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 […]
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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 […]
Mom on the Run – Launch Team Invitation
Who is the “Mom on the Run?” If you’re a mom, that person is likely YOU. Next to home – and maybe work – the single location where many of us spend the next largest chunk of our time is in our vehicles. And while we often take time to […]
Locked Out: Stranded without Essentials
It’s one thing to get locked out of your house or your car when you have your purse, your phone, or other helpful tools at your fingertips. But what do you do when circumstances leave you without anything at your disposal? So my husband is a pastor of our local […]
Frozen Pipes and No Water? No Problem!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]