My deep freezer finally gave up the ghost this week. I was wondering if anyone might have some awesome ideas on how to repurpose it into something useful?

Hey folks, I am new here, today-- not new to prepping, been "prepping" nearly 60 years,, and ...not at all disappointed that it has been for nothing.. not needed, except... in a few years when we had impassable snowfalls with power out for 2 weeks , no food or fuel deliveries or hurricanes...

Out working at ren. fest I came across some of the blacksmiths not thinking about it at the time i found out that i like the railroad tie knife. The knife looks interesting and was wonering how there twisted and overall made. pics anyone of how there made and overall product? thanks!

A BIG Thanks to my mom (r.i.p. mom) for living for "someday" packing away a little fuel for emergencies Save some dry wood cut into small pieces in old recycled jars. Pat down to pack it or carefully pack it from the top using a hammer to further break pieces so more will fit. You could also...

While working in an auto shop years ago I got the chance to be introduced to a waste oil heater. I know it was just a standard oil heater that he had converted to waste oil. I hadn't thought of it then, but this seems like an excellent conversion for SHTF situations. I wish I had asked him had...

not to be confused with 'Year End' composting :D: When you "Fort Up" for the OPAW, you will have a large volume of useful Urine to harvest (i'm assuming you won't want to diddle outside during the food riot, excuse me - entitlement protest). Here's a way to do it...

I was opening a couple of bottles of vitamins today and noticed that they were packed with some rather large wads of cotton. It got me to thinking that I could use those for my bottle of vaseline-and-cottonball fire starters. Didn't make sense to me to just throw it out. I'm big into vitamin...

I have some MREs whose shelf life has expired or will expire in the next time. Thus I will have a lot of plastic waste left after eating the MREs- and there will be also some little packages of "oxygen absorber" left. The brand is "ageless" - are they useful for any means anymore or just waste...