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How to Store Oil Safely Posted:April 08, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

How to Store Oil Safely

How do you feel about eating boiled food for every meal?  If you’re not storing oil, that’s what you may end up eating every day, meal after meal.  Quite a nightmare!  Oil is tricky to store [...]

Survival Skills for the “Man of the House” Posted:April 08, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Skills for the “Man of the House”

As promised, here is Lisa’s list of skills for surviving a depression, this time for the man of the house! by Lisa Todd Easy Skills Level: 1. Do you know how to properly sharpen a knife? [...]

Survival Skills for Men: A List Created by SurvivalMoms! Posted:April 06, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Skills for Men: A List Created by SurvivalMoms!

One of my readers, Lisa Todd, created a list of survival skills that would serve any person well in both good times and bad.  We were all checking our skills against her list when one of [...]

INSTANT SURVIVAL TIP: Books Should Be Free! Posted:April 06, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

INSTANT SURVIVAL TIP: Books Should Be Free!

Yesterday I discovered a terrific website that lists hundreds of books available as free downloads, BooksShouldBeFree.  Reading over titles like Pride and Prejudice, Moby Dick, and The Secret Garden, I got a little greedy and downloaded [...]

INSTANT SURVIVAL TIP: 30 Uses for a Bandana Posted:April 05, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

INSTANT SURVIVAL TIP: 30 Uses for a Bandana

When I teach “Wilderness Survival for Kids” classes, I always challenge my students to come up with as many uses as possible for items such as an empty milk jug, newspaper, empty soda can, or an [...]

What are you really preparing for? Posted:April 02, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

What are you really preparing for?

If you’ve been reading my blog for very long, I hope you’ve noticed that I am no fear-monger, nor do I dwell in the Land of Hysteria and Hand-Wringing.  I’m simply someone who is observant, can [...]

Do you have the skills to survive a depression? Posted:April 01, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

Do you have the skills to survive a depression?

By Lisa Todd Answer yes or no to the following questions: Easy skills level:  Do you know how to sew on a button? Do you know how to use an oil lamp? Do you know how [...]