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Is Ignorance Bliss?

December 1, 2010 aptprepper Emergency Preparedness, Preparedness Mindset

While I was away on a recent business trip I met a lot of colleagues from various states. Spending a week sequestered with these folks in conference rooms morning til

Welcome to the new home of The Apartment Prepper’s Blog!

November 25, 2010 aptprepper Apartment Living, Emergency Preparedness, Family Preparedness, Self-Reliance, Self-Sufficiency

Welcome to my new site! This is the self hosted version of The Apartment Prepper, originally found on https://apartmentprepper.wordpress.com/. I am still working on the finishing touches, but I will

What “The Walking Dead” Can Do for You

November 21, 2010 aptprepper Family Preparedness, The Walking Dead

We started watching the new zombie series on AMC called “The Walking Dead” I actually found out about it from reading the Walking Dead post over at TEOTWAWKI website. Please

Survival Food Storage

November 17, 2010 aptprepper Emergency Food Storage, Emergency Preparedness, Food Rotation, Long Term Storage Food, Self-Sufficiency, Storage, Survival Food

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com After shopping around for bulk survival food and storage materials, I am finally ready to start storing. First, I gathered up all my

Items Needed for Storing Survival Food

November 13, 2010 aptprepper Bulk Grains, Emergency Food Storage, Food Storage, Long Term Storage Food, Survival Food

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com I am happy to be back home after being away for a week. Now I can proceed with my bulk food storage plans.

Survival Food Shopping

November 4, 2010 aptprepper Bulk Grains, Emergency Food Storage, Long Term Storage Food, Survival Cookery, Survival Food

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com This month’s project is to store some bulk items such as rice, flour, pinto beans, sugar etc. I was originally hoping to participate

Using Less of Everything – Deodorant Update

November 1, 2010 aptprepper Apartment Living, Avoiding Waste, Frugality, product substitutes

In my last post about using less of everything, I mentioned the next project was trying to use less deodorant. The main purpose to these experiments is to try using

Fitness Reality Check

October 21, 2010 aptprepper Apartment Living, Fitness, Getting in Shape, Safety, Security

Last night my husband was showing me how to handle a rifle. I have had some experience target shooting with a pistol, but this time he wanted to make sure

A Way to Rotate Your Canned Food: Cansolidator Review

October 16, 2010 aptprepper Apartment Living, Avoiding Waste, Emergency Food Storage, Food Rotation, Food Storage

I happily won ModernSurvivalOnline.com’s Cansolidator Giveaway a couple of weeks ago. The item is the Cansolidator “Pantry” which fits 40 cans and is available from Shelf Reliance. I’m not a

Food Prices are Going Up

October 11, 2010 aptprepper Emergency Food Storage, Emergency Preparedness, Food Storage, Preparedness, Self-Sufficiency, Survival

If you are noticing the prices of your usual grocery items are creeping up, you are right. Commodity prices for such items as wheat, corn, coffee, sugar, etc. continue to