Category Archives: perspective

here’s the e-mail I received from them: My name is David and I’m a producer for National Geographic’s “Doomsday Preppers.” We’re currently casting for our upcoming Season 4 episodes. This season we are looking to move towards a more educational … Continue reading →

In any SHTF scenario, prices are going to jump very dramatically. This can happen to particular food items, or even to food in general. It can occur with guns and ammo, or electrical backup generators, or gasoline. A disaster might … Continue reading →

Prepping and survival blogs, including this one, are replete with advice and commentary on all kinds of ways to be self-sufficient: grow your own food, raise chickens, install solar power, grind your own flour, and many other tasks. And self-sufficiency … Continue reading →

So after seeing that headline, my first question is: Didn’t they save the moose from the shark, and not the other way around? But another news report clarified that the shark was choking on a piece of a moose carcass … Continue reading →

As rogue nations go, North Korea is one of the most dangerous. They have nuclear weapons. They have conducted three underground nuclear test explosions. The first seemed to be only partially successful at less than one kiloton yield. The subsequent … Continue reading →

It’s a common objection to prepping, to point out that one disaster scenario or another, for which we prepare, has not occurred. So if we talk about preparing for economic disaster, due to the budget crisis and debt ceiling, and … Continue reading →

So I’ve been prepping for some time now, and as I look back on my efforts, I realize I’ve made some mistakes. Maybe these are common errors, or maybe it’s just me. But I thought it would be good to … Continue reading →

Butch and I (Thoreau) have been writing this prepping blog for almost 2 years now (since Jan 2012). We’ve each written hundreds of posts on prepping and survival. We are both preppers, and we not only write about prepping, we … Continue reading →