In your heart of hearts, what’s your dream? You know, that dream that you haven’t told anyone – except maybe your husband or your best friend. That dream that you’ve held close for a long time and hardly dared to whisper it for fear it wouldn’t come true. Well, dreams […]
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7 Simple Food Storage Breakfast Ideas
If you’ve read my book – A Year Without the Grocery Store or gone through my Companion Workbook, you know that I highly suggest deciding on 7 food storage breakfasts, 7 food storage lunches, and 7 food storage dinners to help plan your short-term food storage menu. Sometimes it’s hard […]
5 Vegetables to Grow Indoors During Winter
Especially in northern climates, the winter months can not only mean a dearth of as much outdoor activity as we’d like. Maybe I’m the only one that the cold keeps bottled up, but I’m guessing I’m not alone. This time of year with its cold temperatures and short times of […]
Normal People Preparing for TEOTWAWKI – Making Your Home into a Castle
I’ve written a good deal about TEOTWAWKI. We’ve had a discussion on TEOTWAWKI vs. Bugging out 1 and 2. After that, I covered Finding and Storing Water During TEOTWAWKI and Food Systems to Put Into Place for TEOTWAWKI. I’ve discussed Sanitation Systems and Survival Medical Systems. I’ve also asked the […]
What’s Holding Most People Back From Being Prepared – Part 2
So in part one of this two-article set, we discussed the two major sources of debt in our lives – Mortgage debt and car debt. ***There are links in this post. Some of the links may be affiliate links. My promise to you is that I will only recommend the […]
What’s Holding Many Back from Being More Prepared?
Americans are known for lots of things. We are known for our love of baseball and football, for apple pie, eating out, pick up trucks, and DEBT. The average person in the United States currently carries more debt than we ever have before. According to Money Magazine as a people in […]
How our Preparedness Needs to Change as a Result of This Election – Part 2
So in the last blog post, we started talking about how our preparedness needs to change as a result of this election. The main thing that we discussed was Food Security. In this second blog post, I want to address four further areas of Security that really need to change […]
How Our Preparedness Needs to Change As a Result of This Election – Part 1
Preparedness was the last thing on my mind last Saturday afternoon. I was at a lady’s tea for my church when I heard a notification from my phone go off saying that Biden had won the election. It wasn’t what I was expecting and put a little bit of a […]
Join The Prepared Vehicle Challenge – Prizes Awarded!
Life Is Busy In a recent blog post, I gave you all a recap of what is going on in my life right now. My husband who was an elder at our church was recently made the pastor of our church. And for me, I’ve been immersed in projects. One […]
What a Dream Can Do – The Journey of A Year Without the Grocery Store
Dreams More than three years ago, I had a dream. I thought about writing a book. A lot of people dream about it. Perhaps you’ve dreamed about it. But I didn’t do that on my own. I wanted to take a class that walked me through writing my book step […]

