Birthing – At Home or In a Hospital?

January 17, 2012

The miracle of life, truly a fascinating time for a woman and her partner. It’s also a vulnerable, stressful time, with life altering decisions to make.  What factors should a prepper take into consideration when planning for the event? I mentioned in a post last week that we considered birthing at home for Podling #2, [...]

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Movie Review “Contagion”

January 16, 2012

Right up front I’ll tell you that I liked this movie.  It starts out with a woman who’s getting back from a trip over seas and shows how she gets sick and dies.  (That’s not too much of a spoiler.)  The CDC attempts to track where it came from and how it got there amid [...]

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Iran Problems Could Cause $200 Per Barrel Crude Oil

January 13, 2012

  Oil.  Our world revolves around it and nearly everything our society does is dependent on it.  Most of us couldn’t get to work or the store and groceries and other supplies couldn’t be delivered around the country or around the world without it.  This is a relatively new dependence in our world today, but [...]

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SHTF Test – Eating Out of the Pantry

January 12, 2012

With a new baby on the way, we are shoveling tons of money towards our HSA to prepay the thousands of dollars the hospital room will cost.  We did take a hard look at birthing at home, but I’ll speak more about that in a separate post.  Our food budget has been slashed to make [...]

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A Faith Based Biblical Perspective of Prepping

January 11, 2012

Guest post day! ********************** I first want to thank Ranger Man for the opportunity to contribute to the SHTFblog. When I let him know I was interested in being a writer for the blog, let me tell you I felt like a politician being vetted for office. He is truly interested in only having contributors [...]

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Strategies for Dealing with Warm Weather During Winter

January 10, 2012

How about this weather we’re having?  It’s great if you like long walks and sunny skies. It’s great for getting the stir crazy toddler out of the house.  I’ve enjoyed the extended turnip harvest, I can honestly say I’ve never been able to harvest those in Jan before. There are, however, some aspects of it [...]

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Discussion of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)

January 8, 2012

Happy Monday everybody.  I hope you’ve got your thinking caps on today.  (I’m actually posting this on Sunday night, so for those of you who check in Sunday evening you’ll get the post early!) Years ago I was sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba several times for training.  My unit was sent down at least three [...]

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Shooting to Kill During a Home Invasion

January 6, 2012

Nope.  This isn’t another scenario of, “Well, if someone broke in I’d shoot him,” with the usual argument afterwards of, “You say you would, but you don’t know if you would until it really happens.” I submit to you the story of Sarah McKinley, an 18 year old recently widowed mother of a three month [...]

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How to Get Slaughtered in Your Own SHTF Bunker

January 5, 2012

I may have mentioned it before, but I’m originally from parts much more Southern than my current NW Iowa.  I spent a large part of my formative years in Oklahoma. My mother’s family is from Texas.  I’ve spent some time examining that branch of the family tree, and it’s facinating.  It reads like a history [...]

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Why No Body Armor Posts?

January 3, 2012

Reader “EA” sends me an email that states: Maybe I missed it, but why have you not put in any body armor posts? Like bullet proof vests, helmets, etc.? Or did I miss this? I would think you would want this kind of gear for any survival SHTF situation. Then I think, holy crap, I [...]

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Stay or Go After a Population Wipeout

January 3, 2012

I’ve been doing some light reading for the holidays. :-D Recently completed is the classic SHTF novel The Stand. I loved it of course.  Nothing like tempering the sweetness of the holidays with a bit of pandemic and population wipe out.  It’s definitely one of those books that you can give to non-preppers as a [...]

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Predictions For 2012

January 2, 2012

First of all I’d like to say Happy New Year to everybody.  I hope you had a safe and happy holiday season.  Mrs Jarhead and I rang in the festive new year by going to bed at 9:30 New Years Eve after mixing in a scoop of real coffee with the decaf.  Woo hoo! On [...]

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How to Deal With Looting When TSHTF

December 30, 2011

Quick note:  The winner of the firesteel contest is named at the end of the post.  Read on… ——————————————————- In order to deal with a threat, or perceived threat, it is easier to do so if you understand it.  During the research for this post I dug into the psychology of looting and decided that [...]

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