Articles by Paul Helinski

Some things in the prepping world are pretty obvious. You have to just go do them. If you want to not go to bed at 6pm every night in the winter, it might be a good idea to think about some lights. Food? Some people (idiots), think they can live off the land. Water? Eh, [...]

This week I didn’t have a lot of time to dig into a complex subject, like canning, which I almost did, so I elected to reprise probably the most “shock value” topic here on Prepping 101. Feminine products. Last time I covered these cups, I coupled them with baby diapers. That was for two reason. [...]

As the empire begins to collapse around us, and the more aware among us begin to question if the American prosperity bubble will remain, it is pretty easy to freak out about being cut off from knowing what’s going on. When I first started looking at communications options for after the grid goes down, like [...]

As I explained last week, in this iteration of Prepping 101 I plan initially to go through topics that I covered somewhat piecemeal originally. A big one of those is cooking. Because as I discovered new ideas and the associated products, and educated myself as to the options out there for cooking off grid, I [...]

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You wouldn’t think that bugging out from Irma would be anything spectacular, because I’m prepping for the collapse and all, but nothing went as I expected. These are some important lessons.

Part of the prepping world is planning to survive the collapse financially as well as physically. Your approach should depend on your worldview, and what you think is really coming. This is perhaps the biggest question. Something is coming. Is it purely financial, or are we going Mad Max?

I decided to return to radiation again this week because of the accident at the Hanford nuclear storage site in Washington state. I know that even with a nuclear war potentially looming over the conflict on the Korean peninsula, most people will absolutely refuse to prepare for a high level radiation event no matter what. So this week we’ll take a look at a low level event. This meter, MyGeiger V3, is roughly $150, and it is a worthy investment to be able to measure what I would call “medium level” radiation.

There has been a good deal of hoopla of late on the Draco AK pistol. Century can’t get enough of them out into the market, mostly because they appeared in some hip hop songs and videos. Needless to say, the rappers involved don’t practice appropriate gun safety, but you can’t take away from these guns that they just look cool. But are they effective weapons? Right now this Century PAP AK pistol and brace combo are available for under $1,000. Compared to an AR in .300BK, I think it beats it.