Yes I stock up and store food supplies. There are just 2 of us and I have 3 Freezers that food is alternated through. Nothing is more than a year old. I have meats, butter, fish, sweets, canned goods and pasta's that I have stocked up on. I live in town but and married to a farmer/truck driver, here in ND you learn to stock up because you never know when the blizzard is going to hit.. We even have a generator just in case.. if not 2 fireplaces to cook all our stored food should we need it.
I'm getting ready to move out of my parents house. They both keep their finances privet and never really helped me learn about budgets or balancing my checkbook (which I'm still trying to get the hang of). Growing up I always took the candy bar but thanks to my friends and blog posts like these I'm starting to get in good financial habits. Thanks for the tips!!
I live on the Texas Gulf coast. We have to keep supplies of bottled water, canned food, food for our pets, etc. in case of hurricanes. After Ike last year we were without electricity for almost two weeks. We plan ahead by having not one but two gasoline generators to power some items like the freezer but it isn't enough for the kitchen so we bbq a lot. You would be amazed at how versatile the bbq pit is!
Our county public health department gives all kinds of innoculations, from the seasonal flu shot to the new H1N1, tetanus, pneumonia, etc. the cost for the seasonal shot is just $20, as opposed to the $37- $45 charged by local pharmacies.
I revisited this story about Lawn Tonic on AOL this morning, I'd seen it earlier in the year and bought all the ingredients for it but had not used it yet.
I fed my lawn in May with Bandini Blade with herbicide, my lawn is weed free and has stayed green, I also set my mower blades up which was recommended in the same article and this has helped immensely to aid in a thicker greener lawn.
I have a 12 year old Chocolate Lab and I'm concerned about using chemicals especially herbicide or insecticides on my lawn so this has to be better, doesn't sound like there is anything in it that could be harmful. I will hopefully come back in a couple of weeks with good results.
Thank you for this blog, it's answered many questions I had that I was just guessing at before.
I'd like to have more info from Jane who posted above as to where the 5 gal storage containers can be purchased and also where to find the spreadsheet for how long food lasts.
The fact that people continue to stick with the "banks that are too big to fail" amazes me. Fees for this, charges and surcharges, and fees on fees - mind blistering!
Not only do these stores have no right to see your receipt, it can be considered unlawful detention (or your state version of what is basically kidnapping). I told one of those checkers I was leaving and if she touched me I would have her arrested for assault and further charges for unlawful detention. I then advised her manager that she was trying to hold me unlawfully while she searched for a $1.00 bottle of something when I had spent over $150.00. She was moved to another position and the checkers were informed of the law. Oh, BTW, I'm a lawyer and former police officer.
I switched my regular banking to credit unions 35 years ago. I have always found staff to be friendly and knowledgeable. Credit unions exist solely to serve their members, not to pay high dividends to share holders. Credit union income is returned to members, offering higher deposit rates and lower rates on loans.
After being persuade by the bank to buy the wrong mutual funds once too often I switched that too!
The way to protect yourself from this is to do things in the old ways. Pay cash for stuff. Write checks. (Checks are still largely governerned by the old rules.)
Historically, the government has stepped in to control what terms corporations can set with regard to crucial services--water, power, etc. It just hasn't caught up yet with new crucial services like data.
Where there's real competition, there are steps in the right direction. For example, there are plenty of "no contract" cell phone plans available. I haven't looked at any in detail (they probably still have terms and conditions written to screw you), but it's a step in the right direction.
My reason--emergency storage. Too many times I have run out of something I use because of a faulty memory or just too busy and didn't buy it before I ran out of it.
Hello, Liked your advice on the system performance. I would be interested in knowing what four or five items you have open in the MSCONFIG (start-up) file, these are obviously essential. You stated that all others are greyed out. Please email me and let me know, thanks.
I have about 25,000.00 debt with credit cards. I have a plan made with Chase Bank on one. We had to close our account and we pay 142.00 a month for 60 months @ 2% interest and they said that most of the payment goes to principal. WE have 7 years before our house is payed for we pay 660.00 monthly and I have a truck payment of 330.00 monthly for another year and a half. What is the best way to pay my credit cards so I can get them payed off? Is it good to close them? I pay about 800.00 a month in credit cards.
