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Okay, so you’ve decided to be a prepper. You’re starting to stockpile food, water and other supplies; you’re learning a bit about survival and you’re even putting some equipment together. Everything is going along fine. But what happens is a disaster hits before you can get ready? Chances are, no matter how ready you are for a disaster, you’re never going to feel ready enough. There’s always some other piece of equipment you need, some other modification to your home, some new gadget that’s caught your eye. Then there’s the need for more food and water; no matter how much you have,...

When it comes to prepping, food is usually number one. Most people start out by stockpiling food and are usually still stockpiling food when they get done doing everything else. Between the cost of the food itself and the vast quantity that you really need for surviving a long-term disaster, it seems like no matter how much you have, it's still not enough. The problem is, paying for all that food can be a bit difficult. Food prices have been on the rise, at a time when salaries aren't. That just makes it harder to stockpile enough food. Some get...

American society today is highly mobile. Few of us work close to our homes, so we are constantly running from one place to another, burning gasoline and putting miles on our cars. According to the National Auto Insurer’s Association, this is on the increase, with the average American driving twice as many miles per year as they did 30 years ago. With so much time in our cars and trucks and so much of that time being a ways away from our homes, it only seems logical to make sure that our vehicles are prepared to help us survive; yet few...

Modern life is complicated. We rely on a vast network of other people, who provide us goods and services that we can’t produce ourselves. This has made modern life much more comfortable, with conveniences that our ancestors didn’t even dream of. Yet, everything has its price, and the price of such comfort and convenience is dependency on that vast network of other people. Anything as complicated as our modern infrastructure is bound to have problems and failures. We see this happen from time to time, with loss of internet service, roads shut down by storms and even toxic chemicals being...

Obviously a significant part of prepping is taking the necessary action to become prepared for a disaster. This includes stockpiling plenty of food and water, learning how to become self-sustainable, having outlined several disaster plans for different scenarios, and becoming trained in the art of self-defense, first aid, and foraging for food. But there’s one more aspect of prepping that you might have overlooked, even if you’ve done or are in the process of doing each of the things that we’ve outlined above, and that is having the right mentality to survive. The reason why survival mentality is so important is...