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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

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

Jake and Miller’s Big Adventure is Out!

May 2, 2014 aptprepper Prepping for kids

I’m excited to announce that my new book, Jake and Miller’s Big Adventure: A Prepper’s Book for Kids has been released! It is now available on Amazon or Barnes and

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.

Downsize Before You Have To

April 16, 2014 aptprepper Emergency Preparedness, Financial Preparedness, Frugality, Money, Preparedness, Saving money

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com I don’t know about you but my finances have been feeling the pinch lately. I’m not even talking about all the dire economic

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

Avoid Boring Survival Food: Include Spices and Seasonings in Food Storage

March 22, 2014 aptprepper Apartment Living, Beginner prepping, Emergency Preparedness, Food Storage, Spices and Seasonings for Long Term Storage

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com Once you’ve stored at least a couple of weeks worth of food and water, you’ll want to store a few of your favorite

Where to Hide Valuables in an Apartment

March 20, 2014 aptprepper Apartment Living, Apartment Prepper, Apartment Prepping, Apartment Security, Emergency Preparedness, Safety, Security

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com Recently, one of our awesome readers, Sara, brought up a great question: I was wondering if you could advise me for a

Will You Need Companions During a Collapse?

March 15, 2014 aptprepper Apartment Living, Beginner prepping, Disaster Preparedness, Emergency Preparedness, Survival

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com A few months ago we traveled with another family to enjoy the snow for a few days. Each family took their own vehicle.