Food Storage and preparing for Hyper-Inflation

Hey I'm going to be posting some of the info I am utilizing for our food storage. This will also be helpful for my family and I as we reference back to the links to help us prepare for what is coming. Recently, I went to the store here in town for some water. Unfortunatly, the store in our little town would not be receiving any water until the next week(this was without a natural disaster). I would have to drive at least 30 miles for water. I tried to boil some of our well water and it still tasted awful. My family drinks about 10 gallons of water per week so running out of water around here is a big deal. The same day Zach and I needed gas and the gas station would not have gas until the following week. Living in a small town has defiantly been such a great learning opportunity! I will tell you that experiencing not being able to buy water and gas in town was even more of wake up call. We are told that we must prepare for a natural disaster or an emergency.. Our food storage has been put into high gear! I have not gotten it quite organized so I won't be posting pics for awhile. Realizing though with a big family that you need a lot of storage and a lot of organization. Here are some great sites to inform you of what will be happening in America in the near future. I know we must not believe everything we read. We must take stuff with a grain of salt and decide for ourselves. My heart has lead me to this and no matter how many people call me a nut job, I will keep preparing my family accordingly. It is not an easy thing to prepare for either. We have learned to go with out out here. We are down sizing immensely. We have changed the way we spend money. We no longer use the credit system at all!(Besides our contract of deed) This has been hard to get use to at first. We have lived far beyond our means(new cars ect,ect) and we have made incredible mistakes. We have had to endure our mistakes all on our own. Now we hope to inform and educate even if no one is listening!

Here is some good sources to get started with food storage.
http://www.laurielclewis.com/A52-WeekFoodStoragePlan..htm


http://providentliving.com/


Here is a few sites to get some good information on our economy:
http://inflation.us/

http://peterschiffblog.blogspot.com/

http://www.dailypaul.com/

http://www.lewrockwell.com/

Halloween 2010!

We started off at the Bush Library for free trick or treating. The Library is in the town called College Station the same town Zach works and is about an hour away from our house. Even though we live in a small town it is nice to have major cities within a few hours. The Library was beautiful and I plan to do photo shoots there in the future. We then headed to a nice neighborhood in CS to trick or treat for the evening. What was great about Tx is that we didn't freeze our butts off. The weather was perfect and all the kids had a blast. I have to give hats off to my sis in law Tiff she sure is crafty. She bought the Viking costumes for the kids but spruced them up so each of the kids would have their own look. I'm hoping to prepare a little bit ahead of time next year. I always have great idea's but then I wait until the last minute and end up ordering online. Now that my budget is even tighter I regret not buying sweats for the boys costumes, so they could wear them this winter. It seems though that each day is a serious learning experience for me. Maybe I didn't notice it much before but what I have been experiencing is so enlightening that I can't even put it into words!

Delight Me Deals is here!

I have been home full time now for 6 months. I have had to figure out better ways to save for our budget. I am finding there are a lot of great savings out there if you do your research. I thought one night I am going to try to get something absolutely free. Since our budget this year doesn't allow extra money for Christmas, I thought this would be perfect to try to get something for free and give it as a gift.

The other night I found a deal on http://passionatepennypincher.com/blog/
The Deal was that If I ordered a 5x7 Card free at shutterfly.com. I only had to pay a total of $1.06 for shipping. At the end of my order I was prompted to share my 5x7 card on my blog which would credit my shutterfly account $ 25.00 which it did today. Along with the other special posted on my new blog http://delightmedeals.blogspot.com/. I now have a credit on My Shutterfly account of $25.00 and free shipping. The other idea that I like about this is, is that I can make a project in shutterfly and have it go to a family or friend for Christmas. A gift totally free with a little effort!

$ 25.00 on my next order :)

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