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Working through situations mentally BEFORE we go through them is tantamount to our success as we tackle situations. What are effective ways to mentally equip ourselves to handle whatever situations life throws at us? This is the category on the blog where you’ll find information on mental preparedness.
These last two weeks I’ve been blogging more, but other than that, I’ve been doing a whole lot of nothing. I’ve been watching through Survivor, which has been a lot of fun, but I’ve not really DONE a lot. But something about the quarantine really really hit me today. We […]
The great thing about getting to the end of a year is that we get a real chance to stop and look back at the year that we’re just finishing. So much has changed this year, and I wanted to take some time and reflect and share some of the […]
Do you consider yourself to be someone who is into preparedness? Are you striving to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle? Are you dabbling or are you all in? No matter which one you find yourself fitting into better, there are six downfalls that I notice are common among most people […]
Have you ever watched Doomsday Preppers? They paint quite a vivid (and not realistic) picture of preparedness – both survivalists and homesteaders. It’s kinda like this meme. Everyone sees us in different ways. Have you ever considered that there are different types of preppers and that perhaps the type […]
I was having a conversation with a friend recently. She has, unbeknownst to me, been reading some of my articles on “Normal People Preparing for TEOTWAWKI.” She said she read through the whole article waiting for me to tell her what the acronym TEOTWAWKI meant, and……well…..I didn’t. So that got […]
Life Throws Us Curveballs And curveballs can make us feel stuck. While January of 2018 started with frozen pipes. In January of this year, we lost $1,000 in income each month. We knew that it was coming. We understood the reasons behind it. While we weren’t thrilled, we were okay […]
Ever Had a Prepper Shovel? I recently planted some blackberry and raspberry bushes in our front yard. It was HARD work. Once you get down below about 3-4 inches of topsoil, our ground is clay. I was using an old shovel to plant the majority of our bushes. Even just […]
