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December 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM

Merry Christmas!

I hope your day is magical! Good morning, my friend! I hope this morning has you waking up to things like fresh snow, a sparkling tree, and the people you love. It wouldn't be Christmas at The OP if I didn't post my first piece of prepper fiction, A Post-Apocalypse Christmas Story. LINK: https://www…

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December 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM

A Little Christmas Eve Treat for You

Let's go back to where it all began! I was trying to think about what would be good to post on the day of Christmas Eve when it occured to me - we should go back to where it all began, 1stMarineJarHead's first short story and Jessica's Christmas-themed introduction. I hope you enjoy this flashback. …

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December 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM

Selco's Stories from an SHTF Christmas

Here's the reality of the situation. Sometimes I think people who stash a lot of gifts to give at a later time think that they can insulate their loved ones from how bad the situation really is. Instead, I think we should lean into that - finding beauty and gratitude in simpler ways., Here's what ha…

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December 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM

Christmas in Venezuela

What It Was Like After Socialism Destroyed the Country Every year, I like to run stories about Christmas in situations that are the ones we prepare for. I find it really interesting to see how people still manage to make it magical despite the problems they are facing. In Venezuela, the collapse is …

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December 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM

Survival Sunday: December 21, 2025

Good morning, my friend. I hope this message finds you well. We have had the strangest weather lately. One day it's freezing, and the next it's in the upper 60s. You have to wear tons of layers if you leave when it's cold because it could feel like spring in the afternoon. We are destined to have a …

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December 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM

Saturday Shenanigans: Dec. 20, 2025

Good morning! It's only five days til Christmas, and I'm avoiding stores like the plague! I plan to stay cozy at home in front of my tree with pretty pink ornaments on it. I can think of no sale that would induce me to walk into a Target, Walmart, or mall this weekend. For today's Shenanigans, we ha…

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December 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM

Frugal Friday: December 19, 2025

30 Thrifty Ideas for Christmas Dinner  Hey! Before you do your last-minute grocery shopping for Christmas dinner for the people you love, let's talk about it. I remember the days of spending my entire month's grocery budget on ONE MEAL AND SOME SNACKS! It was crazy, and we ate very strictly for the …

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December 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM

How to Survive Balkanization and Collapse

Selco advises a dual system. Good morning, my friend. I hope that you are having a lovely time leading up to Christmas. Today's article is a good one, though perhaps controversial to some. Selco has advice for surviving the Balkanization we're witnessing in America, advice he offers because he has l…

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December 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM

Prepper Gift Ideas Under $25

Just in Time for Christmas It's the most wonderful tiiimmme...of the year! If, by wonderful, you mean expensive. But it doesn't have to be that way. Here are some awesome gifts for the preppers in your life that won't break the bank. Every single one is a good quality item that costs less than $25. …

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December 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM

What We Can Learn from a 17-Day Ordeal in the Hawaiian Jungle

A Real-Life Survival Story I always love real-life survival stories. It shows so much about the human spirit, and athough it often starts out with a mistake or two (or more), the sheer will to live informs the next decisions. This particular event happened a few years ago. A 37 year old woman named …

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December 15, 2025 at 12:45 AM

Haven Hill: Full Story now AVAILABLE!

LIMITED TIME OFFER!  You’ve been reading along, one chapter at a time. Now you don’t have to wait. This Advance Reader Copy (digital) gives you instant access to all 39 chapters of the complete novel — no cliffhangers, no two-week gaps, no waiting to see what happens next. This is the full story — t…

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December 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM

Survival Sunday: December 14, 2025

Good morning, my friend! I woke up excited about the prospect of snow (Spoiler: no snow) and instead, read of two terrible attacks. One was a shooting at Brown University, in Providence, RI, and the other was at a Jewish Chanukah festival in Australia. Between the two, many lives have been lost, man…

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December 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM

Saturday Shenanigans: December 13, 2025

Ooooh the excitement I have for you today. First of all, today is the day that Advance Reader Copies are available for Haven Hill! The ebook contains 39 chapters, so there's still a lot to read! The book isn't quite ready for paperback, but a lot of you have said you're on pins and needles so we dec…

