I started the prepping mindset out of fear back in 1999 (Y2K), and began building my pantry up. Two years later, I was a divorced mom of 3 teenagers. I always had food in the house. Then I was able to start a garden, and this opened a whole new world for me. Now I live on almost 20 acres of land, have three gardens, a greenhouse and chickens. I learned to garden, preserve, can, dehydrate, make my own lotions, tinctures, soaps and more.
I started prepping out of fear 8 years ago. Over time I’ve become a homesteader and have really found Jesus. I fear no more and love to starve the beast system.
I started a food garden because of budget constraints years ago. We save jugs of water, now have supplemental solar power thanks to my smart husband, keep chickens for eggs, meat, garden help, and “therapy,” started an orchard and vineyard, and maybe most importantly stopped buying things that were wasting our money. When I want to buy something special, I am thankful for giving up fast food trips. Just 2 saved visits to the drivethru pays for 2 weeks of chicken feed, or an apple tree, or garden tools, or materials for renovating my kitchen. We (my sister and I) also redid the 50 year old cast iron plumbing drains ourselves, saving several thousand dollars. I am so GLAD to still be cutting shackles off my life by doing for myself wherever possible.
I got fabric, sewing notions, trimmings, from thrift stores I showed my 9 yr old how to sew her first bag. She was so happy and proud of herself! Priceless. I got more small fabric pieces. She is going to sew a shopping bag for her family members and teachers ...everyone. I got a pattern for a 3x4 quilt for $1!. That's our next project. I live on social security. Im sooooo glad God showed me ways to share happiness.
I admit I started prepping out of complete fear. If you’ve ever struggled to feed your children, when you are more financially stable you make sure that your family never goes hungry again. When I rededicated my life to Christ in 2020, something changed in me. Now I view what I have as what I pray will be a blessing to those left behind. I pray over our home and that it will be a safe refuge for them even if for just a short time. That’s my viewpoint now.
Sleepyhead 84. Yes I have said the same thing to people. ..that what is left when I'm raptured I want it to bless those who will not take the mark and be saved. I'm leaving notes of encouragement and of salvation prayer. Because some will be saved during that time.
Amen to this. That's exactly why we should be preparing. And as a parent who has once had to tell their child there's no food left, it is a perfectly GOOD fear to have. EVERY parent should worry about being able to feed their children (and themselves).
I have so many related stories I could tell!! When we were truckers, we always signed up to do FEMA runs because we like to help people. When Hurricane Michael hit Florida, many truckers were already staged just waiting for the word Go. It could get hairy trying to deliver food, water and supplies. I remember seeing the seaside homes completely leveled to nothing but slabs of concrete, the steel I-beams twisted and lying in a ditch, the two little girls squatted down rummaging through a pile of clothing for something that fit, and the recovery dogs sniffing debris piles looking for people who were trapped or otherwise. I remember people lining both sides of the road, jumping up and down, clapping their hands and cheering when we all rolled in with much needed food and water. I remember the people pulling out their own bbq grills and smokers that weren't damaged and they fired them up so they could cook for their community, not just their own families. We saw a great coming together of Americans, people helping each other. It didn't matter who you voted for, what your orientation was, where you worked or what car you drove. Through the devastation, the American people came together as one. I grew up poor and I've never had much in the way of finances. My parents taught us to tuck back food and other necessities. It's in my DNA. Where we live now, I keep my plastic juice jugs filled with water. I change them out every 6 months. I wish they were glass. Last year, I got up and our water pressure was really low. After a little while, it ceased running at all. No water for hundreds of homes. All this was caused by some smarty pants 10 miles down the road who failed to Call Before He Dug! He hit the water line and it took several hours to be repaired. So, even though plastic jugs are not ideal, it's better than nothing. I use electricity to cook most of our meals so I don't have to use up our propane. When the power goes out, we can still cook. Last winter, we had folks coming to our house so their kids could get a bath and a hot meal. Whenever someone offers us a can of food or something because they don't want or like it, I always receive it with open arms. Because while we may not like it either, it could be bartered or help someone else out. I have a bad habit of hanging onto clothes that are too small, thinking I'll lose weight. Ha! Good thing I do, though. A family down the road had a house fire in winter and lost everything. Her size was the exact size clothing I had been hanging onto. It is true, God works in mysterious ways.
Well said! Before Y2K I was a drop point for Azure. Many were preparing and I stored away lots of wheat, beans dehydrated and canned goods. So Y2K never happened and I'm sure some laughed at me, but then my neighbors husband lost his job and I was able to help her, she would come over and grind wheat and bake, make things out of the legumes that I had, etc. Then my husband lost his job, so needless to say that food came in handy. I love being prepared and right now I look in the pantry and see that I bought all that food when it was about 30% less than what its going for now. Thats $ in the bank.
@@homesteadgamer1257 , Thank you and I think my neighbor was wonderful too, she was willing and grateful to use the food that I had. One of my concerns at this time is that many don't know how to cook anymore, and they don't like the taste of natural food.Its important to pass on our skills, hopefully more will have a desire to learn.
EXCELLENT POST! And living in fear is the name of the game "they" are playing against us. Fear can cause disease. Don't fall for it. Ignore "them" and break their hold on your life.❤❤❤
Love this my family states your living in fear. My response is, this is comfort, I don’t worry, I have what I need when I need it. This is blessings upon blessings!
My dad saved hinges, nuts, bolts, etc off of everything and my mom saved buttons, zippers, Velcro, etc. I always buy sewing notions from garage sales and thrift shops. My husband buys baggies of nuts, bolts, nails, etc.
Loved this video. Prep out of necessity, not fear. Everyone should have a few months worth of food and water in their home. Start where you are and do what you can, your life will be so much LESS stressful! Personal experience has made me so thankful I had the preps for 6 months, and was still able to help others with my preps. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge. GOD bless
I started prepping out of fear in March 2020. I do not fear anymore since I am stocked up enough just in case. I made my mistakes in stocking up but I learned from it.
We live on a mountain so we do prep. We bought a wood stove with two cook burners last week. We are far from stores. We do canning, gardening and freeze drying. We have chickens, ducks and geese. Love your videos totally❤
I'd been taught to have a winter pantry and how to keep a home without "products", but now it's just the quality of what we have to work with - the poisoned food, the questionable (homicidal) medical care system...A lot of what we'd have done normally to live simply isn't possible to do the same way anymore. The chaos gave us the opportunity to slow down and get back to much older ways again we had lived in our youth. But we had to tweak things given our age and my husband's chronic condition. We can't do what we could do thirty years ago. I'm truly sorry people suffered, but I am grateful for the blessings we were given because we're a lot better off now.
Well said! Preparing helps me sleep better at night. During the "lockdowns", I got sick. I don't know what it was. I had everything I needed to treat myself and take care of myself. I was well in 3 days.
I live by my self with 2 cats. I just moved into a 2 bedroom apartment for the very thing that you discussed in this video. i needed a bit more room. I'm A Master Gardener, I stock up on my garden produce, I also do hydroponics of herbs and greens. i knit , crochet, spin wool and started to weave. I love it. My way of life is based on the Proverbs 31 woman. Thank you for sharing you are very helpful and appreciate your hard work on these videos. God is good, all the time!
