The Survival Mindset

Many have asked me about my “My New Year’s resolution” and I’m sorry to disappoint but I don’t make My New Year’s resolutions. I try to do the bast that I can regardless of the time of year. But I know many folks make resolutions and some even stick to then past the first week

On vacation in Myrtle Beach, SC. Tonight while my wife and I were walking on a dimly lit beach, we had a man in a hoodie come out of the darkness and approach us. The closest person was approx. 100 yards away. My wife was scared. However, after all the reading of your blog, doing

M.D, I just got back from a week in Brazil (mainly business, with a little bit of time to have some fun). I am attaching an amazing picture I took yesterday at the giant Christ the Redeemer Statue in Rio de Janeiro. I had no idea until hours later what the picture captured. Hopefully you can post

This guest post is by E. Evans and entry in our non-fiction writing contest . Stuff accumulates over time. Through inheritance or hand-me-downs, by impulse shopping or survival preparation, the material possessions we acquire seems to always grow to match available space unless steps are taken to guard against becoming a packrat. An oversupply of things can

This guest post is by Non-psychologist, D.P. KYSER (aka CaptnDave),  and entry in our non-fiction writing contest . Let me preface this article with full disclosure. I am not a Psychiatrist! My background is mostly Naval Aviation (Wings of Gold, baby!), some sales, including owning my own business, running someone else’s much larger business, and lots of leadership

This is a guest post and entry in our non-fiction writing contest  by Susan B I was raised in a family where my father had built a bomb shelter during the cold war days, bay of pig etc next to our home; he was preparing us for a nuclear war. I grew up with Geiger counters, guns

I’ve noticed that at least 90% of those ordering “The Wolf Pack Cookbook” are female, and that’s great, it shows that the ladies are ready and willing to learn and survive. But it looks like most of the men, look at cooking and preparing food as “womans work”. This is a mistake, when it comes to survival we may be

This is a guest post by Chemman [This is an entry in our non-fiction writing contest where you could win a number of prizes including an 84 serving storage bucket of Wise Food Storage, 500 rounds of 9mm ammo, a NukAlert a copy of my book The Dirt Cheap Survival Retreat and a copy of

This is a guest post by Judy W [This is an entry in our non-fiction writing contest where you could win a number of prizes including an 84 serving storage bucket of Wise Food Storage, 500 rounds of 9mm ammo, a NukAlert  a copy of my book The Dirt Cheap Survival Retreat and a copy of my CD

“This is a guest post by Frank B and entry in our non-fiction writing contest – where you could win $100 cash. (This contest ends on June 5 2011 so get busy)” The world after a societal collapse will be difficult to say the least. The so-called “light at the end of the tunnel” (in this life at

I awoke at 3:16 this morning with nearly unbearable pain in my right shoulder and chest, it’s eased off this morning but It’s still there but now more of a dull aching pain followed by sharp stabbing pains in the right side of my chest when I breathe deeply. I’m going to go get it checked

I want to tell you a quick story about a prepper. Like a lot of preppers, this prepper wanted to prepare for disaster and learn needed survival skills. So, he did what any prepper at that time would do – read books, magazines and newsletters related to survival. He soon amassed a huge library of survival books written by guys like Kurt Saxon, Ragnar