Category: Medical & Hygiene

The best $4.50 you ever spent on survival gear

Behold the Multi-Purpose Triangle Bandage, otherwise known as the cravat.  This versatile piece of cloth has been around for as long as I can remember and probably decades before that.  It is well recognized as an essential part of any survival kit and since the price point is relatively low it makes sense to own …

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Blister treatment while on the move

If you have to bugout and move for long distances under heavy load, most likely your feet will be the first thing to go.  There could be a number of contributing factors to this which include but are not limited to: – You are wearing new boots, or boots that do not fit well. – …

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Trash disposal after the collapse: Burn it? Bury it?

Trash Considerations

Once a week you set your garbage cans out by the street so that some anonymous hard working individual can come by and make them go away. Usually this happens during the wee hours of the morning and those loud mechanical/hydraulic noises cause you to wake up 30 minutes before you normally do, but hey …

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Injuries after T-SHTF, are you prepared?

For your consideration, a short story. *** You don’t know much as there has been no real information put out for a few weeks now. All you know is that 2 weeks ago you were sifting through your mail after coming home from work and the power went out, and it has yet to come …

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When will your Hygiene Supplies run out?

Toothpaste

Imagine if you had to live for 2 weeks with no hygiene products.  Just living your normal everyday life, going to work and to the gym, out to dinner or maybe a movie.  No brushing your teeth, no deodorant, no shaving, no lotion, no feminine products and no showers.  I would venture a wild guess …

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Medical Supply Kits and Planning

German Trauma Kit

I was recently over at GA’s website, Survive2balive.com and read a post about a few of the medical supplies he recommended for everyday first aid.  This got me thinking about my own medical supply plan, how I got started and eventually improved it.  I think it is very important to have a wide range of …

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When the SHTF, you will still have to poop

outhouse-moon

I have been very close to burning mixtures of fecal matter, urine, and diesel fuel and I can tell you the smell is pretty disgusting.  You never quite get used to it, nor does your appetite fully recover.  Quite often people forget that everybody poops, and should the power go out for an extended period …

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