Bernie Carr is known as “the Apartment Prepper.” She is also the author of The Prepper’s Pocket Guide: 101 Easy Things You Can Do to Ready Your Home for a Disaster. There are millions of people who live in apartments who would like to be prepared in case of an emergency or natural disaster, and [...]

Last night I got back from the first-ever “Ready, Set, Prep Summit” hosted by Food Insurance in Dallas, Texas. The night we arrived we had a nice dinner at a local restaurant. We had a private room, and I was able to talk with fellow bloggers in the preparedness space, which was really cool. The [...]

In less than two hours I’ll be leaving to go jump on a plan to Texas for the Food Insurance “Ready, Set, Prep Summit.” There will be about 20 different “survival bloggers” at the Summit, including me. There will be a few speakers on Thursday morning. And in the afternoon we’ll be going to Glenn [...]

Jim Willie, editor of The Hat Trick Letter, makes a bold prediction: “My estimate is that the USDollar will eventually see a 50% to 60% devaluation in total over the next few years. That will cut US personal wealth in half. That will open the door to 25% to 30% price inflation suddenly. The process [...]

A guest post from Michael Vosen: It’s pretty much a given that in most disaster situations the city will be the most dangerous place to be. Because of this many preppers talk about how, in a survival situation, they will retreat to the woodlands and live there in safety. But woodland living isn’t as straightforward [...]

Second-grader Alex Evans was recently suspended for pretending to hurl an imaginary grenade at a box that had “evil things” inside it. Basically, he was pretending to fight bad guys and Alex was the hero of his own story. And for that, he was suspended. The school that Alex attends has a “zero tolerance policy” [...]

When talking about how to fix the U.S. economy, most discussions center around some specific segment of the economy, and how if it were fixed, then the economy would improve. Lately discussions have centered around real estate, the jobs market, the deficit, and other things. Americans believe that if the real estate market improved… or [...]

Paul Harvey gave a speech in 1978 called “So God Made a Farmer.” Dodge then used the speech for their 2013 Superbowl commercial. Anyway, I share this because I like the speech quite a bit. It reminded me of my long-deceased grandfather, who was a Kansas farmer. It also reminded me that we could use [...]

Early in 2012, the FBI and Department of Justice distributed flyers to local businesses advising them how to spot “suspicious activity” and encouraging them to report such behavior as potential terrorist activity. Although these flyers were not distributed publicly, you can download and view 25 of them here: FBI “Communities Against Terrorism” Suspicious Activity Reporting [...]

In the 21st Century, paper money is the currency of the age. Everything that can be bought is priced in dollars or pounds or marks or whatever your country calls your paper money. You can hardly survive without paper money. It is used to pay for everything, from the roof over your head to the [...]