50 Important Homesteading Skills and Tips (With Links)
We all know that skills are critical to survival and more. As preppers, we know that skills will make or break us. As homesteaders, without skills, you will fail on your homestead.
16 Ways To Not Waste Food (and Use Up The Leftovers)
One of the biggest problems facing the world today is food. Particularly how much food is wasted when there are so many people who would be happy to eat it. Grocery stores throw out perfectly good food every day and lock it into dumpsters. Restaurants scape tons of food into the trash every day because people do not finish their meals and don’t wish to take them home.In other words, food waste is a real problem! The problem isn’t limited…
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…
15 Tips For You To Reset Your Finances and Get Back on Track
Sometimes you go through life like you own it. You have your priorities right, your life in order, and everything going well.
Then, wham! You get hit with a medical emergency. You lose your spouse. You get divorced or separated. You have to suddenly move. You are faced with bills you did not realize you owed and now are in collections.
55 Ways to Save Money on Your Utilities
In the twenty-plus years of paying utility bills and growing up in a house that was very conscious of its water and electricity use, I have learned some tips and tricks to reduce those costs. Some of these tips will not cost you a thing and will provide immediate results. Some results will not be immediately seen. For some of these tips, you will need to pay to save. You will need to purchase items that will pay for themselves over time.
25 Ways to Save Money by Extreme Living and Saving
In other words, you will need to practice a level of frugality that most of us don’t want to think about. I call this poverty living. We are all living (or should be living) at a level of frugality that seems a little tight, but sometimes we need to get a lot tighter.