Category: Survival Tips

We think it’s important for families to be as prepared as possible for any natural or other disasters that may come their way.

October 29, 2014

How to Deal with Rejection

I’d like to talk today about how to deal with rejection. Grayson talked in a post last week about how he saved $60 a month by simply making one phone call. Part of the post centered on the fact that we often miss out on money savings simply because we don’t ask. Often times we don’t ask for discounts because we aren’t aware that we can, and often we just simply don’t take the time to make the call. But more often, I’d wager to bet that we don’t ask for discounts because we are afraid of having to deal with rejection.

You can find the rest of this story over at Debt Roundup.

October 25, 2014

Life Updates and Why Homesteaders Have Food Stockpiles

Can you believe it? Less than a week til the end of October. The weather this week has been pretty mild: up into the mid to high 60’s in the day time, which means we’ve been able to keep heating bills pretty low. Thank you, Jesus, for small favors. 🙂 My October challenge has met with mixed results: food wise I’m still doing really well: Had sugar once (fell prey to a DQ chocolate covered cone this week. 🙂 ) and flour three times this month. Total weight lost? I’ll tell you in a week. 🙂 Money wise Read more

September 13, 2014

You Don’t Know Jack: Part 2

Lest ya’ll think I’m a bitter, angry *$@%, I figured I’d better write a follow up to yesterday’s rant. Let me start by saying Read more

September 12, 2014

You Don’t Know Jack (and Neither do I)

This is going to start off sounding like an arrogant, self-centered rant, but bear with me. 🙂 Let me just preface this post by saying that it does not reference anyone in particular. Any similarity to any person, fiction or non-fiction, is merely coincidental. If you’ve read through the blog the last couple of weeks, Read more

September 2, 2014

Why It’s Vital to Learn to Grow and Preserve Your Own Food

When we share, either on the blog or in person, why we believe it’s so important to grow and preserve your own food, we get a mixed bag of reactions. Some react with awe and wonder, quizzing us on what it’s like and what’s involved. Others think it’s cool but not important. And still others think we’re crazy. While that may well be the case 🙂 , I’m here to share why we think it’s so very important to learn how to grow and preserve your own food. Read more

September 1, 2014

Dealing With Depression

With all the chatter in recent weeks regarding the sad news about beloved actor and comedian Robin Williams, I thought it might be time to share my own story about Depression. The Robin Williams story hit home for me for two reasons: Read more

June 25, 2014

How to Deal With Criticism

Whether in money or in any other area of life, the one constant seems to be criticism, and so learning how to deal with criticism is, I find, a crucial factor to a joyful life.

When we started this blog, I knew that, to some extent, we’d be opening ourselves up to criticism. Read more

June 11, 2014

How to Keep Your Back Yard Chicken Eggs Clean

Hey, friends! Here’s the latest post from our sister site, Back Yard Chicken Guide:

Over the past two years I spent a lot of time cleaning my backyard chicken eggs, which has been extremely frustrating and time consuming. Read More…

May 30, 2014

Are You a Prisoner of This Money Mistake?

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Happy Friday, Frugal Farmer friends! Sorry I’ve been so MIA this last couple of weeks. When you live on a farm with self-sufficiency as a goal, the arrival of spring and summer means the arrival of a LOT of work. We’re getting the garden in, chopping wood for next winter (the wood stove will be installed in July at the latest – WOOHOO!) and catching up on all of that big cleaning of bedding, winter gear, etc., that I couldn’t do until recently since we couldn’t hang stuff on the clothes line due to our ridiculously long winter. Add that in with finishing up home schooling, caring for farm animals, and helping my parents search for senior living communities, and that means a whole lot of busy. Rick’s been working 10-11 hour days every day too, and although we’re working hard on finding down time, rest these days seems to be highly evasive. Therefore, we are planning on trying to simply relax for a good chunk of the weekend. Well, part of the weekend, anyway. 🙂

Ok, now that my babbling is finished, I wanted to talk to you a bit today about a subject that has become increasingly near and dear to my heart Read more

May 21, 2014

Why You Should Strongly Consider Eating Organic Food

Is Organic Food Really Better?

*** We are not health experts or doctors. All opinions and experiences stated here are our own, and we are not responsible for any conclusions you may come to as a result of this article.

There’s much debate in Internet land about whether or not organic food is really that much different or better than it’s mainstream counterpart. One search of the web and you’ll find a myriad of stories, studies and articles, both about why organic food is so much better, and also about how pesticides don’t really hurt you much at all.

I first started my study on diet vs. health in the year 2001. When I had Maddie near the end of 1999, it was a dangerous and traumatic birth, and both of us nearly died. Read more