Do you like fish? We do. We like fishing and eating what we catch. Most times we are just fishing for lake or river trout, which we don’t filet, but sometimes we get fish that are bigger or hard scaled, and those are perfect for fileting! This filet method works great on a variety of […]
14 Non-Electronic Ways to Keep the Kids Entertained on the Family Road Trip
Summer travel time is coming! I love traveling with my family, but we’re cheap/frugal/poor, so we don’t usually fly anywhere, we just go places within driving distance. We do road trips more often than anything, and we’ve been doing them for a LOT of years. When I first wrote this, we also didn’t have a […]
2 Minute Preparedness Tip: Date Your Supplies
Dating your food and other rotatable preparedness supplies like batteries or cleaners, helps keep things fresh and usable in your storage. Here’s how I do it. First, I use a Sharpie to mark the date or circle the expiration date on food items when I bring them home from the store so I can easily […]
Top 5 Tips to Make Heating Your Home with a Wood Stove Easier
Heating your home with a wood stove. It sounds so warm. And cozy. And romantic. You know, sitting by the fireplace in your pajamas with your hot cocoa and a good book kind of romantic. But those of you who heat your homes with a wood stove know that it is, well, not as easy […]
2 Minute Preparedness Tip: Practice Makes Perfect
I recently had the opportunity to act in a play with my local community theater. Although I was a theater major in college, I studied the tech end, not the acting end, and hadn’t acted in front of a real audience since grade school. I included some pictures here to prove it really happened! I […]
Don’t Toss that Wax! Make an Instant Fire Starter from Your Scented Wax Melter
Okay, I know most of you have some sort of melter for scented wax in your house, right? Yes? I held out for a lot of years, but finally got convinced to get one by a friend of mine. So now I have a stinky wax melter in my house and it smells divine. Especially […]
Five Ways Amazon Prime Makes Preparing Easy
Amazon.com’s membership service, Amazon Prime, offers quite a few perks to the average user. But how useful is it for getting you prepared? I’ve analyzed the service through a preparedness lens and here are five fantastic ways Amazon Prime makes preparing easy. 1. Free 2-day shipping Valid on 20 million items available on Amazon.com with […]
27+ Clever Ways to Use Dandelions
Hold off on the weed spray! That shining yellow flower that pops up all over creation in the spring doesn’t need to be eradicated. Although dandelions are typically thought of as a pesky weed, they are entirely edible from root to bloom and have many other uses as well. So if your world is being […]
How to Make Soap: Cold Process with Oatmeal
Have you been wanting to make your own soap at home but not sure how to do it? Well I’m going to walk you through soap making using the cold process. Now, the name “cold process” is a bit misleading. Things still get hot as you’ll see. But we’re not stirring everything together in a […]
Quick and Easy Centerpieces from Wine Glasses and Votive Candles
Want a table centerpiece that is easy to make and still looks fabulous? These inverted wine glass centerpieces are super simple (even the kids or us non-crafty folk can make them), very inexpensive (a lot of the supplies you probably have on hand or could forage), and so classy! Gather your supplies. You’ll need: Wine […]
