Survival Storehouse Pty Ltd

07/06/2026

Something pretty cool happened this week.

Our r/OZPreppers community on Reddit just hit 1,000 members — and we wanted to take a moment to explain what it actually is, because it's grown into something bigger than we expected.

About two years ago we started working on a problem that frustrated us: there was nowhere online with good, Australian-specific emergency preparedness information. Everything we could find was written for Americans — different hazards, different emergency services, different warning systems. None of it quite applied here.

So we built something.

The wiki at wiki.survivalstorehouse.com now has 190+ free articles grounded in Australian Royal Commission findings and peer-reviewed research. Bushfire, flood, cyclone, heatwave, communications, first aid, food and water — all written for Australian conditions. Free, no account required.

Then we realised the wiki had a problem. The moment you actually need that information — 2am, bushfire warning, no mobile signal — is exactly when you can't access it. So we built the app. It syncs the wiki to your phone for offline access. When the network fails, the information is already there.

And then there are the free tools at tools.survivalstorehouse.com — a scenario simulator built around Royal Commission research, an emergency plan builder, a 72-hour checklist, and more. All free.

1,000 people have found their way to the community. The questions they've asked have shaped the wiki. The gaps they've identified have become new articles.

If you've been meaning to sort out your household emergency plan, the tools are free and take about 15 minutes. If you want the wiki available on your phone when you need it most, the app is waiting.

Links in the comments.

28/05/2026

SALE 📣 12-Pack High Energy Biscuits — now $45 - We have the best used by dates and prices in Australia for this product! 2-45 Expiry date!

Our 20-year shelf life survival biscuits are on sale. All three flavours — Peanut Butter, Chocolate and Honey Butter — down to $45 for a 12-pack.

475 calories per biscuit. Designed for emergency food supply. Best before 2045.

These are the biscuits that go in your emergency kit and stay there. No rotation. No checking expiry dates every year. Pack them, forget them, and know they’re there if you ever need them.

All three flavours available at the sale price:
🥜 Peanut Butter — $45
🍫 Chocolate — $45
🍯 Honey Butter — $45

Bulk pricing available — contact us directly for case pricing if you’re stocking up for a larger household, a property, or a business.

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👉 survivalstorehouse.com/shop-1

27/05/2026

61% of Australian households don’t have an emergency plan.

Not because they don’t care. Because sitting down and making one feels complicated and there’s never a good time to do it. We built a free Household Emergency Plan Builder to fix that. Five minutes. Personalised. Printable. Put it on the fridge.

The plan includes departure triggers, hazard-specific action sequences (bushfire, flood, cyclone, heatwave, grid failure, storm), before-you-leave home checklists, school pickup plans, pet details, go-bag checklist and medical summary. No names or addresses collected — everything sensitive is written in by hand.

And it’s one of seven free tools we’ve built for Australians:

🏠 Emergency Plan Builder — 5 minutes, personalised plan for your fridge
🎮 Scenario Simulator — choose-your-own-adventure built on Royal Commission research. 4 scenarios. Your decisions. Your outcome.
✅ 72-Hour Checklist — tick off what you have, see your preparedness score live, print your gap report
🎯 Kit Finder — 4 questions, personalised kit recommendation in 60 seconds
📍 My Area — live weather, UV index, air quality, fuel prices and hazard risk for your postcode
🚨 Emergency Dashboard — every official Australian warning source in one place, filtered by state
📅 Disaster History — every major Australian emergency since 2000 and what each one taught us

All free. No account. No email. No purchase required.

👉 https://tools.survivalstorehouse.com/

Tag someone whose fridge doesn’t have an emergency plan yet. 👇

26/05/2026

Get in quick and grab a deal! we’ve listed a full Australian Survival Bundle starting at just 99c — no reserve on eBay.

This isn’t a stripped-down sampler either — it’s a complete emergency-ready setup built around our Tactical Tin Plus, including long-life food, 20-year shelf-life water, first aid gear, and practical tools for real-world situations.

The idea was simple: make it as easy and accessible as possible for someone to get properly prepared in one hit… and let the auction decide the value - At retail, this bundle sits well over $200.

Right now? It starts at 99c.

If you’ve been thinking about getting a kit sorted, this is probably the lowest barrier entry you’ll ever see — but we won’t be running it like this for long.

