Easy Indoor Garden Idea

I heard this a few years ago and thought it was such a great idea for an indoor garden if that became a need (if water is scarce, it's winter, etc.). Using kitty litter boxes (a buck or two at the dollar store), potting soil, and seeds, you can create a portable garden. Stick it next to a window and you can grow short-rooted vegetables such as lettuce, beans etc. It's also space-conservative to just stick a couple of the boxes under a bed with a bag of potting soil, or to use the boxes to organize some of your storage.

I've actually thought of trying this out during the winter and having fresh vegetables during the off season!

CONTACT INFO

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Got underwear?

I have never heard this before in all the preparedness classes I have attended, but a young mother that had been in one of the hurricane disasters was buying large amounts of 'underwear' for children. When the disaster strikes, kids get scarred, and even if they are potty trained, they wet their pants a lot. No time, or no place for bathes and keeping children washed up, so they develop medical problems from the unsanitary situation. She was also saying to get diapers for the smaller potty trained children. Toilets are not as available, and with the diaper on, the mom's can just tell their younger children not to worry about it, and to just go in their diaper. Also socks. She was buying lots of socks. Perhaps that is because the socks get wet when the child wets. Something to consider.

Canned Food Study

Wow...canned foods are virtually indestructible! Check this out!
http://www.grandpappy.info/hshelff.htm

Be In the Know About Good Deals

For those of you who like a good deal, here is a blog that my daughter Lorraine, is helping with. Looks like a nice variety of items, first being Halloween Costumes on clearance (I am tempted to get some for my grandkids). It mentions Utah deals, but most of these are available anywhere in the US. I even saw one for health foods on sale, online. Check it out and pass it on!

http://utahsweetsavings.com/2011/09/trick-or-treat-halloween-costume-roundup/

www.utahsweetsavings.com

Food Storage Analyzer

Hey, I heard about this cool little FREE online tool to analyze your food storage based on the number of people in your family and their caloric needs. It will show you how many days you can survive on your storage as well as the nutrients you have in your storage and the ones you are lacking. It's cool! I learned a lot!

The only thing is...you need to get a good count of what's in your storage before you can use it. And...it is based on products sold by Emergency Essentials but you can add other products that you have just by using a nutritional label. (And a lot of the products that EE sells are the same that I have, just different brands, like the LDS Home Cannery or Augauson Farms...just used the EE products as substitutes.)

Try it out! I think you'll like it! www.foodstorageanalyzer.com or go the www.emergencyessentials.com and click on the food storage analyzer button.

SEPTEMBER PREPAREDNESS CHALLENGE

I have been studying the story of Noah and Joseph of Egypt in depth for a couple of months. I would encourage you to do the same; there are some great insights there in the way of preparedness and I have gained some great inspiration for my own preparedness efforts. I think the biggest insight I have received is to be consistent with my preparedness; Noah and Joseph both knew tough times were coming and they didn't wait for the "signs" before they started preparing. They did what they were inspired to do for years before the difficulties came.

This month I have been re-organizing my 72 hour kits; basically re-packing them into totes and putting them where they are easily accessible. I have supplies/hygiene needs in one, food in another, and then each person has their individual bucket with some extra clothing,shoes, water that they can carry on their own. I don't know if this is the best way, but with my fairly big family, it works for the time being. I will do more research on 72-hour kits to see if I need to revamp at a later time, but right now I feel it is important to have it all together and accessible, at least.

I also intend to get some extra gardening supplies (hand tools, fertilizer, etc.) at clearance pricing, as well as stock up on paperware (I have an entire 20 gal. tote set aside just for paperware...don't want to use up precious water/time on dishes in a crisis situation!) It will take some discipline to leave that tote for emergency purposes only as I always seem to be out of paper plates :)

I will post a great indoor gardening idea later.