Emergency Preparedness
This information from www.ready.gov is helpful if you are putting together 72 hour kits: When preparing for a possible emergency situation, it’s best to think first about the basics of survival: fresh water, food, clean air and warmth. Recommended Items to Include in a Basic Emergency Supply Kit: · Water, one gallon of water per person [...]
If one of your goals for 2009 is to get more serious about emergency preparedness and food storage, you may find this checklist helpful. It’s a list that was handed out somewhere that I made some changes to and retyped. (That is an awkward sentence, but anyhoo…) It’s designed to make building your food storage part of your weekly [...]
Here is some useful information on purifying water for use, whether it is stored in barrels at home, or collected elsewhere: 1. If water is cloudy, smelly or therwise polluted, strain it through a paper towel or several layers of clean cloth into a container in order to remove any sediment or floating matter. 2. [...]
I am doing that time-consuming annual job of reorganizing Christmas storage, that turns into reorganizing nearly every closet. I used to enjoy this task. It was like pre-spring cleaning and I loved the sense of order and accomplishment when it was completed. But now, with five children in our home (and two of them under 3) the [...]
You can’t count laundry soap as food storage but I think you can call it a storage essential. My sister-in-law, Kim, has been experimenting with homemade laundry detergent recipes from the web and has posted her success on her blog. I love hearing someone else’s trial and error story before I endeavor to try something new, [...]
