52 Prepper Projects: A Project a Week to Help You Prepare for the Unpredictable

by David Nash, James Talmage Stevens (Introduction)

“A great assortment of do-it-yourself projects to learn self sufficiency . . . [It] gets my highest recommendation. Buy it. Add it to your prepper library” (Prepper Next Door).   Are you and your family self-reliant? Will you be able to provide for them and keep them safe? The best way to prepare for the future is not through fancy tools and gadgets—it’s experience and knowledge that will best equip you to handle the unexpected.   Everyone begins somewhere, especially with disaster preparedness. In 52 Prepper Projects, you’ll find a project for every week of the year, designed to start you off with the foundations of disaster preparedness and taking you through a variety of projects that will increase your knowledge in self-reliance and help you acquire the actual know-how to prepare for anything.   Self-reliance isn’t about building a bunker and waiting for the end of the world. It’s about understanding the necessities in life and gaining the knowledge and skill sets that will make you better prepared for whatever life throws your way. 52 Prepper Projects is the ultimate instructional guide to preparedness, and a must-have book for those with their eye on the future.

Genres: Nonfiction, Survival, Reference

226 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 2013

Reviews

[C · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as useful as I anticipated. Almost all the projects are only for extreme preppers who love DIY projects. More useful to me were the 21 short shopping lists of food, medical items, and other necessities to create a 72-hour survival kit, and the 21 short to-do lists of ways to prepare for disaster.

Notes
Medical items to stockpile
Aspirin or non-aspirin
Sterile adhesive bandages
Gauze pads
Sterile roller bandages
Disinfectant
Scissors
Tweezers
Thermometer
Antibacterial hand soap
Hand wipes
Petroleum jelly or other lubricant
Medicine dropper
Antidiarrheal medicine
Rubbing alcohol
Antiseptic
Syrup of ipecac and activated charcoal

[Mary Ruth · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Boy Scout motto is “Be prepared”. If you were not a Boy Scout, this book will help you out.
This book is organized nicely. The chapters help someone get a start on getting foods and emergency items stored in a step by step fashion, week to week.

Throughout the book are great directions on 52 projects.
Some of the projects are: chicken tractors, turning baking soda into washing soda, starting a fire with a battery, sumac lemonade, pressure canning, sour dough, beehives, making cheese, lawnmower generator, purifying water, and making a forge. There are many more.
Well done.
I borrowed it from the library, but this is one I will probably add to our library.

[Jim Gandy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well written.

The author is well educated on the subject matter and understands that an effective educational book must make a connection to the 'human' side of those reading and not just produce a list of facts.

[Robert Lewter · Rating 5 out of 5]

A lot of fun with serious business

[Penny · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love how it's broken down into weekly tasks. It's very doable and the sections on how to make your own laundry detergent is very helpful.

[Dennis Phillips · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lots of good ideas

This book had several good ideas for being prepared. Most were low cost with good instructions. some simple and some more complex.

[Cathy Casey-Richards · Rating 2 out of 5]

I’m not a prepper, but I’m interested in self-sufficiency. Many of these projects were too eccentric for my taste, but I appreciate the enthusiasm.

[Maddy Finch · Rating 3 out of 5]

I decided to give this book three stars. I did somewhat not like this book. Many of these projects in this book, seem to be for survivalism more so then survival prepping. Even though I did not like this book so much, I did love that the book had a whole bunch of images. These images that were in this book let you imagine the authors survivalism ideas. It was even nicer because they were in colour and not only in black and white. I do admit that the author did explain the projects in the best way possible. Although, this book just was not for me.

Just beware if you think this is mostly survival prepping based projects, in my opinion it is more so only about survivalism.

[Renee · Rating 4 out of 5]

We are not preppers in the sense of the SHTF or zombies but we do believe being prepared for a natural disaster is a must. This book has ideas for both. Each week it gives you a shopping list to stock up your reserves and a project to complete that will help you in the event you lose power, water, or if you have to evacuate your home due to natural disaster or rioting. The projects are very basic and doable - unlike many other prepper books I have found.

[Missa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting! A must-have in your zombie apocalypse survival kit. c;