Duct tape has become indispensable to Preppers due to it's uncanny ability to fix just about anything. Stock up on duck tape and you'll be prepared for everything from first aid emergencies, to clothing repairs, to finding your way back to base camp. Concerned about the bulk and weight of duct tape in your BOB? Check out *this post contains affiliate links this FLAT … [Read more...] about Duct Tape Hacks for Preppers
Survival Tips and Tricks
Make Your Own Brown Sugar: 15 Minute Prepper
Yes! You can make your own brown sugar. When I show you how easy it is to combine the ingredients for brown sugar, you are going to wonder why nobody told you this sooner. Why Make Your Own Brown Sugar? Making your own brown sugar is much less expensive than purchasing brown sugar. November is when the big baking supply sales begin. Last year I was able to score … [Read more...] about Make Your Own Brown Sugar: 15 Minute Prepper
First Time At The Shooting Range: What To Expect
There are a lot of things we swore we would never do before we actually became parents. Give in and buy the kids a candy bar at the store, let them play tic-tac-toe with the sugar packets in a restaurant, exclusively breastfeed for an entire year, let them sleep sneak in our beds, own a gun. Did you have to go back and make sure you read that last one right? I would have. I … [Read more...] about First Time At The Shooting Range: What To Expect
Are You Preparing For December 21?
The much discussed Mayan end of the world prediction date of 12/21/12 is just a few days. Are you preparing for December 21 any differently than you normally prep? Have you felt an urgency to step up your prepping regime in anticipation for Friday? Or are you just starting to think that perhaps prepper's aren't so crazy and you better get stocked up in the next 4 days? Even … [Read more...] about Are You Preparing For December 21?
How To Open a Can: Sunday Skill
Today's Sunday skill is teaching your kids how to open a can with a mechanical can opener. This is another one of those tools where most of us are so used to popping out the electrical can opener that if we have a mechanical one, it is likely buried in the back of your drawer and your kids have no idea what it is. It won't do much good for you to have a stocked panty if your … [Read more...] about How To Open a Can: Sunday Skill