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December 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM

Frugal Friday: Dec. 12, 2025

20 Free, Frugal, & Festive Ways to Wrap Christmas Gifts When your budget is as tight as mine, spending $7 for a tube of gift wrap, $5 for a gift bag, and even more for bows and gift tags is downright overwhelming. For the money stores expect you to spend on disposable items, you could buy more g…

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December 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM

What Preppers Need to Know About Asthma

Would you be ready if the pharmacy closed? As someone with asthma, I know how scary it is to suddenly not be able to breathe properly. That's why I've done everything I can to prepare myself for a time when I might not be able to count on the pharmacy for my medications. If you have a loved one with…

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December 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM

What to Get the Non-Preppers in Your Life

Stealth Survival Christmas Gift Ideas  I have some non-preppers in my life, and although it makes me absolutely crazy, I'm well aware that preaching to them won't do a lick of good - if anything, it'll drive them away. So years ago, I came up with a sneaky idea to get them prepper gifts along with o…

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December 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM

How to Stay Warm During a Winter Power Outage

Winter Has Entered the Chat...  It's flippin' COLD where I live, so I can only imagine how chilly it is north of here. And not only are we dealing with a major cold snap, but most of the country can also expect winter storms this week, with up to a foot of snow! I called upon my 18 years of living i…

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December 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM

Survival Sunday: December 7, 2025

Good morning, my friend! I have one word to describe this morning: Brrrrrr.... (Which actually is a sound, not a word, but you know what I mean.) I woke up to it being a chilly 61 degrees in the apartment and just barely, barely above freezing outside. We only get about 6 weeks of winter here, and i…

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December 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM

Saturday Shenanigans: December 6, 2025

Dear Diary, It's Me, Jessica: Chapter 25 (Book 2) In today's entry, Jessica thinks about a lot of things she'd never have considered if the world as she knew it hadn't ended. She reflects on survival, shifting alliances, fragile normalcy, and a future that arrived far too soon. Catch it here. LINK: …

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December 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM

Frugal Friday: December 5, 2025

How Christmas Giving Can Create Generous Children I'm not sure if this falls into the "frugal Friday" category, because it's about giving rather than saving. But I think anything that teaches young people to get off the "gimme, gimme, gimme" hamster wheel at Christmas is a way to help your kids be h…

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December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM

CO Poisoning: The Hidden Danger of Emergency Heaters

'Tis the season for cold-weather power outages! How do you plan to heat your home when the power goes out? Nearly every method of emergency heat (and honestly, any kind of heater) has the risk of filling your home with deadly carbon monoxide. Here's what you must know about CO poisoning, and how to …

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December 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM

SELCO: The Truth About SNIPERS

...And How to Survive Them The world is crazier than ever and sometimes we have to learn new skills that we never expected to need to know about. One of those things is how to survive a sniper attack. Part of it is pure luck - you aren't the person the shooter targeted. But after the first one or tw…

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December 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM

CyberMonday Deals for Preppers

On your mark, get set, SAVE! I've rounded up all the coolest CyberMonday deals for preppers and the folks we love. Today's list includes books, kitchen items, freeze-dried cans, OTC meds, and a few random things I think are awesome. Please consider shopping from the direct links on this page. The OP…

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November 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM

Survival Sunday: November 30, 2025

Good morning, friends! I hope that you had a nice Thanksgiving, or if your festivities are continuing today, that it is wonderful too. We had a small one, just my youngest daughter and me. Our bigger one with tons of food was last month when we had extended family in town. I used to really care abou…

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November 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM

Saturday Shenanigans: November 29, 2025

Haven Hill: Chapter 25 Good morning, bookworms! (I always assume those who read the Saturday Shenanigans posts are bookworms like me!) This morning I have a juicy chapter of Haven Hill for you. After Kate and Ariel lock up Mr. Slocum's place, they set up a defensive perimeter and prepare their battl…

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November 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM

Amazon's Best Black Friday Deals for Prepper Gear

Some of these deals are bananas! I was pleasantly surprised when searching for prepper gear for my annual Black Friday post - I was concerned that with tariffs and inflation, the sales might be lackluster. But with a small solar generator for 65% off and other deals remaining consistent with previou…

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November 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM

You're invited!

