by Daisy Luther | Aug 27, 2013
The lower your income is, the more difficult it is to be particular about what you feed your family. This probably isn’t an earth-shattering revelation to anyone, but if you feel like experimenting, try to buy a week’s worth of healthy food for a family on a budget...
by Daisy Luther | Aug 22, 2013
As the mercury in the thermometer starts to climb, you may be looking for different ways to keep your home a bit cooler without an exponential increase in your electric bill. That battle starts in the kitchen. The one thing that adds the most ambient heat is cooking....
by Daisy Luther | Aug 3, 2013
Back to school time means there won’t be any more daily cries of, “I’m booooooored!” It means the end of those impromptu trips to the beach or the pool. It means that your house will be a little tidier, you will get a little more done, and...
by Daisy Luther | Jul 8, 2013
Lots of people worry about keeping warm without electricity – but what about keeping cool? Last summer, the Washington DC area lost power for over a week due to a derecho storm system. Millions suffered through the record breaking heat wave, with temperatures...
by Daisy Luther | Jul 2, 2013
A very pertinent issue to a down-grid situation is lighting. Not only is lighting necessary to perform tasks at night, it is very important psychologically. After Hurricane Sandy, many people mentioned how frightening the dark night was. Things are always scarier...
by Daisy Luther | Jun 27, 2013
Some people believe that we are hurtling towards physical disaster with our delicate electrical grid. Just how that disaster might occur is open for debate, but we need only look at major power outages over the last few years to see how precarious our grasp on...
by Daisy Luther | Jun 19, 2013
The first step is to take inventory of what you have – you may be surprised to realize that you already have a week or a month of supplies in your pantry. Read “If You Don’t Know What You Have, You Don’t Know What You Need!” for more detailed...
by Daisy Luther | Jun 11, 2013
One of the most common reasons that people give for not prepping is the cost involved. People seem to have this mental image of a bedroom or basement dedicated to being filled to the rafters with cans of Chef-Boy-Ardee. They imagine someone going out and spending...
by Daisy Luther | Jun 6, 2013
At a time when most people shudder each time they pull out their wallet at the grocery store cashier, it’s hard to imagine putting back a year’s supply of food and goods. It’s intimidating to even considering buying enough to make it through to the next paycheck, and...
by Daisy Luther | May 13, 2013
There are natural threats to your family’s security. Consider Superstorm Sandy, that hit the East Coast on October 29, 2012. More than 3 months later, there are still more than 1900 homes in New York and New Jersey that are without utilities of any kind. People...
by Tess Pennington | May 11, 2013
SHTF events come in many different flavors. While most of us think of things like natural disasters, economic collapse and pandemics, many occurrences are much more mundane. They are those small personal disasters that can hit any of us, at any time. Maybe your...
by Daisy Luther | May 11, 2013
Reallocating money for prepping demands some sacrifices. Freeing up the money you need to prepare means that you can’t necessarily keep up with the Joneses. Trust me, though, the time will come when the Joneses would trade their big screen TVs, their brand new SUVs...