For the past five years I have gone through the Survival Mom Prepping Calendar and LOVE doing all the tasks and reading the monthly book recommendations. Grab your own calendar in digital or print format and follow along. It's more fun (and motivating) to do it as a group!

Are you worried about sending your grown-up kids off to college without all the necessary “emergency” preps? I wanted to make my son a complete college student disaster kit as a Christmas gift so I made a fun 12 Days of Christmas themed idea and he LOVED it. Use this for Christmas or ANY time!

There are several ways to extend the shelf life on the dried goods you are storing. I store a lot of foods in mason jars and have tested several jar lid sealer units to figure out what one works best for me. In this blog post I give an overview (and video demonstration) of three different sealers!

Emergency preparedness while traveling is such a tough topic because you have limited space. Yet you have an unlimited amount of possible emergencies that could arise.In this post I give just a few tips I’ve learned from being prepared and from being UNprepared for a travel emergency.