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Places to Store Emergency Food

5 Clever Places to Store Emergency Food

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Which places to store emergency food do you use? You’ve been taking time to gradually build up your canned food storage, but now you’ve run into a problem: you’ve reached critical mass! The amount of storage you have (or need to have) exceeds the amount of available space in your home. Where’s it all going […]

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Working with Corrugated Metal

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You’ve probably seen plenty of photos featuring clever uses of corrugated steel – the kind of material that can be used for just about anything. Here are just a few of the ways DIYers have turned corrugated steel into something special: After seeing those beautiful and functional examples, you’re probably feeling the same thing we […]

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Make 50-hour Emergency Candles for Less Than $2 Each

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Learn How to Make 5o Hour Emergency Candles Once, in college, the power went out on my half of town. (I went to school in a small town in Idaho.) since my roommates and I had very little interest in preparedness at the time, we only had a single flashlight for out apartment. It was […]

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The Ultimate Spring Storm Checklist

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  Source: Cheaper than Dirt It’s looking like the wild weather we’ve had this winter isn’t going away – it might actually get worse. Tyler Stanfield from Wunderground has an excellent analysis that predicts 3 hurricanes and 1 major hurricane along the Atlantic. Those of us in the west aren’t in for a walk in […]

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What The Situation In Kiev Teaches Us About Cash

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One of the most common preparedness pieces of advice is to get out of debt. When you’re out of debt, you can begin planning for your future. Recent events in Kiev teach us about cash. There’s a lot more to financial preparedness than simply paying down your credit card. Getting those creditors off your back […]

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