Prepper Ponderings Feb. 26, 2011

Thrifty Prepper Challenge

Only two days left to enter the extended time Thrifty Prepper Challenge!  It was originally supposed to end 2/13, but I extended it to the end of the month.  Take $10 to a thrift store and buy survival gear.  List your purchases in a blog comment on the 2/4 posting.  Whoever I believe got the most bang for their bucks wins something cool and useful from my barter larder.  It's tougher than I thought.  I've been to about a half dozen thrift shops this month and have managed to get nothing but two copies of Popular Science Mechanics with survival articles.  Give it a try, you might just find the perfect piece of gear.  If this doesn't work, we'll do it again in the spring, but add yard sales to the options.


Survival Seed Bank

My sponsor, Directive 21, not only sells Wise Food Storage and the entire line of Berkey water filter systems, he also sells a Survival Seed Bank of non-hybrid, non-GMO seeds that are sealed in a ammo can-style seed vault.  Jack Spirko at The Survival Podcast just released a video product review of the seed bank, and also provide commentary on some of the others in the emergency seed industry.  He has asked other bloggers to share his review.  Since Directive 21 supports both of us as sponsors, I wanted to share this review with my readers.