“Hey, let’s watch this!” I said to my husband as I flicked through the channels and landed on the National Geographic Channel’s “Doomsday Preppers”. “No, that’s not something I want to watch”, he replied with a look of disgust on his face. My sixteen year-old daughter voiced her agreement. “Why Read more…
Listen. This is a world of change. Tomorrow will be different than today, and none of us know how it will be different. We do not know what we need to prepare for, or what tomorrow brings for us, but there is a guiding force with you that can lead Read more…
Thought I might write in length about something that privately has concerned me …concerned not in an alarming or frantic way but more as in a ‘be prepared’ type of way…..yes I’m talking about “Prepping” and working on living a more self-sufficient way of life. My recent Facebook “Page Likes” Read more…
I’m A Couponing Prepper & Proud Of It! I began couponing heavily about a year ago. My fiancé was skeptical of the level of savings I was attaining until he went shopping with me and saw that I had saved over half off my bill (and I didn’t have many Read more…
As a child growing up in the 50s and 60s, my sweetest moments were at my uncle’s dairy farm in middle Georgia. The place was very large with multiple barns and a huge farmhouse with a wrap around porch. That porch hosted story telling, family lore, watermelon slicing, ice cream Read more…
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A couple of months back my wife called me to watch a new program called “DOOMS DAY PREPPERS.” All she said was just watch it then lets talk, well talk we did. We have been prepping for over 3 years, my wife is really great at finding wholesale web pages Read more…
I have dabbled in prepping for a long time but have only recently put forth a serious effort to become truly self-reliant. Several years ago while I was in graduate school I found myself unable to work as much as I had planned and thus without much money. It was Read more…
Why a self-reliant lifestyle? My mother had always taught us to be frugal. Always check the sales/clearance racks first when shopping, clean your plate, never do less than a full-load of laundry, cook from scratch, etc. I remember the occasional treat to eat out. We always ordered water and when Read more…
From the time I was a small girl growing up in Colorado, I knew I wanted to be a mom. So I married, had 2 children of my own, then became divorced. The children grew up and had children of their own, so I adopted 2 disabled children, both girls. Read more…