To the OP Friendsgiving 2025  This time of year is tough for a lot of reasons - the economy, the unrest in our people, and so many other worries. Sometimes, we find ourselves feeling isolated on holidays, and spending the day alone. That's why we started The OP Friendsgiving back in 2022, where we a…

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November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM

Campbell's VP Goes OFF

Soup is "s**t for f***king poor people" with "chicken...from a 3D printer" Yuck. On all fronts, yuck. A secret recording made by another employee from The Campbell Soup company caught one of the VP's saying horrible things about the customers, his colleagues, and the product itself. It's just an awf…

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November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM

How to Make Your Own Pemmican

Give this old-fashioned survival food a try. If you're anything like me, when you read books that have settings in historical times, you're curious when you come across foods you've never heard of, or ones you've heard of but never tried. I've heard of none of these foods more than "pemmican." It al…

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November 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM

Survival Sunday: November 23, 2025

Good morning, friends! Ready for Thanksgiving? This is the week that I always consider the one that kicks off the "holiday season." Thanksgiving has always been a favorite of mine (yes, I know, I say that about every holiday) because there are no expectations except delicious food, the people you lo…

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November 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM

Saturday Shenanigans: November 22, 2025

Dear Diary, It's Me, Jessica: Chapter 24 (Book 2) Did you think about 1stMarineJarHead's cliffhanger for the past two weeks, like I did? FINALLY...it's time for the follow-up! In today's installment, Jessica and Jack spy on the new arrivals to Four Courners and learn some very disturbing information…

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November 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM

Frugal Friday: November 21, 2025

A Guide to Managing Holiday Expectations Does the thought of the upcoming holiday season fill you with excitement? Or are you already feeling dread curling around all those good feelings? If money is the cause of your stress, there's a way that you can make this Christmas different. But it starts, f…

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November 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM

The One Certainty: Are You Prepared?

Two ways to make things easier on your loved ones Nobody likes to think about death, much less talk about it. But it will one day be coming for all of us. There are two ways you can make this time easier for the people who love you. In this article, Rowan talks about wills and advance directives (al…

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November 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM

Welcome to PrepperFinds — The #1 Place for Daily Prepper Deals

Hey there, Prepper!  Welcome to PrepperFinds.com, the daily deal site created by preppers, for preppers.  Every day, our team scans Amazon for the best deals on preparedness gear, tools, food storage, and survival essentials, the kind of items we actually use and trust.  Each deal is hand-picked by …

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November 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM

The Psychology of Survival

“He Who Hesitates is Lost” Survival is about so much more than collections of gear and supplies. It's about how you, personally, respond in a moment of crisis. Do you freeze, unable to move? Do you pause, hoping to be able to think things through? Or do you react immediately? Hesitation responses ar…

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November 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM

What are you doing this afternoon?

Here are your plans for a Tuesday afternoon. There is a free webinar (no strings attached) called Preparing for the Dollar’s Collapse and the Rise of a New Gold-Based Monetary Order today at 1pm EST. The content is pretty fascinating. It talks about a "gold reset" and how many countries are returnin…

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November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM

Selco Has One Very Important Question

Could you really leave it all behind to survive? As preppers, we like to think that we will survive a catastrophe using our stored gear and supplies, and our resilient mindsets. But what if something happens so fast that it's so bad you have to leave everything behind, except maybe - MAYBE - your bu…

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November 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM

Survival Sunday: November 15, 2025

Good morning, friends! I was so convinced that yesterday was Sunday, I almost sent you this letter instead of writing it today. If so, you would have missed the 24th chapter of my book, Haven Hill. (You can check it out at this link.) Do you have days like that, where they just feel like other days …

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