Frugality and preparedness is a wonderful lifestyle no matter what the circumstances. I was raised this way (somewhat). I actually started bulk buying when I was working 10 hour shifts, 7 days on/7 days off. Both of my parents were very sick in a neighboring state. I would spend several days with them on my off week. I just couldn’t go grocery shopping all of the time. I continued doing this after they passed. I’d buy a bunch of meat for us to eat and an equal amount to can. This has been great.
Over the past 3 years I made a point of learning how to do so many things from scratch with whatever I have on hand. I am always looking for ways to save money doing things for myself! This year I have seriously started a little homestead in my yard, working on growing and foraging as much as I can. I am enjoying this so much, and the Lord has been so good to my little family. No fear here, just hard work and love. And of course, I have learned so many valuable skills from this channel. 🙂
started prepping out of doing something new. I love to learn different things to make life easier. I learned how to dehydrate vegetables and you showed me how to dehydrate meats. I did have heart surgery a few months ago and living off my dehydrated foods was so convenient so my adult son made me soup by dumping a jar of food with water and not guessing on his part. I didn't start prepping out of fear.
Love your channel! You have helped me immensely! I have along way to go but am happy with what I have learned and done already so far .. your endless encouragement and detailed instructions have given me the courage to step out and learn and do new things for the sake of my family .. not from fear but from a sense of duty and obligation .. who doesn’t want to take care of their family’s? I’m still believing God for my own land but I’m using the time of waiting to learn adding new skills each year .. thank you for all that you share!
I’m making beeswax candles, make sure my oil lamps are filled. Tinctures & drying herbs, stocking my pantry. No panic or fear. Baking bread gaining skills.
My parents instilled a sense of Preparedness for Life Events whether, financial, health, civic unrest, natural disasters or unemployment. Over the years, I have learned different forms, methods & ways to "Be Prepared". Planting a "Forever Garden" is always the first thing i do when moving to a new location. The next step is a Seasonal Garden then Microgreen & Aquaculture Gardening to help provide supplemental Fresh Fruits & Vegetables year round. Stocking Fruits, Herbs, Vegetables, Grains & Meats in Dehydrated, Fermented, Canned (Dry Heat, Waterbathed & Pressure), Commercial Canned/Boxed, Frozen, Bottled (Liquors) & Rendered/Jerky Products is the last things on the List of Prepareness in the Four Corners Kitchen of Food & Water categories. I was overjoyed when a very dear TH-camr finally put a name to my storage method of Fresh-Refrigerator; Canned & Boxed-Working Pantry; Meats, Fruits & Vegetables-Freezer; and all of the above in Bulk in the Long-Term Pantry. Now, I don't seem so crazy in my Preparedness for Life Events. Even though i was raised in the Church and was Blessed with Guiding Parents & Faith Community, I finally understood that i needed to Prepare my Heart. In 2012. i was in a serious accident and White Lighted. Unfortunately, I was sent back to here (NDE). After 30 days of being pissed with being sent back, I made my Peace with God's Plan and each morning we start the day with a what do, who do or where do you want me today, Lord, conversation then I follow His lead.
I started prepping about 15 years ago. It started as just wanting to preserve from the garden. I started with jam making. It was so much fun that I went on to sauce making. My husband saw the benefits and savings so we just kept adding to our list of prepping even though it wasn't prepping to us. It was just fun to see what we could do ourselves.
My daughter has done the same. She started out making and canning homemade salsa, she recently started trying baking i(breads,bread sticks, hamburger buns, soft pretzels ) her family says she can't buy the store stuff anymore lol.
I always kept "a few extras" in the house. Then, in January of 2020, it was like a lightbulb finally went off. I remember clearly thinking that I needed to stock up and do better because we weren't going to be able to get things from the stores...and sure enough...Then, I quit my classroom teaching job in 2021, began working part-time from home, and being more frugal became more important. Now, having my pantry stocked, canning and preserving, making homemade (just about everything) instead of buying store-bought, repairing instead of buying new, and having more time to expand and work in my garden is a way of life.
Your comment is incredibly vague.. do you mean storage buildings? Storage units? Surely you don't think storing anything, which is what your comment says, is useless. Storing food and water is extremely important. I can think of so many ways that storage is important, especially to our dog kennel. If you leave things that most people would store out for dogs, they will be destroyed and or peed on. That would ruin our heaters that we use for them in the cold months. So we store them. Storage isn't useless at all.
@@AmysAttitude It was clearly meant to be a general statement. However you choose to preserve and store your food or however you can. Under your beds, in your cabinets, in your closets, in as spare room, in a pantry, whatever you are able to do. It will all be different for each person but as long as people are doing SOMEthing, they are basically "printing their own money"
@@AmysAttitude No, I'm not going to get into listing every item that anyone should be putting in storage. I left a vague answer because no one lives the same lifestyle as the others. It is up to you, individually to decide what you need to store.
I think most people don't understand that rural areas live a lifestyle of preparedness that isn't about catastrophic events, it's just these reasons. Convenience, decreased stress, less runs to town during busy seasons of year and life.
Because of your wise words, I have a decent pantry and rarely have to run for a dinner component. (Sour cream is one..if I don't have plain gk yogurt) My yarn "horde" as my spouse calls it...enables me to throw a gift baby blanket together for an unexpected shower. We have multiple cooking sources and ways to do things. Water is our weal spot. We rent. Over the years you've taught me so much. May God richly bless you for all you do.
2021 was my pivotal moment. I saw how things were going to go downhill fast. It's also the time I reconnected with God after ignoring Him for many years. Trusting God is what keeps the fear at bay. God is certainly good, all the time. In 2021 I lived in a terrible city and I was trying to figure out, as I went through preparations, how I was going to protect us physically as well as protect what I had done for preparedness. It took an exhausting amount of time researching home security in a grid down scenario. Then circumstances happened that gave me an opportunity to convince my husband to move to a much more rural location. Then my focus turned back to preparedness. It's been a year and things are moving forward. We have chickens, I'm trying to conquer solid rock ground to cultivate into sustainable gardens. I've collected a lot of things for off grid projects so if the EMP comes I have supplies on hand and a plan to continue those projects, like rainwater catchment. Did I say, God is good? My biggest concern was a water source. I was searching out seep springs or anything to have a constant source of water. Last fall, we cleared out some blackberry canes in our field and hidden among the canes was a capped well. We have a well for the house but electricity is needed to run the pump. So I researched and found a deep well hand pump that would work. But, the company said it would take 12 months to full my order. I called a Well drilling company nearby and asked if they could get me one sooner. Guess what? They had the pump I needed, with the amount of pipe I needed for the depth of my well, and the thing is, it had been ordered by a customer last year, who never picked it up so they had it in storage. That is Providence at work. My tip for preppers. I go through my day thinking about, how would I do this task if we had no electricity, power tools, etc. I then get the things I need to do the tasks without power. How will you heat your space in the winter? How will you cook? What are you going to do about sanitation? Those everyday things you now take for granted, think about what you will do if it is not there.
