Archive for ' Preparedness 101'

Can you prep too much? Posted:February 27, 2012 By:thesurvivalmom

Can you prep too much?

How could preparedness ever be a bad thing?  Is it possible to over-prepare?  In a word, yes. Yes, if anything you are stocking up could be destroyed or ruined because you can’t properly store it. One [...]

Action Step: Ladies, start your printers! Posted:November 24, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Action Step: Ladies, start your printers!

Every once in a while I come across an article online that I want to bookmark, but what with my computer restarting itself for updates and my kids coming along and closing windows, I invariably lose [...]

Think long and hard about water Posted:October 24, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Think long and hard about water

Guest post by Corky Baker, Flo-jak In the last several days there have been several Cyber-terror threats to critical infrastructure control systems. These systems operate telecommunications, the US electric grid and drinking water systems. Threats like [...]

Action Step: Sell something! Posted:October 14, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Action Step: Sell something!

Beginning with last night’s Survival Mom Radio Hour, I’m going to be giving my readers and listeners an action step to take each week. It may be something you’ve never thought of.  It may be something [...]

The Sacred Order and The Survival Mom (or in my case, The Stay-at-Home Dad) Posted:October 10, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

The Sacred Order and The Survival Mom (or in my case, The Stay-at-Home Dad)

Guest post by John A. Heatherly, author of The Survival Template For many years preparedness never concerned me.  Military survival training, survival/backpacking gear, and a small collection of firearms sufficed as all the “prepping” I may [...]

How-to: Storing food in buckets Posted:September 19, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

How-to: Storing food in buckets

One of the top category of questions I get via email has to do with storing food.  For the beginner, storing food in buckets sounds bizarre and mysterious.  Here are a few tips to de-mystify this [...]

Preparedness mindset 2: We have about a year… Posted:September 13, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Preparedness mindset 2: We have about a year…

Believe it or not, I’m not a worrywart, and in spite of all my research and preparing, I still like to dawdle.  Whenever my back isn’t to the wall, whenever I don’t have a deadline, that’s [...]

A Survival Guy’s first steps to preparedness Posted:August 23, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

A Survival Guy’s first steps to preparedness

I love getting emails from readers and listeners to my radio show, and I try to answer them all.  This week I received an email from an unexpected source, a single guy.  Now, I’ve always suspected [...]

Posted:August 09, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

What to do next in a time of uncertainty

The reason even experienced preppers and survivalists are active in online forums, read blogs, and regularly add books to their home survival libraries is because there is always more to learn.  One excellent resource of information [...]

Posted:August 08, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Simple Food Storage Meals for Tight Times: Stock up on three months worth, fast!

When a summertime monsoon storm is on the way, I quickly track down my kids, bring them indoors, and prepare to hunker down.   It’s a mom-instinct.  We  unplug the computers, make sure all the windows are [...]