Category: General Updates
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When you’re in a survival situation, what’s the most important thing? Is it your fire-making ability, your shelter-building ability, your hunting skills? Photo by R.D. Smith on Unsplash This might surprise you (unless you read the title of the post): it’s your mindset. It’s worth repeating: the most important thing in a survival situation is…
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A while back, I was developing a class. I asked my then 8-year-old what makes someone a good person, and without missing a beat, the response I got was “Compassion.” That’s absolutely right, and it applies to prepping too, so I tried to think about a specific way to show compassion in a prepping context.…
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Do you have a prepper in your life? Congratulations – you never have to wonder what to buy them! Your job is to find out what they already own, so you can decide whether to buy them more of it or to find something new. (Note: if you’re just getting started with prepping, these would…
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Hi! A bit of background: we love to host campfires at our house, and I also have a bunch of life philosophies. So I thought it might be fun to combine the two: to occasionally have ‘fireside chats’ and talk about one of those philosophies and how it might relate to prepping. Today’s topic is…
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I’m no expert on foraging, but tonight we had a fire in our fire pit and some wild carrots were growing around it. I told my kid (the one who’s up for anything) what they were, and we dug up a couple and ate them together. It was a magical little summer night.
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Bug-out bags are possibly my favorite part of prepping. As I mentioned in the introduction, I’m a bit of a gear nerd, and I’m constantly retooling my bug-out bags to try out new gear and get the balance right. But let’s back up a sec: What is a bug-out bag? You can probably find 100…
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Thanks for stopping by! I started this website to help make prepping accessible to everyone, no matter their current level of preparedness or comfort with the world of survival prepping. I’m a Midwestern mom who stumbled into prepping after I got super obsessed with (of all things) buying camping gear. Camping gadgets were my gateway…
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