Tag: Preparedness

Feed Your Family for Less Every Week

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Feed Your Family for Less Every Week I have been asked a number of times, how can I afford to store extra food for emergencies when I can hardly feed my family now with the cost of groceries? Almost all families these days find that their budget is getting …

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Frugal DIY Sturdy Storage

Frugal DIY Sturdy Storage When you build your own storage space you eliminate some of the usual hassle of fitting your stuff into the storage shelves because you can build them to your own specifications. If you have things that are varying heights you can accommodate them by spacing your shelves to your desired heights. …

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Things Not To Do In Your Garden

Things Not To Do In Your Garden Gardening isn’t as easy as sticking some seeds in the ground and dumping water on them now and again. Don’t I wish it was! I have made more gardening mistakes than I care to admit. I do learn from my mistakes and I try to learn from the mistakes of …

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160 Uses for Coconut Oil

160 Uses for Coconut Oil Offering a myriad of health benefits, coconut oil is affordable, readily available and completely natural. You can use it for EVERYTHING.  I buy it in 5 gallon increments and keep it all over my house. It is one of my staple prepping items because of its incredible versatility. It doesn’t …

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MIY Dutch Oven Bread

MIY dutch oven bread

MIY Dutch Oven Bread Every preppers kitchen needs to be outfitted with some cast iron cookware, especially a Dutch oven. These dishes are true multi-taskers and are capable of cooking on a stovetop, in an oven, or over a fire, which obviously makes them extremely useful in case of a power outage or if shtf. …

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DIY Portable Woodstove

 DIY Portable Woodstove A woodstove can be a handy thing to have on a long camping trip or when ice fishing. Great for your backyard as a focal point for outdoor entertaining or for use in a SHTF scenario. It is very easy to make one on your own and out of easily found materials (often recycled) …

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DIY Solar Panel Tracker That Follows The Sun

DIY Solar Panel Tracker That Follows The Sun This is a pretty neat tutorial. Make the most of a sunny day by making a DIY solar panel tracker. The project it’s self is pretty simple. You just need a basic idea of electronics. Trust me, I know nothing and I understood this tutorial… The LED sensor …

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DIY EarthBag Roundhouse

DIY EarthBag Roundhouse Roundhouses are perhaps the simplest, fastest, easiest earth bag structure to build. The other key advantage of earth bag is cost. Owen Geiger has been designing and building these natural earthbag alternative homes for years.  Low cost and economically easy to maintain they could be the ideal off grid and with some small …

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DIY Light Bulb From Plastic Soda Bottle

DIY Light Bulb From Plastic Soda Bottle Now this is just pure genius… this alternative light bulb would work well in smaller rooms, sheds, cabins places like that. You can’t just fill a bottle with water and expect this to produce 55 watts equivalent of light. You have to mix a solution to put into …

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12 Smart Uses for Bleach

12 Smart Uses for Bleach You know it’s a great cleaning product, but you’ll never guess what else bleach can do! Like most people including myself, you most likely have a jug sitting in your laundry room at home. If you don’t this article will show you why you may want to start buying it …

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