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Financial burdens hit everyone. How do you both, reactively, deal with those challenges as well as proactively prepare for them? We discuss that in this category.
If you’ve been around here for awhile, you know that I am not at all alarmist. I don’t work on fearmongering. I usually just present ways for all of us to prepare more, to live better, do more with less, or to teach you more skills. But something is going […]
Oftentimes we think of Preparedness in terms of what we have. Do we have enough groceries to go A Year Without the Grocery Store? How about making sure that we have enough personal care items or household repair supplies? That can feel so overwhelming in itself, but it also pigeonholes […]
October. It’s usually in October when the days get crisp and the nights start to feel frigid. There usually comes one day that I just can’t take it any further. I feel the overwhelming obligation to flip the switch on our thermostat from “cool” to “heat.” On that evening that […]
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 […]
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 […]
When we consider financial preparedness, it is so easy to sit in our homes, watching our TV’s (or computers) and to belly-ache about how costs are rising or how it’s hard to make ends meet. It’s both as simple as income vs. outgo and NOT as simple as income vs. […]
Have you been here? You’re standing in Wal-Mart and you see that canning supplies are on a mega-uber sale. Do you buy them? I’ve picked things up, put them in my cart, walked through the store and picked up other things on my list. Then toward the end of picking […]
It’s August already, can you believe it? I’ve already seen people announcing that there are only142 days until Christmas. I mean, like really?!? But without clicking away too soon, let’s talk Christmas just for a second. Each of us handles Christmas differently. Usually, I’ve started purchasing my Christmas gifts already, […]
Guess what time it is? No, I don’t mean what time it is on the clock. If you haven’t picked your head up out of your desk in a while so that you can be assaulted by fliers from Office Max – Office Depot – Staples – and others, It’s […]
I consider myself a prepper – not a crazy doomsday type of prepper, but an every day, make sure my family is taken care of kinda prepper. If you’re reading this, you probably consider yourself somewhat of a prepper. Oftentimes, we have extra food in the basement, cases of water […]
