50 Important Homesteading Skills and Tips (With Links)
We all know that skills are critical to survival and more. As preppers, we know that skills will make or break us. As homesteaders, without skills, you will fail on your homestead.
Ten Ideas For Christmas Shopping With A Self-Reliant Prepper Perspective
Christmas is coming around the corner. To say that I find Christmas shopping painful would be an understatement. However, I have a few tips and tricks to buy presents that fit into my values and beliefs without sacrificing my pocketbook. I have a budget for everyone on my list and they are well aware of it. I almost never buy toys that are electric, take batteries, or need electricity to operate them. My kids figured this out years ago and…
How To Incorporate Meal Planning Into Your Food Storage (Free Meal Planning Printable Included!)
Updated 5/17/2025 When you first start prepping, one of the first things that most new preppers tackle is their food storage. Whether you start out buying a lot of food at once, add a little bit at a time, and/or preserve everything you can, you stockpile food. While that is a good thing to do, you have a lot of food in storage after a while. You now have a new problem. You may be a little lost as to…
How Well Do You Deal With Stress?
Updated 3/24/2026 Let me preface this by saying that I have had a week from hell this last week. I have been under a lot of stress in the last year or so, but this last week took the cake. Hopefully, tomorrow’s blog post will give you more insight into what happened, how I handled it, and what you should know about medical prepping. The word “medical” is a stressor for most people. I am not exempt from it either….
How to Prepare With Propane
Updated 9/18/25 Many preppers have some fuel as part of their short-term and long-term preps. For many short-term situations and crises, fuel can be a valuable addition to your preps. A fuel like propane can last longer than other refined fuels due to its nature of being used as a vapor in some applications and a liquid in different applications. I deal with propane every day. I work for an agricultural cooperative, but my primary responsibility is dealing with propane…
16 Reusable Practical Items You Should Always Have In Your Home and In Your Preps
Being a prepper and being way more interested in self-reliance, I have become a lot more interested in items that can be reused time and time again. I would not have bought most of these things fifteen years ago, but now? I couldn’t imagine life without them.These things I think are important for home and possibly your survival. They are things that should stand the test of time, but we all know that can’t always be true. You should be…