Featured Prepping, Camping, & Survival Misguided Advice – When Good Intentions Go Awry By Jim Cobb There’s a lot of bad information floating around on prepper-related social media. Not all of it is intentionally bad. Quite... Read more »
Featured Prepping, Camping, & Survival Sharpening The Skills To Pay The Bills By Jim Cobb Of all the various aspects of preparedness, finances usually get the least amount of attention. But this is an extremely... Read more »
Featured Prepping, Camping, & Survival Connecting With Your Local Survival-Prep Community By Jim Cobb A very common complaint in the prepper world is an inability to locate other preppers in the immediate vicinity. The... Read more »
Featured Prepping, Camping, & Survival Getting Back Together — Family Disaster Reunification Plan By Jim Cobb Disasters are rarely convenient. They don’t wait until you’re ready. Instead, they often occur when you least expect them to... Read more »
Featured Prepping, Camping, & Survival Doomscrolling – Strategies for Breaking the Habit By Jim Cobb I think we’re all guilty of sitting like a lump, flipping through an endless stream of negative stories on social... Read more »
Every Day Carry - EDC Featured Gear Prepping, Camping, & Survival Marlinspike – A Handy EDC Tool By Jim Cobb In the prepper world, tools that serve multiple purposes are always welcome. The marlinspike is deceptively simple in design, and... Read more »
Featured Prepping, Camping, & Survival Baby Steps – How to Get Started Prepping By Jim Cobb Every day, it seems more and more people are jumping on the prepping bandwagon. As a result, one of the... Read more »
Featured Prepping, Camping, & Survival Brrrr! – Staying Warm if the Power Goes Out By Jim Cobb Where I live in southern Wisconsin, as I write this, it’s currently -9°F with a wind chill of -25°F. While... Read more »
Featured Prepping, Camping, & Survival H2O is Critical — Water Treatment Options By Jim Cobb Water is a critical survival need. Without a reliable source of potable water, survival gets sketchy. Therefore, knowing how to... Read more »
Featured Prepping, Camping, & Survival Bug-Out Bag vs. Get-Home Bag – Are They Really That Different? By Jim Cobb For right or wrong, one of the first things a budding prepper often does is assemble a bug-out bag (BOB).... Read more »
Featured Gear Prepping, Camping, & Survival Mini Survival Kits – Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? By Jim Cobb Putting together a mini or micro survival kit has become almost a rite of passage for preppers. Not unlike the... Read more »
Featured Prepping, Camping, & Survival Cooking on the Run – Why a Canister Stove Makes Sense in the Evacuation Kit By Jim Cobb When you check out lists for recommended bug-out bag contents and similar kits, fire-starting supplies are always mentioned. And that’s... Read more »
Featured Prepping, Camping, & Survival Store What You Eat – A Food Storage Cardinal Rule By Jim Cobb I feel like many people make emergency food storage far more complicated than it really needs to be. One of... Read more »
Featured Prepping, Camping, & Survival Are You Scrambling? Last-Minute Prepper Christmas Gifts By Jim Cobb We’re only a few days from Christmas. Probably too late to order anything online unless you want to pay through... Read more »
Featured Prepping, Camping, & Survival Prep for the Whole Household – Don’t Overlook Children’s Needs By Jim Cobb For many of us, the entire point of prepping is to keep our families safe in an emergency or disaster.... Read more »