29 Essential Tips for the New Prepper: Start Small. Develop Your Skills. Create a PlanBy Mac Slavo These videos can help you cover the essentials, boil down to the most important factors and start actually putting your preps into action. Dont wait until the trouble starts, because it will already be too late. How would you survive if the food supplies stall out, the economy and digital grid crashes, or para-government forces unleash a round-up plan? Have you made your family as secure as they can be with stored goods, equipment and a foolproof bug out plan for continuity of life off the grid? There are some good answers on where to start and how to account for just about everything, but the point is that you must start somewhere. For beginners, the best tip may be to start small and build up from there as you learn what youre doing: Survival Know How explains his Top 10 Tips For New Preppers: 1. Start small. There is no need to prepare for the zombie Apocalypse if you dont have enough supplies to last you 3 days without power. Even if you have everything you need to survive at home, there are many bad situations that could force you to leave your home and seek survival somewhere else if you can make it. Here are some important factors to consider when planning to bug out. What will the roads and highways look like during disaster? Likely they wont be easy to travel on, and could be downright dangerous. Foreknowledge of the back roads and other alternative means of travel are essential if you are in a serious situation. Setting up cache sites along your bug out route could also be vital to your survival plan, particularly if your travel plans hit a snag. The Healthy Prepper explains her 19 Tips for Preppers for SHTF Escape Planning: 1. Know your routes. Realistically, you may not be able to cover all of these points, and may find some of them to be contradictions with your real-world situation. Regardless, you must prepare for all eventualities. The point is to consider the best information you can, match it up with the realities of your area, your home, your financial situation and the reliability of the people around you (or lack thereof). Plan ahead, and avoid becoming paralyzed by fear and inaction if and when the SHTF. Read More: Image Credit You can read more from Mac Slavo at his site SHTFplan.com. No prepping will help Americans in the planned WW3! It is a message of hope, a big reset and preparation for the millennium. Bring it on If you are prepared you have no reason to fear. 