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Nation wide peanut butter recall - homesteading mindset solution

In case you haven't read/heard there is a huge peanut butter recall (yes, again) across the nation. It is affecting everything from the stuff itself to ice cream and candy bars that peanut butter is in - I mean EVERYTHING is getting the FDA warning for recall if it contains ANY peanut butter. There is even an investigation as to how this occurred on such a massive scale. Today, we finished our last store-bought peanut butter. Now, we had purchased this giant canister (think huge coffee can size…(read more)

More about my single New Year’s Resolution - Organize: it will keep us healthy

As I mentioned last entry, I wanted to take note at how my one and only New Year's Resolution effected us in the area of health. Well, organizing things around this homestead has definitely paid off on the health side already. I'm down 4 pounds since Dec.31! The area of health is so deeply tied to less stress and proper time management that of course my ONE goal for 2009 (get organized) effects it. Let me share some ways it is working: Organizing my Time better - I can get to some exercise…(read more)

My Only New Year’s Resolution - Organize: it saves money

Whether you live in a small apartment or in a mansion on a one hundred acre spread of land, organizing is one of the top resolutions for the New Year for many people. It usually comes in about third place in the list behind health related and financial related goals. It is my belief that if this were a more encompassing goal for the New Year, it would take a higher place in the list. I am not making a judgment, because I am in great need of taking my own advice on this for the umbrella of all my…(read more)