I started preping because i grow up having to do without food most time. Fast forwad to 2020. I was admitted to hospital at 20weeks pregnant and had my son at 25weeks. During everything that was happening in 2020. After 3months long stay in the hospital i brought home my son. After things went calm i started buying more food couse i dont want my kids to have food insercurity like i did growing up. Now i have 2year and 2year old to feed. I wont stop preping as long as i can still afford to put food away
Very good point about the insurance. We had paid in for Years.. and we ended up (possibly) having a mold issue and our insurance company dropped us that very day!!! Everything is a money making scam. (They'll) take advantage of us at every opportunity. ❤
The biggest thing I am thinking of is water I have dried and canned foods, but water we have town, we don't get a lot of rain, not enough for are needed, but I don't live in fear, thank you for teaching us more ❤ may God bless you
Oh yes! I injured my knee this weekend, and it's so nice not to have to go to the grocery! Now, someone else has to "shop" mom's pantry. But everything down there is pretty convenient.
Hope your knee gets better soon. I hurt mine back in April and my first thought was " how can I get around the grocery? Lol. I actually had to ride one of those carts and it ran out of juice before the shopping trip was over 😊
This reminds me of a true event, told by an officer ...he stops an elderly woman in her vehicle. During the stop he notices a handgun...asks her about it. Something made him decide to ask if she had any other weapons in her vehicle. She then went on to tell him of several others in different locations. Finally, he says: ma'am, are you afraid of anything? She looks him in the eye, grins, and says: absolutely nothing! Obviously she felt prepared...all "prepping" is truly about that...no matter what or why. Being comforted, not fearful...which is a real freedom and helping have the peace of mind to endure different scenarios. No matter what your initial incentive may have been, it's nice to have choices, peace of mind...but, please start somewhere, so you have choices...hedge some of the inflation and supply issues...choose healthier options...be your own insurance company. Praying for us all...God is good!!!
The one thing I find so strange, people learn about all the hardships of humanity over the centuries when we are in school and as adults panic at the thought of grid down like we will be dead in days. Even during the black plague (often called the Black Death), the worse time in modern history, not even half of the population of Europe died. People are stronger than they think. We really have had it so easy this last half century that people live in fear of hardships.
I started a garden and canning/preserving as soon as I could when I got married because I wanted to make sure I didn't screw up what a good marriage was supposed to be. Sounds funny. As a kid I was told I needed to learn to cook and sew in order to be a good wife. I didn't understand until after I was married what that meant. Now saved, I understand it even more. Now we prep which has allowed up to have jobs we want instead of jobs we need which allows us to live a happier life.
I've always felt the same about insurance. They MAKE you get it in some situations, but when you need to make a claim, it's " oh, we don't cover THAT". Totally useless.
I was raised by parents who were born in 1920&1925 they were in their late teens during the Great Depression and while dad was away at ww2 mom dealt with feeding my older brothers during wartime food rations. They taught us to be prepared for when there isn’t anything to buy or it’s to expensive to buy. Being raised on a beef & dairy cattle farms, raising acres of corn, pumpkins, hay gardens preserving by every method, butchering all of our livestock curing and smoking the meat and pressure canning it. I still live in the same area and during the winter we have ice storms sometimes 4/6 per winter one of our most severe ice storms left us without electricity and water for 31 days and roads impassable for over a week. Raising large gardens, herbs, medicinals meat , having orchards, berries, grapes and nut trees, preserving and butchering, processing and then Buying in bulk dry goods etc and stocking our pantries and all other necessities have never been out of fear but always about being ready for what might come. It’s always been just a way of life. It’s also 100 mile round trip to get to any Kroger, aldi, Walmart etc. we have a small grocery store 40 mile round trip but milk is $4.98 a gallon the 100 mile trip Walmart is $2.25. That’s also one of the reasons that we keep prepared and stocked up. We shop every 3-4 months and in between if we have a drs appointment. Trust in the LORD. GOD is good all of the time. May God bless you and your family.
Great video, Heidi! Yes, and amen. I now have a part-time casual job in tourism, whidh l am very grateful for! Only 3 shifts per week, but with recent price-hikes, l am doing okay now, and much better than on govt assistance alone! I know that in Nov, the down-season will begin, and shifts will be an hour shorter. So. Every time l go grocery shopping, l am buying a couple of extra groceries, more if they are on a good special, and squirelling them away, making up a week's worth of food at a time. It's been a bit hard, but so far, l have 6 weeks nearly complete. God will look after me, but l am seeing that groceries could easily be the thing that my off-season pay won't be able to cover. And there are a limited number of times that you can go to a charity for a food parcel. While God is providing this work (and sometimes an extra relieving shift!), l will endeavour to put away, while the season is good. And God will look after the rest. And yes, there was a time when house insurance was fair and reasonable....now, it seems that you have to have the money already put aside to fix things, in order to pay the excess, to claim the money to fix it. My excess used to be $50...now it's $200...so basically any job needing $200 worth of repairs, or any item ruined to that value, is not insured... do it yourself. Yet l have paid thousands into the fund, over the years, and never had a holiday 'cos l can't afford it...l'm too busy paying the insurance! 😠 Something wrong with that system. And so, we do what we can with what we have in our hand, and pray to God for wisdom and provision. Thankyou, God, for being So Good! And thankyou Heidi! 🙂❤✝️
My husband used to watch (read) news and get angry. I used to say; "why not just leave it alone?" "Because I need to know what is happening in the world so I can know how to live." He has gone home to Jesus, now, it is my job to be aware.
I think you articulated this factor really well. Power outages and natural disasters are inevitable. And I would guess that 98% of the population could not go even for five days without access to a grocery store. When my friends and acquaintances, see how prepared I am. Which I still feel I’m at a mediocre level of preparedness. They always joke that they’re coming to my house. And I tell them. Sorry you’ll be met at the gate with a gun. Lol!
This was a fantastic video! We live with my fiancé’s parents, because they are elderly and where, renting out part of their house and helping them. They had a garage fire last fall, because one of the other renters burnt it all the way to the ground! He is in jail right now. They have liberty mutual and they totally screwed them over! I did 10 years of fire and flood restoration and I’ve never seen insurance companies screw people over like this in my life! Do you mind me asking what insurance company you had?
Excellent video! I was most at ease this past hurricane season because I felt I was very prepared. I also feel like my extended pantry has saved me a lot of money.
