We’ve talked about diapers and why it is wise to stock cloth ones. One of the main reasons for acquiring cloth “nappies” is because you would quickly be in a literal mess if disposables stopped showing up regularly on store shelves. The same would be true with disposable baby wipes. Most parents are accustomed to […]
February 20, 2012
Just about every preparedness guide will tell you to store wheat and lots of it. What many do not say is that there are different types of wheat and it matters which types you buy and what you do with each. Whole grains should be an important part of most people’s diets, so why isn’t […]
February 18, 2012
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
February 17, 2012
If you have made the decision that you would like to try your hand at keeping some chickens in your backyard, there are a few considerations that you might want to make first, and although you have probably thought of some of these, there just might be a few that might come as a surprise.
February 16, 2012
The Gross Domestic Product, the Consumer Price Index, the National Debt, and even the Annual Deficit. What do all of these economic indicators really mean? Or does it really matter? Wouldn’t those in Washington tell us if things were really bad? Sometimes we can get so wrapped up in the specifics of how we are […]
February 15, 2012
As tax time approaches, many of us are getting our financial documents in order for the April 15th deadline, just two months from now. We’re collecting our receipts and organizing our deductions, making sure that we have all of the necessary information to paint a complete picture for our annual returns. This got me to […]
February 14, 2012
It seems that at some point, just about everyone suffers from a soft tissue injury from either repetitive motion or maybe an accidental twist. The first time I sprained an ankle was when I was five. My younger sister had run off across a grocery store and I tore off after her (to tell her […]
February 13, 2012
There have been fads in cooking and diet for decades. There was the cabbage soup diet, the oat bran craze of the late 80’s, carbophobia from the Atkins Diet, and so on. But the element of the American diet that seems to have had the most swings in it over time is the question of […]
February 11, 2012
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. ~ Benjamin Franklin
February 10, 2012
Sam Winston’s novel What Came After is a different type of post-collapse story. It is set around 2050 and only the old-timers remember the world the way it was “before.” The United States has devolved into only 3 categories of people- Ownership, Management, and the “generics.” Ownership is made up of the ultra-rich, mostly those […]
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February 21, 2012
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