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Are You Prepared For An Emergency?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Way to stay warm (either some heat source, or lots of blankets). Know where these items are, and make sure other family members know as well. My son knows that there are two meeting points out (depending on whether he leaves out the front or out the back) in our neighborhood. Water (and method of purification).

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Bee Stung Butts, Freeze Dried Diapers and Other Hilarious Happenings of Poverty

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

That was true for me as well, but I also think that poverty is a very relative concept. In their first home together, built out in the new suburbs (then it was country), Mom endured well water and an outhouse. In the morning, you raced into the living room to warm first your backside and then your front-side by the stove.

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