I've always had extra stuff bc I grew up in Hurricane alley... I'm now a foster parent so I have extra stuff on hand bc I never know what age, gender or how many kiddos at one time ill get a call for... Even though I can't feed them anything I've canned I have other things I can feed them but have emergency stuff for my bio kids and others if they need help... But with all that is going on today I'm trying to kick it up a notch
@@RainCountryHomestead Honestly, I was born in Philadelphia and grew up in most of the world but I consider myself from the Central Jersey Shore. My hubby is from here though. That's how I got here - marrying him. 😁
Well, they are not wrong, those that find celebrities and their technogadgets more important than putting up for hard times are zombies...so... Proverbs 12:11 He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
It is always good to prepare not just with a mind for ourselves and our families, but in times of extreme hardship, God may use you to bless those who are less fortunate than yourself around you. Learn from the ant. (Proverbs 6:6-8). It is good to prepare for our physical needs, also friends, let us be mindful to prepare for our spiritual health . For Jesus said “What can it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36). The soul is that part of you that will live on after life here on earth is done. Seek the Lord while he may be found. (Luke 9:25). See also Luke 12: 15-21 and Isaiah 55: 1-3. God bless you all.😊
Being a single person I did this I’ve now gotten to s point of only buying on dale bulk if I see my stash is low keeping a eye on my pantry made so much sense as at one point I became very over stocked in one or two items so now I watch both the pantry and sales buy only what I need at the time I come from a huge family thst pantry stocking came naturally now that I’m a widow and empty nest I’ve had to rethink slightly now a days yes with all this crashing markets banks and such well yes it’s happening sll over again mostly greedy unprepared scared people
It's definitely good to be prepared for all of those reasons! Just as you mentioned, job loss or income becomes less for whatever reason, so important to be prepared. If it had not been for our food preps a few months back, we'd have been starving! My husband's hours were cut drastically. All good now, but thank God we were prepared! Great info, thank you!
Heidi ~ I literally just said out loud (to myself.... I work remotely so am home alone)....."Heidi, you're the best in the whole wide world and I want to live next door to you." 🤣🙌 Thank you for this, we (...I) need balance in this and it also confirms the direction I've been going to revamp our systems at home. Thankful to be in this season with you and other like minded people. 💓
I’d love to follow you around for a couple of weeks. Always wanted to be making most of my stuff we use… unfortunately, my body and health has failed me, even though I’m halfway young. Husbands in same boat. We still get out and garden and try to build every year. Always hoping to find someone young who’ll want to come help on the place for room/ board. We’ve tried, 2-4 times, always wrong people. Anyway, I’m so envious of you doing all you do. Thanks for your videos! God bless!
I suspect in this day and age, it would be pretty hard to find any young person willing to actually work. They are not being taught a good work ethic but rather that they deserve to have everything handed to them. It may be you will have to look for someone a little older that is willing to work and grateful to have a place to lay their head at night
@@RainCountryHomestead We’ve had a older person here also. Tried that first. He did real well first couple of months. Then we began getting all his belongings here, and everything fell through. I’m sure part is is, as we expect a little something for what we’re offering…. Even most of the older folks are this way, “ ENTITLED”. I’m praying and tell my husband not to stress, as god will send someone when things get REALY bad, that will respect and appreciate what we have to offer. As of right now, we don’t even want to consider it, although we could REALY use the help. Even tried to find someone to work a day or two a week for pay, but everyone wants 20$ a hour!! We’ll do it ourselves for that. Thanks for all you do! Have learned a lot from you.
I needed this. Thank you! I've been learning more ways of doing the things I grew up doing. I battle my health issues to do them. We expanded our garden this year and I guess I have a touch of garden envy( for lack of a better term) I'm dehydrating things like peppermint and onions etc greens but I was really feeling like I failed and I don't live in fear. I work towards being more prepared. This video just resonated with me because it made me realize that the sound of my dehydrator running now is more of my own insurance. It's preserving our blessing for both my family and others who may need it. Thank you for this! Thank you so very much. I am in migraine and had to basically cancel the day. This really encouraged me. I'm dehydrating onions....with said migraine... it's fun :) God is good ALL the TIME!
We’ve expanded ours too this year and you just reminded me I need to get that dehydrator going. I’ve been dehydrating herbs to make salve but I need to get my onions finished. Hope you feel better soon.
Thank you so much for your videos! I have learned so much from you! I still have a bit of fear due to things going on in the world, but since I have been prepping, gardening and stocking up I feel much less stress knowing I have enough in and around my home to survive for a while. God bless you and your family!
Absolutely!👍🏼 I’ve always tried to live an do what my grandparents did! It’s a wonderful life isn’t it?!🥰 I’m so stocked up it’s ridiculous! Right! Insurance is a joke! You had a bad insurance company! Mine paid for a full new roof-progressive!
Very good tips. Some of our Grandparents lived this way and some of us do today. Here's hoping that your video will provoke thought and encourage others to do the same.......
And that is exactly what it is, we really need to change the name from prepping to insurance as just that name change alone should help everything make sense to those who just cannot grasp the concept or want to degrade those who put up for hard times
@@RainCountryHomestead my pantry kept us in groceries after my husband had surgery that kept him off work for weeks in 2021. There’s so many times it has sustained us during lean times (self-employed), when the state of the world is want concerning. Insurance bc we like to eat!
Thank you, Heidi. I watch many prepper, talk and finance and it is just overwhelming...so pushing the chair back and taking a breath. I am not stressed everyday that my house will burn down. So have the same mindset with the prepping.
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I started the prepping mindset out of fear back in 1999 (Y2K), and began building my pantry up. Two years later, I was a divorced mom of 3 teenagers. I always had food in the house. Then I was able to start a garden, and this opened a whole new world for me.
Now I live on almost 20 acres of land, have three gardens, a greenhouse and chickens. I learned to garden, preserve, can, dehydrate, make my own lotions, tinctures, soaps and more.
This is amazing. I LOVE stories like this. Good for you!!!
That’s wonderful!
Wow that's awesome! Very inspirational! 😊
Same here! Y2K was a good wake up. Through job loss and health crisis, I always fell back on my preps. Just a lifestyle now.
I started prepping out of fear 8 years ago. Over time I’ve become a homesteader and have really found Jesus. I fear no more and love to starve the beast system.
@@guynorth3277 you need to find another channel to patronize and grow up. End of story.
Guy North is out of here!
I love the thought of starving the beast system!
Amen!
"Over time.... I have really found Jesus". Praise God!
I started a food garden because of budget constraints years ago. We save jugs of water, now have supplemental solar power thanks to my smart husband, keep chickens for eggs, meat, garden help, and “therapy,” started an orchard and vineyard, and maybe most importantly stopped buying things that were wasting our money. When I want to buy something special, I am thankful for giving up fast food trips. Just 2 saved visits to the drivethru pays for 2 weeks of chicken feed, or an apple tree, or garden tools, or materials for renovating my kitchen. We (my sister and I) also redid the 50 year old cast iron plumbing drains ourselves, saving several thousand dollars. I am so GLAD to still be cutting shackles off my life by doing for myself wherever possible.
Impressive.
amazing! There is so much therapy found in the husbandry of keeping animals and a garden.
I got fabric, sewing notions, trimmings, from thrift stores
I showed my 9 yr old how to sew her first bag. She was so happy and proud of herself!
Priceless.
I got more small fabric pieces.
She is going to sew a shopping bag for her family members and teachers ...everyone.
I got a pattern for a 3x4 quilt for $1!.
That's our next project.
I live on social security.
Im sooooo glad God showed me ways to share happiness.
I admit I started prepping out of complete fear. If you’ve ever struggled to feed your children, when you are more financially stable you make sure that your family never goes hungry again. When I rededicated my life to Christ in 2020, something changed in me. Now I view what I have as what I pray will be a blessing to those left behind. I pray over our home and that it will be a safe refuge for them even if for just a short time. That’s my viewpoint now.
I think about that too.
I feel the same way.
