Our General Store…Lessons From a Family Reunion…Spoons, Forks and Condiments

The past week we gathered as a family, all 18 of us. A reunion is a great time to evaluate your storage and your real needs if you should have to survive on it. We went through boxes….of cold cereal. Of course in a real emergency we would have been eating our oatmeal and other hot cereal as well as pancakes but boy did we go through cereal! We wrote our names on our paper cups but if a drink was left...

Money Saving Tips, Vinegar and Your Laundry

Times are tough and getting tougher for many. Many mainstream economists are predicting continued economic downturn and some are even encouraging us to prepare for hyper inflation. I wish I had the ability to tell you exactly what the future holds but I do not. I only know and understand that it is my responsibility to warn others when I have been warned. I have read and studied and thus I have been warned. I am...

Our General Store…Vinegar, Latex GLoves and Veggies

We have been focusing for awhile now on preparing to live without power. WE have had natural disasters to stay on top of and the usual posts, such as Tips of the Week and Money Saving Tips have been absent. I felt it was important to focus on threats to the poser grid as it is expensive to prepare for outages. Dutch ovens, water purifiers and generators all take a big chunk out of the budget so I felt giving...

Survival Tip: Heatwaves Deadly Unless you take Precautions

Heat waves are dangerous and they are deadly. Rolling blackouts and power outages are a real possibility and make matters even worse. There are things you can do to make the time safer for your friends and family. Don’t wait to take action. Do it now. Following are a few steps you can take to help make heat waves a little more bearable: It’s O.K. to raid your 72 hour kit… That’s right, 72 hour...

More Talk About Water…SODIS

With all the solar activity this past week and more on the way we are going to continue some options for living off the grid, just in case. A major concern is always water. For those on a well this is crucial to survival and for those relying on municipal systems there may also be days or weeks when the treatment plant is not operating or not operating at full capacity. After hurricanes, wild fires,...