This lady who’s emails I’m subscribed to from her website is talking about stockpiling. I wanted to let y’all know something about stockpiling. While I have diligently been getting rid of clutter that has stockpiled, I have not gotten rid of our food stockpile. We had a full pantry, overflowing to the shelves in the laundry room. And let me tell you, it has been a blessing.
There has not been a lot of work in the diesel repair industry in Tucson right now. So, there are not a lot of hours at Marcs work. Add to that, the awful heat in July & August which meant we had to run the air conditioners instead of the swamp coolers. That lead to $450 for one month of electricty. All of that added up to not much cash flow for groceries. Yup, I bet you knew it had to work into the stockpiling somehow, LoL. Anyhow, I have stretched the food in the pantry plus about $100 every two weeks to feed this family for a month. Now, we still have about two more small cash flow paydays, but there should be a bit more in the grocery fund, which will allow us to continue to eat. If it had not been for our piled pantry and our full deep freezer, I do not know what we would have done. (Okay, so I do, but none of our animals at this current time are intended for slaughter, so it would have put us back more money in the end replacing them.)
My point is that while stockpiling crap and papers and books and books and books is not good or healthy, stockpiling food is not something I will give up on.
Time to go make some bread.
Have a great day,
Mama
