Financial Preparedness - Apartment Prepper

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

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

Surviving an Economic Collapse – Advice from Mark Goodwin, Author of The Economic Collapse Chronicles

March 4, 2014 aptprepper Apartment Living, Blog contest, Book Review, Emergency Preparedness, Financial Preparedness, Prepper fiction, Survival Fiction

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com Mark Goodwin, who runs Prepper Recon has written two books in The Economic Collapse Chronicles: American Exit Strategy and the recently released American

Spooked about What Happened in Cyprus?

April 1, 2013 aptprepper Bank Worries, Emergency Preparedness, Financial Preparedness

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com Everyday we hear about the banking developments in Cyprus, where bank holidays were declared and a “tax” on deposits is being instituted. Depositors

The Emergency Cash Stash

October 23, 2011 aptprepper Apartment Living, Family Preparedness, Financial Preparedness

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com We were going over the budget not too long ago and trying to find yet more ways to cut back on expenses. At

Should You Prep while Deep in Debt?

August 14, 2011 aptprepper Beginner prepping, Financial Preparedness

According to creditcards.com, the average credit card debt per household that hold credit card debt is $15,799 for 2011. This number does not include households that are credit card debt

Solar Battery Charger Test that Failed

May 26, 2011 aptprepper Preparedness, Survival Gear, Testing your Gear, Uncategorized

A couple of days ago I was all excited to test a new solar battery charger we had purchased. Per instructions I loaded it with four rechargeable batteries I had

Find Extra Cash by Reviewing Your Bills

March 17, 2011 aptprepper Financial Preparedness

We want to add to our preparedness fund, but the budget is tight. So we are reviewing every bill to see if we can either lower or eliminate them altogether.