Making the Best of Basics

If you want the security of being able to live from your personal resources for as long as needed, regardless of external conditions, Making the Best of Basics is the resource guide for you. With more than 800,000 copies sold since this seminal book was first published more than 35 years ago, this family preparedness bible sets the standard in the preparedness industry.

This completely updated and revised 12.5 version contains 29 chapters on everything you need to know to protect your family from emergencies and disasters—whether natural, manmade, or personal—in the 21st century. Chapters include establishing a preparedness lifestyle that works for you, creating an in-home food and water storage system, managing your energy and fuels needs affordably, stockpiling survival medicines, and compiling a preparedness library.

It's your choice: do you keep on doing what you've always done and hope for the best, or do you improve your lifestyle by learning how to make the best of basics? James Talmage Stevens provides you with all the information you need to live on the provisions you've secured in your home until the emergency ends. Given today's uncertain times, you can't afford to be unprepared.