2008:
*Food and energy costs lead wholesale prices to soar in March
*Oil pushes to new high above $113; gas prices also at record
*Oil pushes to new high above $113; gas prices also at record
1929, 1930:
If you've ever read "The Good Earth", "Grapes of Wrath", or seen "Cinderella Man" you get an inkling of what it would feel like to not be able to provide the necessities of life to your family. Having some food storage is not an act of faith. It is an act of logic.
5 comments:
So true. I'm always grabbing a couple more of something if it is on sale. Where did you get your buckets?
I feel the same way. I know my dad as the bishop in his ward talked about this very thing for their 5th Sunday discussion. I am barely getting the food we need each week so it is hard to add much to my storage right now! But I am doing what I can as far as we are starting our garden from seed this year and already have a whole bunch of our plants sprouted and doing great! So our garden will cost a quarter of what it normally does and we will can everything we can out of that! It feels good to do what we can to save and prepare!
To answer Cami, any buckets that are food grade will work, meaning they have to say hdpe 2 on the bottom, they have to be white or natural, and they have to have never been used for a non food item as chemicals can leak into the plastic. The cheapest place I was able to find them was Walmart, which I hate to support, but so it was.
It is definitely the latter days, isn't it? I just hope we can find a job in this economy. I'm glad we have history and prophets to show us the mistakes to avoid.
It seems that our economy is forever expanding and contracting based on how we react to things throughout time, but when do we figure out the balance when we are over-consuming thinking that we need more, bigger, better...or when we realize that we need to stock up because we won't be able to get something when its really needed. Oprah or not..."A New Earth" is a wonderful book to read too :)
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