Dear Backdoor Survival Readers, At this point, the Coronavirus has been one of the main topics among preppers for more than a week. This situation is strange due to the…
Disclaimer: with this title, I don´t mean to subject our beloved offspring to a USMC training camp. Not at all. I know a couple of girls who are so thought…
Over the last few years of writing about prepping, survival, and current events it has come to my attention that a lot of people immediately think violence is the answer….
This is an extensive topic. I´ve asked constantly about it all these years after we left (it seems to have been many years ago ☹ ) I´ve been abroad to…
The reality of privacy is that there is very little, especially online privacy. I have been finding myself more angry with people promising internet security and privacy in the modern…
Since I begin to invest (I always say I´m not a prepper, but a smart, retail long term investor) in some useful gear, one of my concerns has been to…
Here recently I have found myself getting more annoyed at some of the preparedness myths and downright lies I see being perpetuated by media, movies, and some fellow preppers that…
Scavenging is something that comes up a lot in discussions about what people will need to do to survive. I want to start off by addressing something that I know…
Sometimes I get asked what major event I think I am the least prepared for and the one that comes to mind is a nuclear incident. It is just one…
One of the big prepper scenarios discussed over and over again is the concept of a horde of people coming out of the cities in the event of a long…
Good times and bad times come and go. There is a hidden lesson, behind everything that occurs to us. In my life, lessons may have been few, but very powerful….
This is a sad topic for me to write about. Nevertheless, I’ll do my best to profile how children respond, and what I´ve been experiencing with my own children. One…
There are so many small house plans and kits to choose from but they are not all equal. In this article, I am going to explore some of the options…
While I spent most of my years in the rolling valleys and sprawling city of Southeastern Pennsylvania, this massive state with a radical diversity of lifestyle and population is an…
There are plenty of writings about how a collapse “should” be, or “should look like”, filled up to the top with all kinds of suggestions, “tips”, warnings and precautions that…
The state of Virginia is a natural beauty that is filled with some of the most incredible history of early America, the Revolution and Civil War. Few states can take…