Emergency preparedness - Apartment Prepper

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

Do Homemade Waterproof Matches Work?

April 30, 2014 aptprepper DIY, Emergency Preparedness, Prepper Hacks, Survival Gear

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com I’ve seen instructions in various survival sites regarding waterproofing matches. Recently, I saw a link on Survival Blog on the same topic with

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

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

Tinctures, Salves, Poultices and More

April 4, 2014 aptprepper Book Review, Home Remedies, Reviews

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com I have not given much thought to tinctures, salves and poultices until I read the e-book Home Remedies by Alex Smith. We will

Hydroponics – A Small Garden with Big Benefits

March 26, 2014 aptprepper Apartment Living, Balcony Garden, Emergency Preparedness, Hydroponics, Self-Reliance, Self-Sufficiency

(Editor’s note: Today’s post is about a subject that interests me greatly: hydroponics, because it works well in small spaces. The post is written by Chris Wimmer, who writes at

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