Frugal Fridays: Be prepared
Welcome to Frugal Fridays where we share money saving tips, discuss living frugally and generally talk about personal finance issues. Current events have got me thinking about disaster preparedness...
View ArticleFrugal Fridays: Disaster Looms
Welcome to Frugal Fridays where we share money saving tips, discuss living frugally and generally talk about personal finance issues. Folks we have a disaster on the horizon and we need to batten down...
View ArticleSurvival Sundays - Chapter 0 - Be Prepared
Welcome to Survival Sundays. I hope your Sunday is as relaxing as mine is so far. As we head into April, it's in that perfect not cold-not warm 55-60 range, windy, and mildly overcast, the perfect...
View ArticleSurvival Sundays - Ch 1 - Food
So much for being prepared. I was intending to finish this chapter this morning, but woke up with a blinding migraine, so I'll publish now just to make sure this part gets out as promised, and update...
View ArticlePassive Survivability
Passive Survivability is the idea of building homes, apartment buildings, schools, fire and police stations and other public buildings with extended power/fuel outages and natural and human disasters...
View ArticleNYT: Survivalism -- Not Just for Crazies Anymore!
According to the New York Times, the face of survivalism is "that of a shaggy loner in camouflage, holed up in a cabin in the wilderness and surrounded by cases of canned goods and ammunition." Thank...
View ArticleSurvival Sundays - Ch 2 - Health and Fitness
Last week, we touched on food storage and methods to start a food cache, as well as some comments on gardening and networking. One thing that got touched upon but not in depth, (as with most of my...
View ArticleFrugal Fridays: Disaster Preparedness
Right now there are tornadoes and floods in the midwest, fires in the west, hurricane season is starting in the Atlantic and it is always earthquake season, so I have disaster planning on the brain....
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TSHTF #1 - A introduction to survivalism.
There is no doubt about it, in fact I've said it before. There is a global economic crisis on our hands. This crisis threatens to not only destroy the economic foundation of the world but to trickle...
View ArticleFrugal Fridays: Updating Your Disaster Plan
Winter is coming and it's been a while since I bought up the topic of disaster preparedness, so I figured it was time to readdress the issue. If you haven't ever thought about what you would do in a...
View ArticleHow To Survive Hyperdeflation, Hyperinflation, & Economic Collapse
I posted this last night on my site, The Daily Elitist, and since so many Kossaks seem to be losing their jobs like everyone else, I thought I'd put it up here as well. Warning: while informative, it...
View ArticleWorld Made By Hand - how not to write an apocalyptic novel.
I am not a fan of Jame Howard Kunstler. I think he is in the business of pointing out problems without offering real solutions, unless you think going completely Amish and moving to a log cabin in the...
View ArticleFrugal Fridays: Preparing for Disasters
The recent earthquake in Haiti, as well as extreme weather around the world, has made all of us aware that disasters can strike anywhere without warning. Each of us needs to make plans and prepare for...
View ArticleIntroducing: Practical Survivalism and Sustainable Living
In the years that I have been on Daily Kos, a lot of people have expressed an interest in learning more about survival skills and sustainable living strategies. A great number of diarists have written...
View ArticleFood: Store What Your Family Will Actually Eat
Noddy wrote a great diary about Food Storage on Saturday. It prompted me to dig into my files and post the following in the comments. It was then suggested that I post it as a stand alone diary...As I...
View ArticleRon Paul: The Trilateral Commission Pulls the Strings
For the benefit of anyone who still thinks Ron Paul possesses a shred of sanity, here's a couple of new items from Dave Weigel. If you're looking for a more substantive Ron Paul diary, go read my...
View ArticleGrowing Numbers Get Ready for Societal Collapse
I've been through this big time - I was a Y2K-er for a year and a half. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/... 'A lot of Americans sense that a massive economic storm is coming and they want to be prepared...
View ArticleAmmo Tales II: Peer Pressure in Gun Culture?
The thoughts of your ordinary ammo salesman.
View ArticleNewt Says: Derecho? That's Nothing! Wait 'Til That Big Electromagnetic Pulse...
Yeah, I know. This first part is from the Huffington Post...sorry. In case you've been wondering whatever became of Newt Gingrich following his meteoric rise in the primaries, and his plummet back to...
View ArticleI Am A Survivalist
I believe, fervently and passionately, that survival is important. If I didn't believe this, I wouldn't write for this group.Survivalism takes many forms. The most common form is the day-to-day...
View ArticleI Am A Demented Survivalist
You may, perhaps, say I am many other things. That I am not really a survivalist because I don't do this or that or some other thing.You'd be wrong.Those preppers?They have nothing on me when it comes...
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IAN: Good Morning! Tuesday, 25th of June, 2013
Tuesday!As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires,...
View ArticleThis is a bit late, but I think it can be useful
Here in Kenutckyana, we are looking at a "big" storm, up to 3 inches of snow. (yeah, last winter I was in Cleveland so I'll see your 3 inches and raise you a foot)Either way, we are looking at a big...
View ArticleFood Storage: Starting over.
Last year I moved to a new state because I was finally able to gain full time employment. (For five years I looked in our last metro we lived in, and while I found many part time jobs, no full time...
View ArticleMan vs. Wild? Harrumph!
I had no idea! Naming one's children Huckleberry!Or Sky!Or something icky like Marmaduke!Who the hell names their kid Marmaduke?And, they're damned Calvinists!Man vs. Wild! Humbug!We are part of the...
View ArticleJim Bakker Begs You to Buy His Survival Food so your Grandkids Don't Cry.
L. Ron Hubbard said: “You don’t get rich writing science fiction, If you want to get rich, you start a religion”. And then he founded Scientology and proved it. But if you lack the imagination to start...
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📁NewDKGrps#18: Black History&Future, DKG Solidarity, TheBrief,...
▓Celebrating Black History … and Black Futures■Diary List■Members (staff) ■Profile/mission statement:Group founded Feb 5, 2021 by Jessica Sutherland.▓Daily Kos’ The Brief■Diary List■Members (staff)...
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