Day: December 8, 2013

Notes from JWR:

Last day! Camping Survival’s Mountain House storage food sale ends today, December 8th, 2013. They are offering 25% off cases of #10 cans, 25% off cases of retort pouches and 15% off buckets. The sale is for full cases only.  They are only selling stock on hand, but they bought a substantial quantity in advance. — Today we present another entry for Round 50 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The $9,400+ worth of prizes for this round include: First Prize: A.) Gunsite Academy Three Day Course Certificate, good for any one, two, or three course. (A $1,195 value.) B.) A …


How Can Teens Contribute?, by Hannah from Tennessee

Describing how teenagers can contribute to and have the right attitude for family prepping. (Written by a teenager for teenagers.)   As a teenage prepper my top priority is making sure my family and I will survive a natural or man-made disaster, and prepping is how I do that. Prepping is a family affair around my house, each of us have our items or category (medical, food, garden, hunting, etc) that we are responsible for prepping and stocking up and we carry-out that responsibility to the fullest. If one of us doesn’t do our job, in an TEOTWAWKI situation, it …


Letter Re: As Preppers We Must Invest in Our Marriages

My most important prep, While most people start by thanking Captain Rawles, and rightly so, I would like to thank Dan in Montana.  I’d also like to start with a question.  Has anything every just hit you and made you think, “that’s been it all the time?!”  Well it just happened to me.  I have been prepping for several years now and even farther back if I think about it.  So it seems like an easy question, what is my most important prep.  I have seen my focus change over the years.  It has changed, as I have changed.  Being …


Economics and Investing:

Professor Laurence Kotlikoff: $200 Trillion in Long Term Obligations and Fed is Printing 29 Cents of Every Dollar G.G. flagged this bellwether event: Chinese Yuan Surpasses Euro, Becomes Second Most Used Currency In Trade Finance After the recent looting spree in Cordoba, Argentina: “Cleanup on Aisle Three.” [JWR’s Comments: People will come unglued and start looting when the police go out on strike, or otherwise don’t show up for work. Count on it. Oh, and by the way, store owners will have to Go Full Koreatown, and gun up, or lose everything.] Items from The Economatrix: Too Big To Fail …


Odds ‘n Sods:

S.M. suggested Fullbooks.com. It has thousands of pre-1923 (out-of-copyright) books in plain text. (These can be saved/downloaded as text files)    o o o Also recommended by S.M.: Off-Grid.net’s Land Buddy site, where folks team up to purchase land, for relocation. (Note that all of the usual OPSEC and PERSEC warnings apply! See, for example, this word of warning.)    o o o Pierre sent: Inside China: Nuclear submarines capable of widespread attack on U.S. – Washington Times    o o o By way of the Radio Free Redoubt web site comes this link: Josie’s Message to Police.    o …