Pest Control Without the Pesticide: How to Battle Bugs in a Grid-Down World Because roaches don’t care if the power’s out—so here’s how to outwit the little creeps with natural, clever tricks. Picture it: It’s Read more…
It’s 2 a.m. The raccoons are fighting in the backyard like it’s Fight Club for trash pandas. You’re staring at the ceiling, mentally reorganizing your food storage by expiration date, debating if powdered eggs are Read more…
Next-Level Shepherd’s Pie (a.k.a. “The Can-Do Comfort Casserole”) Some nights call for culinary acrobatics; others beg for a spoonful of self-reliance straight from the pantry. This dish is for the latter—when you want the warm Read more…
The Gospel of Two Cans: A Simple (and Saner) Way to Start Food PreparednessBuy 2. Store 1. Save your sanity. I’m not saying it’s in the Bible, but I am saying that if loaves and Read more…
Confessions of a Woman Who Stores Pinto Beans in Her Ottoman(And Other Tales of Functional Furniture and Food Security) Look, I didn’t mean to become the kind of woman who stores pinto beans in her Read more…
If minimalism is all about “less is more,” then I humbly submit that preparedness is about “more is less stressful.” Less frantic store runs. Less panic buying. Less drama when your kid wakes up at Read more…
You know what’s more terrifying than a natural disaster?A grown man who can’t sit still for five minutes without a screen, snack, or sarcastic comment. (And yes, Steve, I’m looking at you.) We live in Read more…
Let’s talk about fire-starting—the good kind. Not the “my ex showed up with closure and gasoline” kind. I’m talking about the kind of fire you need when the power’s out, the s’mores are waiting, or Read more…
Let me start by saying: if my bug-out bag ever spilled open in the middle of a crisis, bystanders wouldn’t be inspired—they’d be deeply confused. Picture it now: a half-used tube of glittery unicorn toothpaste, Read more…
Let’s be honest: if Diatomaceous Earth were a person, it’d be that unassuming friend who shows up in hiking boots, knows five languages, brews their own kombucha, and can field-dress a deer and a wound. Read more…
The survival scriptures, duct-taped directly to your bug-out bag. If Ron Swanson and a HAM radio had a baby—raised exclusively on SPAM, conspiracy documentaries, and YouTube canning videos—it’d be Steve. Steve is your friendly neighborhood Read more…
Independence Day. The one day of the year when Americans proudly drape their houses (and sometimes their pets) in flags, fire up the grill like it’s an Olympic sport, and legally blow things up in Read more…