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To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug-out bag fine-tuning, and food storage. This is something akin to our Retreat Owner Profiles, but written incrementally and in detail, throughout the year.  We always welcome you to share your own successes and wisdom in your e-mailed letters. We post many of those — or excerpts thereof — in the Odds…

Last weekend, I was performing my periodic battery survey, assessment and replacement ritual. I have a list of (I had thought) every battery device, and its location, along with a hidey-hole for the batteries to replace those that require them. This list, in the summer 2025 edition, runs 3 pages of 14 point type. On my yearly planner, it is slated for January. (Yes, I am aware that this is September. Let us consider the gulf between plans, and actions, shall we?) As it developed, as I was working my way through each page, I would pass one shelf in…

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On September 27, 1908, Henry Ford‘s first production Ford Model T automobile left the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan. Mass production soon followed. — And on September 27,1936, the Netherlands left the Gold Standard and devalued the Dutch Guilder. — Today, we present a short guest piece by long-time SurvivalBlog reader and fellow blogger Reltney McFee. It first appeared in his entertaining but sporadically-posted blog: Musings of A Stretcher Ape. — Just a few days left!  We are in need of entries for Round 120 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. More than $960,000 worth of prizes have been awarded…

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