Thank You Jana!

So my friend Jana read my last post and shared some great sites with me on food storage. So I added many of them to the side of my blog so that I can easily access them and so that I can share them with all of you. Jana is not LDS but she sure knows a lot about food storage, I told her she was turning into a Mormon and she did not even know it. Jana and I talked back and forth for quite a while about food storage and what steps she had done and what she plans to do in the upcoming months. She is a real inspiration as to how hard she works at it and how smart she is about it. She also shared with me some of her Susanville shopping tips. In this small town with not many options you need to be smart and make your money go a little further here because prices are a bit higher here than in the city.

So Thank You Jana for sharing you knowledge with me!

Preparedness tip

Here is a tip I found while searching on the net. This is what one lady does: while she is doing the regular shopping she will pick up one extra ( lets say spag sauce) so she puts one in the pantry in the house to use and the second one she writes the date on top ( like mom used to do) and then places it in her food storage section (lets say in her garage). Then when she needs spag sauce again she will buy 2 again and they both go in food storage and the one that she previously placed in food storage she bring into the pantry. That way everything is rotated and she now has 2 extra spag sauces in her storage and next time she will do the same and it will add up (being smart though - only buying what they will actually use in a years time) I like this idea cause honestly you can not afford to buy a ton extra every month but at least you can buy 2 of the things that are on sale.

Preparedness thoughts

So for the past little while we have been feeling like we need to be better prepared. I have actually been thinking about it for a whole year but never truly did anything about it, other than ask for shelves to put food storage on, for Christmas last year. So we talked about it and would figure "oh we do not have extra money with the gas prices." Then a month or so would go by and we would talk about doing it again. So finally we decided to start paying down our debt cause we need to be just as prepared financially and it would benefit us in more than one way. So we did for a few months and made a huge dent. But then we decided to put that on hold for a little bit and work on some other preparedness issues. With all the talk about the economy lately and people defaulting on loans and no one shopping, you kinda start thinking. We personally have not felt the crunch,at least not yet. But you never know when it will happen to you. So anyways the whole reason for this post was to share with you a site that I found in my search for some preparedness tips simplylivingsmart.com check it out it has a lot of good information.