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5 Time-Tested Ways To Cook Food In A Crisis

5 Time-Tested Ways To Cook Food In A Crisis

Cooking food is important in a survival situation, but it can be difficult if you don’t have some traditional utensils. When you’re stuck out in the wild, you likely have no pans, bowls, pots or spatulas. For this article, we’ll ...

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Emergency Heat When The Power Grid’s Down

Emergency Heat When The Power Grid’s Down

One of the most common occurrences in any disaster scenario is for the power to go out. Let’s face it: Our country’s electrical grid is in sad shape. Even the American Society of Civil Engineers gave it a D+ in ...

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5 Must-Have Winter Survival Items Every Car Needs

5 Must-Have Winter Survival Items Every Car Needs

If you’re reading this, chances are pretty good that you have some form of survival kit of your own. It doesn’t matter whether you have a full-size backpack, or just a little case that can fit into your pocket — ...

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4 Ways To Heat Your Home Off The Grid

4 Ways To Heat Your Home Off The Grid

A lot of people are looking at getting off the grid these days. Some are doing it for the purpose of saving money, while others are looking down the road and thinking that going off-grid is a much more secure ...

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5 Not-So-Obvious Survival Uses for a Hatchet

5 Not-So-Obvious Survival Uses for a Hatchet

A good fixed blade knife is an absolute must to have in your survival kit, but there’s one tool that is sometimes overlooked as a critical component. That tool is the hatchet. The reason why some people don’t include a ...

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3 Unexpected Survival Uses For Hand Sanitizer

3 Unexpected Survival Uses For Hand Sanitizer

Hand sanitizer is an everyday item that most American keeps in their home. It’s cheap, available in great quantities, and traditionally can kill up to 99.9 percent of all germs. We keep it in the kitchen, in our cars, in ...

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How To Fish, Start A Fire, And Cook With An Everyday Soda Can

How To Fish, Start A Fire, And Cook With An Everyday Soda Can

Most survival kits today are fairly complete with the necessary fire starting tools, water filtration systems and knives. But what many people don’t realize is that there are very common, everyday items that can just as easily be turned into ...

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4 Lost Native American Survival Skills

4 Lost Native American Survival Skills

When Europeans sailed across the ocean to settle this land they encountered a raw and often hostile environment. Their customs and habits didn’t match the requirements of vast areas of unsettled land. What they soon discovered were the indigenous people ...

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How Computer Hackers Could Set Your House On Fire — Remotely

How Computer Hackers Could Set Your House On Fire — Remotely

New technology could allow cyber criminals to terrorize your home and possibly set it on fire in the not-too-distant future. Security experts believe that hackers will soon be able to target countertops, appliances and even toilets via Wi-Fi connections that ...

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