I went to store this week and had the best conversation with one of the cashiers. She worked at a nursing home during you know what. The staff threw away everything in the library, they took the mailboxes out of the residents rooms and took and opened their mail. The residents were completely cut off from family and each other. She quit after two weeks because residents were constantly crying from isolation after just two weeks. We must not let this happen again. If you can bring family home or help them with independence, please pray about doing so. If you have neighbors that are independent, but need a little help, please take time to check on them, bake them some bread or offer to run errands. My sweet neighbors in their 80s watch MSM and are already afraid to go out. The WH website lists over 1million deaths. Dear Jesus please help us for what is to come against us!
I have an eighty one year old neighbor who I have been her pit bull since all of this began, they ( staff members, in hospitals and rehabs) around here do not treat seniors with any respect.
My aunt was in a home at that time and family had to stay outside the window to visit. Couldn't touch or hug. Touch is a basic human need and "they" know that. She passed away almost 2 years ago. 😢
@@RavenWolfDrum69Amazing that different companies are already distributing masks and signage is already being printed. You think many would have learned the first time....
I filled the blessings boxes in my community 2 times last week. I came across a man, and we had a conversation. I was more blessed than he was. His story broke my heart. We all need to help one another, even if it's just listening to them or giving a well needed hug.
The blessing boxes near me people come and clear them out leaving nothing for the next person. It’s been an ongoing issue that no one knows how to stop. Maybe you can’t.
I helped a young mother in Walmart who didn't have enough to pay for her groceries. And the guy in front of me kicked in some cash too. Made me feel good to help
As I got the notification for this video, I was reading an article in the WSJ about how “rosy” the economy is. I’m not an economist but I did take economics in college, and the economy isn’t that rosy. The benchmarks they used can be easily explained using common sense, but they won’t tell you that. Stock up and prepare now, fill your pantry, fill your freezers. That’s your best hedge against inflation, it’s going to be bumpy and the road will get rougher but we will make it through this. Prayers and blessings for the community. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Today my grandson was reminded of a gas station having customer appreciation day and he filled up his truck for 1.99/gallon. My granddaughter asked me to teach her how to cook (granted she is 16) and I couldn't say yes fast enough. I'm over the moon that they are hearing me. Blessings
I asked the postmistress if there was a local blessing box after we moved here. She told me where it is and that the church requested we mark through the barcodes so people don’t try to return things to the store for money. I try to drop things off when I can.
People where I live look at you like you've got 5 heads if you ask about those. They don't exist here. Churches seem to think their food pantries are enough :-/ I'd put one in myself but we're moving.
Canned more tomato soup today. Sourdough starter is a success so bread is rising and pancakes fermenting for tomorrow after church. It's in the fridge for the next round of baking. All this while on crutches 😂. Oldest daughter is canning and wants help with the soup. You gotcha! 6 yr old granddaughter announced she wants her own garden. Yep! You got it ❤ Keep on prepping
I was able to split wood, go to the thrift store for preps (actually everything in it is free!) and I got: a blanket, arm sling, sweaters and a fleece coat for my son. Everything helps!
We have a free thrift store in town (swap shop) and it is SUCH a blessing! My recent best finds include a wool LL Bean coat and a beautiul covered roaster set, with rack. My candle collection is mostly thanks to that place lol.
I have a full sized fireplace with a full "heatelater" insert. I have 2 squirrel cage fans that pull air over the manifold and insert the duct directly into the central heat & air intake. Lost power 6 days once and ran both fans off a little 2000 generator and heated the house during below freezing temperatures. We cooked over fire, stayed warm and had a great time as a family using wood. Please don't tell Joe Biden we did this, he will blame the next hurricane on the climate change we have caused by burning wood.
He already has..their coming for fireplaces and wood stoves for that reason. I have a fireplace too, love it. I have never bought a home without a fireplace for that reason…keep warm for power outages. And I’ve experienced it it and saved me a few times. This demonic administration we got wants us dead…especially us old folks. We know better!
