and the world, have gone through economic recessions and depressions quite often throughout history. There was a copper panic in 1789. A boom of war-time activity led to a decline after the Peace of Amiens ended the war between the United Kingdom and France […]