We will be taking the holidays off from blogging to spend time with our families. Make sure to come back and visit after the New Year. We have some AMAZING things planned and can’t wait to share them with you!

p.s. Don’t forget the Electric WonderMill sale ends December 31st so get your [...]

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We are excited to announce the winner of the Emergency Essentials Water Storage Boxes! We used a random generator to pick the winner from all of the comments.
AND THE WINNER IS: Tammy
There was no last name in the comment but we will be emailing you to get your address to receive your [...]

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If you’ve been following us for awhile, you know at the beginning of the year we had some New Years Resolutions. Well now is the time we TELL ALL about how we did. We’re excited about how this year went, and can’t wait to share our goals for 2010 in a few weeks! [...]

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My favorite desserts always revolve around cherries. Cherry cheesecake, cherry pie, cherry cobbler. Why does cherry pie filling have to be so delicious? My mom has the BEST cherry pie recipe ever but I always hate to make it because I don’t typically keep sweetened condensed milk on hand (even though I [...]

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Step 9: Comfort Foods is one of our favorite steps. When we participated in our 7 Day Challenge we came to realize just how important these foods really are in making your life feel somewhat normal in an emergency, and also in adding variety to your long term storage foods. We recommend getting [...]

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When it comes to water storage, one of the most common questions we get is: “What containers should I use?”. We have both had these jug containers for the past year and a half, however we have been warned they crack – and cause big messes.
In our quest to find a solution, Jodi came [...]

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We were featured on the Internet radio show of James Talmage Stevens, author of the Family Preparedness Guide. He regularly features experts in food storage and emergency preparedness and we were honored to be his guests. We shared our stories about how we got started with our own food storage, as well as [...]

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Our Christmas present to our readers this year, is a 12 Days of Food Storage Christmas with a TWIST – it wont be 12 days, it will be 12 hours…
Rather then drag it out for 12 days, and to allow you the TIME to get going on this – we will [...]

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Once you have complete the first 11 days for a friend, or family member, it’s time for them to keep the journey going themselves. To help them do that, we have our BabyStep Checklists:

Free Email Checklists
Have the person you are giving to sign up for our free email checklists. You could even sign [...]

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