YPS Podcast – Ready Alabama

YPS Podcast – Ready Alabama? John Mason ReadyAlabama In this podcast, I’m delighted to connect with John Mason from Ready Alabama. We had the opportunity to talk about serving people in a community before, during and after an emergency takes place.  No matter in which state you reside, you can learn some very important information …

Book Bonanza Giveaway: Prepper’s Long-term Survival Guide

This Week the Book Bonanza Giveaway offers the chance to win “Prepper’s Long-Term Survival Guide.” This is a great book written by best selling author, Jim Cobb who has authored several of the top selling preparedness books that have hit the market in the last few years. Most people think that preparing for an emergency …

Giveaway Extravaganza – Enter this Weekly Book Bonanza

Do you want to build your Self-Sustaining Library with Books that are sure to help you be prepared?  Then get ready for this Giveaway Extravaganza – Weekly Book Bonanza! Beginning the first week of June, 2014 each week myself along with 12 other bloggers and professionals in the preparedness industry will bring you a weekly …

Prepper Websites: True Identity vs. Niche Marketing

If you have listened to ANY of the “Your Preparation Station Radio Shows” from the last 3+ years, then you’ve heard me preach this before. “When it comes to learning more about being well prepared, do a little recon on the person/website from whom you’re taking advice.” Even today, a website came across my path …

Need your help with these old Barn Treasures

A couple of weekends ago we decided to get into the old barn and see what we could see.  This is just a small sampling of the treasures we found…but I think we could use your help – so if you have some answers to our questions, please post a comment! Obviously these are rail …

Update on Our Preparedness Adventure – A New Chapter

It seems like we’ve been on the journey of Preparedness for a lot longer than it’s been ‘popular’ (Is it actually popular or just a new niche/fad? Hmmm)…but the truth of it all is that this journey is just that – a journey, an adventure –  not a prize to be won or a finished …

System-Reliant Disappointment

I have nothing but the utmost of respect for the FEMA agents who are sincerely attempting to do their very best in the face of disaster.  Let me be quick to clarify that my statements have NO reflection upon individuals who have attempted to work within the systems that are currently in place. The character …

Hurricane Sandy Looting Planned via Twitter

If you get the opportunity to read  this article  and are in the path of the storm named Sandy (I suggest you do so quickly) then be sure to take a look at the hash-tags in the twitter feeds planning to gather and do looting.  #Sandy. There is no mistaking that this is a recent …

Keeping Up with the Joneses

Although we are not the Joneses, we’re the Millers, the old adage mentioned in the subject line came to mind as I was lamenting having not updated you lately about the recent radio shows and our preparedness journey. So, after this brief side-note about that saying, I do promise to truly update you where I …

Bugging Out to Start Bugging In

What term suits your family’s preparedness plan better? Bugging Out (high tailing it out of Dodge to a safe haven) or Bugging In (hunkering down with what you have on hand and making the best of it while fortified where you are). What about bugging out and bugging in? What would that look like? For …