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The most important official recommendations for emergency preparedness
Imagine the power goes out. Not for an hour, but for days. No hot meals, no working cell phone, no light. Or suddenly no water comes out of the tap. Moments like these show how good - or ...
Minimal prepping: what you can achieve with 50 euros
Fifty euros. An amount that many people spend without much thought on a full shopping cart at the discount store, a tank of gas or an evening out at a restaurant. But imagine if you were to invest that same 50 euros in a different way - not in the ...
Why knowledge is more important than equipment
One question that many people ask themselves when they start thinking about crisis preparedness is: „Do I really need all this equipment?“ The images that come to mind are often characterized by overflowing basements full of cans of food, expensive solar generators or ...
Morality in a crisis - how far do you go?
There are questions that we prefer to suppress. They are uncomfortable, scratch at our self-image and force us to think about things that we prefer to push aside in everyday life. One of them is: how far do you go in a crisis when it comes to ...
What role does religion or spirituality play in prepping?
When people talk about prepping, the first things that come to mind are canned food, water canisters, flashlights and first aid kits. But if you look a little deeper, you quickly realize that crisis preparedness is not just a question of supplies and equipment. It's also about attitude, mental stability ...
10 typical beginner mistakes when prepping - and how to avoid them
At first, prepping sounds like the romance of adventure and self-determination: stockpiling supplies, putting together equipment, regaining a little independence. But anyone who starts with the topic quickly realizes that there are many pitfalls. Some seem trivial, others are only recognizable at second glance ...
How to create your personal risk analysis when prepping
Imagine you're sitting on the sofa in the evening, a storm is brewing outside and suddenly the power goes out. At first, this might just be a nuisance. But what if it stays off for hours? Or for days on end? Do you have candles? Water? ...
Everyday life as a prepper: how to live prepared without appearing paranoid
There are people who immediately have images in their head when they hear the word prepping: Cellars full of tin cans, gas masks in the corner, a generator in the front garden. For many, this seems exaggerated - almost paranoid. But is this really the reality? Or ...
„Prepper slang“ explained - when BOB, EDC and SHTF no longer sound like a jumble of letters
Anyone browsing forums, blogs or videos on the subject of crisis preparedness for the first time will quickly stumble across abbreviations and terms that seem to come from a secret language. There's talk of „BOB“, „bugging out“, „TEOTWAWKI“ ...
Myths about prepping debunked
Mention the word „prepper“ and an image immediately springs to mind: a man in camouflage clothing, a bunker full of tin cans, perhaps even armed and suspicious of the whole world. Hollywood has coined this cliché, and also ...
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