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 […]
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Be Crafty: Learn to Crochet
By: Joanne Jones One of the best feelings is to snuggle under a handmade blanket on a cold night. The feeling of knowing that someone cared enough about me to make sure I was warm and thought of at the same time. There is something almost magical being wrapped in […]
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 […]
September Is National Preparedness Month!
You’ve had those times, haven’t you? You have one month to get some kind of big project done. Maybe you are helping organize a wedding. It’s the last month before the wedding and you feel like there’s so much to get done in just a little time. Maybe you remember […]
Homesteading in the Burbs – Fall Is on its Way
I saw a meme on Facebook the other day. Something along these lines: I have a love/hate relationship with fall. I really do adore the cooler temperatures, the beauty of the falling leaves. Yes, I do love sweaters, and (*gasp*) pumpkin! But I hate what fall represents. Fall means that […]
A Prepper’s Best Friend! How to Prepare, Season, and Cook with Cast Iron
You know who your best friend is. It’s the person that you spend all your time with. It’s the person that you’re careful to guard that relationship, to nurture it. You do things for your best friend that you wouldn’t do for just anyone. You buy gifts for that person if you […]
Homesteading in the Burbs – One Aspect of Prepping that Looks “Normal”
According to Wikipedia, homesteading is “a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. It is characterized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of food, and may also involve small-scale production of textiles, clothing, and craftwork for household use or sale.” Self-sufficiency It’s an important thing to consider when we’re talking about homesteading in the suburbs. […]
Family Sanity Preparedness – Boredom Busters
I’m a mom of five children. And even though we homeschool and we limit our kids time on media – both games and movies, it is amazing how when the electricity goes out summer, winter, or in between, the phrase out of several of my children’s mouths isn’t, “Mom, I’m […]
Do You Believe in Financial Preparedness?
Financial Preparedness and Good Friday Seven and a half years ago I was sitting in church on Good Friday. Dutiful Mom that I was, I had all four of my little ‘ducklings’ in a row (#5 was still in the middle of brewing) because my husband was in front of […]
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