Same here! 👍🙏
Sleepyhead 84. Yes I have said the same thing to people. ..that what is left when I'm raptured I want it to bless those who will not take the mark and be saved. I'm leaving notes of encouragement and of salvation prayer. Because some will be saved during that time.
Amen to this. That's exactly why we should be preparing. And as a parent who has once had to tell their child there's no food left, it is a perfectly GOOD fear to have. EVERY parent should worry about being able to feed their children (and themselves).
I have so many related stories I could tell!! When we were truckers, we always signed up to do FEMA runs because we like to help people. When Hurricane Michael hit Florida, many truckers were already staged just waiting for the word Go. It could get hairy trying to deliver food, water and supplies. I remember seeing the seaside homes completely leveled to nothing but slabs of concrete, the steel I-beams twisted and lying in a ditch, the two little girls squatted down rummaging through a pile of clothing for something that fit, and the recovery dogs sniffing debris piles looking for people who were trapped or otherwise. I remember people lining both sides of the road, jumping up and down, clapping their hands and cheering when we all rolled in with much needed food and water. I remember the people pulling out their own bbq grills and smokers that weren't damaged and they fired them up so they could cook for their community, not just their own families. We saw a great coming together of Americans, people helping each other. It didn't matter who you voted for, what your orientation was, where you worked or what car you drove. Through the devastation, the American people came together as one.
I grew up poor and I've never had much in the way of finances. My parents taught us to tuck back food and other necessities. It's in my DNA. Where we live now, I keep my plastic juice jugs filled with water. I change them out every 6 months. I wish they were glass. Last year, I got up and our water pressure was really low. After a little while, it ceased running at all. No water for hundreds of homes. All this was caused by some smarty pants 10 miles down the road who failed to Call Before He Dug! He hit the water line and it took several hours to be repaired. So, even though plastic jugs are not ideal, it's better than nothing.
I use electricity to cook most of our meals so I don't have to use up our propane. When the power goes out, we can still cook. Last winter, we had folks coming to our house so their kids could get a bath and a hot meal.
Whenever someone offers us a can of food or something because they don't want or like it, I always receive it with open arms. Because while we may not like it either, it could be bartered or help someone else out.
I have a bad habit of hanging onto clothes that are too small, thinking I'll lose weight. Ha! Good thing I do, though. A family down the road had a house fire in winter and lost everything. Her size was the exact size clothing I had been hanging onto.
It is true, God works in mysterious ways.
Well said! Before Y2K I was a drop point for Azure. Many were preparing and I stored away lots of wheat, beans dehydrated and canned goods. So Y2K never happened and I'm sure some laughed at me, but then my neighbors husband lost his job and I was able to help her, she would come over and grind wheat and bake, make things out of the legumes that I had, etc. Then my husband lost his job, so needless to say that food came in handy. I love being prepared and right now I look in the pantry and see that I bought all that food when it was about 30% less than what its going for now. Thats $ in the bank.
What an awesome example. EXACTLY why we should prepare! What an awesome neighbor you were, I hope more neighbors out there are the same.
@@homesteadgamer1257 , Thank you and I think my neighbor was wonderful too, she was willing and grateful to use the food that I had. One of my concerns at this time is that many don't know how to cook anymore, and they don't like the taste of natural food.Its important to pass on our skills, hopefully more will have a desire to learn.
EXCELLENT POST!
And living in fear is the name of the game "they" are playing against us.
Fear can cause disease. Don't fall for it. Ignore "them" and break their hold on your life.❤❤❤
Love this my family states your living in fear. My response is, this is comfort, I don’t worry, I have what I need when I need it. This is blessings upon blessings!
Sounds like your family might be projecting their own fear onto you.
Exactly! It is a huge self-blessing to have food or supplies on hand when when I need something.
My dad saved hinges, nuts, bolts, etc off of everything and my mom saved buttons, zippers, Velcro, etc. I always buy sewing notions from garage sales and thrift shops. My husband buys baggies of nuts, bolts, nails, etc.
a button jar at a garage sale is an amazing find. I like finding vintage cookbooks - pre-microwave and vintage fabric at garage sales.
Loved this video. Prep out of necessity, not fear. Everyone should have a few months worth of food and water in their home. Start where you are and do what you can, your life will be so much LESS stressful! Personal experience has made me so thankful I had the preps for 6 months, and was still able to help others with my preps. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge. GOD bless
Keep sending out this message! Fear is an easy motivator, but never a good long term lifestyle.
Thank you Heidi ❤ you are so awakened and giving. Bless 🙏
I started prepping out of fear in March 2020. I do not fear anymore since I am stocked up enough just in case. I made my mistakes in stocking up but I learned from it.
We live on a mountain so we do prep. We bought a wood stove with two cook burners last week. We are far from stores. We do canning, gardening and freeze drying. We have chickens, ducks and geese. Love your videos totally❤
I'd been taught to have a winter pantry and how to keep a home without "products", but now it's just the quality of what we have to work with - the poisoned food, the questionable (homicidal) medical care system...A lot of what we'd have done normally to live simply isn't possible to do the same way anymore. The chaos gave us the opportunity to slow down and get back to much older ways again we had lived in our youth. But we had to tweak things given our age and my husband's chronic condition. We can't do what we could do thirty years ago. I'm truly sorry people suffered, but I am grateful for the blessings we were given because we're a lot better off now.
Well said! Preparing helps me sleep better at night. During the "lockdowns", I got sick. I don't know what it was. I had everything I needed to treat myself and take care of myself. I was well in 3 days.
You're fortunate to have a very talented husband.....you two make a great team
I live by my self with 2 cats. I just moved into a 2 bedroom apartment for the very thing that you discussed in this video. i needed a bit more room. I'm A Master Gardener, I stock up on my garden produce, I also do hydroponics of herbs and greens. i knit , crochet, spin wool and started to weave. I love it. My way of life is based on the Proverbs 31 woman. Thank you for sharing you are very helpful and appreciate your hard work on these videos. God is good, all the time!
Frugality and preparedness is a wonderful lifestyle no matter what the circumstances. I was raised this way (somewhat). I actually started bulk buying when I was working 10 hour shifts, 7 days on/7 days off. Both of my parents were very sick in a neighboring state. I would spend several days with them on my off week. I just couldn’t go grocery shopping all of the time. I continued doing this after they passed. I’d buy a bunch of meat for us to eat and an equal amount to can. This has been great.
Same things with fie extinguishers, guns, tools. When you really need it, you need it NOW!!! Good job!
Over the past 3 years I made a point of learning how to do so many things from scratch with whatever I have on hand. I am always looking for ways to save money doing things for myself! This year I have seriously started a little homestead in my yard, working on growing and foraging as much as I can. I am enjoying this so much, and the Lord has been so good to my little family. No fear here, just hard work and love. And of course, I have learned so many valuable skills from this channel. 🙂
started prepping out of doing something new. I love to learn different things to make life easier. I learned how to dehydrate vegetables and you showed me how to dehydrate meats. I did have heart surgery a few months ago and living off my dehydrated foods was so convenient so my adult son made me soup by dumping a jar of food with water and not guessing on his part. I didn't start prepping out of fear.