I am always looking for helpful hints and tips for saving money and getting bargains. These podcasts are perfect. They are not too long yet full of great information.
We don't keep a big stock of food, I found I wasted a lot of food trying to do that and also spent more at the store. But, if there was an emergency we could survive on the food we have for a few weeks. It might not be the best meals ever, but we have beans, canned meat, peanut butter and dry cereal, etc. We'd be okay.
Growing up, my mother easily had months of food in the basement. Most of this was due to bulk shopping in order to save money, but we lived in a rural area and it wasn't uncommon to have winter storms that kept us stuck at home for a few days. While Dad could usually still get out to go to work, the roads weren't good and people only did the driving they had to - which meant no trips to the store, and definitely no taking the kids out in the car.
I live in an apartment with little room for storage and I often think I should stock up more. I definitely need to put together at least a multi-day emergency pack with food and water. I do have a few gallons of drinking water in a closet, plus a few 2 liter bottles of tap water for things like toilet flushing and the like. I figure that plus the cans of soup and boxes of granola bars will get me through a few days.
I would like to be the sort of person who keeps a good stock of supplies and then rotates through them. My problem is that I buy things and then end up having to replace them because they go bad.
We have had food storage, by necessity, until recently. My husband's line of work had him laid off from 5-7 months every year...a classic case of feast (he earns good wages when working) and famine. By adding just a little bit to our food storage every shopping trip, we were able to survive the "famine" times. As his job was seasonal due to the part of the country we live, we just moved last month. It was no picnic for us to move the food storage with us, but after giving some of it to a family in need, we did successfully move it to our new home with hopes that we will never have to rely upon it the way we did before. Will we still have food storage, yes...but not as much.
Ok, we can all save a bunch of money by shopping at the farmers market and growing our own, kinda. Anyone that has been to the farmers market knows, you are your own market manager. Where the produce managers has last say as to what he will or will not offer his customers to keep them coming back. At the market, you have to use double observation to keep from buying poor produce. Then you have the issue of buying quantity, preparation and storage. Does this out weigh the prospect of timely shopping at the local store? I guess what is best for you works. I can feed a lot of people on a few bags of store brand frozen veggies.
On the other hand, have you ever wondered where that food that your local restaurant and grocer doesn't use goes? No, I don't mean the leftovers! I'm talking about boxes that were dropped, wasn't ordered, over ordered, etc. A lot of people don't realize that such products exist or that there may be an outlet for them. Here, we have a little known shopping place called 'Dickies' that specializes in these products. Everything from Steaks, Ribs, Fish, Shrimp, Ham, Lamb, etc. is there in the Frozen section. Also, can goods, boxed items, seasoning, etc. Some of the products are uncooked, some precooked heat and serve. Like anything, when you shop plays a part, find out when is truck day and more selections are available the next day. How much have I saved shopping like this in addition to my regular shopping to fill in the blanks. Well, how about a commercial size box of fish-sticks for $5, a pork-butt that literally filled my 22 pint cooker for $20, precooked ham that are 2 to 3 times the size of the ones in your local store for $10 to $15. Case of 6oz Rib-eye Steak 28 or so to a box $30. Case of precooked pork racks of ribs $30. Salmon fillets (entire sides of salmon about 2 1/2 feet long and 10 or 12 inches wide) for $7, Even hamburger helper, boxes of cake mix, condensed milk, veggies, etc. You never know what to expect to find when you go but you can bet you'll save 30% to 50% of WHOLESALE prices. That's about 50% to 75% off of retail. It may take some research to find somewhere in your area but is well worth it. We have 3 of these places, each is it's own little world. One will have more of this and less of that, compared to the other locations. I have filled my upright freezer for about $100 to $140 and put the overflow in my side by side. I take a day off once a month to go shopping as a primary source of food and fill in with a trip to the grocer weekly about 10:30AM on Saturday and Sunday morning, that's when they mark down for date, usually the day before the sell by date. Just check for color and smell (should do that anyway) and freeze until your ready to cook. Then check for fresh produce sales and other stuff.
Hope this helps & happy saving,
Mike
that sums up what I am feeling about my bank recently but there is no solution, can not get a better service too. governments should not allow this I guess.
