More Than Just Surviving’s 1 Year Anniversary – First Year Highlights

Exactly one year ago, we hit publish on our very first entry to this blog: technically just a notice that posts were coming, though shortly after we published a real first article called How to Start a Fire After It’s Rained. Since then, we’ve written on a variety of topics (from a complete guide on batoning to tips for staying prepared while moving), have published a hell of a lot of knife reviews, and have even managed to compile some pretty epic lists of survival gear and survival foods.

Overall, it’s felt like a pretty eventful first year for us. Through this blog, we were given the chance to develop relationships with some amazing people in the industry: other bloggers as well as many keen individuals interested in knives, prepping, and survival. Thomas and I are both enthusiastic to be starting our second year on this blog, and we feel that now, with a bit more experience blogging under our belts, the upcoming year on More Than Just Surviving will be even better than the last.

In terms of highlights from the past year on this blog, our most popular articles, determined by number of page views, have been as follows:

5 Most Popular Survival Articles

1. List of Knives Used on Dual Survival
2. Survival Gear Used on Naked and Afraid
3. How to Find Civilization When You Have No Idea Where You Are
4. How to Start a Fire After It’s Rained
5. The Many Benefits of Finding Bodies of Water in Survival Situations

5 Most Popular Prepper Articles

1. The Best Survival Foods: Non-Perishables That Can Outlive You
2. Electrical Grid Down – No Power in a Canadian Winter
3. How to Stockpile Food and Other Goods Cheaply
4. How to Stockpile Items for Free or Next to Nothing
5. Buying a Survival Kit? Why It’s Always Better to Make It Yourself

As mentioned, we’ve also published one hell of a list of knife reviews. I’ve organized the top 10 by number of page views below. Please note that some of the more recently published knife reviews haven’t exactly had a chance to compete with the knife reviews on this list, which have been up on the blog for months and months, so keep this in mind when you’re browsing the list.

10 Most Popular Knife Reviews

1. Mora Classic 1 Carbon Steel Knife Review
2. Mora 2000 Outdoor Knife Review
3. Mora 2010 Bushcraft Forest Knife Review
4. Gerber Bear Grylls Ultimate Fixed Blade Survival Knife Review
5. Ontario Spec Plus Marine Raider Bowie Knife Review
6. Boker Plus Voxknives Rold Camp Knife Review
7. Spyderco Tenacious G-10 Plain Edge Knife Review
8. Spyderco Sage 1 Carbon Fiber Plain Edge Knife Review
9. Spyderco Sage 2 Titanium Plain Edge Knife Review
10. Gerber Bear Grylls Parang Machete Knife Review

As those who have visited this blog before will know, More Than Just Surviving is an Amazon affiliate. Over the span of the past year, our awesome community has made some kickass purchases through this site, proving our readers have extraordinary taste in survival and preparedness products. We’ve decided to feature these to show you just what other members of this community have been buying:

5 Most Popular Survival Gear Purchases on the Community

1. Lifestraw Personal Water Filter
2. Light My Fire Swedish Firesteel 12,000 Strike
3. The Friendly Swede Carabiner Grenade Survival Kit
4. Emergency Mylar Thermal Blankets
5. Coleman Match Holder

10 Most Popular Prepper Gear Purchases on the Community

1. Smith’s PP1 Pocket Pal Multifunction Sharpener
2. Potable Aqua Water Treatment Tablets
3. Blocklite Mini Compact Size LED Flashlight
4. Gerber Shard Keychain Tool
5. 100 Hour Plus Emergency Candle
6. 98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive
7. Streamlight 73001 Nano Miniature Keychain LED Flashlight
8. Quikclot Advanced Clotting Sponge
9. P-38 Can Opener & P-51 Can Opener
10. Ultralight Backpacking Canister Camp Stove

10 Most Popular Knife Purchases on the Community

1. Mora Classic 1 / Mora Classic 2
2. Mora Companion
3. Condor Tool and Knife Jungle Bowie
4. Gerber Bear Grylls Ultimate Fixed Blade Pro
5. Tops SURV-TAC 7
6. Mora Craftline HighQ
7. Kershaw Leek
8. Kellam Wolverine / Kellam Puukko
9. Spyderco Endura 4
10. Spyderco Sage 2

A lot of the products you guys bought on Amazon actually had us green with envy! Some products bought through this site that we’re especially fond of:

Survival/Prepper Gear You’ve Bought That We (Really) Want

1. Ka-Bar TDI Law Enforcement Knife
2. Oneida Victor Conibear Trap
3. BudK Czech M10 Gas Mask With Filter & Drinking Tube
4. Ka-Bar Becker BK3 Tac Tool Fixed Blade Knife
5. Maxpedition FR-1 Pouch
6. Type-III 4pc Liquid Filled Slip-on Compass Set for Watchband

That concludes our blog’s year 1 highlights! Thanks so much to all of you for sharing our first year with us. Without your comments and encouragement, and without you sharing our articles on forums + social media, it’d be a dry spell of tumbleweed over here: we’d just be twiddling our thumbs out of boredom.

It’s definitely no fun making content for ourselves! I daresay we would’ve called it quits if it weren’t for your messages & support.

So thank you. And with all the hope that our next year will be even better than our first: Here’s to a killer second year!