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self-protection

Five Things You Should Have In Your Emergency Cash Stash at Home

February 17, 2010 · 5 comments

in diversification, emergencies, emergency fund, emergency kits, financial planning, lifehack, money lessons, preparedness, savings, self-protection, survival, wealth protection

My wallet was stolen from me recently.  I was pickpocketed in the plain of day in the middle of crowds in an urban transit station.  I didn’t hear, feel or notice a thing.  Suffice it to say, this identity theft can obviously happen to anyone.
Luckily, I’d previously heeded the good advice of not keeping all [...]

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Tips For Locking Yourself Out of Your Apartment In Style – What You Hope You Have If Your Keys or the Landlord is Lost

January 25, 2010 · 4 comments

in emergencies, life, preparedness, self-protection

I locked myself out of my own apartment the other day.  Because I rent, I am not allowed to duplicate the keys, so I don’t have duplicates.  Because it was the weekend, my landlord was out of town and not due back until Monday morning.
Luckily, the situation fixed itself fairly quickly, but it did get [...]

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Survival Skills To Barter With In Case of Financial Ruin, Unemployment, or Economic Collapse

January 15, 2010 · 10 comments

in diversification, economy, education, emergencies, lifehack, market crash, risk, self-protection, survival, sustainability, unemployment, wealth protection, world order

Do your “transferable skills” include survival skills?  If you work in financial markets, accounting, tourism, real estate, university-level teaching (certain fields), administration, human resources, and a number of other fields whose central activities are not connected in any real way to the basic “stuff” of living, it is more likely that you are lacking in [...]

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Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life – by Neil Strauss (Review)

June 25, 2009 · 13 comments

in achievement, education, emergencies, self-protection, skills, survival, wealth protection

This book might indeed save your life.
Survival schools.  Second passports.  Urban Escape and Evasion courses.  CERT training.  Bugging out.  How to escape from attack dogs.  Offshore asset protection.  Perpetual traveling.  Using one’s credit card as a knife.  Killing and skinning your own goat.  These are just some of the survivalist, “how-to-be-prepared-for-anything” topics covered in Neil [...]

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