The Harried Homemaker Preps

Hubby Dear and I have been going back and forth a lot on the subject of prepping. Honestly, it has descended into flat-out fights several ti...

In case you missed it, the first section of my Preparedness Binder is devoted to Food Storage and Preparedness Stocking Plans . I've col...

Well, Hubby Dear and I still aren't seeing eye to eye on spending money on prepping. So I called in the big gun - Dave Ramsey ! I'll...

I thought I would share more details and links from my preparedness binder. I have spent a couple of months compiling resources from all ov...

Now that my Month One Preps are mostly complete (our van emergency kit is a glaring omission, I will admit), it's time to think about Mo...

In my last few posts I have tried to illustrate what I've accomplished during my first month of prepping. It doesn't feel like I...

I thought for a long time about the best way to assemble Bug Out Bags. Some lists you'll find out on the Internet are very much military...

Having survival supplies in your vehicle is important. Hubby Dear works long hours at work and would likely be away from home should an emer...

Hubby Dear and I have been together quite a while and we rarely disagree over much of consequence. My new preparedness "obsession"...

In a past entry I posted the list of items I selected to do/buy during my first month of prepping. I've accomplished most of these, but ...

As I discussed in my previous post, I prioritized the purchases our family needed to make and created a 12 month plan and budget. Here are o...

When I decided that I needed to take our family's preparedness seriously, I began to get overwhelmed. When you think of all that can go ...

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana I don't know who George Santayana is or was, but he su...

We got a delivery from Fed-Ex this morning that included many of the elements that are going into our bug out bags (more on those in a futur...

Prepping is taking the Boy Scout motto of "Be Prepared" and running with it. The ultimate prepper is one who will be able to resp...

Who am I? My name is Emily. I live in the Midwest with Hubby Dear and four children ranging in age from early elementary school to infant. I...