The Harried Homemaker Preps

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Hurricane Warning

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I bet the unprepared people living around the projected path of Hurricane Earl are wishing they had stocked up on essentials ahead of time. ...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

A Month Four Prep: Me

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She awakens early in the morning to the frantic cries of her offspring. Her babies are hungry and whine at their mother to feed them. To jud...
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Monday, August 30, 2010

Take the SurvivalMom's Report Card Challenge

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One of the blogs I read reguarly is The SurvivalMom. A few days ago, she wrote this post , a report card on her current state of preparednes...
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Friday, August 27, 2010

What I've learned from those Chilean miners

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If you don't know about the 33 men trapped in a mine in Chile, read this first: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1305894...
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Financial Preparedness, Part II

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Previously, I discussed the first Baby Step towards financial freedom: a starter emergency fund of $1,000. Today I'll pick up with Baby...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Month Four Preps

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I keep going back and forth on what I want to buy in the next month. All the economic indicators point to a very long road before we get to ...
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Does Prepping = Homeschooling? And vice versa?

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I was a homeschooler long before I was a prepper. Our family chooses to homeschool our children mainly for academic reasons. We seek to pro...
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Monday, August 23, 2010

Adventures in Whole Wheat: Cracked Wheat Cereal

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Since   my waffle experiment went swimmingly, I was eager to try out another application for whole wheat  sans grain mill. I opened up  Em...
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Saturday, August 21, 2010

A Review: Emergency Food Storage and Survival Handbook by Peggy Layton

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I’ve never been dissatisfied with living in the Midwest until I started getting into prepping. Materials for prepping are so much more easil...
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Friday, August 20, 2010

Adventures in Whole Wheat: Blender Waffles

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Today I opened one of the #10 cans of wheat that I recently bought and cooked with whole wheat kernels for the first time. Since I don...
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Month Three in Review

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The third month of my prepping plan is complete. What I accomplished: I added more cash to our BOBs I bought  plastic sheeting and duct...
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Monday, August 16, 2010

I've got my wheat so now what?

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A grain mill is not in my budget for a couple of months. What can I do to play around with my 200+ pounds of wheat in the meantime? First...
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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Financial Preparedness, Part I

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The American people are feeling pretty light in the pocketbook at the moment. I don't have any solutions for our national economic probl...
Friday, August 13, 2010

Why the Fed-Ex man hates my guts

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My order of wheat from Emergency Essentials came yesterday. My herd of children are usually the ones who let me know when someone pulls in...
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

The Whole Tooth and Nothing but the Tooth

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Not The Harried Homemaker's Mouth. I wasn't that calm. I spent an intense three hours in the chair at the dentist's office t...
Sunday, August 8, 2010

Month Three Food Storage

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Some of my plunder Sam's Club is a very dangerous place for me. I walk in with a sensible list and one grocery cart and I manage to ...
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Friday, August 6, 2010

To wheat or not to wheat?

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I was all prepared to make my final Month Three Prep purchases this morning when I was made aware of the craziness in the world wheat market...
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The Harried Homemaker
I was once pretty clueless when it came to "prepping". Follow my journey towards self-reliance as I explore gardening, food storage, canning, animal husbandry and other homesteading and survival-related topics.
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