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Suburban Survivalist
http://www.suburbansurvivalist.net/blog
Our goal is to provide vital information, key knowledge, and vital tools necessary to make proper plans for surviving as many possible future scenarios as possible. Instead of focusing on paticular future events that may occur, the focus is on general and specific practices that can be integrated into a current lifestyle to provide better odds of surviving hard times at a future date.
This site will refrain from presenting current news, updates or information about current events as warnings to what may happen. Instead the focus will be on preparing for what ever may come.
Recent Posts
Old Boxes of Tuna Helper
We are trying experiments on older foods, and reporting results. We made two batches of “Creamy Pasta Tuna Helper” by Betty Crocker. Both boxes are expired, and were purchased from the local grocery store with plenty of shelf life l...
Closed Schools in a Pandemic
In the swine flu scare during April of 2009, hundreds of schools across America were shut down for approximately two weeks when the first student became infected with the swine flu. It would be wise to have a stock of games, activities, or other ...
Latex Gloves
Latex Gloves are a very cheap but useful prep item. A box of 50 costs about $5 and will last (sealed) for a decade or longer. Often thought of as useful in first aid, they can also be used to pick up dead animals, while cleaning up fecal matter, wo...
Years to Grow a Garden
There are many headlines in the news about saving money by having a back yard garden. Fox News even recently had a story where investing $100 into gardening would produce $1700 worth of vegetables. This can be horribly misleading, as it ignores the...
Morse Code
Find a printable copy of Morse code, and print it out, and keep it with the survival supplies. It would be better to learn Morse code, so it can easily be used in an emergency, but without practice the skill will not be retained. Using Morse code t...
Time Eats Money
In reading the SurvivalBlog.com, there was a posting of a simple of brilliant truth: “Time Eats Money.” Time Eats Money, should be considered the first and more important rule of investing / financial survivalism. The concept is that c...

