aptprepper, Author at Apartment Prepper

Cost-Effective Home Security Measures for Apartments

This is a guest post by Madison Parker. The holiday season is upon us and many apartment dwellers are heading out of town to go spend time with family and friends. Despite the apartment dweller’s best intentions to be as inconspicuous about leaving their home unattended as they think they can, a burglar knows that his odds are much greater that not only will there be nobody home at an apartment during the holidays, but that these domiciles will most […]

A Food Storage Mishap that may Require a Haz Mat Suit

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Several months ago, my friend Em (name has been changed to protect the not so innocent) and I recently got to talking about stocking up on food and she told me she was pretty confident she had enough food stored up. Em has one of those large walk-in pantries that can be filled from floor to ceiling, something alien to us apartment preppers. She is quite preparedness-minded herself; she’d been carrying around a full suitcase of backup clothes for the […]

A Review of Bug Out Vehicles and Shelters

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I finished reading Scott B. Williams’ latest book, Bug Out Vehicles and Shelters. Scott B. Williams is no stranger to the preparedness world: along with writing Bug Out Survival blog, he as previously written Bug Out: The Complete Plan for Escaping a Catastrophic Disaster Before It’s Too Late and Getting Out Alive: 13 Deadly Scenarios and How Others Survived. To be honest with you, prior to reading this book, I had not given bug out vehicles much thought. In the back […]

A Jolt that Shook Things Up

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We had a rain storm a few days ago which caused some flooding and a number of accidents on the roadways. I delayed driving in to work, as I heard on the traffic report that a major freeway was shut down, and even the alternate routes were congested. I was waiting until the storm abated before venturing out. In the meantime, I thought I could get some work done by checking my work email remotely. Just as I logged on, […]

Taste Test: THRIVE Freeze Dried Ground Beef

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Today I am going to review a popular Thrive freeze dried item, the ground beef. Misty Marsh over at Your Own Home Store kindly sent me a sample a while back, but I had not gotten around to posting the result due to work schedules getting in the way. I use a lot of ground beef chuck in my everyday cooking, as it is less expensive than steak and can be used in a variety of menu items: tacos, burritos, […]

Feast or Famine

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After all the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales activity, it seems there was a lot of optimism about people being willing to open their pocketbooks and spend their money. There was such a frenzy of crazed shopping, akin to “running of the bulls” that mobs were running rampant and people got hurt trying snag “hot deals.” In the next day or so, the media was joyfully reporting that sales records were topped as a record number of shoppers opened […]

Food for Thought from Selco Who Lived Through SHTF

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This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com A couple of weeks ago, I recommended the link to SHTF Survival Q&A: A First-Hand Account of Long-Term SHTF Survival. I was fascinated by the first hand account by Selco, a man who lived through a SHTF scenario during the Bosnia collapse in 1992. He described what it was like to live for a year in a city with no infrastructure: no running water or sewer, trash pickup, no electricity; no food available, […]

Shoppers Turning into Savages over a Sale

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This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com It seems that every Black Friday there is some incident that leaves me wondering how people can go wild and out of control over store sales. The latest craziness happened in Los Angeles when a woman sprayed pepper spray at other shoppers so she can snag the sale items. The scene described in the article indicates that people were already pushing and shoving even before the pepper spray occurred. They were tearing off […]

This Home Remedy Helped Me Prevent a Cold

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These past few days have been very busy and stressful. Two nights ago, I was feeling run down and had a sore throat. I felt I was catching a cold. I cannot afford to catch a cold and miss work, not to mention Thanksgiving. My brother had been telling me he avoided a cold by drinking two tablespoons of Bragg’s organic apple cider vinegar in a cup of water. When I first heard about it, I told him no way I’d drink is, it would be too nasty to hold down. Well this time I was motivated to try it. I did not have Bragg’s brand apple cider vinegar, but I did have a store brand apple cider vinegar. […]

No Need to Run to the Store: Make your Own Yogurt

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This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com I made yogurt in the crockpot and I am here to tell you how easy it is to make your own yogurt. What you’ll need 1/2 gallon of milk (I used Borden’s Whole Milk, but you can use any brand) 1/2 cup of plain yogurt, any brand (I used Oikos Greek style yogurt since I like Greek style yogurt and it was on sale for $1 at Walmart, but you don’t have to) […]