Chicken Food – Our Cycle and Recycle Program
It’s nice to know where your food comes from and how it’s produced. That’s why we produce some of our own chicken food. We’d like to think there’s a eco-friendly cycle that helps us produce great eggs...
View ArticleFresh Eggs – Tell Me About Them
If you’re going to be raising chickens and enjoying fresh eggs, you might as well know more about them. In general, a fresh egg will have a portion of the white that is watery, a good portion of the...
View ArticleEconomic and Financial Preparedness – Preserve Wealth by Avoiding Bad...
As part of our strategy for economic and financial preparedness, we’d be well advised to hone up on some tactics that can help us preserve our hard earned wealth. After all, the tactics we employ will...
View ArticleWhat do Chickens Eat? Vegetable Scraps – Build a Grinding Station and Make...
If you’re wondering “What do chickens eat?” my suggestion is to try vegetable scraps as a good source of food. The problem is that not all vegetables are easy for chickens to consume, despite their...
View ArticleEconomic and Financial Preparedness – Preserve Wealth by Avoiding Bad...
Moving through this series on economic and financial preparedness, we just finished looking at five approaches to being more frugal as a way of preserving our wealth. Now, let’s look at avoiding bad...
View ArticleWashing Ear Plugs – It’s in the Bag
Even though ear plugs are inexpensive, I do my best to reuse them by giving them a wash or two while they still have life left in them. The problem is these spongy items are small and water absorbent,...
View ArticleExtending the Life of New Hose Bibs – Two Finger Tight Only
We’ve all had the need to tighten down on the hose bib outside in order to get it to stop leaking by. Who likes a dripping faucet anyway? Well, one of the main reasons we have to tighten down on the...
View ArticleEconomic and Financial Preparedness – Preserve Wealth Through Frugal Living,...
Do-it-yourself tasks can save you money. When it comes to economic and financial preparedness, I’m big on marketplace alternatives. It might seem like an unusual idea, but if you’ve ever grown a...
View ArticleEconomic and Financial Preparedness – Preserve Wealth Through Frugal Living,...
With this edition of economic and financial preparedness, I’m going to speak to non-traditional markets as a way of making purchases in a much more frugal manner. And, of course, spending less money is...
View ArticleEconomic and Financial Preparedness – Preserve Wealth Through Frugal Living,...
I still have my car from 2000, and it’s been a great value purchase for me. We’re back again to look at financial preparedness and how frugal living can help us preserve the wealth that we’ve...
View ArticleEconomic and Financial Preparedness – Preserve Wealth Through Frugal Living,...
Let’s take a look again at economic and financial preparedness with an eye toward preserving wealth through the adoption of a frugal lifestyle. In this second discussion on frugal living I’m going to...
View ArticleEconomic and Financial Preparedness – Preserve Wealth Through Frugal Living,...
Okay, let’s pinch some pennies. When it comes to financial preparedness, many of us would like to have a great big pile of money. That would be great. And, we’ve already discussed that the solution to...
View ArticleEconomic and Financial Preparedness – Safeguard and Insure Your Wealth, Part 2
Continuing with step two of economic and financial preparedness — preserving your wealth — let’s look at common forms of wealth, other than money, and how one might offer safeguards and insurance for...
View ArticleAuction Tip – Know What Others Might Want
Sometimes knowing the price of things doesn’t matter all that much at an auction. It seems that sometimes low value items can sell high and high value items can be had for a song. Quite often you don’t...
View ArticleAuction Tip – Know Your Prices
Here’s an auction tip for those interested in making purchases at auctions where competition can drive up the prices of things: know the retail price of things before you bid. If you don’t, you might...
View ArticleEconomic and Financial Preparedness – Safeguard and Insure Your Wealth, Part 1
Our cash these days is just paper, but it still needs to be protected. We’re now into step two of economic and financial preparedness — preserving your wealth. It’s assumed that your efforts to create...
View ArticleEconomic and Financial Preparedness – Create Multiple Revenue Streams
Here’s redundancy and diversity in a button collection. Let’s take a look at economic and financial preparedness and my last suggestion with respect to earning money…multiple revenue streams. It’s...
View ArticleEconomic and Financial Preparedness – Financial Investments
Let’s move along with our economic and financial preparedness series, and with this article I’d like to discuss financial investments. Since investments can take many forms, I’ll just stick to the...
View ArticleEconomic and Financial Preparedness – It’s Time to Assess the Marketplace
We’ve been talking about economic and financial preparedness, with emphasis on starting your own enterprise. It isn’t for everyone, but it sure can be a great way to boost income and put you in a good...
View ArticleEmergency Preparedness Vegetable Gardening – Another Way to Plan What Your Grow
One aspect of emergency preparedness is making sure you have enough to eat. Okay, that’s easy, just have lots of food on hand. Perhaps that works, but it’s also important to have the right food on...
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