Sign up to receive the weekly lessons plus extra goodies: http://eepurl.com/imZrrg You’re in for a special treat with this week’s lesson. It’s a special video edition. Quite a few readers have asked for more videos, so I filmed a quick one for you out at the lake. I hope you…

Sign up to receive the weekly lessons plus extra goodies: http://eepurl.com/imZrrg Before anyone gets worried, this is an apolitical post. No politics. No science. No conspiracies. Just simple preparedness. Here’s the thing. No matter what happens, good or bad, and no matter who does it, in regard to a pandemic…

Sign up to receive the weekly lessons plus extra goodies: http://eepurl.com/imZrrg Most men, myself included, suffer under the delusion that we could make a go of it and live off grid for a bit if we needed to. It’s a man thing for the most part, as I don’t…

Sign up to receive the weekly lessons plus extra goodies: http://eepurl.com/imZrrg Since this is the first OPSEC lesson in the Prepared newsletter series, I want to do just a basic lesson on OPSEC and what it is before we get into the specific lesson. OPSEC is nothing more than…

Sign up to receive the weekly lessons plus extra goodies: http://eepurl.com/imZrrg Can you get antibiotics for your family without seeing a doctor? It’s not as hard, illegal, or scary as people make you think. This lesson goes just a little beyond the Everyday Emergencies, but it’s not as apocalyptic as…

Sign up to receive the weekly lessons plus extra goodies: http://eepurl.com/imZrrg There are lots of animals out there that can harm you, and different methods for keeping safe from each one. There’s also a ton of bad advice out there about staying safe from those animals. For example… What do you…

Today’s lesson… Are Your Important Documents backed Up in Case the Worst Happens? Sign up to receive the weekly lessons plus extra goodies: http://eepurl.com/imZrrg Right off the bat, I want to establish the importance of creating an emergency jump drive. In my short time on earth (over four decades), I have evacuated, abandoned, or deployed from seemingly safe places more times than I…

Sign up to receive the weekly lessons plus extra goodies: http://eepurl.com/imZrrg Today’s lesson is a weird one. First, pretty much every house has a smoke alarm. Second, most of you ignore them or don’t know anything about them. …

I don’t want to turn you into a nutcase doomsday prepper. Some of those people are crazy, paranoid, and scary. It’s hard to tell which ones aren’t the crazy ones too. What I want for you is that you’re PREPARED. I want you and your family safe in emergency situations…