DIY Human Powered Washing Machine
If your town has a power outage, you’ll need to a way to wash clothes. You can buy a powerless washing machine, but it’s a lot cheaper to make your own.
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9 Easy Steps to Make Your Own Charcoal
If you’re living through a disaster, you can’t just run to the store for charcoal. You’ll need to make your own. Fortunately, it’s not that hard to make.
How to Charge Your Phone With a 9 Volt Battery
Here’s a great tip that could come in handy. This video explains how to charge a cell phone with a car charger, a house key, and a 9 volt battery.
Step by Step How to Make an Emergency Tin Can Stove
Not only are tin can stoves an awesome way to repurpose some tin cans, they’re an exercise in inventiveness and creativity.
How to Make Emergency Candles
Candle making is a skill. Once you know the basics and how things work, you can create as many emergency candles as you want with just a few materials.
Make a Faraday Cage For Just a Few Dollars
There are many potential disasters to prepare for, but perhaps the one that deserves the most preparation is an EMP (electromagnetic pulse).
Make an Altoids Mini iPhone Charger
This is really cool. Bugout Channel made a video tutorial explaining how to make a portable phone charger with just a few things. Watch it here.
How to Make Green Tea Lavender Soap
Soap making is not as hard as you think. Although it might sound complicated, it’s a skill our ancestors took for granted.
Convert a Junk TV Into a 2000ºF Solar Cooker
Rear projection TVs have several useful items inside, but the best one is the large Fresnel lens, which is basically a giant magnifying glass.
11 Ordinary Things You Can Turn Into Candles
Candles are the easiest lights to synthesize in an emergency situation. Some of them even double for cooking and heating purposes.
