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How I’m Managing our Family Budget during the Pandemic

Family Balance Sheet

A layoff or a drop of business happened in the past, but a global economic shut down from a deadly virus? I shop once a week and while I have some stuff in my freezer and cupboards, I don’t have more than two week’s worth of food if we absolutely couldn’t leave our house at all. 2 – Start stockpiling food.

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Is Self-Sufficiency Possible in the 21st Century?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

It has just never been economically justifiable. Americans pride themselves on their ‘Yankee ingenuity’ – making do or doing without. Then I started counting up the costs (seed, fertilizer, bug repellent, canning goods, freezer costs and time costs). I used to garden. We no longer know how.

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