Archive for ' Survival Surveys'

Survival Survey: What would you eat to stay alive? Posted:September 14, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: What would you eat to stay alive?

In just about any end-of-the-world conversation, someone invariably makes this statement.  “I wouldn’t want to survive in that kind of scenario.”  That may be true when spoken on a full stomach in the comfort of our [...]

Why Star Trek captains will always survive Posted:August 31, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Why Star Trek captains will always survive

My family is very much into watching Star Trek, all five series.  We each have our favorite captain, favorite medical officer, favorite episode, and on and on.  Even as I write this, we’re watching an episode [...]

Posted:August 06, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: In defense of ‘frivolous’ items

Guest post by Liz Long. There have been more than a couple of times that people have posted here about stocking up on 5 Hour Energy drinks, chocolate, coffee and other similar “luxury” items only to [...]

Survival Survey:  The Debt Question Posted:June 03, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: The Debt Question

A few days ago I posted a few suggestions for preparing for the coming apocalypse, however you define ‘apocalypse’.  One of them was to become debt-free.  My reasoning is that having very little, or no, debt [...]

Survival Survey: What is your #1 stock-up item? Posted:May 24, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: What is your #1 stock-up item?

If you knew that world as we know it ends in thirty days, what item would you stock up on so that you would never run out?  Assume that you have both the space and capability [...]

Survival Survey:  Picking up the pieces Posted:May 11, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: Picking up the pieces

One of my Facebook friends, Ellen, asked the following, and I thought it would make a great Survival Survey question. I’m in Alabama, where we are still digging out from the April 27, tornados. There are [...]

Survival Survey:  Who would you like to convince? Posted:April 20, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: Who would you like to convince?

My husband is on board with preparedness and so are our two kids, not that they have much say in the matter.  My parents are on board, and at least the rest of my family has [...]

Survival Survey:  OMG!  Not the Zombies!! Posted:March 14, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: OMG! Not the Zombies!!

Guest post by Liz Long. I bought season one of “The Walking Dead” and we’ve been watching it. We’ve watched half of Season One and it’s a good show, with the usual stupidity on the part [...]

Survival Survey: Gas is $5 a gallon.  What do you do? Posted:February 25, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: Gas is $5 a gallon. What do you do?

I’ve gotta be honest.  The increasing price of gasoline is alarming, and the crisis in the Middle East may impact our supply and price of gas more than anything we’ve experienced in our lifetimes.  Friends of [...]

Survival Survey: A Home-Based Business for TEOTWAWKI Posted:January 21, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: A Home-Based Business for TEOTWAWKI

This topic was suggested by Kiri who blogs at Springing Into Action. If you could start a simple, home-based business today that would provide a product or service that might be in demand when the stuff [...]