C5 Survival Quick Tips- Episode II- The Tactical Spoon and the SHTF Shower

With your host, Category5.   A few of you will have heard the colloquialism, " God didn't make men equal, Samuel Colt did". That is not quite true. It was the English Long Bow that would change the world. This weapon would break the monopoly of violence held by powerful, wealthy families that provided professional …

C5 Says, “Oh, No. Tell me what you really think”. C5 Opens Comments. 2018 Predictions- General Chaos

With your Host, Category5 and, Oh, wait.....YOU! Special welcome to the 21 visitors and one subscriber on Christmas day. That is SOOOO depressing. That you chose to spend it with me. Not a big fan of the hallmark holiday because it IS so depressing. It epitomizes unrealistic expectations. Nowhere to go but down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdG6gUUasVk I …

C5 says, Merry Fucking Ho Ho. I Got 99 Awesome Apocalypse Adaptions- Go Small Or Go Home- 99 Problems, Part III.

  With your host, Category5. And special guests, Mythos and Logos. Not them personally... but the works of their hands. Photos galore. I wanted to get this out before you forgot about them. This is a, 'The proof is in the puddin' sort of post....with much, much, much to learn. When I am finally back …

C5 On A Wheely Good Barrow- Survival Advice From South America- Part 14

With your host, Category5.   ( Did you miss me?  My brain is slowly growing back but still not all there yet. Last months view count was a whopping 2500 views. Wow. Alot of other sites were referring people to me. Probably alot less this month. Each time I go away for a couple week …

C5 in the Amazon – or – Everyone Hates Other People’s Vacation Photos

With your host C5 and assorted visiting parasites.   I went to the Amazon and all I got was this lousy Blow Job. That seems a good place to start if you are here today for survival advice. You would think, if someone that claims to be a “Survival Expert” (I use the term very …

C5 On Terracing Junk Land- Survival Advice From Pre Inca South America- Part 13- Permaculture=Permanent Culture

With your Host, Category5...and the visiting Dead Souls of the Pre Incas   (It will be a few weeks till the next post as we are headed towards the Amazon rainforest. I never thought I would live to say those words. So, I figured I would give you a quality post to hold you over …

C5 Practical Survival Advice For The Poor- When Its Already Too Late to Prep

With your host, Category5   We will be away for the next 2 weeks, off to a near by country. So this is a filler post while you wait for us to get back. We have to leave the country to deal with passport renewal. That means we are at the 6 month point. The …

C5 Presents- The Slow Crash- by Ran Prieur

With you host C5 and special guest writer Ran Prieur   I mentioned I get distracted by shiny things. Some things I have a long range plan for. Other things, I just go with my instincts. I also just get bored easily and do what interests me at the moment. I’ve got to finish up …

C5 Presents- The Fallacy Of Bugging Out part II- By Survival Acres

With your host, Category5 and guest writer, Survival Acres. After my last couple articles on the Ultimate Cargo Bike and a stubborn two week cold that has turned my mind to mush, its nice to give my swollen brain a bit of a break by tagging back in Survival Acres  to continue his 5 part …

C5 Presents- The Ultimate Cargo Bike- Redux – The Shareable Version

  With your host, Category5 (This is the Highly edited version...with my more challenging, foul mouthed, punk rock prepper personality scrubbed out of it. I have done this one time and one time only. This is to make the information more easily shareable to the masses. Dont get used to it.)     What we …