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“Nothing was so likely to do her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home.” Jane Austen
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Last week we had a cord of firewood delivered. We don't heat with firewood, but use it for cozy enjoyment all autumn and winter. We do, however, count the fireplace as a backup heat source. Because we live in an area with a long winter, this is important. David has started stacking the wood and will slowly finish it over the next several days as …
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Are you ready for living and thriving in the Grand Solar Minimum? I hope so. In fact, I hope it so much that I have created an entire website devoted to this. The idea actually came from my brother, Craig. It brings together several things we've been discussing in recent months as well as our different areas of expertise. Craig specializes in …
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Use this free emergency information printable to organize all of your most critical details in one place. By planning ahead, you are ensuring whoever might be at your home has the ability to get help quickly. This free emergency information printable makes it easy to put all of your most important contact information in one place. Although you …
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As I wrote in Embracing the Simplicity of Homemaking, I believe every woman is a homemaker. If you are a woman and you have a place to live, you are making a home. It might be just for you or it might be for many people, but you are a homemaker. Homemakers need encouragement as they go through their responsibilities each day and so I've …
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If you have children, you will want to think through how you are going to handle these topics of pantry building and emergency preparedness with them. This is especially true if doing things like this is a big departure from what is normal in your home and/or you have children prone to anxiety about the unknown. That said, I do think there are a …
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Although most people will build a pantry over time by shopping at their local grocery store, sometimes it makes sense to purchase a food supply or food storage pack. In this post, let's look at what kinds of emergency foods are available and who might benefit from investing in emergency supply pack. When I originally wrote this post several …
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Unsafe water and waterborne disease kill more people worldwide than anything else – violence, war, etc. We won’t get into all the statistics here, but they are grim in a way that’s hard for people in a first world country to begin to comprehend. Walking miles each day for safe water is so far out of our frame of reference it almost doesn’t compute. …
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There are many kinds of emergencies that we actually know about in advance such as storms. Our local meteorologist recently said that they can now forecast the weather more accurately five days out than they could two days out when he started decades ago. So with current technology, we usually know about coming storms such as hurricanes, blizzards, …
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There are zillions of articles about emergency preparedness. However, I have three different pieces of advice that I rarely see mentioned. Why is that? I think many of the people who write such articles are interested in either selling you a product or are hyper-focused on accumulating "stuff" to survive the apocalypse. I'm taking a different …
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Understanding and preparing for emergencies is a key part of being a prudent and prepared homemaker. What follows in this post was originally written several months ago and posted in my forum. I'm moving all of this content to blog posts to make them easier to find and so they will reach a wider audience. I've decided not to update the content …
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How people deal with the unknown and their level of anxiety related to emergencies can be thought of as a continuum. At one end, you have people who need to be fully and thoroughly informed to feel comfortable with life around them. They read, discuss, and think a lot in order to fully understand as many aspects of a situation as they can to the …
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When you see posts on Pinterest or videos on YouTube about prepping, there are lots of “20 First Things to Store” or “25 Must Have Items for Prepping” type articles. The problem is that the lists make no sense for the short term and are therefore worthless for most families. The lists have lots of important food stuffs on them, but if you really …
