Have you ever heard the saying you can not plan too much? I didn’t believe that saying either until 2-3 years ago. When Shali went to high school, I suddenly understood this saying in all its glory. One of the areas I knew I had to get my act together in was meal planning. Meal planning is extremely important! I pride myself on having a thorough pantry that I can pull a lot of meals from, but when the clock…
I have Cleaning House Guilt (CHG). Does anyone else ever get this? I think it should classified as an illness, but I doubt any doctor would take me seriously. I just know that when I get CHG, it takes over my life. I start to view myself as lazy and undisciplined. I come home from work, sit down for a few minutes and…see a mess. I see everything I promised myself I would get done. Yesterday. Three weeks ago. Last…
This whole no spend thing has been very hard to maintain these last 6 weeks. We have been more creative in finding no-money solutions, but we have had a series of mishaps that has made the no spend months almost null and void. The series of mishaps and forced spending has included: 1. The air conditioning in my van ceased to exist due to leaks in two lines. No this has not been fixed yet, but I have already spent…
***Just a note of warning: Blog posts will be a bit irregular because our home computer crashed last night. It will be going to the repair shop and get fixed or rebuilt. Either way, hopefully soon! Anyhoo…back to the regular post for today! The canning update! I will laugh because I don’t have a lot to update you on. The very intense heat of the last few weeks has all but killed my garden. Half a row of beautifully producing…
Water is extremely important in preparedness and self-sufficiency. A person can only live three days without water. How much water does a person need to store? Ideally, a gallon a day per person for drinking water. For non-drinking water, I don’t think you can have enough water stored. How many days of water storage do you need? This would depend on what you are preparing for. Right now, I am planning and buying three days’ worth of gallon size containers…
What about the cost of preparedness? Well, what about the cost? I think of the costs of preparedness in a few different ways. The monetary costs of preparedness can be a lot or a little, depending on what you are preparing for. You have to decide on what you can afford and what you can’t afford to live without. Most of what you buy and stockpile can be done cheaply and over time. You have to think about your priorities…