That happens to be a favorite activity of mine and when I was younger, my kids would go to sleep, my husband off to work the night shift and I would come alive with ideas on where to put the couch - or maybe this table and lamp would really look awesome in that corner. I loved it. It was great exercise and just so exciting to see small changes make such a huge difference. One time when my hubby was away on a hunting trip, my sister and I rolled up the old shag carpet, (yeah, it was the 70's) polished up the wood floors, got some area rugs, changed the curtains, moved the furniture around and when he came home a week later he thought he was in the wrong house. It's a great way to redecorate without spending a dime.
I had used in the windows 7 is very convienent to me.what is the advatages of W7:
1)easily access and understandable language and more convient.
2)accessing speed is very fast to compare with the windows.
3)you are implementing the W7 is same as vista.
4)Entirely is diff to other os's.
5)i like to regard to send this info my opinion.
disadvatages:
1)drawback of the copying to estimate items time .
2)automatically shutdown in 2hr's.
this is main draw back of the W7.
some of the sowftware versions are not supported to the W7.
4)So please recover to this prblems.
Than u for inviting the houseparty to indian members .
this is one of the distributed to ur company ssservices.
We got turned on to Restaurant.com a couple of months ago.
Have not had any issues. I did however, read all the restrictions and did not opt to get sucked into the other special offer from Shopping Essentials after reading what they offered I didn't see it as something I would want to do.
Back to Restaurant.com. Never have had a problem with attitude from our server in fact we have become a regular at one restaurant we found and once a month we use our coupon. No guilt here. They offer the coupon and know what their cost and risks are so why in the world would or should I feel guilty. I'm following the rules set forth by the program.
In many cases the owner or manager will stop by the table to see how everything is and we take the opportunity to let them know if it is our first time and that we are their because of restaurant.com offer.
A restaurant was sold before we used our coupon and restaurant.com emailed me and gave me a code to go on line and purchase any other restaurant that I wished.
All I can say is we eat out more often that we would with out this sight, have found some great new places. On the other hand we tried some places that we will not go back to. But, we never would have tried them in the first place with out restaurant.com.
Take the time to read and understand what your buying.
Yes I stock up and store food supplies. There are just 2 of us and I have 3 Freezers that food is alternated through. Nothing is more than a year old. I have meats, butter, fish, sweets, canned goods and pasta's that I have stocked up on. I live in town but and married to a farmer/truck driver, here in ND you learn to stock up because you never know when the blizzard is going to hit.. We even have a generator just in case.. if not 2 fireplaces to cook all our stored food should we need it.
I'm getting ready to move out of my parents house. They both keep their finances privet and never really helped me learn about budgets or balancing my checkbook (which I'm still trying to get the hang of). Growing up I always took the candy bar but thanks to my friends and blog posts like these I'm starting to get in good financial habits. Thanks for the tips!!
I live on the Texas Gulf coast. We have to keep supplies of bottled water, canned food, food for our pets, etc. in case of hurricanes. After Ike last year we were without electricity for almost two weeks. We plan ahead by having not one but two gasoline generators to power some items like the freezer but it isn't enough for the kitchen so we bbq a lot. You would be amazed at how versatile the bbq pit is!
Our county public health department gives all kinds of innoculations, from the seasonal flu shot to the new H1N1, tetanus, pneumonia, etc. the cost for the seasonal shot is just $20, as opposed to the $37- $45 charged by local pharmacies.
I revisited this story about Lawn Tonic on AOL this morning, I'd seen it earlier in the year and bought all the ingredients for it but had not used it yet.
I fed my lawn in May with Bandini Blade with herbicide, my lawn is weed free and has stayed green, I also set my mower blades up which was recommended in the same article and this has helped immensely to aid in a thicker greener lawn.
I have a 12 year old Chocolate Lab and I'm concerned about using chemicals especially herbicide or insecticides on my lawn so this has to be better, doesn't sound like there is anything in it that could be harmful. I will hopefully come back in a couple of weeks with good results.
Thank you for this blog, it's answered many questions I had that I was just guessing at before.
I'd like to have more info from Jane who posted above as to where the 5 gal storage containers can be purchased and also where to find the spreadsheet for how long food lasts.
Thank you!
texasleslie@gmail.com
The fact that people continue to stick with the "banks that are too big to fail" amazes me. Fees for this, charges and surcharges, and fees on fees - mind blistering!
Credit unions are the only way to go.
