As the country was plunged into a deep freeze over the week of Christmas, it created problems for many people from cancelled flights, to frozen pipes as far south even as Austin, Texas! Our family was no exception. We ended up with frozen (and eventually burst) pipes and therefore no […]
Sanitation
Keeping yourself clean is something we often take for granted, but what if one day you were without water? How would you keep not just yourself, but your dishes and house clean? And in case you think that’s not important, a house that is not clean can easily harbor more germs and bacteria than one that is routinely cleaned. This means that cleaning can health can often go hand in hand. We discuss how to deal with hygiene and sanitation issues in this blog category.
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 […]
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. […]
Our Year Started with a Shivering Bang
Our journey toward being more self-sufficient started with food storage, but it didn’t end there. A situation we lived through last week made me very glad that our journey didn’t begin and end with food storage. So, our 2018 started with a bang, around 7:30 the morning of January 1st, […]
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