As someone who just moved and had to reduce her belongings drastically, the question asked hundreds of times a day was, “Am I going to use this?” The second question was “Will I need this?” Many things went down the road because of those two questions. Many things are still being decluttered because of those two questions. As a prepper and someone who desires to be self-sufficient, those questions create a paradox. Of course, I think that anything could be…
With our advanced technology, we have made ourselves vulnerable to attacks on our country’s infrastructure. Other countries and hackers have threatened us with cyberattacks for the last couple of decades, and we have been making enemies with powerful countries. We have entities in our country who want to cause trouble. We have already experienced cyberattacks in parts of our country. Losing electricity, utilities, cell service, and internet will cause chaos if the outages last long enough. Some people will lose…
I have been doing a lot of purging again. Some of the purgings I have been doing have been digital and some of it has been physical. Most of it has been helping my sanity in some way, shape, or form. I have a tendency to keep a lot of emails and then never really go back to them to do, make, or practice what that email was preaching on that given day. At one point, after cleaning up all…
Let us sit down and have a chat. Just you all and me. This is a conversation long in coming but needs to be had. Grab your beverage of choice, sit back, and relax.How has life been lately? Crazy? Busy? Too much to do, not enough time? Can’t keep up with the kids, the house, the job, and all the eleventy billion other commitments too?I get it. I totally get it. I have been there too.How is your prepping coming?…
Procrastination is basically the act of putting off doing things when they could be done now. I used to be a top-notch procrastinator until I realized it was a huge deterrent in my life. It was starting to cause a lot of problems. I believed that if I wasn’t getting things done, there must be a reason the universe didn’t want them done and who was I to challenge that? However, then there was the fact that I was a…
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…