Not only do these stores have no right to see your receipt, it can be considered unlawful detention (or your state version of what is basically kidnapping). I told one of those checkers I was leaving and if she touched me I would have her arrested for assault and further charges for unlawful detention. I then advised her manager that she was trying to hold me unlawfully while she searched for a $1.00 bottle of something when I had spent over $150.00. She was moved to another position and the checkers were informed of the law. Oh, BTW, I'm a lawyer and former police officer.
I switched my regular banking to credit unions 35 years ago. I have always found staff to be friendly and knowledgeable. Credit unions exist solely to serve their members, not to pay high dividends to share holders. Credit union income is returned to members, offering higher deposit rates and lower rates on loans.
After being persuade by the bank to buy the wrong mutual funds once too often I switched that too!
I could really use this!
The way to protect yourself from this is to do things in the old ways. Pay cash for stuff. Write checks. (Checks are still largely governerned by the old rules.)
Historically, the government has stepped in to control what terms corporations can set with regard to crucial services--water, power, etc. It just hasn't caught up yet with new crucial services like data.
Where there's real competition, there are steps in the right direction. For example, there are plenty of "no contract" cell phone plans available. I haven't looked at any in detail (they probably still have terms and conditions written to screw you), but it's a step in the right direction.
My reason--emergency storage. Too many times I have run out of something I use because of a faulty memory or just too busy and didn't buy it before I ran out of it.
Hello, Liked your advice on the system performance. I would be interested in knowing what four or five items you have open in the MSCONFIG (start-up) file, these are obviously essential. You stated that all others are greyed out. Please email me and let me know, thanks.
kdpamoen@gra.midco.net
I have about 25,000.00 debt with credit cards. I have a plan made with Chase Bank on one. We had to close our account and we pay 142.00 a month for 60 months @ 2% interest and they said that most of the payment goes to principal. WE have 7 years before our house is payed for we pay 660.00 monthly and I have a truck payment of 330.00 monthly for another year and a half. What is the best way to pay my credit cards so I can get them payed off? Is it good to close them? I pay about 800.00 a month in credit cards.
Donna
I am always looking for helpful hints and tips for saving money and getting bargains. These podcasts are perfect. They are not too long yet full of great information.
We don't keep a big stock of food, I found I wasted a lot of food trying to do that and also spent more at the store. But, if there was an emergency we could survive on the food we have for a few weeks. It might not be the best meals ever, but we have beans, canned meat, peanut butter and dry cereal, etc. We'd be okay.
Growing up, my mother easily had months of food in the basement. Most of this was due to bulk shopping in order to save money, but we lived in a rural area and it wasn't uncommon to have winter storms that kept us stuck at home for a few days. While Dad could usually still get out to go to work, the roads weren't good and people only did the driving they had to - which meant no trips to the store, and definitely no taking the kids out in the car.
I live in an apartment with little room for storage and I often think I should stock up more. I definitely need to put together at least a multi-day emergency pack with food and water. I do have a few gallons of drinking water in a closet, plus a few 2 liter bottles of tap water for things like toilet flushing and the like. I figure that plus the cans of soup and boxes of granola bars will get me through a few days.
I would like to be the sort of person who keeps a good stock of supplies and then rotates through them. My problem is that I buy things and then end up having to replace them because they go bad.
We have had food storage, by necessity, until recently. My husband's line of work had him laid off from 5-7 months every year...a classic case of feast (he earns good wages when working) and famine. By adding just a little bit to our food storage every shopping trip, we were able to survive the "famine" times. As his job was seasonal due to the part of the country we live, we just moved last month. It was no picnic for us to move the food storage with us, but after giving some of it to a family in need, we did successfully move it to our new home with hopes that we will never have to rely upon it the way we did before. Will we still have food storage, yes...but not as much.
Ok, we can all save a bunch of money by shopping at the farmers market and growing our own, kinda. Anyone that has been to the farmers market knows, you are your own market manager. Where the produce managers has last say as to what he will or will not offer his customers to keep them coming back. At the market, you have to use double observation to keep from buying poor produce. Then you have the issue of buying quantity, preparation and storage. Does this out weigh the prospect of timely shopping at the local store? I guess what is best for you works. I can feed a lot of people on a few bags of store brand frozen veggies.