Love your channel! You have helped me immensely! I have along way to go but am happy with what I have learned and done already so far .. your endless encouragement and detailed instructions have given me the courage to step out and learn and do new things for the sake of my family .. not from fear but from a sense of duty and obligation .. who doesn’t want to take care of their family’s? I’m still believing God for my own land but I’m using the time of waiting to learn adding new skills each year .. thank you for all that you share!
I’m making beeswax candles, make sure my oil lamps are filled. Tinctures & drying herbs, stocking my pantry. No panic or fear. Baking bread gaining skills.
You are truly a woman of my own heart...in Christ. There is nothing to fear....God's got this!
My parents instilled a sense of Preparedness for Life Events whether, financial, health, civic unrest, natural disasters or unemployment.
Over the years, I have learned different forms, methods & ways to "Be Prepared".
Planting a "Forever Garden" is always the first thing i do when moving to a new location. The next step is a Seasonal Garden then Microgreen & Aquaculture Gardening to help provide supplemental Fresh Fruits & Vegetables year round.
Stocking Fruits, Herbs, Vegetables, Grains & Meats in Dehydrated, Fermented, Canned (Dry Heat, Waterbathed & Pressure), Commercial Canned/Boxed, Frozen, Bottled (Liquors) & Rendered/Jerky Products is the last things on the List of Prepareness in the Four Corners Kitchen of Food & Water categories.
I was overjoyed when a very dear TH-camr finally put a name to my storage method of Fresh-Refrigerator; Canned & Boxed-Working Pantry; Meats, Fruits & Vegetables-Freezer; and all of the above in Bulk in the Long-Term Pantry. Now, I don't seem so crazy in my Preparedness for Life Events.
Even though i was raised in the Church and was Blessed with Guiding Parents & Faith Community, I finally understood that i needed to Prepare my Heart.
In 2012. i was in a serious accident and White Lighted.
Unfortunately, I was sent back to here (NDE). After 30 days of being pissed with being sent back, I made my Peace with God's Plan and each morning we start the day with a what do, who do or where do you want me today, Lord, conversation then I follow His lead.
Isn't that the way to live!
I started prepping about 15 years ago. It started as just wanting to preserve from the garden. I started with jam making. It was so much fun that I went on to sauce making. My husband saw the benefits and savings so we just kept adding to our list of prepping even though it wasn't prepping to us. It was just fun to see what we could do ourselves.
My daughter has done the same. She started out making and canning homemade salsa, she recently started trying baking i(breads,bread sticks, hamburger buns, soft pretzels ) her family says she can't buy the store stuff anymore lol.
Exactly! I’ve always been attacked every time I started preparing…evil is everywhere.
I always kept "a few extras" in the house. Then, in January of 2020, it was like a lightbulb finally went off. I remember clearly thinking that I needed to stock up and do better because we weren't going to be able to get things from the stores...and sure enough...Then, I quit my classroom teaching job in 2021, began working part-time from home, and being more frugal became more important. Now, having my pantry stocked, canning and preserving, making homemade (just about everything) instead of buying store-bought, repairing instead of buying new, and having more time to expand and work in my garden is a way of life.
Putting things in storage is like printing your own money.
That is one of the best statements I have read!
Your comment is incredibly vague.. do you mean storage buildings? Storage units? Surely you don't think storing anything, which is what your comment says, is useless. Storing food and water is extremely important. I can think of so many ways that storage is important, especially to our dog kennel. If you leave things that most people would store out for dogs, they will be destroyed and or peed on. That would ruin our heaters that we use for them in the cold months. So we store them. Storage isn't useless at all.
@@AmysAttitude It was clearly meant to be a general statement. However you choose to preserve and store your food or however you can. Under your beds, in your cabinets, in your closets, in as spare room, in a pantry, whatever you are able to do. It will all be different for each person but as long as people are doing SOMEthing, they are basically "printing their own money"
@@AmysAttitude No, I'm not going to get into listing every item that anyone should be putting in storage. I left a vague answer because no one lives the same lifestyle as the others.
It is up to you, individually to decide what you need to store.
I think most people don't understand that rural areas live a lifestyle of preparedness that isn't about catastrophic events, it's just these reasons. Convenience, decreased stress, less runs to town during busy seasons of year and life.
Because of your wise words, I have a decent pantry and rarely have to run for a dinner component. (Sour cream is one..if I don't have plain gk yogurt)
My yarn "horde" as my spouse calls it...enables me to throw a gift baby blanket together for an unexpected shower.
We have multiple cooking sources and ways to do things. Water is our weal spot. We rent.
Over the years you've taught me so much. May God richly bless you for all you do.
Hi Heidi, God is good all the time❤❤❤
2021 was my pivotal moment. I saw how things were going to go downhill fast. It's also the time I reconnected with God after ignoring Him for many years. Trusting God is what keeps the fear at bay. God is certainly good, all the time. In 2021 I lived in a terrible city and I was trying to figure out, as I went through preparations, how I was going to protect us physically as well as protect what I had done for preparedness. It took an exhausting amount of time researching home security in a grid down scenario. Then circumstances happened that gave me an opportunity to convince my husband to move to a much more rural location. Then my focus turned back to preparedness. It's been a year and things are moving forward. We have chickens, I'm trying to conquer solid rock ground to cultivate into sustainable gardens. I've collected a lot of things for off grid projects so if the EMP comes I have supplies on hand and a plan to continue those projects, like rainwater catchment. Did I say, God is good? My biggest concern was a water source. I was searching out seep springs or anything to have a constant source of water. Last fall, we cleared out some blackberry canes in our field and hidden among the canes was a capped well. We have a well for the house but electricity is needed to run the pump. So I researched and found a deep well hand pump that would work. But, the company said it would take 12 months to full my order. I called a Well drilling company nearby and asked if they could get me one sooner. Guess what? They had the pump I needed, with the amount of pipe I needed for the depth of my well, and the thing is, it had been ordered by a customer last year, who never picked it up so they had it in storage. That is Providence at work.
My tip for preppers. I go through my day thinking about, how would I do this task if we had no electricity, power tools, etc. I then get the things I need to do the tasks without power. How will you heat your space in the winter? How will you cook? What are you going to do about sanitation? Those everyday things you now take for granted, think about what you will do if it is not there.
Life time of preparing for the ifs of life. And all our saving and stocking has come in handy many many times. Your channel is great
I started preping because i grow up having to do without food most time. Fast forwad to 2020. I was admitted to hospital at 20weeks pregnant and had my son at 25weeks. During everything that was happening in 2020. After 3months long stay in the hospital i brought home my son. After things went calm i started buying more food couse i dont want my kids to have food insercurity like i did growing up. Now i have 2year and 2year old to feed. I wont stop preping as long as i can still afford to put food away
Your family is very resourceful. Thanks for all this wonderful information @Heidi!😃👍
Very good point about the insurance. We had paid in for Years.. and we ended up (possibly) having a mold issue and our insurance company dropped us that very day!!! Everything is a money making scam. (They'll) take advantage of us at every opportunity. ❤
O my goodness, just for mold they dropped you?! Horrible!!!
