Gift Ideas…A Uniform

What? You may remember we talked about creating a uniform to be warn in the case of evacuation. This can be a simple neck scarf, a baseball cap, a unique T shirt of your creation or a tie dye shirt. You are only limited by your imagination. The important idea is to have something that every member of the family can wear during an evacuation. If you should be separated it will be much easier for someone to remember...

Gift Ideas…Buy One Get One Free (BOGO)

I was shopping yesterday and walking up and down the isles just to check out the sales and it dawned on me, why not give that second item as a gift. Right now I am very involved in Pandemic research and, as you know we will be spending every Friday for awhile discussing it. As I purchased some vitamins that were BOGO I noticed there were lots of other items that were also BOGO. So I thought why not make up a gift of...

Gift Idea…Jelly

Yesterday I had a discussion with my daughter and she was saying she is really tired of bad news. Me too. It has been difficult living in California and watching as democracy is destroyed. So…I am going to share some fun positive things and decided to let you share some of my excitement today. A few months ago we purchase some bottles of black currant juice. It is very good for you but like so many things that...

Gift Ideas…Fire Starters

With the Dow taking another nose dive today and European counties reducing interest rates today in an attempt to save their economies, it is time to refocus on preparing ourselves and on savings ideas. We are not going to get depressed, we are going to continue to look at our glass as half full. I need your help. Please share what you are doing to stretch your dollar, how you have managed to build a food supply,...

Gift Ideas…Rice packs

You may wonder what this has to do with preparedness but I have recently been focusing my research and writing on a pandemic. This week I was asked by a son what to do for aches since he had the flu and I thought about rice packs. They would be so valuable for anyone suffering from a pandemic flu or just a migraine headache. If you are not familiar with a rice pack, it is a flannel sleeve with a cotton sleeve...