With Dussehra and Diwali around the corner, it’s time to give your home a festive makeover! Traditionally, the days leading up to these festivals are the time to de-clutter the…
One of the mistakes we make preparing for shortages is assuming the valuable things will always be the obvious things. Food, fuel, medicine, ammunition. Those deserve attention. But history has…
We have spent generations trying to take the bitterness out of food. We sweeten grapefruit. We tame salad greens. We breed vegetables milder every decade. We pull dandelions out of…
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Every fall I move a few things out of the garage before the first hard freeze. Not because I am worried about the cold itself, but because of what the…
Most people think a water emergency begins when the faucet stops working. I think the more dangerous situation is the one where the faucet still works. The water looks normal.…
I have a habit I am not proud of. I buy backup electronics for a grid-down emergency, then leave them on a shelf completely exposed to the same event I…
If a major EMP knocked out large parts of the electrical grid tomorrow morning, most Americans would notice within seconds. The lights would go out. Internet service could disappear, card…
There is a particular kind of household chaos that starts the moment somebody wakes up with a fever. Nobody can find the thermometer. The children’s medicine expired six months ago,…
