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Frugal Disaster Prep
September is National Preparedness Month in the USA, and Fema has some things for you to do to be prepared. In fact, they recommend that every household have a disaster kit on hand. Here are a couple of frugal ways to start that disaster kit. How I dehydrated my own beans. Food supplies you don’t [...]
Creativity Or An Act Of Desperation?
Standing outside gazing at windows with Home Inspector, I mentally questioned his comments. Many of the windows of the home we hoped to purchase had a staining in color of what I might call “coffee with cream and sugar.” Home Inspector assured me this was paint that must have mistakenly hit the windows while being [...]
The Love Language of Gifts
A while back my husband and I had an interesting discussion with another couple about gift giving. Her husband had grown up as a missionary child in an African country. Poverty was something he saw every day. She had grown up in North America, her parents were older when she was born, and they went [...]
You CAN save more on your power bill; are you willing?
A reader over at my personal blog Life in a Shoe left me a fascinating link from Generation Cedar. It seems that the author’s neighbors have gone to extremes to cut the power bill for their large house and very large family to just $65/month. Some of their changes were over-the-top for our family. Others [...]
7 Important questions to help you prioritize your storage
a short excerpt from my upcoming e-book: There are two keys to good stewardship when it comes to storage: organization, and priorities. You can prioritize by asking yourself 7 important questions before you store an item: Will I use it again within a year? Would I really miss it if it disappeared, or would I forget [...]
New month, new you
Last month, I switched to cloth diapers and homemade laundry soap. Both were surprisingly smooth changes, especially since we had several inglorious blowouts in disposable diapers during the changeover process. If we weren’t convinced when we started out, we were convinced by the time we finished cleaning up. I’m trying several new things this month, [...]
