After all of the planning, storing and training the time has come to grab your supplies and head to your nearest bug out location. It all goes smoothly and you not only survive but you thrive with the seamless ease of a professional survivalist. Changes are while we want to think that things will go without…
The Food Item That Has Hundreds of Uses Outside of the Kitchen
Before a few years ago I had never heard of this item. I’m sure that I had passed it in the grocery store, but because it didn’t apply to me, I must have just glazed over it. Little did I know that this one item not only has hundreds of uses outside of the kitchen…
Clean Silver with Just Foil and Baking Soda
Using harsh chemicals is not always the best way to get things clean. While using the store bought chemicals may seem like the best bet there are better alternatives out there that are less harsh and work just as well. Especially when it comes to things such as silver you want to be careful to…
How To Make A Solar Still for Fresh Clean Drinking Water
Drinkable water is essential for survival. In a post collapse world, this will be no different. If we do not drink enough waters after a certain amount of time our bodies shut down. You are then no good to anyone and survival then becomes less likely. There is some good news however and that is we…
Skip The Painkillers Take This Instead
Why is it that the more we research the more it seems that our ancestors knew more about how to live well than we do today. We have a headache today we pop a pill we have been doing that for years. Now they are telling us “umm wait…do not do that it’s not as good…
Surviving Sub Zero Temps This Guy Did it With Only 3 Blankets
We all want to believe that when SHTF we all know how to survive, but do we? Hopefully, if that situation ever occurs we are prepared and ready. Our supplies are packed and our food is stored and we know exactly where to go and what to do. But what happens if we’re not prepared?…
Fact or Fiction: The Truth About Spiders is Surprising
I hate Spiders. There is something about them that makes me cringe and I know I am not the only one who feels that way. I had a friend in high school though who LOVED them. In fact, he had two pet tarantula’s but that is another story. Now I know that they serve a purpose…
Want to Keep Mice Away From The House or Homestead- The Answer is in The Campfire
Every time you burn wood in your fireplace, in a campfire or firepit did you know that you are creating something that can actually help you around the house. When I found out everything that wood ash actually does I was stunned. Seriously stunned. In fact I started saving the wood ask and using it…
The Ingenious DIY Project That Had His Neighbors Shaking Their Heads
Sometimes you just have to laugh. There are so many ingenious people out there. They take something that would be junk and turn it into something useful. They take a situation where there seems to be nothing and turn it into something. These people are the greatest! Then there are the others, the shall we say…