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 […]
Author: Karen Morris
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 […]
How to Hide Your Preps in Plain Sight
Sometimes it’s hard. We have all this stuff – all these prepper gadgets and gizmos, and these are GOOD to have. The problem hits when people can easily find them, or they know about them even if they are tucked away. Or what if we’ve really maxed out our storage […]
Stuff People Forget to Prep – Home Repair Supplies
When things are going along smoothly, how often do you find yourself running to the hardware store to pick up things to repair something that broke or was damaged by a child or (oops) by yourself? But what if something happens and a trip to the hardware store isn’t […]
Start Prepping Here – The “Why” You Do The Things You Do
Everyone has reasons for everything that they do, even when they don’t know what those reasons are.  Sometimes people may even know why they are doing what they are doing, but they can’t even express it in words. Our prepping has reasons behind it too. Why We Do What We […]
Stuff People Forget to Prep – Medical Preps
So I sat down to start working on this week’s blog posts, but I opened my blogging planner but realized that I had had a brilliant idea for a short blog post series that I hadn’t written in my planner. Seriously, I mean it was brilliant. I remembered sitting at […]
Is There too Much Month Left at the End of Your Money?
You can find the first three parts of this Financial Preparedness series here, here, and here. Pretend with me that it’s August 20th. You head to your pantry to see what you can make for dinner and realize that the pantry is rather sparse. Since you don’t want to dig […]
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