Archive for ' Survival Surveys'

Survival Survey: How to re-purpose containers Posted:May 08, 2012 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: How to re-purpose containers

I got this question from one of my readers and thought it would be great as a Survival Survey question. Every time I empty a container of some sort, i.e. milk, soda, cottage cheese, salsa jar, [...]

Survival Survey: What is your weekend prepping project? Posted:April 20, 2012 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: What is your weekend prepping project?

Sometimes my weekends fly by and in spite of good intentions, Monday arrives and the projects I had hoped to tackle remain untouched. Not this weekend.  I’ve been on a de-cluttering rampage over the past few [...]

Survival Survey: Advice for a teenage prepper Posted:March 19, 2012 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: Advice for a teenage prepper

I got this email a few days ago from Jackie: I was wondering if you had any advice for a teenage prepper? I’m 17 years old and I’ve been prepping for about 5 months now. My [...]

Survival Survey: What Are Your Plans For Bugging IN? Posted:March 08, 2012 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: What Are Your Plans For Bugging IN?

I got a question from one of my readers, Dee, and thought it would make a great Survival Survey. I live on my own in a suburb of a large city and don’t think I’m going [...]

Survival Survey: What was your trigger point? Posted:January 17, 2012 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: What was your trigger point?

Over on The Survival Mom Facebook page, we’ve had a discussion about the perception of most Americans that this is all one big party that will never end, in spite of warnings that the cops are [...]

Survival Survey: What is the most helpful skill you’ve learned? Posted:January 04, 2012 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: What is the most helpful skill you’ve learned?

In the prepper world, skills are just about everything, even surpassing buckets of beans in importance.  As one writer pointed out, what if everyone in your “survival group” is a computer programmer?  Yep, you’re pretty much [...]

Survival Survey: 3 things… Posted:November 11, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: 3 things…

This question was Tweeted last night by @GettingPrepped, and it’s something I’ve often thought about myself. If a disaster or emergency situation were to strike without warning, what three things you would grab? Assuming my kids [...]

Survival Survey: The Flying Nun or What’s your favorite escape? Posted:October 31, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: The Flying Nun or What’s your favorite escape?

Guest post by Liz Long. The news has been stressing me out pretty badly, and I know I’m not alone. One of my friends has started watching old Cary Grant movies. I recently watched Gidget and [...]

Survival Survey: How do you prepare for a Greatest Depression? Posted:October 25, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: How do you prepare for a Greatest Depression?

Let’s face it.  We may say we’re preparing for winter blizzards or freak hurricanes, but down deep, if you’re a prepper, what you’re really preparing for is a collapse of America’s economy.  It may happen within [...]

Survival Survey: Why not go vegetarian? Posted:September 16, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: Why not go vegetarian?

One of the very first purchases we made, The Paranoid Dad and I, was two cases of freeze dried meat.  I knew we could grow our own produce and that canned veggies and fruit were cheap, [...]