Auction is live now and ends soon:

https://www.ebay.com.au/str/survivalstorehouse

— Survival Storehouse Australia
Central Coast NSW

26/05/2026

🇦🇺 Are you TIRED of seeing the same preparedness questions asked over and over?

We are too. And it's not the people asking them who are the problem.

It's the format.

Facebook groups, Reddit threads, online forums — they're great for discussion. They're terrible for knowledge. Every good answer ever written in a comment thread disappears within days. The next person with the same question starts from scratch. The person after them does the same. The wheel keeps spinning and nobody moves forward.

These are the questions we see repeated most often:

❓ "How do I start prepping?"
❓ "What goes in a bug out bag?"
❓ "How much water do I need to store?"
❓ "Should I bug in or bug out?"
❓ "What size generator do I need?"
❓ "How long should I prepare for - 72 hours, 2 weeks, 3 months?"
❓ "Should I tell my neighbours I'm prepping?"

Every one of those is a genuinely important question. Every one of them deserves a proper answer — not seventeen conflicting opinions that vanish into a feed.

So we built one.

The Survival Storehouse Community Wiki is a free, publicly accessible knowledge base built specifically for Australian conditions. Not American geography. Not European hazards. Australian summers, Australian distances, Australian emergency services, and the reality that in much of this country, help is a very long way away.

Over 200 articles. Free. Updated regularly. Written in plain language. And designed to be used offline — because when emergencies happen, the internet is usually the first thing that goes.

Every one of those repeated questions now has a permanent home where the answer can be found, reviewed, updated, and built on — instead of lost in a thread from four months ago.

🔗 The wiki: https://wiki.survivalstorehouse.com/wiki/Main_Page
🔗 Join our Australian preparedness community on Reddit — r/OZPreppers — where the best discussions shape new wiki pages: https://www.reddit.com/r/OZPreppers/

Because the goal isn't to keep answering the same questions forever. It's to answer them once, properly, and move everyone forward. 🇦🇺

21/05/2026

🚨 Do you know what "WATCH AND ACT" ACTUALLY MEANS?

Most Australians don't — and it's one of the most important things to understand before this fire and storm season. Australia now has a nationally consistent three-level warning system that applies to every hazard in every state:

🟡 ADVICE — Something is happening nearby. No immediate danger yet. Monitor the situation and confirm your emergency plan.

🟠 WATCH AND ACT — Conditions are changing. Your window to act safely is narrowing. This is not "watch and wait" — it means execute your plan NOW.

🔴 EMERGENCY WARNING — You are in immediate danger. Act immediately. Any delay puts your life at risk.

The most important thing most people don't know: warnings don't always come in order. A fast-moving bushfire or flash flood can jump straight from nothing to Emergency Warning without passing through the other levels first. By the time you see red, your window may already be closing.

📱 AND SOMETHING BIG IS CHANGING IN OCTOBER...

Australia's new AusAlert system launches in October 2026. Unlike the current SMS system, AusAlert uses cell-broadcast technology — the same system used in the US, UK and Japan. It sends a single broadcast to every compatible phone within 160 metres of a tower simultaneously, works when networks are congested, and reaches your phone even if it's on silent.

⚠️ NATIONAL TEST: Monday 27 July 2026 at 2pm AEST. Every compatible phone in Australia will receive a test alert. No action needed — just be aware it's coming.

We've put together a full guide explaining how the warning system works, what each level means for bushfire, flood, cyclone and heat emergencies, and everything you need to know about AusAlert 👇

🔗 Full wiki guide: https://wiki.survivalstorehouse.com/wiki/Australian_Warning_Systems

🔗 Live emergency dashboard for your state (bookmark this NOW — don't search for it when something is actually happening): https://tools.survivalstorehouse.com/emergency_dashboard.html

TAG someone who needs to see this before the next emergency season. 👇

13/05/2026

🥜 RUNOUT SALE — Peanut Survival Biscuits | 35% OFF!
We're clearing our September 2044 batch to make way for fresh stock — and that means serious savings for you! 👇
✅ $35 per 12-pack (our 2045 stock sells for $54 — that's 35% off!)
✅ Still over 18 years of shelf life remaining
✅ Same great biscuits — just a better price!
These compressed long-life survival biscuits are a must-have for campers, hikers and anyone serious about emergency preparedness. Lightweight, vacuum sealed and packed with energy — our Peanut flavour makes them actually enjoyable to eat when it counts.
🔥 Why you'll love them:

475 calories per pack | 2 individually wrapped biscuits
3 packs = a full day of emergency nutrition
Super compact — perfect for your pack, car, home or office
Shipped fast from our NSW warehouse via Australia Post

⚠️ Only 100 cases available at this price — once they're gone, they're gone!

