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Thrive Life Spring Sale
Preparing Our Finances, Saving Money

Freeze Dried Food Sale – Prices Up to 50% Off! **Starts 4/18/23**

If you are in the market for beefing up your food storage, starting tomorrow – Tuesday, April 18th, you’ll have an opportunity to take advantage of Thrive Life’s Freeze Dried Food Sale. I’ve been purchasing through Thrive Life for nine years, and we still regularly use their foods.  I believe […]

Preparing Our Finances, Saving Money

Prepper Steals and Deals

  Show of hands.  Who is rolling in the dough with so much extra money to spare right now? Hmmm… I’m not seeing a lot of hands up.  Probably because you all are in a similar situation to us.  Money is tight right now.  I’m pinchin’ pennies so hard that […]

Garden, Preparing Our Homestead

Setting Up Your 2023 Garden for Success in 2022

I don’t know about you, but when we finished pulling our produce out of our garden this year, I wanted it to be DONE.  Strangely enough, that’s also the time that we began to dream of what next year’s garden will look like.  But there’s a problem.  What do we […]

Sacrifice of Praise
From Karen

The Sacrifice of Praise – Thanksgiving

It’s Thanksgiving week.  Oftentimes, this week or this month is one that we take to reflect on the things that we are thankful for.   But, I’m betting some of you out there have had a rough year.  Some of you may have lost a loved one.  Maybe you were diagnosed […]

Preparing Our Finances, Preparing Our Homestead

The Coming Diesel Shortage – and What We’re Doing About It

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 […]

Cooking from Scratch, Preparing Our Food and Water

5 Food Storage Soups for Fall

The days are still fairly warm, but the evenings are starting to get chilly.  After the sun goes down, which is earlier and earlier, I can’t sit out on our back porch swing without a jacket or sweater.  Fall is definitely in the air around here.  The trees, which have […]

5 Ways to Light Your House During a Power Outage
Lighting Without Power, Preparing Our House Systems

5 Ways to Light Your House During a Power Outage

It’s ALMOST Fall!  With fall, we can often experience storms – especially where we live on the prairie.  And one of the results of having little storms on the prairie (too much?) is our power tends to go out fairly easily.  So how do we make sure that we’re ready […]