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Going From Lone Wolf To A Group Living Situation: How Would You Cope?

Going From Lone Wolf To A Group Living Situation: How Would You Cope?

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Living by yourself has some perks. You get to make all the decisions. You get to do what you want to do. You get to decide where to live and how to live.Living with others has some perks too. You generally have safety and security in numbers. More people to do the work helps get things done. More people usually results in smarter and better decision making.However, have you thought about what would happen if you went from being a…

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Is Your Home Ready For An Emergency? Four Things You Need To Do Now To Be Ready!

Is Your Home Ready For An Emergency? Four Things You Need To Do Now To Be Ready!

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Our home. We love coming home to it, resting in it, and just generally being home. Our homes are our safe places.Or are they?Getting our home ready for an emergency was not at the top of my list of things to do. That was really bad of me, but I was more focused on other areas of preparedness. This year, however, I have been made more aware of the fact that my home needs some improvements and some safety/emergency equipment….

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Monday Update From The Homestead – April 18

Monday Update From The Homestead – April 18

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Hello! We are having some very lovely temperatures here! The wind seems to want to blow too, but it feels so good to be outside soaking up the sun.We got a fair amount of yard work done. The branches are piled up in three piles around the house and will be loaded into a trailer. Some of it will be burned and some of it will become mulch for the garden. The kids did most of that work as well…

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I Have Been Prepping For Five Years, Now What? A Review Checklist for the Long-Term Prepper

I Have Been Prepping For Five Years, Now What? A Review Checklist for the Long-Term Prepper

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Many of us have been prepping for quite a while. We started by getting some more food, a few cases of water, and some gear. Then prepping took over our lives and we now have a lot of prepping things and a good size food and water storage. I have been prepping for longer than five years, but I know that I have areas of my prepping I need to revisit. I bet you do too. As I have been decluttering…

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Monday Update From The Homestead – April 4

Monday Update From The Homestead – April 4

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Happy April! April seems to be the month that truly feels like Spring to me. That may be because the weather and temperatures seem to be better. We have had great temps the last couple days, but of course the wind has been blowing hard! We haven’t gotten much done outside as a result.And sorry about missing last week’s update. My mind went somewhere else last week and I totally forgot about this on Monday!Rob accepted a welder position at…

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Monday Update From The Homestead – March 14

Monday Update From The Homestead – March 14

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This has been another busy week on the homestead. Every week seems busy, but some weeks just wear you out. However, this last week wasn’t too bad. We have been doing a lot of little things. Cleaning out the garage and getting the doors to work right has been fun. I had to go to Menards Saturday morning and I got two new springs which should make all three garage doors operational now. Rob is also adding buttons to the outside…

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