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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
If you are working a steady 9-5 type job and you work for only one employer, you are still in the majority. There is another type of person going from one job to another either during the same day or in the form of temporary work or they work for multiple […]
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 […]
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 […]
