All About the Panic-Free Lifestyle of Self-Sufficient Living

We started prepping in 1967 when our children were small and so was the pay packet. Our start was a vegetable garden that grew in size as our children grew, and  fruit trees, bushes and plants to provide fresh fruit Read more…

When I was young my parents were in the military.  I remember the movers coming and would roll their eyes!!  They had to wrap every single jar my Mom had canned.  When we came home my Great Grandma and my Read more…

My mother was brought up during the depression, so with 5 brothers and 3 sisters, I was brought up to pinch and save also.  We did not have a bathroom till I was 6 or 7 years old.  We had Read more…

Seven years ago my husband and I moved to the Big Island of Hawaii. We had both spent the majority  of our lives on the mainland and were used to the convenience of living there.  One day, I went down Read more…

From Nordstrom’s shopping addict to a Prepper addict? What do you get with a young and vain generation that has had the major part of society telling them there self worth comes from how they look or appear to others? You get a Read more…

Hello prepper community! I just want to put my two cents worth in because I feel that this is such a worthy subject that leads to a total lifestyle change.   My husband and I have been prepping for sometime Read more…

My family and friends call it my obsession. I call it my passion. What it really is is part of our everyday prepping. It’s been almost 50 years now since I first started knitting and sewing. At first it was Read more…

Since May of 2011 I have thrown away several no longer needed prescription drugs, and I have lost 40 pounds, because of things I learned and practiced while prepping. I learned a lot of great stuff from Kellene. I learned Read more…

Things growing wild in my garden: Purslane (an edible weed); calendula (used to make an ointment for minor skin ailments), and raspberries (just yummy). Prepping for hard times is nothing new. Like a lot of people who live paycheck to Read more…

TEOTWAWKI??? I call it  preparing for lifes curveballs When I was a child living in Oakland, California, my daddy was a truck driver.  The Longshoremen went on strike in the mid 70’s.  Since my Daddy hauled off the docks he could Read more…