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12 Preps You Can Do For National Preparedness Month 2016

September 7, 2016June 23, 2024 James Burnette 4 Comments

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12 Preps You Can Do For National Preparedness Month 2016

Are you ready for National Preparedness Month 2016? I feel like this should be read by a Monster Truck commercial guy. You know the ones where they repeat the day like three times. National Preparedness Month 2016 is coming to your arena this SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!!

That’s how I feel about it anyway. While we should prepare all the time. But September is special. Sure it’s great that the government actually gives reasonable recommendations on their Ready.gov Site. And even though I am very libertarian leaning. To the point of anarchy. I will admit when they do something I like. Telling Americans to get a kit and make a plan is worthy of a crisp high five.

For us preppers, though this is like a month long holiday. It is OUR month! It gives me the fizzies in my stomach. I love it. Since it is so important of a month I like to use it as a time marker. What I mean by that is I schedule certain things periodically. Things like checking your food

Things like checking your food preps for expiration dates. I like to check the dates twice a year. Fall and Spring. So for the fall one, I will plan it during National Preparedness Month. I won’t even go into the expiration date myth. I mostly check for physical signs of damage or swelling of the cans.

We Cover all that and Much more!

What do you do for National Preparedness Month? Let me know in the comments!

How To Build A Free Alcohol Stove Fast And Easily

September 6, 2016September 6, 2016 James Burnette 3 Comments

How To Build A Free Alcohol Stove Fast And Easily

Today I have a video on How To Build A Free Alcohol Stove Fast And Easily. I have built several of these homemade alcohol stoves in the past. Before I followed instructions with measurements. Mostly followed. I improvise and make things up as I go. Today I wanted to show you how fast and easy you can build an effective alcohol stove.

How Should You Store Your Magazines? Best Practices Infographic

September 5, 2016June 23, 2024 James Burnette

How Should You Store Your Magazines

Years ago I wrote about How Should You Store Your Magazines? In it, I debated whether storing loaded or unloaded was best. Three years later I have not changed my stance on that debate. When I’m asked, “should I keep my AR Mags loaded?” I answer Yes. Then I go on to explain the nuances. I felt like it was time to freshen up that article with a new presentation. Same info. Now that It has been turned into an infographic even a caveman can understand it.

Being Ready Vs. Spring Failure

The magazine storage debate stems from being ready vs spring failure. If you took the possibility of magazine failure off the table everyone would load all their magazines and store them loaded. How should you store your magazines would be a nonissue.

Having magazines loaded means that you are ready to use them in an instant. Even using stripper clips it’s still going to take you precious time to load just one magazine. Do you really want to be dicking around stuffing in ammo during an emergency?

The other side of the argument is spring failure. Metal under tension will weaken over time. So It is possible that if you left your magazines loaded over a long time you could have spring failure. And I’m sure someone will chime in with their mother’s, brother’s, sister’s, cousin’s, auntie’s, Uncle Barney’s, father’s, brother had a cousin from Killarney that left their magazines loaded and the spring went bad. Yes, it could happen. But it probably won’t.

The solution you’ll see explained in the How Should You Store Your Magazines Infographic. Enjoy and share with all your buddies so you can start arguments on the best way to store magazines.

How To Make Foolproof Chocolate Peanut Butter Keto Fat Bombs

September 2, 2016June 23, 2024 James Burnette 22 Comments

How To Make Foolproof Chocolate Peanut Butter Keto Fat Bombs

These Foolproof Chocolate Peanut Butter Keto Fat Bombs are amazing. I tried to make fat bombs once before. I used coconut oil and sugar-free hazelnut coffee flavoring. They were an abomination. The hazelnut flavor globed up in little bubbles. So not every bite had any sweetness. They were too hard to eat. It was a total failure. That’s why I have never made them again. Not even these ones. Nope, My girlfriend Serenity made these.

She said it was super easy and wrote down her recipe. So easy even a caveman like me could do make them. Little did she know I would take her hand written recipe and make it into a blog post. She’s probably turning red right now reading this.
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7 Hacks for Homesteading with Almost No Money

September 1, 2016September 1, 2016 James Burnette 4 Comments

7 Hacks for Homesteading with Almost No Money

You may be familiar with the word homesteading but may not be quite sure what it means. Homesteading is all about living a self-sufficient lifestyle. It is about being more reliant on the earth and nature, using less energy, recycling, growing your own vegetables, perhaps raising chickens and living off the grid. With these 7 Hacks for Homesteading with Almost No Money you wont have to spend a fortune.