Family Preparedness Lessons Learned
What we are doing this Spring
What we are doing this Spring
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Announcement Events
Instructables Paracord Contest
One of our favorite DIY sites, <a href="http://www.instructables.com">Instructables.com</a> is hosting a Paracord Contest. The grand prize is a Leatherman with a custom laser etched message of your choice. Paracord is one of the best gotta-have-some-with-you preparedness items. The inner strands can be used for fishing line while the outer shell on its own provides a strong shell for wrapping or weaving other objects. Really, the possibilities are endless.
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Family Preparedness Seasonal Preparedness
Wrapping Up, With Blankets
As snowflakes begin to frequently drift down, my wife began her odd seasonal transformation from warm, to cold-blooded being. I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with this process, but it is the true mark of seasonal change around my home. Appendages seem to have ice permanently on them, and thus have an odd habit of always finding their way to me, which is cause to no small amount of distress.
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Equipment Food Storage
Country Living Mill Group Buy
<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2857" title="country living mill" src="/images/uploads/2009/11/country-living-mill.jpg" alt="country living mill" width="196" height="247" />You all know why you need a wheat grinder. There's only so much you can do with all the wheat in your long term storage if you can't grind it into flour. So just in time for the holidays we've got a special buy on the Country Living Grain Mill. This is a hand crank grain mill that is built in the USA of industrial grade components and has a lifetime warranty. It is relatively easy to crank as far as hand grain mills go. My small kids can grind flour with it. You can check out my full review, and see videos of the mill in action on <a href="http://selfrelianceadventures.blogspot.com/2009/04/country-living-grain-mill-review-sale.html" target="_blank">my blog post here.</a><!--more-->
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Equipment Guns
Product First Look - PolyFarm MonoVault
Product First Look - PolyFarm MonoVault
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TEOTWAWKI Survival
Making Better Char Cloth
When starting a flint and steel or striker type of fire, char cloth makes all the difference in being able to actually get the fire started or just making a bunch of sparks that never catch anything on fire. Char cloth (sometimes also called charred cloth) is one of those amazing mountain man items that is still very useful today. Char cloth is pieces of blackened fabric that easily catch a spark and burn similarly to the way steel wool burns--no big flame, but a nice ember burn that doesn't blow out once it's lit. The spark lights the char cloth and the char cloth is used to light the other tinder. I've been wanting to add char cloth to my fire kits and having used all my char cloth made by others, I decided to make a batch of my own.
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Events Personal Preparedness
Some First-Aid Kit Examples
<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1397" title="firstaidkits" src="/images/uploads/2009/02/firstaidkits.jpg" alt="firstaidkits" width="280" height="153" />First-Aid Kits are kind of a funny prepper item - there are SO many that you can just go buy that it doesn't seem like a big deal. Yet, countless people I know barely have a box of band-aids in their home. Those who do go purchase a pre-made First-Aid Kit don't typically pay much attention to it - it's crossed of their 'list'. But day to day use of the only medical supplies in the house means that after a year or so the First-Aid Kit is severely depleted and nobody notices until there's a need for it.
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TEOTWAWKI Survival
Tax Refund Preparedness
We are coming to the time of the year that has become the second Xmas for many Americans. And I purposely chose to write xmas because it has nothing to do with the real Christmas we should have celebrated so recently. What I'm talking about is the look people get in their eyes as they get some portion of their taxes back from government. To many people this is the only surplus of cash they will see during the whole year, and our business world thrives on the swing in spending this influx of cash creates.
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Food Storage Personal Preparedness
Learning From the Pioneers
<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1319 scissors-resample" title="1844_1877_1" src="/images/uploads/2009/02/1844_1877_1.jpg" alt="1844_1877_1" width="304" height="211" />Many know that Utah was originally settled by Mormon Pioneers, I'm a descendant of those pioneers from 8 different family lines on my Mother's side. The Mormon Pioneers crossed the plains from Missouri to Utah in covered wagons, handcarts and many on foot. Most of them buried family and loved ones under a pile of rocks on their way here. It was a harrowing experience the like of which will hopefully never be repeated.
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Alerts
Flash Alert: Clearance Sale at OutNBack
Out-N-Back in Orem will be having a huge 1 day clearance sale THIS Saturday!
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