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Covert Prepping: A Secret Supply Mission

I prep in secret. My wife knows nothing about by prepping and any discussion of prepping quickly decends into “why do they do that, there’s no need?!”. This is equally true whenever I have attempted to suggest that we keep… Continue Reading →

Check Your Batteries: A Charge Is Not Always Enough!

Check your batteries everyone…. I mean it, check you batteries.  I have just had an issue with my default ‘backdoor’ torch, a Nitecore EC4SW. The torch is a nice, well made model with 2150 lumens of output from a pair… Continue Reading →

Prepping Fail: Life Takes Over

Has it really been four months since my last post? It has…… prepping fail…. My second lull in prepping activity has been longer than my first but I am not to concerned.  For one thing I was better prepared this… Continue Reading →

Is Prepping Selfish?

I have seen some discussion recently about why preppers only prep for themselves and questioning why we all believe that in the event of a significant incident, and in particular in a SHTF situation, society will melt down and the… Continue Reading →

Prepping UK : The Go-Bag (aka Grab-Bag or Hotel Bag)

In the latest in my Prepping UK series, I am discussing the concept of the go-bag. You will also see this referred as a grab-bag or a hotel bag.   You may need to leave….. Whilst here in the UK,… Continue Reading →

Home Information List: Prepping for Personal Loss

If you are prepping for anything, big or small, you should seriously consider what would happen if anything should happen to you or whoever is the keeper of all of the day-to-day but important information regarding your home and your… Continue Reading →

Water Prepping: Make Sure You Have Enough of the Wet Stuff

`Water prepping is a key element of your prepping activities.  You need to make sure that you and your dependents have enough water on hand to see you through a predicted shortage for which you are prepping for.  As well… Continue Reading →

Butt What About Water? Your Renewable Water Resource

I am planning a more general post about water preps shortly but as this project was just completed, I thought I’d post about it now…… I was recently looking to add a water butt to my garden but then I… Continue Reading →

Natural Firelighting – Flint, Steel, Twine & Birch Bark

An interesting video by funkyprepper on Youtube about natural firelighting tools and skills.

Prepping UK: The Perils of Choosing the Wrong Bug-Out Location

A recent thread on the UK Preppers forum highlighted the perils of choosing a poor location for your bug out location (BOL). This a particular issue here in the UK when compared to the USA as I mentioned in my… Continue Reading →

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