1. Times are still relatively good for most. On the grand scale of global stability, things are still fairly stable for the west at least. You can still go to the store and shelves are stocked. The calorie has never been cheaper to acquire relative to human inputs. Just think how much a bushel of wheat […]
Brace Yourselves, Winter is Here
For many if not most of you, winter is here. That means it is a good time to check and update your winter car survival kit. Start with an empty, rigid container. If you subscribe to Survivalist Box you have a few items that will help your kit already. […]
Survival Sanitation: Under 20 Dollars
One of the least talked about topics in the survivalist community is the S word…. Sanitation. (I know what you thought I was going to say 😉 ) No one likes to think about it, but what would happen if you couldn’t flush the toilet for say, a week or more at a time for […]
Prepper’s Store Index
I’d like to suggest a few good stores for folks who may be trying to work on their food storage. Surplus stores, online shops, and bulk food stores such as Honeyville Farms can be excellent for buying bulk quantities of MRE’s, rice, beans, etc. However, for the most part, you’ll want to incorporate as much […]
The Basic 72 Hour Kit
The dreaded question most “survivalists” hate to answer. “Do you have a bug out bag or a 72 hour kit?” What many people don’t realize is that they are virtually the same thing, only the bug out bag is generally more geared up for a wilderness style survival situation while the 72 hour kit is just […]
The 7 vegetables I’m starting my year with.
Hello everybody, welcome to 2015! To kick off the year, here’s 7 vegetables I’m growing in my garden to start the year off before the spring/summer season kicks into full swing here around the end of February/early March (I live in Phoenix, AZ). 1. Alaska Pea – (Pisum sativum) The Alaska Pea works well in […]
Cut two expenses – Just two.
This idea came to me from the brilliant mind of Jack Spirko over at thesurvivalpodcast.com. In a recent episode he asked us to cut two expenses, any two we would like. So for myself I’m choosing to cut the eating out at work so much (committing to bringing lunch at least two times per week) […]
Barter: A Not-So-New Economy of the future
In line with some of the economic posts I’ve done on here, I’d like to take a look at a lesser-known section of the economy: barter. I’ll give some history, explore some of the potential difficulties, and illustrate how it might work in a survival situation. Barter is perhaps one of the oldest forms of […]
Get Ready for Fall Gardening
Fall is here in northern hemisphere… well at least for most of it. Living in Arizona it got close to 108 degrees today. However for the rest of you, the air is getting crisp and the summer garden is probably exploding in production, if it hasn’t already and begun to die off. Many people at […]
The Benefits of Owning Night Vision Equipment
[This is a guest post by Craig Pearson from nightvision4less which does not carry an official endorsement of survivalize.com] Night vision technology, like all technology, just keeps getting cheaper and more compact. It is for this reason that a night vision device should be part of any preparedness kit. For a few hundred dollars, you could […]