Big plans for tomorrow, friends? When we celebrate our moms, we often put together a nice Mothers Day brunch for the three of them (my mom, Rick’s mom, and my stepmom). It’s a wonderful gathering with all of our parents, and we enjoy every minute of being able to lavish love on them. Here’s how we do a Mothers Day Brunch on a budget. Read more
Hey, friends! As promised, here is the cautionary tale on being prepared that I promised you in this week’s earlier post. My dear friend, Shannon, from Financially Blonde, went through her own 10 days of trouble as they experience a long-term power outage after Hurricane Sandy. Here, Shannon shares her experience, and some of the lessons she learned about the importance of preparedness. Thank you so much, Shannon, for sharing your story!
I lived in Florida for five years, and during that time, we experienced some very active hurricane seasons. And I always remember the local news teams interviewing families who were “surprised” that they got hit by the hurricane and were not prepared for it. I would sit there in shock at their lack of preparedness especially after having lived through previous hurricanes and I vowed that I would not be one of them. We were fortunate in our years in Florida to never get hit by a hurricane despite a few near misses. The irony was that we moved back up to New York and had worse luck with hurricanes in New York than we did in Florida.
You don’t know what you got… Read more
Head on over to Back Yard Chicken Guide for a step-by-step on how to clean the poop out of the coop. 🙂
The more popular our site becomes, the more flack we seem to get for what we spend our money on. And I’m sure that there are many more critics who think we don’t do enough to payoff debt but don’t have the guts or the time to leave a brutally honest criticism in the comment section – thank you for that. 😉
I’d like to talk today about why it’s so important to define and write your own, individual plan for debt payoff, instead of simply following somebody else’s plan to the T. Read more
Happy Monday, my friends! As a follow up to last week’s post, my dear IRL friend Michelle, who blogs about life and food over at Rockin’ the Mom Role (she’s a terrific resource for gluten-free recipes too), has written about the importance of not just surviving, but thriving, in a crisis situation. Also on tap for this week: a real-life story about how a family survived without power for 10 days due to a weather catastrophe. Welcome, Michelle!
Many times we hear about ‘preppers’, and as was mentioned here in last week’s post, ‘prepping’ is not merely about a fictional zombie apocalypse. Preppers are people who gain the security and mental comfort from knowing they have a plan A AND a plan B in an unforeseen emergency. There is a correlation between those who merely survive an emergency, and those who survive and THRIVE. Read more
The word “prepper” is still often a hot button word in conversations when it comes up, but prepping isn’t only for the “crazies”. We got another first-hand “in your face” experience 5 days ago about why prepping is so important, and just how far our family has to go in terms of learning to be prepared. Some of you may have read the story over on Three Thrifty Guys this past winter about how we came dangerously close to running out of propane. Luckily, with 30-below zero temps looming at that time, we had a back-up electric heat furnace to rely on, and the only true inconveniences we experienced were the inability to bathe/shower, and the inability to cook on our stove. We made good use of our crockpot and stunk for a couple of days, but all was, in reality, fine. Read more
Hey, friends!! Being we’re heading into the fifth month of the year already, I thought we should do an update on our 2014 goals and how we’re doing with them. This is mostly to gain accountability for us, and to encourage others working toward their own goals. If you read our original 2014 goals post, you might remember that we had both financial goals and homesteading goals. Here, I’ll go about listing them, and updating everyone on how we’re progressing with them so far. Read more
Now that readership has grown so substantially over the last several months, we want to gauge what our readers wants. What would you like to see more of on The Frugal Farmer:
-homesteading/self-sufficiency articles?
-prepper/survivalist articles
-more articles on debt payoff/reaching financial freedom
-more articles on ways to save money
-more e-books (and if so, on what topics)
-other types of articles
You tell us – we want to know! 🙂
