This year, even though the news says otherwise, everyone I personally know is doing Christmas differently. Folks are cutting back, making less expensive meals, and buying useful gifts as opposed to spending hundreds on frivolous things.
In that spirit, here’s a roundup of articles with gift ideas, holiday preparedness strategies, and frugal food. I hope you find some helpful inspiration within!
Gift ideas
Prepper Gifts Under $25 Just in Time for Christmas
8 Christmas Gifts Your Favorite Prepper Will Love
Stealth Survivalist Christmas Gifts for the Non-Preppers in Your Life
Cut Holiday Clutter: Give Preparedness Skills for Christmas Gifts
12 Christmas Gifts for the Healthy Cook’s Kitchen
The Most Important Gift You Can Give This Holiday Season
Don’t blow your budget wrapping gifts!
20 Free and Festive Ways to Wrap Christmas Gifts
Christmas Food
Easy, Egg-Free Christmas Cookies from the Pantry
How to Make a Festive Christmas Dinner from the Pantry
How to Prep with Those Christmas Dinner Leftovers
Christmas Survival
Selco’s Stories from an SHTF Christmas
Christmas in Venezuela: What It Was Like After Socialism Destroyed the Country
Merry Frugal Christmas: How to Enjoy the Holidays Without Going Broke
How NOT to Die on Christmas Vacation
Books as gifts
Our entire roster of paperback books is available on Amazon for less than $25 apiece. Here are our options:
First, we have Selco’s three books, which are absolutely incredible assets to your preparedness library:
- The Dark Secrets of SHTF Survival: The Brutal Truth About Violence, Death, & Mayhem You Must Know to Survive
- SHTF Survival Boot Camp: A Course for Urban and Wilderness Survival during Violent, Off-Grid, & Worst Case Scenarios
- SHTF Survival Stories: Memories from the Balkan War
Next we have The Organic Prepper Anthologies. We’re working our way through the most useful and popular OP content and publishing it in paperback form. Here are the two that are out so far:
- How to Feed Your Family No Matter What: An Anthology of Self-Reliant Food Production, Acquisition, Preservation, and Preparation
- How to Survive During Dangerous Times: A Prepper’s Anthology of Home Security, Personal Safety, OPSEC, and Defensive Mindset
And here are my books:
- The Prepper’s Water Survival Guide: Harvest, Treat, and Store Your Most Vital Resource
- The Prepper’s Canning Guide: Affordably Stockpile a Lifesaving Supply of Nutritious, Delicious, Shelf-Stable Foods
- Prepper’s Pantry: Build a Nutritious Stockpile to Survive Blizzards, Blackouts, Hurricanes, Pandemics, Economic Collapse, or Any Other Disasters
- Be Ready for Anything: How to Survive Tornadoes, Earthquakes, Pandemics, Mass Shootings, Nuclear Disasters, and Other Life-Threatening Events
- The Blackout Book: A Quick Start Guide to Handling a Power Outage Like a Boss
- How to Prep When You’re Broke: A Prepper’s Guide to Survival on a Budget
Plus if you have family members you want to break in gently to preparedness, I have two books in the frugality niche.
Other preparedness and survival titles for book lovers
Here are articles with my other book recommendations for the entire family:
- The 10 Food Preservation Books Every Prepper Needs
- The Essential Prepper’s Library: 30 Books Every Prepared Family Should Own
- Our Top 20 Works of Fabulous Fiction to Inspire Self-Reliant, Liberty-Loving Children and Teens
- The Herbalist’s Bookshelf
- The Reader’s Choice Survival and Preparedness Library
- The Reader’s Choice Library: Prepper Fiction You’ve Gotta Read
I hope these articles and ideas help!
I hope that your holiday is winding up to be filled with peace, love, good food, and good people. I hope that some of the ideas here help you to make this a very prepared and pleasant holiday!
Please share your own prepper or thrifty Christmas ideas in the comments section!
Merry Christmas from all of us here at The Organic Prepper!
Good info. Thanks.