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Five Tips on How To Declutter and Get Organized While Still Being A Prepper

Five Tips on How To Declutter and Get Organized While Still Being A Prepper

Being a clean and organized prepper can be difficult at times. You want to accumulate and keep all the things that you might need. You want to be sure you have everything you need. You want to be sure to have everything you might need. You aren’t sure what you will need or not need though.Pretty soon, you have a lot of stuff, not enough room, and can’t find anything. Not being able to find what you need which a…

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Prepper’s Dehydrator Handbook Book Review

Prepper’s Dehydrator Handbook Book Review

(This book was sent to me to review. I am not being paid to review this book, however, there will be affiliate links attached to this review. There is no pressure or expectation to purchase anything unless you feel like this book would be an awesome addition to your library!)One of the major areas of food storage is dehydrated food. Dehydrated food lasts a long time stored properly. However, this area of food storage can be a little tricky. Can…

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My 10 Favorite Frugal Living/Financial Books To Read and To Give

My 10 Favorite Frugal Living/Financial Books To Read and To Give

Finances are a hot topic any day. We are all looking for ways to save money and ways to better spend our money. With daily and monthly expenses threatening to overwhelm us, who wouldn’t be interested in how to make our dollars go further? Financial preparedness is just as important as emergency preparedness. We need to be ready for anything. Making a dollar go further, saving money, and getting out of debt should be at the top of our prepping…

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Five Types of Items You Should Not Have in Your Preps

Five Types of Items You Should Not Have in Your Preps

When you first start prepping, you are just focused on accumulating the goods. You think you need so much stuff and there is a lot of advertisements that will convince you that you need a lot more.You know you need to focus on skills, but in the course of learning the skills, you still need the stuff to learn them. Everywhere you turn, you need things to be prepared.However, you are not always sure what to have on hand to…

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Shop Small Businesses This Holidays!

Shop Small Businesses This Holidays!

The day after Black Friday is Small Business Saturday. Why do corporate businesses come before small businesses? Because they have the money for advertising and mind control. They have bigger budgets, more staff, and more time to infiltrate your consciousness and convince you to spend your hard-earned money on them. However, small businesses should be taking precedence this holiday season and all year round. Why? Because small businesses are the backbone of this country. We couldn’t live without them. All…

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Stay Home on Black Friday. Shop Small. Shop Local.

Stay Home on Black Friday. Shop Small. Shop Local.

(Originally posted in 2013. Revised and expanded for 2018. The views of the author haven’t changed!)Black Friday shopping can be crazy. Stores opening at midnight if they even closed at all. Standing in line and getting a ticket to buy an item at significant savings. Most of the time people are buying things they don’t really need. They are missing out on time with family and friends to go shopping. Employees are missing out on time with family and friends…

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