On the other hand, have you ever wondered where that food that your local restaurant and grocer doesn't use goes? No, I don't mean the leftovers! I'm talking about boxes that were dropped, wasn't ordered, over ordered, etc. A lot of people don't realize that such products exist or that there may be an outlet for them. Here, we have a little known shopping place called 'Dickies' that specializes in these products. Everything from Steaks, Ribs, Fish, Shrimp, Ham, Lamb, etc. is there in the Frozen section. Also, can goods, boxed items, seasoning, etc. Some of the products are uncooked, some precooked heat and serve. Like anything, when you shop plays a part, find out when is truck day and more selections are available the next day. How much have I saved shopping like this in addition to my regular shopping to fill in the blanks. Well, how about a commercial size box of fish-sticks for $5, a pork-butt that literally filled my 22 pint cooker for $20, precooked ham that are 2 to 3 times the size of the ones in your local store for $10 to $15. Case of 6oz Rib-eye Steak 28 or so to a box $30. Case of precooked pork racks of ribs $30. Salmon fillets (entire sides of salmon about 2 1/2 feet long and 10 or 12 inches wide) for $7, Even hamburger helper, boxes of cake mix, condensed milk, veggies, etc. You never know what to expect to find when you go but you can bet you'll save 30% to 50% of WHOLESALE prices. That's about 50% to 75% off of retail. It may take some research to find somewhere in your area but is well worth it. We have 3 of these places, each is it's own little world. One will have more of this and less of that, compared to the other locations. I have filled my upright freezer for about $100 to $140 and put the overflow in my side by side. I take a day off once a month to go shopping as a primary source of food and fill in with a trip to the grocer weekly about 10:30AM on Saturday and Sunday morning, that's when they mark down for date, usually the day before the sell by date. Just check for color and smell (should do that anyway) and freeze until your ready to cook. Then check for fresh produce sales and other stuff.
Hope this helps & happy saving,
Mike
So, plain text = notepad, or = typed into the e-mail body?
that sums up what I am feeling about my bank recently but there is no solution, can not get a better service too. governments should not allow this I guess.
That happens to be a favorite activity of mine and when I was younger, my kids would go to sleep, my husband off to work the night shift and I would come alive with ideas on where to put the couch - or maybe this table and lamp would really look awesome in that corner. I loved it. It was great exercise and just so exciting to see small changes make such a huge difference. One time when my hubby was away on a hunting trip, my sister and I rolled up the old shag carpet, (yeah, it was the 70's) polished up the wood floors, got some area rugs, changed the curtains, moved the furniture around and when he came home a week later he thought he was in the wrong house. It's a great way to redecorate without spending a dime.
Thank you for always adding your special brand of humor in your very thoughtful articles.
W7
I had used in the windows 7 is very convienent to me.what is the advatages of W7:
1)easily access and understandable language and more convient.
2)accessing speed is very fast to compare with the windows.
3)you are implementing the W7 is same as vista.
4)Entirely is diff to other os's.
5)i like to regard to send this info my opinion.
disadvatages:
1)drawback of the copying to estimate items time .
2)automatically shutdown in 2hr's.
this is main draw back of the W7.
some of the sowftware versions are not supported to the W7.
4)So please recover to this prblems.
Than u for inviting the houseparty to indian members .
this is one of the distributed to ur company ssservices.
We got turned on to Restaurant.com a couple of months ago.
Have not had any issues. I did however, read all the restrictions and did not opt to get sucked into the other special offer from Shopping Essentials after reading what they offered I didn't see it as something I would want to do.
Back to Restaurant.com. Never have had a problem with attitude from our server in fact we have become a regular at one restaurant we found and once a month we use our coupon. No guilt here. They offer the coupon and know what their cost and risks are so why in the world would or should I feel guilty. I'm following the rules set forth by the program.
In many cases the owner or manager will stop by the table to see how everything is and we take the opportunity to let them know if it is our first time and that we are their because of restaurant.com offer.
A restaurant was sold before we used our coupon and restaurant.com emailed me and gave me a code to go on line and purchase any other restaurant that I wished.
All I can say is we eat out more often that we would with out this sight, have found some great new places. On the other hand we tried some places that we will not go back to. But, we never would have tried them in the first place with out restaurant.com.
Take the time to read and understand what your buying.