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10 Non-Perishable Food Preps You Should Be Buying Every Month

September 17, 2018 Living Life in Rural Iowa Comments 16 comments

New preppers wonder what they should be buying for their preps every month. More experienced preppers wonder what holes they should be plugging in their food storage to be better prepared. We all know we should constantly add and rotate our food storage every month to have a good supply. Since I wrote the 10 Preparedness Items You Should Be Buying Every Month and the Top Ten Items You Need For Your Food Storage, my preparedness mindset has changed slightly. I…

The Prepper’s Yearbook is available for sale!

August 21, 2018 Living Life in Rural Iowa Comments 1 comment

(Updated 4/16/2023 with new links) The Prepper’s Yearbook is available for sale! This is a dream for me as it is the first book I have ever written! I wanted to make prepping as simple as possible for you! As the title suggests, this book will give you five tasks every month to help you be more prepared. You will be able to download this book and print it off to make it easier for you to keep track of…

30 Ways To Deal With Stress in Real Life and in a Crisis

June 18, 2018 Living Life in Rural Iowa Comments 1 comment

In a crisis or a situation, you will be under high levels of stress. It will be unavoidable. You will be worried about what will happen, what has happened, and how you will take care of it all. You need to find ways now to cope with stress so you can better manage it when a situation happens.

20 Must-Have Items For Vehicle Maintenance and Repairs

June 13, 2018 Living Life in Rural Iowa Comments 1 comment

Learning how to maintain and perform simple repairs is a critical skill. Most people at this time do not know how to do this. Unless you take a high school shop class geared towards vehicle care and repair, it is not a skill that is taught. Fathers used to teach it to their sons and daughters so they would know what to do, but that is becoming a lost skill, too.

We Are All Preppers, But Some of Us Don’t Know It Yet

March 20, 2018 Living Life in Rural Iowa Comments 1 comment

Prepping is what it is. Exactly what it is. Prepping is getting ready for the future. We are mentally, physically, and spiritually getting ready for something that is going to happen. Whether that “something” is in an hour, a day, a week, a year, or sometime in the future, we are getting ready for it.

Prepper’s Survival Navigation Book Review

March 14, 2018 Living Life in Rural Iowa Comments 0 Comment

The Prepper’s Survival Navigation: Find Your Way with Map and Compass as Well as Stars, Mountains, Rivers and Other Wilderness Signs by Walter Glen Martin is a great tool to explore the world around you. It is a resource book, a tool, and a great learning book for using maps, compasses, and other ways to find your way around. He also talks about wilderness survival while using these tools.

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