The Nerdy Survivalist

The Nerdy Survivalist: How to Protect and Care For Your Family in the Direst of Circumstances Was a free book for kindle when this post was written.
Preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse might not be your cup of tea,but preparing for natural disasters SHOULD be.
If you've been wondering how you could prepare for adisaster when you don't even feel like you can prepare for dinnertime, this is the book for you.
THE NERDY SURVIVALIST is a book for the rest of us.
You aren't going to learn how to build a fire with your mind or how to survive living off berries in the woods.
Instead, you're going to hear from a mom who's seen it all and lived through most of it,and you're going to discover what you need to know to make
surviving a reality.
Find out how you can start building a food storage even when you're on a budget, what steps you need to take BEFORE a disaster strikes, and what
mistakes you should avoid right before a storm in this book by Penelope Hoyt.

How To Make A Dollar Store Solar Cooker

How To Make A Dollar Store Solar Cooker - SHTF Preparedness



Today is a good day to try this out. My little man is going to cook up some hot dogs in ours to see how well it works.

Sew & Sell cloth Diapers

Medium Girl Fitted Cloth Diaper 





Sewing cloth diapers for my little man when he was a baby was a great way to save money that actually went into a home based business of selling cloth diapers.

The Blackout

The Blackout was a free book for the kindle when this post was written. This would make for a great read at the beach or the park while the kids play.

The world is thrust into darkness and silence, but no one knows why. Molly is an English professor at a local liberal arts college when the world suddenly goes dark. Her husband, Gary, is a corporate pilot on the other side of the country. Grounded by what appears to be a catastrophic power outage, he has no way to communicate with his wife, let alone get home to her. Not knowing whether her husband is alive or dead, Molly struggles to adapt to her new environment: without power, running water, transportation, a stable food supply, or any long-distance means of communication. Without knowing the cause of the outage, Gary must decide whether to wait for things to go back to normal, or to make the long and dangerous journey home on foot. Both must learn to survive after the Blackout.

Home Based Business Idea - Alter and Re-do Furniture

My brother started doing this about October of last year and he is really making some good money doing it. Enough that he quit his "real" job at a local department store. He finds old furniture at yard sales , dumpster diving, etc and redoes it. Sometimes he just cleans it and paints it, but sometimes he actually alters the items into other things. He is real good and sells more of the benches that he makes out of old footboards and headboard. They are so cute. He get the headboards and footboards for next to nothing at yard sales and turns them into a bench and sells them all day long for $75.00! He had to get a booth at the local indoor flea market because he was running out of room at his house.

Just an idea to throw out there if you have the tools and a truck than you can do this.

When he post pictures of the items on Facebook to a local sale group he deletes them the second they sell. I am going to start saving his pictures. He has really made some great looking items. They sell fast!