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3 Methods of Alternative Refrigeration

Having a way to refrigerate your food and “chill out” when the power goes out could be one thing to help ease the stress during a crisis. Here are three methods of alternative refrigeration you can use without electricity. Your

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How To Make A Buddy Burner

Just came across this cool DIY showing how to make tin cans into long-burning stove fuel for campouts and/or emergency heat. They’re known as buddy burners and it’s a great way to re-purpose and good way to show off your

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Homemade DIY Firewood: How to Make Logs from Newspaper

If you ever find yourself desperately in need of some heat, whether it be to stay warm or to cook something, and you don’t have wood to burn, try using newspapers as fire logs instead. Or if you just want

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How To Make Homemade Lamps from Everyday Objects

Having the ability to create light without needing electricity should be part of everyone’s emergency essentials. While flashlights are certainly helpful, batteries quickly die out so having a store of candles on hand can provide the light and morale boost

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How To Make A Camp Hot Water Heater With Easy To Use Dispensing Feature

Whoever thought of this is brilliant. They figured out how to make a camp hot water heater with easy to use dispensing feature using a turkey fryer. All you need is some propane and a spigot and you can get

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How to Restore a Wood Burning Stove

So you want to make sure you have the ability to cook without power should you lose power during a SHTF type of situation,  or you just want to go off the grid. And you want to pick yourself up

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2 Make-Shift Urban Survival Lights When the Electricity Goes Down

Your ability to improvise is one of the most important survival skills you can possess. It’s impossible to be perfectly prepared for an imperfect world. Sometimes you just have to go MacGyver and solve common problems by using the resources

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How To Build An Emergency Power System

Just came across this hands on “how-to” which will show you how to size and build your own emergency power system.  It covers all the soup to nuts including what you’ll want to power with the system, and then design

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How To Make A Cardboard Box Oven

Did you know that you can make a cardboard box into an oven that works just as well as your oven at home? You can! And with this type of oven, you never have to worry about what to eat when

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DIY Solar Fire Starter (How To Start A Fire Using A Coke Soda Can)

Hey if you ever need to start a fire and all you have is a soda can and some flint, you’re good to go 🙂 This article shows a exactly how to make a solar fire starter. Knowing how to

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