Category: Frugal

Food Producing Bushes That Can Provide For The Winter Months

Food Producing Bushes That Can Provide For The Winter Months

Some posts may include affiliate links. Food Producing Bushes That Can Provide For The Winter Months If you don’t have space or time for a full garden on your property or even a HOA that won’t allow you to have a food garden. You may want to look at food producing bushes, particularly ones that …

Continue reading

Using Plastic Bottles to Create Boats

Using Plastic Bottles to Create Boats

Using Plastic Bottles to Create Boats Plastic has become a major issue to our environment. One way of avoiding some of the damage our trash causes is to recycle and reuse it. Which is what Ismaël Essome Ebone of Cameroon is doing with his country’s plastic bottles and trash. He’s creating eco-boats for his countrymen.  Not …

Continue reading

Post Apocalypse Rat Jerky

Post Apocalypse Rat Jerky

Post Apocalypse Rat Jerky If I am to be honest, post or pre-Apocalypse, the idea alone of eating rat turns my stomach, I am not so foolish as to say never however, because I understand that we may all do things including eating things that we are not now prepared to do if the world …

Continue reading

Prepping Anyone Can Do Weekly

Prepping Anyone Can Do Weekly

Prepping Anyone Can Do Weekly   I am asked all the time: “I am barely getting by for today. How am I suppose to prep for the future? Particularly for a disaster that may or may not come tomorrow or next year?”  There are lots of ways of prepping without spending a fortune and some …

Continue reading

12 Reasons to Store Powdered Milk

12 Reasons to Store Powdered Milk

12 Reasons to Store Powdered Milk   The expressions “Got Milk?” or “Milk builds strong bones” are well known in north American countries. But if like me, you don’t drink milk nor have small growing children, should you still store a large quantity of milk? Yes! There are so many other uses for milk.  I …

Continue reading

DIY Recycled Pill Bottle Lamp

DIY Recycled Pill Bottle Lamp

DIY Recycled Pill Bottle Lamp What to do with those empty pill bottles? I hate throwing them away as they seem to be in perfect condition and surely must have a good alternative use. I have stored a number of small items in them, made the pill bottle survival kit for my vehicle, and even …

Continue reading

25 Powerless Appliances for The Homestead Kitchen

25 Powerless Appliances for The Homestead Kitchen

25 Powerless Appliances for The Homestead Kitchen Powerless appliances are becoming more and more popular among the younger population to save on energy costs. Preppers of course have always known that power could be taken away at any time for any amount of time. So powerless appliances are just plain smart and could make your …

Continue reading

Convert a Work Van into a DIY Camper

Convert a Work Van into a DIY Camper

Some posts may include affiliate links.   Convert a Work Van into a DIY Camper If you desire to travel, camp, or find you need to bug out in a smaller vehicle than a regular camper, this could be just the ticket for you! Especially if you’re an avid DIY’er. Dipa Das took an ordinary …

Continue reading

DIY Prepper Security

DIY Prepper Security

Some posts may include affiliate links. DIY Prepper Security   I am not wealthy and I am willing to bet neither are the majority of you. But our stuff is OURS and we don’t intend to just hand it over. Never mind rich or poor the people we love are irreplaceable. So no matter who …

Continue reading

MIY All Natural Vapor Rub

MIY All Natural Vapor Rub

MIY All Natural Vapor Rub I am a fan of whenever possible insuring that anything that goes into or on my body being natural. These day everything seems to be full of chemicals and ingredients whose names I can’t even pronounce! However, when I am sick, I want comfort immediately. As a child I recall …

Continue reading