It’s been a few years since I bought a “new” LED flashlight. My current Every Day Carry flashlight is still the Fenix E01. The E01 sits in my jeans pocket most of the time, and I use it almost every day. It’s a great little light and weighs almost nothing. However, it is lacking in the power department. I looked around for a more powerful light, and finally decided on a Quark Mini AA from 4Sevens.
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Welcome to Week 10 of Step by Step Survival. In this series, we aim to prepare you and your family for emergencies starting from just $5 a week.
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Once in a while, we show an interesting set of Every Day Carry (EDC) gear. This time around it’s from Bierkameel at Bladeforums. Click on the photo for a bigger image.

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If you’re all caught up with The Survivalist series by Jerry Ahern, it’s time for the fifth book, The Web.

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It’s been a while since I owned a multitool. The first multitool I owned was a SwissTool. I had to sell it when times were tough, and now I regret it. I have not thought about purchasing a multitool in a while, but I’ve been intrigued by the lightweight Leatherman Freestyle. In the end, I decided that the Freestyle was too minimalist for me (being essentially just a pair of pliers with a blade) and went for its older brother, the slightly bigger Skeletool.
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Welcome to Week 9 of Step by Step Survival. In this series, we aim to prepare you and your family for emergencies starting from just $5 a week.
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In a survival situation, you won’t have a lot of luxury or choice in terms of food.  How do you stretch out your meager supplies to the maximum?  Kristen Swensson from the Cheap Healthy Good blog (I like the name already)  has a great post about making healthy meals from one single chicken, with a budget of $25.

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Welcome to Week 8 of Step by Step Survival. In this series, we aim to prepare you and your family for emergencies starting from just $5 a week.
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Once in a while, we show an interesting set of Every Day Carry (EDC) gear. This time around it’s from hissatsu1 at Bladeforums. Click on the photo for a bigger image.

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Time for some more survival fiction. If you’ve been enjoying The Survivalist series by Jerry Ahern, this is the next installment. The Survivalist #4 is titled The Doomsayer.

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