GAP Insurance – A $10,000 Insurance Lesson…

I’m going to tell you a short story about GAP insurance that probably saved me a couple of thousand dollars for less than the cost of a single cup of Starbucks.

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How To Stop Falling For Agenda-Driven News Reporting – Finding Reliable News Sources

  • Post category:News and Commentary
  • Post last modified:June 5, 2022
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In this post, I want to take a look at how we’re deliberately misled by the media and how we should react to that. Are there reliable news resources today? Were there ever? Let’s dig in just a tiny bit.

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Yes, You CAN Survive Nuclear War

  • Post category:Survival
  • Post last modified:April 24, 2022
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Read, Listen, or Both

Can you survive nuclear war? In this article, I’m going to tell a story about how my views of nuclear survivability were formed and how that has changed in less than a month. Then I’m going to do something a little different and publish an article from another site, and embed a video on the overall article presentation.

I believe the video and article may bring a little perspective to the overall survivability, or at least the potential survivability of a nuclear exchange.

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Managing Your Bulk Meat Purchase

  • Post category:Food & WaterPrepping
  • Post last modified:April 10, 2022
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How To Manage Your Meat AFTER You’ve Bought It

We need to protect, store, and rotate our meat investments.

In this article, we’re going to look at managing your bulk meat purchase. Post-purchase – post bulk meat buying. What do we do after filling our freezer with half a cow or any other fresh meat to ensure nothing gets wasted?

This post IS NOT a how-to on buying half a cow, how to do it, or anything other than how to manage it after you have made the purchase.

With the troubles of our supply chain and skyrocketing food prices, many preppers are taking the head-on approach when it comes to meat. They’re buying half a cow or splitting a pig with someone. Or maybe they’re buying a whole cow, quarter, or even a sixteenth of a cow from a farmer. Buying fresh meat is just smart. It fills your freezer and offers an instant form of food security that preppers understand well.

But what do you do after you’ve bought half a cow? Or any bulk meat that’s being stored in a freezer?

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Saving Freezer Meat During A Power Outage – Plus My Grid-Down Plan

Saving Freezer Meat – How to save your freezer meat in the event of a short-term power outage or even a long-term grid-down SHTF situation.

In this article, I’m going to cover how I plan to save our freezer meat in the event of a power outage using two scenarios – A short-term (A few days to a couple of weeks) and a Full-out grid down SHTF situation. This is going to be fun!

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Heating Our Home In A Power Outage

Heating Our Home In A Power Outage is part two of my After Action Report from last week after our power went out for a day. I was able to put some of our preps to use and work on an after-action report. I wanted to make ‘heating our home in a power outage‘ a separate article.

Here we go…

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Our Power Was Out. Here’s What We Learned – After Action Report (AAR)

We were blessed with another one-day power outage last Saturday. Not wanting a perfectly good power outage to go to waste, I have my After Action Report.

Here’s what I came up with:

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Dehydrating Green Onions – From Our Garden To The Prepper Pantry – Video

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  • Post last modified:November 13, 2021
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Dehydrating Green Onions – In this post, I decided to hit record as I took the last of this season’s green onions from our garden to dehydrate them for use throughout the winter months.

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