The biggest thing I am thinking of is water I have dried and canned foods, but water we have town, we don't get a lot of rain, not enough for are needed, but I don't live in fear, thank you for teaching us more ❤ may God bless you
Indeed, well said!! So glad there are ones like you that teach us so many skills. Thank you!
Oh yes! I injured my knee this weekend, and it's so nice not to have to go to the grocery! Now, someone else has to "shop" mom's pantry. But everything down there is pretty convenient.
Hope your knee gets better soon. I hurt mine back in April and my first thought was " how can I get around the grocery? Lol. I actually had to ride one of those carts and it ran out of juice before the shopping trip was over 😊
@@laurastrobel718 OH my goodness! I'm glad you can laugh about it now!
@@sherihicks1427 Me too 🙂
This reminds me of a true event, told by an officer ...he stops an elderly woman in her vehicle. During the stop he notices a handgun...asks her about it. Something made him decide to ask if she had any other weapons in her vehicle. She then went on to tell him of several others in different locations. Finally, he says: ma'am, are you afraid of anything? She looks him in the eye, grins, and says: absolutely nothing!
Obviously she felt prepared...all "prepping" is truly about that...no matter what or why. Being comforted, not fearful...which is a real freedom and helping have the peace of mind to endure different scenarios.
No matter what your initial incentive may have been, it's nice to have choices, peace of mind...but, please start somewhere, so you have choices...hedge some of the inflation and supply issues...choose healthier options...be your own insurance company. Praying for us all...God is good!!!
Excellent points! Thank you and God bless you. Thank you for sharing your experiences, skills, knowledge and wisdom
The one thing I find so strange, people learn about all the hardships of humanity over the centuries when we are in school and as adults panic at the thought of grid down like we will be dead in days. Even during the black plague (often called the Black Death), the worse time in modern history, not even half of the population of Europe died. People are stronger than they think. We really have had it so easy this last half century that people live in fear of hardships.
Very true
We stock our pantry because of past earthquakes - taught us a lesson not to be caught unprepared (no water, gas or electricity for awhile).
I started a garden and canning/preserving as soon as I could when I got married because I wanted to make sure I didn't screw up what a good marriage was supposed to be. Sounds funny. As a kid I was told I needed to learn to cook and sew in order to be a good wife. I didn't understand until after I was married what that meant. Now saved, I understand it even more. Now we prep which has allowed up to have jobs we want instead of jobs we need which allows us to live a happier life.
If you have not seen it yet, you may enjoy this video I did two or three years ago on Being a Keeper at Home: th-cam.com/video/Iyp550tLzNQ/w-d-xo.html
I've always felt the same about insurance. They MAKE you get it in some situations, but when you need to make a claim, it's " oh, we don't cover THAT". Totally useless.
Great pointers! Have a blessed day ❤❤❤
Thank you, Heidi!❤
I was raised by parents who were born in 1920&1925 they were in their late teens during the Great Depression and while dad was away at ww2 mom dealt with feeding my older brothers during wartime food rations. They taught us to be prepared for when there isn’t anything to buy or it’s to expensive to buy. Being raised on a beef & dairy cattle farms, raising acres of corn, pumpkins, hay gardens preserving by every method, butchering all of our livestock curing and smoking the meat and pressure canning it. I still live in the same area and during the winter we have ice storms sometimes 4/6 per winter one of our most severe ice storms left us without electricity and water for 31 days and roads impassable for over a week. Raising large gardens, herbs, medicinals meat , having orchards, berries, grapes and nut trees, preserving and butchering, processing and then Buying in bulk dry goods etc and stocking our pantries and all other necessities have never been out of fear but always about being ready for what might come. It’s always been just a way of life. It’s also 100 mile round trip to get to any Kroger, aldi, Walmart etc. we have a small grocery store 40 mile round trip but milk is $4.98 a gallon the 100 mile trip Walmart is $2.25. That’s also one of the reasons that we keep prepared and stocked up. We shop every 3-4 months and in between if we have a drs appointment. Trust in the LORD. GOD is good all of the time. May God bless you and your family.
Great video, Heidi! Yes, and amen. I now have a part-time casual job in tourism, whidh l am very grateful for! Only 3 shifts per week, but with recent price-hikes, l am doing okay now, and much better than on govt assistance alone! I know that in Nov, the down-season will begin, and shifts will be an hour shorter. So. Every time l go grocery shopping, l am buying a couple of extra groceries, more if they are on a good special, and squirelling them away, making up a week's worth of food at a time. It's been a bit hard, but so far, l have 6 weeks nearly complete. God will look after me, but l am seeing that groceries could easily be the thing that my off-season pay won't be able to cover. And there are a limited number of times that you can go to a charity for a food parcel. While God is providing this work (and sometimes an extra relieving shift!), l will endeavour to put away, while the season is good. And God will look after the rest. And yes, there was a time when house insurance was fair and reasonable....now, it seems that you have to have the money already put aside to fix things, in order to pay the excess, to claim the money to fix it. My excess used to be $50...now it's $200...so basically any job needing $200 worth of repairs, or any item ruined to that value, is not insured... do it yourself. Yet l have paid thousands into the fund, over the years, and never had a holiday 'cos l can't afford it...l'm too busy paying the insurance! 😠 Something wrong with that system. And so, we do what we can with what we have in our hand, and pray to God for wisdom and provision. Thankyou, God, for being So Good! And thankyou Heidi! 🙂❤✝️
My sister thinks I live in fear because I always watch the News everyday. I call it Awareness..... Not fear.
My husband used to watch (read) news and get angry. I used to say; "why not just leave it alone?" "Because I need to know what is happening in the world so I can know how to live." He has gone home to Jesus, now, it is my job to be aware.
Exactly!! Great video
great vid/great topic! I totally agree. We started in fear but now we love prepping food, drying fruit, having chickens etc
I think you articulated this factor really well. Power outages and natural disasters are inevitable. And I would guess that 98% of the population could not go even for five days without access to a grocery store. When my friends and acquaintances, see how prepared I am. Which I still feel I’m at a mediocre level of preparedness. They always joke that they’re coming to my house. And I tell them. Sorry you’ll be met at the gate with a gun. Lol!
My answer to the "I'll just come to your house" is "Our lifeboat is full, you will need to go build your own"
Thank you
Thank you. You a a wonderful encourager! Violet is a beautiful color on you!
Thank you!
Well said girl, blessings
Good advice. Thank you Heidi.
This was a fantastic video! We live with my fiancé’s parents, because they are elderly and where, renting out part of their house and helping them. They had a garage fire last fall, because one of the other renters burnt it all the way to the ground! He is in jail right now. They have liberty mutual and they totally screwed them over! I did 10 years of fire and flood restoration and I’ve never seen insurance companies screw people over like this in my life! Do you mind me asking what insurance company you had?
Allstate. They were always good when it came to our auto insurance but lame when it came to homeowner's.
Great video keep up your great 👍 videos they help a lot 👍
May God bless 🙏 you and yours
Yessss amen sista!!!
Heidi: My hubs made 2 nice work benches for his shop from the frame and headboards of an old waterbed that I purchased for $5 at a garage sale.
