Category Archives: Ready or Not

Are you working on your garden yet? It’s that time of year! Read Ready or Not #282: Planting Pots to learn how to make inexpensive and easy to make pots to start your seedlings in.

If you are provident and are working on your home storage, you are a lot like Shakespeare! Ready or Not #281: Shakespeare Like to Eat discusses the various meanings of hoarding and some of Shakespeare’s preparedness activities and how history is repeating itself.

Read it and then go pull a “Shakespeare!”

Do you remember in the movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” when George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) tried to keep the doors open to his savings and loan institution?

There’s a situation right now that mirrors this wonderful movie. Ready or Not #280: How Do You Buy Bread Without Money discusses that situation –and explains what you should do to protect yourself if you find yourself in a similar situation.

Got the latest APP?  I’m not talking electronics here.  I’m actually referring to the original meaning of the word application.  Ap-pli-ca-tion (ap-li-key-shuh n) 1.  the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem. Ready or Not #279: Get Your App explains what I’m talking about.

What do you know about bromate?  Have you even heard of it?  Me neither. Ready or Not #278: Bromate and Conspiring Men talks about flour that has bromate in it and the consequenses of using flour that contains it. This is good information to know — and not to too many people do.

In Ready or Not #277: Now You See It Now You Don’t, I share a scenario from a book I recently read. The book was very thought provoking. Read myarticle and then use it to evaluation your emergency preparedness.

Ready or Not 276: Eat and Learn explains how food storage and learning can go together. Great idea here!

I have created a 2013 calendar for you use in your scheduling and planning. Refer to Ready or Not #235: Scheduling Planner to see how I recommend you use it.