{Linda} I have been showing YOU, our awesome readers how easy is it to dehydrate your own fruit, veggies and meats…..well we want one of our readers to have one!!! We LOVE YOU! The Excalibur 4 Tray Dehydrator is a great size to get started with…you will love the healthy snacks you can make! You can’t win if you don’t enter…just saying….good luck!
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{Linda} When I decided I wanted to try and teach the world (and learn at the same time) about food storage and emergency preparedness….I started with teaching classes in my neighborhood, then classes at stores, then a blog and finally a website….I found Jenny (she is my BFF) my graphic designer and webmaster at InfoWest in St. George, Utah. (more…)
This Giveaway is now closed and the winner is…
Entry #257 Danielle H. Congratulations Danielle.
Please Contact Linda at linda@foodstoragemoms.com to claim your prize!!!
Here are some of our our favorite items for our 1st Annual-12 Days of Preparedness top picks giveaway:
1. Berkey Sport Water Bottle with filter
2. Victorio Hand Grain Mill
3. Emergency Water (stores for 30 years in hot or cold weather)
4. The Art of Baking with Natural Yeast
5. 72 Hour Kit/Bug Out Bag metal silverware set
6. Swing-a-way can opener
7. Asap 10
8. SOL (Survive Outdoors Longer) Rescue Howler Whistle
9. Food Storage Moms Emergency Binder
10. Container of Bandaids
11. Shelf Reliance Thrive Green Beans
12. Shelf Reliance Thrive Blackberries
One person will win the entire package valued at more than $275.00! Please enter today! Good luck everyone!
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I used to do Private Banking for clients at a bank in Salt Lake City, Utah about 17 years ago. I also did mortgages for those same clients when I opened my own mortgage company for another 15 years. I had some clients who were organized with their “financial stuff” and more that were unorganized. The reason I want to explain why I am doing today’s post is because I have found over the years more people need help organizing their financial stuff than they realize. Oh, and some people could care less to organize anything. I sometimes wonder why I am such an organized freak…….is it because I am left handed? I have to laugh, I really don’t know why I love to organize stuff.
Please picture this….because I was a banker and mortgage broker I would need to ask my clients for tax returns, pay stubs, bank statements and investment statements (for any loans or lines of credit). I soon learned the clients that were organized and those who were not. We are all so different in how we prioritize things. I would always give my clients hard cardboard folders filled with their tax returns and W-2′s, 1098′s and 1099′s before returning the items to them. Most would smile and thank me for “organizing” their stuff.
I think my brain never stops thinking up “projects”…….just saying. So then I started making sets of the following folders for all my clients when I did a loan for them. Then I started giving the sets as a gift to family members and friends. Here is the list I use in alphabetical order:
BANKING
CARS
INSURANCE-CARS
INSURANCE-HEALTH & LIFE
INVESTMENTS-IRA’S
MEDICAL RECORDS
MORTGAGE/RENTAL STATEMENTS
PAYCHECKS
PROPERTY TAX INFO
RECEIPTS-DISPOSABLE
RECEIPTS-LARGE ITEMS
TAX DEDUCTIBLE RECEIPTS
UTILITIES
TAX RETURNS 2012
TAX RETURNS 2013
TAX RETURNS 2014
TAX RETURNS 2015
TAX RETURNS 2016
I use a two hole punch…this comes from my banking/mortgage days. I hope this helps you get organized for 2013! I am going to mail a set to one of our readers that comments on how this would help them get organized. Let me know if you could use one of these sets and why. After I choose the reader with the best comment I will ship it to them! The lucky reader would only need to purchase a two hole punch. Yes, that is duct tape holding the hole punch in the right position! I would love to hear from you! Here’s to organizing in 2013!
Congratulations to Teresa S! She’s the winner today! January 9, 2013
A couple of months ago I blogged and raved about how much I loved using my WonderMill Grain Mill
We participated in the Grain Mill Wagon Challenge making Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies , Blueberry Oat Flour Muffins, and the Whole Wheat Apple Bread. I use it now to make my weekly loaves of bread, and have had fun grinding up rice, popcorn and oats! I even made Gluten free bagels the other day using rice flour. They were delicious! You can read more about the WonderMill here.
WonderMill
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