Going off-grid isn’t cheap and certainly not something to jump into without research. Even if you can’t leave the grid right now, there are ways you can save up for that future by cutting your living costs today – ways ...
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Report: World Economy Teetering On New Crisis
Distrust in the financial system and the holding of cash proves that the world’s economy is still on very shaky ground, according to a new survey of people in the world’s 10 richest countries. The Associated Press report discovered that ...
Read More »Low-Cost Steps to Self-Sufficiency, Part 1: Smart Buying
When I was invited to write an article for people who wanted to prepare but felt unable to because of limited budgets, I was perplexed. Why, I wondered, would people assume that preparation was expensive? So far my forays into ...
Read More »How To Save Seeds for the Years to Come
Growing your own food in your backyard garden is one of the most rewarding things you can do. The satisfaction that comes from feeding your family and giving them nutritious, organic produce is well worth the effort you put into ...
Read More »Building a System of Similarly Chambered Guns and Exploring the Wildcat Cartridges
Guns are very powerful and can help you accomplish the things you need to when in an off-the-grid or emergency scenario. Guns, however, require ammunition, and without ammunition, can become a hindrance or worse. As ammo prices continue their upward ...
Read More »Rain Water Filtration: The Options and the Necessities
From a personal perspective, one of the smartest things anyone can do to increase your access to adequate water supplies is to set up a rain capture system that will allow you to harvest the water that falls from the sky for your own use. Of course, when you begin to collect rainwater using the basic, time-tested design of gutter to spout to rain barrel to storage, it will be necessary in most cases to treat the water by filtering it before you...
Read More »Saving Money is a Lifestyle Choice
We tend to have this conception of saving money as something extraneous, something you do to make your normal style of living a little more affordable. But this kind of thinking really plays into the trap that mainstream society has ...
Read More »Saving as a Prepper Skill
Saving doesn’t take a financial expert. Most of us live from paycheck to paycheck. If you are fairly new to the survivalist mentality, you are probably thinking it costs a bundle to be properly prepared. With a little creativity, the ...
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