Grab yours now 👉 survivalstorehouse.com/shop-1

🛒 Bulk case deals also available — great for preppers, clubs and families stocking up!

Tag a mate who needs to sort their emergency kit! 👇🏼

Browse emergency survival kits, long shelf life food, and preparedness supplies built for Australian conditions. Battle Box, Tactical Tin, Ready Kit and more. Shipped from the NSW Central Coast.

10/05/2026

Something most Australians on common medications don't know — and probably should.

When the 2016 South Australian blackout hit, Flinders Medical Centre's backup generator failed after one hour and 45 minutes.

A hospital. With a generator. In Australia.

In under two hours.

Now think about the households in that blackout with insulin in the fridge. With a prescription they couldn't fill because the pharmacy had no power. With someone on home oxygen whose concentrator just stopped.

We've written a free guide on managing medications during emergencies — and there's one section in particular we think more people need to see.

A long list of extremely common medications — beta-blockers, diuretics, antipsychotics, some antidepressants — reduce your body's ability to regulate temperature. Most people are never told this at the point of prescription. In a heatwave, or a blackout on a January afternoon, that gap in knowledge can matter.

The guide also covers:

→ How quickly a fridge warms up after a blackout, and when refrigerated medications like insulin become compromised (the answer is sooner than most people think — and there's no visible sign it's happened)
→ What Australian pharmacists can actually do without a prescription in an emergency — and the important limits around controlled medications
→ What to do if you depend on a CPAP machine, home oxygen, or an insulin pump when the power goes out
→ The PBS numbers to call and what they can actually help with

Free. No sign-up. Written for Australian conditions.

👉 wiki.survivalstorehouse.com — search Managing Medications in Emergencies

If this is relevant to someone you know, please share it. The people who most need this information are often the ones least likely to be searching for it.

03/05/2026

Ever wondered how you can navigate at night when the stars are constantly moving? 🤔

Here’s the trick — they do move, but they all rotate around a fixed point in the sky. Once you know how to find that point, you can work out direction anywhere 🌌

If you’re in the Southern Hemisphere, the key is the Southern Cross (Crux).

⭐ Step 1: Find the Southern Cross
Look for the small cross-shaped constellation in the sky.

⭐ Step 2: Find the “pointer stars”
Nearby you’ll see two bright stars — Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri. These help confirm you’ve got the right constellation.

⭐ Step 3: Use the two-line method
• Draw an imaginary line down the long axis of the Southern Cross (top to bottom) and extend it about 4–5 times
• Then draw a line between the two pointer stars
• From the middle of that line, imagine a line going at a right angle toward the Cross

👉 Where those two lines meet is the south celestial pole

⭐ Step 4: Find your direction
Drop straight down from that point to the horizon — that’s South
Turn around, and you’re facing North

💡 Pro tip: Once you’ve got your direction, pick a landmark (tree, hill, etc.) and walk toward that instead of constantly checking the sky.

Simple, reliable, and a seriously underrated survival skill.

Perfect knowledge for anyone into camping, hiking, or just being a bit more self-reliant 🌿

29/04/2026

We've put together something special and listed it on eBay starting at 99c. 👀

Here's what's in the bundle:

🪖 Tactical Tin — our ammo tin with 12 x 200g survival biscuits
💧 3 x 1 Litre Puravai Emergency Water — 50 year shelf life, drink straight from the pouch
🍫 12 x High-Energy Survival Biscuits — Chocolate, Peanut Butter, Honey Butter and Gluten Free, best before 2045
🧢 Tactical Cap — dark shadow camo, front Velcro panel (more styles available)
🇦🇺 Embroidered Australian Flag Patch — attaches to the cap or any Velcro surface
🃏 5 x Credit Card Survival Tools — wallet-sized, one for the kit, one for the car

RRP on all of this is over $200. Starting price: 99c. No reserve.

Auction ends Wednesday afternoon. Link in bio — or search “Survival Storehouse” on eBay.

Good luck. 🇦🇺