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Posted in Preparedness on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve managed to go through all of my Red Plum coupons.  I still need to go through my Smart Source and P&G coupons.  With the Red Plums, I threw away any coupon flyers that didn’t have any coupons that I need.  I kept the ones with coupons that I would possibly need, and I listed [...]

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Updating 72-Hour Kits (with a little bit about my Emergency Car Kit)

Posted in Preparedness on March 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Our 72-Hour kits have been on my mind lately.  We had a storm pass through recently.  We didn’t need our 72-Hour kits.  We didn’t even get them out, although we did ask each other if we needed them.  Last month, we knew of some people (and their neighbors) who lost their home to a wildfire.  [...]

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Setting up an Emergency Binder

Posted in Preparedness on January 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Food Storage Made Easy has a great post on how to set up an emergency binder.  Emergency binders hold important information that you would need in a disaster (have to leave your home, fire, etc.).  Basically, when you grab your 72-hour kits, you also grab your emergency binder.
Food Storage Made Easy recommends using sheet protectors [...]

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Fun with Food Storage

Posted in Preparedness on January 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Click here to check out the new Fun With Food Storage Network!  I’m so excited about this new blog!  Three sites have teamed up to help you build, gather coupons for, and cook your home food storage.
The three partner sites are:

Food Storage Made Easy
The Obsessive Shopper
Everyday Food Storage

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Does anyone use Cansolidators?

Posted in Preparedness on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been working on building my food storage to a 3 month supply.  Today, I looked at various can shelving units and found Shelf Reliance Cansolidators.  I would buy them right away, but we’re renting our current residence and Cansolidators are expensive.  To purchase them to fit our current shelving and move at some later [...]

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72-Hour and Emergency Car Kits

Posted in Preparedness on April 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I made my 72-hour and emergency car kits today.  Yeah!  This is a picture of my car kit.  Jumper cables, hand sanitizer, and a flashlight are already in my car.  In this picture, you see the following items:

backpack
list of items in pack, along with date the items were last replenished/replaced
bottled water
heating packs (to keep you [...]

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