Have you ever been in a room at night when the power goes out? I’m sure you have. If you have had your kids with you when that happened, what was their reaction? Probably a gasp or a slight cry if they were older or maybe an outright cry if […]
Author: Karen Morris
5 Steps to Prepare for a Tornado & Five Steps to Recover from its Aftermath
I grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania. Not exactly considered tornado alley, but I can remember two distinct occasions where waterspouts (tornadoes over water) were spotted near our house. Because we weren’t plagued with tornadoes, we didn’t really even think about tornado preparedness. Well, my family didn’t think much about preparedness […]
Developing an Effective Emergency Communications Plan
Friday is our busy day of the week and happily so. It’s our shopping day, but what if while we were out shopping there was a power loss? I oftentimes leave older children at home. Sometimes they babysit one or more of my ‘younger’ children. If I’m out, some of […]
10 Kits to Put Together Today to Be Ready for Tomorrow
Pop quiz time 1.) Where is the closest flashlight to you at this moment? 2.) Do you have an air filtration mask and could you put your hand on it in two minutes or less? 3.) What items do you have to keep your house cool and where do you […]
Financial Preparedness – 18 Honest Ways to Earn Money From Home
If you are working a steady 9-5 type job and you work for only one employer, you are still in the majority. There is another type of person going from one job to another either during the same day or in the form of temporary work or they work for multiple […]
Start Prepping Here – Prepping for Personal Safety – Part 1
When I was newly married and living on a college campus with my husband, one evening I went out to pick up a few things at the grocery store, not a half a mile away. My husband owned a car when we got married, so I drove it to the […]
Love, Learn, Practice, Overcome
For a long time, the tagline at the end of my blog posts or newsletters has been, “Remember, knowledge isn’t knowing something, it’s living it.” That tagline communicates part of what I’m about here. It’s easy to sit here and to “Monday morning quarterback” preparedness. I enjoy reading and learning interesting […]
Items People Forget to Prep — A Dirty Little Secret
Preparedness. It’s as simple as being prepared. For what are we preparing. Some people start with TEOTWAWKI aka The End of the World as We Know it. While that is not outside the realm of possibility, it is much more likely that something much smaller than TEOTWAWKI. It may be […]
Broken Bones and Preparedness
So a week ago last Monday, I was out running errands with my family. My youngest daughter had an orthodontist appointment. Ethan, my middle son needed some new dress pants, new tennis shoes, and strings for his new-to-us (but used) cello. My oldest daughter needed some buttons for a shirt […]
8 OTC Items That Could Save Your Life
This article, written by me, was originally posted over at The Organic Prepper. In preparation for an emergency situation in the medical realm, there are some fairly inexpensive OTC items that could potentially save your life during an SHTF situation. Now I am NOT a doctor, and I don’t play […]
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