Thank you. I needed to hear this. 😊
Saving for a rainy day!!
Excellent video! I was most at ease this past hurricane season because I felt I was very prepared. I also feel like my extended pantry has saved me a lot of money.
I was raised to have food storage on a small farm.
Wisdom GALORE!!!
Thank you for confirming I'm not crazy! Insurance discussion was interesting and worth thinking about.
I've always had extra stuff bc I grew up in Hurricane alley... I'm now a foster parent so I have extra stuff on hand bc I never know what age, gender or how many kiddos at one time ill get a call for... Even though I can't feed them anything I've canned I have other things I can feed them but have emergency stuff for my bio kids and others if they need help... But with all that is going on today I'm trying to kick it up a notch
I started for survival by parents in Alaska 6 th grade memories n living on grandparents farm n been doing for 50+ yrs
greetings from King County....
I lived in Kirkland for a couple of years before ending up here. Before that I spent most of my growing years up until the age of 20 in Wenatchee
@@RainCountryHomestead Honestly, I was born in Philadelphia and grew up in most of the world but I consider myself from the Central Jersey Shore. My hubby is from here though. That's how I got here - marrying him. 😁
Well said !
Last time I told some kids that I bought a dehydrator, they said, that I would be ready for the zombie apocalypse.
Well, they are not wrong, those that find celebrities and their technogadgets more important than putting up for hard times are zombies...so...
Proverbs 12:11 He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
It is always good to prepare not just with a mind for ourselves and our families, but in times of extreme hardship, God may use you to bless those who are less fortunate than yourself around you. Learn from the ant. (Proverbs 6:6-8). It is good to prepare for our physical needs, also friends, let us be mindful to prepare for our spiritual health . For Jesus said “What can it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36). The soul is that part of you that will live on after life here on earth is done. Seek the Lord while he may be found. (Luke 9:25). See also Luke 12: 15-21 and Isaiah 55: 1-3. God bless you all.😊
Amen ❣️
Thank you. Great way to address those who act like I am a crazy lady with prepping.
Being a single person I did this I’ve now gotten to s point of only buying on dale bulk if I see my stash is low keeping a eye on my pantry made so much sense as at one point I became very over stocked in one or two items so now I watch both the pantry and sales buy only what I need at the time I come from a huge family thst pantry stocking came naturally now that I’m a widow and empty nest I’ve had to rethink slightly now a days yes with all this crashing markets banks and such well yes it’s happening sll over again mostly greedy unprepared scared people
Thank you Heidi for this great and encouraging video. Spot on for the day!🥰
Love this 😊
Good video , thanks for sharing , God bless !
Good talk and I feel that you are not in fear but in fact very much opposite. Not having health insurance does scare me.
It's definitely good to be prepared for all of those reasons! Just as you mentioned, job loss or income becomes less for whatever reason, so important to be prepared. If it had not been for our food preps a few months back, we'd have been starving! My husband's hours were cut drastically. All good now, but thank God we were prepared! Great info, thank you!
Patrick is pretty handy to have around.
Thank You
I love it !!!
Hey Heidi 🥰 Thank you & your husband Patrick for sharing what ya'll have learned with us🥰
Heidi ~ I literally just said out loud (to myself.... I work remotely so am home alone)....."Heidi, you're the best in the whole wide world and I want to live next door to you." 🤣🙌 Thank you for this, we (...I) need balance in this and it also confirms the direction I've been going to revamp our systems at home. Thankful to be in this season with you and other like minded people. 💓
Amen! Love and Prayers!💜✝️🕊🐎🎗
1. Have a secure relationship with Jesus Christ. 2. Yep, prep.
Awesome!!
I’d love to follow you around for a couple of weeks. Always wanted to be making most of my stuff we use… unfortunately, my body and health has failed me, even though I’m halfway young. Husbands in same boat. We still get out and garden and try to build every year. Always hoping to find someone young who’ll want to come help on the place for room/ board. We’ve tried, 2-4 times, always wrong people. Anyway, I’m so envious of you doing all you do. Thanks for your videos! God bless!
I suspect in this day and age, it would be pretty hard to find any young person willing to actually work. They are not being taught a good work ethic but rather that they deserve to have everything handed to them. It may be you will have to look for someone a little older that is willing to work and grateful to have a place to lay their head at night
@@RainCountryHomestead
We’ve had a older person here also. Tried that first. He did real well first couple of months. Then we began getting all his belongings here, and everything fell through. I’m sure part is is, as we expect a little something for what we’re offering…. Even most of the older folks are this way, “ ENTITLED”. I’m praying and tell my husband not to stress, as god will send someone when things get REALY bad, that will respect and appreciate what we have to offer. As of right now, we don’t even want to consider it, although we could REALY use the help. Even tried to find someone to work a day or two a week for pay, but everyone wants 20$ a hour!! We’ll do it ourselves for that. Thanks for all you do! Have learned a lot from you.
I needed this. Thank you! I've been learning more ways of doing the things I grew up doing. I battle my health issues to do them. We expanded our garden this year and I guess I have a touch of garden envy( for lack of a better term) I'm dehydrating things like peppermint and onions etc greens but I was really feeling like I failed and I don't live in fear. I work towards being more prepared. This video just resonated with me because it made me realize that the sound of my dehydrator running now is more of my own insurance. It's preserving our blessing for both my family and others who may need it. Thank you for this! Thank you so very much. I am in migraine and had to basically cancel the day. This really encouraged me. I'm dehydrating onions....with said migraine... it's fun :) God is good ALL the TIME!
We’ve expanded ours too this year and you just reminded me I need to get that dehydrator going. I’ve been dehydrating herbs to make salve but I need to get my onions finished. Hope you feel better soon.
@@fancythat5136 thank you
THANK YOU!! ❤❤ EXCELLENT POINTS N TRUTH!❤
Thank you so much for your videos! I have learned so much from you! I still have a bit of fear due to things going on in the world, but since I have been prepping, gardening and stocking up I feel much less stress knowing I have enough in and around my home to survive for a while. God bless you and your family!
Absolutely!👍🏼
I’ve always tried to live an do what my grandparents did!
It’s a wonderful life isn’t it?!🥰
I’m so stocked up it’s ridiculous!
Right! Insurance is a joke! You had a bad insurance company!
Mine paid for a full new roof-progressive!
Very good tips. Some of our Grandparents lived this way and some of us do today. Here's hoping that your video will provoke thought and encourage others to do the same.......
“For insurance”. I needed that term to help explain why we do what we do. Thank you. ❤
And that is exactly what it is, we really need to change the name from prepping to insurance as just that name change alone should help everything make sense to those who just cannot grasp the concept or want to degrade those who put up for hard times
@@RainCountryHomestead I started preparing as a teen just to have things on hand now I find it beneficial
@@RainCountryHomestead my pantry kept us in groceries after my husband had surgery that kept him off work for weeks in 2021. There’s so many times it has sustained us during lean times (self-employed), when the state of the world is want concerning. Insurance bc we like to eat!
Thank you, Heidi. I watch many prepper, talk and finance and it is just overwhelming...so pushing the chair back and taking a breath. I am not stressed everyday that my house will burn down. So have the same mindset with the prepping.