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Fire Roasted Vegetables for Food Storage

July 21, 2014 aptprepper Apartment Living, Beginner prepping, Emergency Preparedness, Food Storage, Freeze dried food, Reviews

I had the opportunity to test out the new Mountain House Fire Roasted Vegetables.

10 Biggest Bug Out Bag Mistakes

June 6, 2014 aptprepper Apartment Living, Backpacking, Beginner prepping, Bug Out Bag, Bugging Out, Emergency Preparedness, Survival

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com When I started being interested in preparedness, I read everything I could in books and blogs to find out what I need to

Even your TV can Spy on You

May 28, 2014 aptprepper Apartment Living, Emergency Preparedness, Online Safety, Privacy issues, Safety, Security

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com It’s bad enough that our smart phone can track us, but I found out something even more creepy than that: your TV can

What’s Your Threat: Economic Downturn

May 23, 2014 aptprepper Apartment Living, Beginner prepping, Budget Prepping, Emergency Preparedness, Financial Preparedness

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com When I started my preparedness journey, I was mainly concerned about preparing for the next hurricane, but as time went on, I felt

Get Rid of Cable = Save Money for Preps

May 21, 2014 aptprepper Apartment Living, Emergency Preparedness, Financial Preparedness, Frugality, Money, Saving money

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com Today we returned the cable boxes and unhooked ourselves from Comcast cable. It all started out when we moved to a smaller unit

What To Do If You Cannot Grow A Garden

May 10, 2014 aptprepper Apartment Living, Emergency Preparedness, gardening in small spaces, gardening in the city

This post originally appeared in The Rural Economist I am blessed, because nearly everyday I come in contact with someone who tells me they’re starting their first garden ever. But

Dog Attacks are Common in Cities: How to Protect Yourself

May 7, 2014 aptprepper Apartment Living, Avoid a dog attack, Emergency Preparedness, Urban living, Urban survival

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com Now that the weather is getting warmer, a lot more people are running or walking outdoors. We hear about at least one case

How an Average Person can Prepare for a Pandemic

April 23, 2014 aptprepper Apartment Living, Emergency Preparedness, Health Risks, Protect your Health, Wellness

I’ve been seeing several news reports of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and got to thinking about pandemics in general. Lots of people fear a global pandemic. If you had to rank a list of super scary threats, pandemic would be pretty high on the list. We’ve all seen movies like Contagion, which is scary enough. We also associate pandemic with nightmarish throngs of zombie like disease ridden creatures. But let’s pull back to reality and get some sense of what is a pandemic and whether they can happen.

Find Cheap Emergency Lighting Before the Next Power Failure

April 9, 2014 aptprepper Apartment Living, Emergency Preparedness, Power failure, Power Outage supplies, Preparedness, Saving money

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com A couple of weeks ago, the main energy provider for the city had two transformers blow up and over 13,000 residents in one

Using Four Year Old Rice

April 5, 2014 aptprepper Apartment Living, Emergency Preparedness, Five Gallon Buckets, Food Rotation, Food Storage, Food Storage Tracking

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com We are rotating the first batch of rice we stored away and replacing it with the new batch. I bought the rice back