This article is a how-to guide to help you design and build your End-of-Life Binder. This binder will help your loved ones follow your last wishes, know where your assets and liabilities are, and what to do about them.
Did you miss part one of The Death Preparedness series? You Have Six Months To Live. How To Survive That.
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This ‘getting started‘ article is my Ten Steps To Preparedness for the people that aren’t interested in living, eating, and breathing the prepper lifestyle yet understand the value of being a little more prepared. Maybe you don’t even care for the label ‘prepper.’
That’s fine because I wrote this piece with you in mind.
In this article, I want to help you sharpen those skills without our recommended steps of forming a Threat Assessment, developing a Preparedness Action Plan, working on your Preparedness Mindset, or maybe even starting an entire Prepper Pantry.
Yes. You can skip a few steps and still be more prepared than most people.
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Intro to “You have six months to live. How to survive that”: In this article, we’ll look at potential preparedness steps you can (maybe) implement after being diagnosed with a fatal disease or condition to help your loved ones survive your death with less unnecessary stress. This is NOT a mental health guide or professional advice. A prepper might take these potential preparedness steps for that ultimate and final SHTF scenario.
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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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Storing wheat berries for long-term food storage. In this video/post, I’m going to show you how I store wheat berries in Mylar bags and five-gallon pails.
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Let’s make some off-grid coffee using a french press and a charcoal grill. I’m happy to record another video for our Off-Grid Cooking From The Pantry Series – video number four. It’s only coffee, but hey, that’s a lifesaver for many of us.
Oh, and this is my best coffee. I use the french press every weekend. It’s something I look forward to, power or no power.
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In less than 20 minutes, I put together a meal in our garage. That’s right, I went off-grid style again, using a camp stove to make a sloppy joe mix with ground beef, Manwich, and home-canned mushrooms. Of course, I also made a video as well. 🙂
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An article on how to rehydrate dried mushrooms? Absolutely, because dehydrating vegetables is a fantastic method of preserving for long-term food storage and your prepper pantry. If we’re going to dehydrate it, we need to know how to re-hydrate it.
Let’s rehydrate dried mushrooms. I’m cooking a roast today using dehydrated mushrooms and decided to record a short video on adding the dried/dehydrated mushroom to the Crock-Pot.
By the way, rehydrating other vegetables works the same way. I just happened to be rehydrating mushrooms today.
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In this article, Jeff B. offers spot-on advice on the leadership required for setting up a MAG (Mutual Assistance Group).
I want to welcome Jeff to Next Step Survival and thank him for being a contributing author. I’ve known Jeff for about a year and a half within a prepper group we belong to, and he has earned respect from all of us in the group.
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In this article, I’m going to cover some of the more common prepper mistakes I’ve seen over the years. By understanding mistakes made by others, we’re better armed to avoid those prepper mistakes.
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