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6 Cleaning Necessities for Your Stockpile
If you have these 6 items, there’s nothing you can’t clean: Baking soda Bleach Borax Dawn dish soap Table salt White vinegar Many of us have spent our valuable dollars buying the latest in cleaning supplies. What we’re really paying for is harsh chemicals (some of them carcinogenic) and artificialRead the Rest…
Nuts for Soapnuts!
I finally invested in a bag of soapnuts. I read about them on Ready Nutrition, where Tess Pennington gave detailed instructions on the many ways they can be used. (Be sure and check out her article – she tells you how to make liquid soap, shampoo, etc., from them!) IRead the Rest…
Orange You Going to Eat That?
I get a lot of my stuff from the “last day of sale” bin at the grocery store. This weekend I picked up a 5 pound box of mandarin oranges for $2 – SCORE!!!! The last time I hit the motherlode of mandarins, I canned them in a light syrupRead the Rest…
Removing Pesticide from Produce
While I would love for every bite we consume to be organic, budgetary restrictions don’t always allow for it. I do buy my produce from local farms and have a good relationship with a couple of favorite fellows in overalls, so I’m able to quiz them about what is sprayedRead the Rest…
A Week Without (Much) Water
Okay, a week without water is a little misleading. It has been a week with MUCH water. A week without CLEAN water. It has definitely been a challenge of our preparations! The photo to the right is the water coming our of our taps right now. —–> Why? The droughtRead the Rest…