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66 Items You Should Stop Buying and Start Making

Learn how to make common household items yourself—from food to cleaners and hygiene products. Save money and boost your self-reliance.

Learn how to scavenge for food, medicine, and other supplies after a societal collapse. Here’s how to do it as safely as possible.

If the end of the world as we know it happens, skills like driving will be useless, but the skills of our forefathers will never be useless.

Preparedness for disaster in just 7 days. This plan tells you what to do every day for a week. By the end, you’ll be prepared for disaster.

Learn about the many uses for hydrogen peroxide beyond wound care, including cleaning, gardening, survival, first aid, and more.

If you’re a new prepper, here’s a list of 30 survival items that will help you and your family survive most temporary disasters for up to two weeks.

Discover the many uses of wood ash for cleaning, gardening, pest control, and more. Don’t let this stuff go to waste!

Explore the extraordinary uses of Epsom salt. From its origins in Epsom to its health benefits as a laxative and wound healer.

Master the skill of building a natural shelter. In this post, we explore different types of survival shelters and when to build them.

Another Great Depression is coming, which is why now is the time to practice basic life skills that will get you through hard times.