Hidden Cache Prepper

Preparing in an Apartment Series In the previous post, Super Urbanites, we laid the foundation for preparing for a disaster in an urban environment. In this post, we’re going to unpack it, specifically, we’re going to discuss water, power, food, hygiene, and comfort- a calm practical guide to assembling your first kit. Life unfolds how it unfolds. We’re full of good intentions b...

There are tens of thousands of experts on aging, and hundreds of thousands of books on the process of aging. However, the book that tells us as individuals how to age well, gracefully and with our faculties and agency intact has yet to be written. This post has very little to do with prepping as it relates to disasters. Rather, this is a conversation about how to maintain the di...

Preparing in an Apartment Series There’s no one size that fits all to becoming prepared. Prepping for disaster in a city apartment versus prepping in a 3,000 square foot suburban home is a matter of logistics. The same disaster, be it a flood or a tornado would look and play out different in a suburban setting than it would in a densely packed urban center. Even so, the process ...

Surely, smart phones represent the pinnacle of our supremacy as a technologically advanced species. You can make video calls to nearly anywhere in the world from anywhere in the world; use them to navigate almost anywhere in the world; shop online and take a picture of the occasional table and project it into your living room; you can even run a global business all from your pho...

Every day, it appears that the world is simultaneously burning, flooding and tearing itself apart at the seams. Not to be outdone by Mother Nature, we’re doing our damnedest to shred whatever’s left. The case for immediate action may not be clear to everyone, and this is okay. Well, it’s okay until it’s not. Preparedness and prepping are becoming increasingly mainstream, but the...