Oh, a storm is threat’ning My very life today If I don’t get some shelter Oh yeah, I’m gonna fade away – Rolling Stones Mick Jagger, in Gimme Shelter, sings of the importance of having shelter from external threats. Shelter is a topic that doesn’t get the level of attention in prepper circles that food storage or firearms might get, but that doesn’t make it any less important. In fact, if you look at Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, a five-tier psychological theory of human needs, Maslow establishes Physiological Needs (food, water,…
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Conduct a Prep SWOT Analysis
American management practices use a lot of techniques to examine planning, program development, future goals, and modes of execution to achieve those goals. One of the business school tactics used by many groups is called the SWOT. This stands for (1) Strengths, (2) Weaknesses, (3) Opportunities, and (4) Threats. Walking through this process applied to your prepping plan can assure confidence of achievements, point out items for improvement, expose future opportunities and recognize potential threats. It is an assessment strategy to reveal all the functional aspects of your prepping plan…
Get Out of Debt and Survive With Less After TSHTF
On TV the other day (I was streaming a news broadcast off the Internet – I don’t have cable TV) I saw a commercial that settled in my mind and it gnawed away at for me awhile. I didn’t realize until later why it bothered me so much. Here’s a synopsis of the commercial: Dude1 walks out of his house over to his neighbors house in a suburban neighborhood, where his friend (Dude2) is admiring a new car. “Nice car!” Dude1 says and Dude2 beams and starts to talk about its features. Dude1…
Three Lessons From Ruins
Archaeologists and Historians study the past to derive valuable inferences from past civilizations. This exercise is a noble and important one; after all, those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. In the spirit of this thinking, I have written about a few examples of decay. If we aspire to be prepared for the worst, we need to look at people who have already experienced the worst. Fifty years ago, the places on this list were functioning, maintained, and inhabited. The existence of these ruins is evidence that bad…
Let’s Have Victories Again
A coalition of mutinous Republicans have emerged from their elitist holes to join Democrats in a whining chorus of: “Never Trump!”. Quite frankly, I’d like to know where these Republicans have been during eight years of a disastrous Obama Administration. Where was the contrived moral outrage during Attorney General Eric Holder’s botched mishandling of the Fast and Furious scandal? When Obama insisted on a wasteful, poorly managed stimulus package, where was Senator Lindsey Graham? I’ll tell you where they were: quietly sniveling in the shadows of Capitol Hill. Suddenly, when…
The Katrina Rifle
Almost overnight Katrina turned from a woman’s elegant name, to a tragic hurricane, to an adjective for a tangible survival situation. So when the word Katrina is used to qualify a rifle, it should be clear that the intended use of the rifle will not be for anything fun. This particular Katrina Rifle (KR) project takes into to consideration the likely environment in which it may come into play for me; namely the western US. Defining that playground, some of of the conditions that the rifle must operate within include…
Covering A Prepper’s Blind Spot
I have no idea if an electromagnetic pulse is coming. I can’t speak to the odds of a major Ebola outbreak, nuclear war, hyperinflation, solar storms or a herd of pissed off sasquatches auditing the fed. No one does, and that’s the point. By Professor Liberty Mize We can’t speak to the timing or likelihood of any of this, so we build contingencies, deal in the known, plan, pray and hope we are ready. They call us preppers, survivalist and nutjobs but we don’t care because we are all about…
Secure Wealth and Purchasing Power by Buying and Owning Physical Precious Metals
Today’s guest post comes from a new advertiser at CBMint. Check ’em out online. ———————————- Certainly the last decade has seen an explosion in precious metals investment and buying — so much so that the mainstream media even picked up the trend. Prior to that time, owning physical precious metals was the purview of a small segment of society, namely, those who realized how fragile the fabric of our economic and social systems had become. We at CBMint.com are trying to reverse that trend, and waken everybody to the importance…
