Emergency Preparedness - Apartment Prepper

Money Mondays: How to Find Extra Cash from Bills

January 18, 2016 aptprepper Emergency Preparedness, Money, Saving money

We want to add to our preparedness fund, but the budget is tight.

I mentioned in an earlier post we cancelled cable and found several free or lower cost alternatives. It’s been a couple of years and we do not miss it at all. I actually wish we had done it sooner.

Now we are reviewing every bill line by line to see if we can either lower them even more.

Situational Awareness Exercises

January 15, 2016 aptprepper Emergency Preparedness, Survival Mindset

Written by Cory Hinton This article first appeared in Survive The Wild Something Doesn’t Feel Right We’ve all had that nagging feeling that something just doesn’t “feel right” in situations,

Lowa Men’s Renegade GTX Hiking Boot Review

January 13, 2016 aptprepper Emergency Preparedness, Gear Review

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com Produced in collaboration with SoleLabz.com, where James and colleagues review trail and tactical footwear. A few words about LOWA (the company) Being

Money Mondays: How to Save Money with You Tube

January 11, 2016 aptprepper Emergency Preparedness, Financial Preparedness, Saving money

In the last month or so, I have found You Tube to be a great resource that has helped our family save money. We started looking at videos to help me do things ourselves, rather than pay someone else to do it.
Here are ways I save money with You Tube:

Lifestack Storage Containers Review

January 8, 2016 aptprepper Apartment Living, Emergency Preparedness, Reviews, Storage

When I first heard about Lifestack Storage Containers I was immediately interested on how they would work. Living in an apartment presents challenges for water and food storage due

20 Popular Prepper Articles of 2015

January 2, 2016 aptprepper Emergency Preparedness

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com I was reviewing my blog statistics for the previous year to see how the blog performed: traffic, demographics, past articles etc. I’d

Lights Out by Ted Koppel – Review

December 28, 2015 aptprepper Book Review, Emergency Preparedness, Power failure

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com Today we are featuring Lights Out by Ted Koppel (not to confused with the fiction book Lights Out by David Crawford). The book

What You Can Do to Prepare in this Slow Economy

December 26, 2015 aptprepper Budget Prepping, Emergency Preparedness, Financial Preparedness, Money

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com In spite of all the happy talk in the news media about positive economic growth, I feel the economy has not improved

Monday Musings 12/21/2015: How do You Know Where Your Meat Came From?

December 21, 2015 aptprepper Emergency Preparedness

How do You Know Where Your Meat Came From? Meat labels will no longer show where your grocery meat came from.

The Most Likely Threat No One Talks About

December 18, 2015 aptprepper Emergency Preparedness, Fire safety

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com A few days ago, the local news reported a massive fire in one of the apartment complexes in Houston. Two buildings, housing 36