Years prior to 2008, I was a daily shopper – never thinking past the next day. My routine was much like many other people I knew – I would get up, go to work, and stop on the way home to “pick up what’s for dinner!” I would get aggravated Read more…
We’ve all experienced hardships and unexpected life changing events in our lives. It seems that every time you turn on the news that worldwide natural disasters seem to be the norm. Of course it could be a personal unexpected hardship, like an illness, death, divorce, or unemployment. “They” say many Read more…
We use a common sense approach to prepping; it’s a way of life for us. I am all about practical preparedness. Because my husband and I live the art of practical preparedness, we have a great life. We are so used to our way of life that it is Read more…
I grew up in a single parent family in the 70’s. Money incredibly tight and my mother was exceptionally frugal. I was the youngest of two so “hand me downs” were the story of my life. We ate many pancake suppers and wasting of food was never aloud. We were Read more…
Preparedness has been a way of life, taught to me through example, by my parents and grandparents. My grandparents were not a “preppers”—they were smart, hard-working farmers, who knew how to make the best of their resources—growing and canning their own food and being happy with what they had. Read more…
Even though it was 49 years ago, I still remember the WW2-era can of dried eggs sitting on the shelf in my extended family’s shared vacation cabin in the Arkansas Ozarks. I was five and remember my mother fussing as to why on earth my Aunt Mac thought she needed Read more…
For years we have talked about stocking up on food and water. And for years we did nothing about it. I think busy life and not really worrying was the culprit. Then I lost my job. At first I figured everything will be fine. I will get a job no Read more…
As a child, we didn’t call what my wife and I do now “prepping”. I don’t know what it was called, it was just what my family did. As I got older, I somehow lost those skills and the desire to keep them up. Shortly after getting married, my wife Read more…
All of us at one time or another think about “what ifs.” The fact is that because of our planning for some of the “what ifs” in life we have things that we purchase or do to prepare for them. Things like life insurance, auto insurance, medical insurance, disability insurance, Read more…
When I was growing up, I was raised by two grandmother’s. One a farmer’s wife who grew up thru the depression; farming didn’t make a lot of money but it did make food. The other grandmother escaped Nazi Germany before no one was allowed to leave. Both were very frugal Read more…