Wants vs Needs As the war in Ukraine ramped up, I was researching survival ordeals and one trend that I noticed, was that it was not uncommon, due to widespread power outages, for a young person to leave home in search of a place to charge their smartphone, only to never to be seen again. […]

In this line of work, I have had the pleasure of reading many books on why some people survive while others do not and researched thousands of survival ordeals to the answer that same question. Why People Survive If you add up the attributes of survivors described in the several books on why some people […]

I’ve tested a handful of water filters over the past few years. Pitchers, pump filters, inline hose setups, even improvised gravity rigs using food-grade buckets. Some were decent. Some were a waste of money. The Good Prepper Lifeline Flow 2.25 is the first one I’ve owned that feels like it was built with long-term resilience […]

Before the age of urgent care clinics, antibiotic prescriptions, and over-the-counter pain relievers, fellow humans were dealing with a lot of health problems. However, the most urgent conditions they had to deal with were gaping wounds, festering infections, broken bones, and agonizing pain. They had to cure those with nothing more than what the land […]

I’ll be honest. I did not buy Mushroom MD because I’m into trends or ancient secrets. I bought it because I do not like depending entirely on systems I can’t control. Over the past few years, I’ve watched supply chains stall, pharmacy shelves thin out, and prices climb. It made me rethink something simple: if […]