I was working full time and pregnant with our first child when Carter was President and I can remember paying 12.5% interest on our mortgage payment!😳 Wow! Yes, we all should be preparing for the next few years. Inflation isn’t going away; not with the way our government is handling things.😘❤🙏🏻✨
Patara, It blows me away at how people have to voice their opinions. I appreciate your videos and I’m right there with you. We are doing everything we can to keep going. Im taking inventory just to see where we are. We have kids that absolutely don’t get what is happening and this makes us work harder. We are both 65, I still work full time and he is on disability. I don’t want to depend on Washington for anything!!! Keep up the good work! We love watching your videos and yes, the garage is on our list too.
Thank you. We (misses/me) heated our NH home with a wood stove for over 30 years. It warmed us. We used it to cook on, dry our clothes (on racks), kept a kettle going on it and often sat reading near it. We maintained a 3 to 4 year supply, mostly from our wood lot. In NH you can purchase a permit to harvest cord wood on Nat'l Forest land, buy truck loads of log length from loggers, get some free stuff from the power line clearing, buy from folks who sell it. We even got free wood from storm cleanup. We miss it.
I live in NH and I am so thankful for our woodstove. It's in the basement but keeps the main living area of our ranch toasty. I can cook on it with my cast iron when I want or need to. It was a lifesaver when an ice storm in Dec '08 took out power for 10 days!
Patra, just wanted to share something with you. For people that burn pine. Or any wood for that matter. And old lady in our community told me years ago. That she put her potato peels in the wood stove and it kept creosote from building up. I know that she and her husband lived in the same place many years. They decided to have their chimney cleaned. The man that cleaned it couldn't believe how clean it was. He asked them. When was the last time it was cleaned. They told him never. WHAT, she told him about the potato peels. He was amazed. Anyway this is what I was told. Ask some of the old timers and see if they have ever heard of that. Love you channel. Thanks sharing with us. God bless
You guys are going into autumn. Collect those acorns. Spring has sprung in Cape Town...sort of...some warm, some chilly, some whet days. Had a really cold winter (for us), looking forward to summer.🌻🌞🐝🏖️🌊🍦
I live in a small town and the businesses started doing challenges to other businesses filling the blessing boxes through out the town so each week they fill each one ❤
Love, Love, Love the 'Blessings Challenge' that your small town is doing each week. Kindness and generosity and 'blessings' in every gesture! Sending love your way and all the best to everyone♥♥♥
I'm chuckling right now, I can see Ginger's tail behind you. She must have been rubbing against your back. Too cute. Love and appreciate you so much. I am taking your challenge seriously. God Bless you all!!!!
We were married in 1980….weeks worth of groceries for 2 was $40….and we cooked meals at home…thank you Patera for your honesty and speaking the truth! Love and prayers to all your viewers❤ and anyone still hiding from the truth.
Besides trying to be frugal and pull back on certain things what we eat, I personally am trying to watch my portions, for the sake of trying to lose weight but also stretching the meals out as well. Like you said, Patara, do it now "while the wood is green", instead of waiting until we're in a situation where we must cut back just to make sure we have enough. I've been prepping for a while now, and praise God, I'll be ok; it's the darn oil heat I'm worried about once again this winter (I live in SW PA). My landlord was hoping to get it switched out, but because of other things happening that he had to fix here and there, we're all stuck with most likely paying huge bills again 3-4x between Oct-April. Thank you for all you do to keep us sharp and ready for whatever else comes down the pike! 🥰🥰
Dehydrated tomatoes overnight. Picked green beans. Going in a few weeks to an Amish area to stock up on staples to put back. Working slowly but surely. It's all we can do! ❤
PHX AZ. Gas last month was $3.55 and yesterday I paid $4.59. Last year I started collecting recipes like 2 ingredient biscuits, 2 ingredient cakes and others like that. Getting food with less ingredients is cheaper and helps my pantry last longer. Prepping and praying. 💕
I've been concerned about our chickens getting older and not producing. Three weeks ago I had two hens go broody, they are both sitting on the same nest so fingers crossed the eggs hatch and aren't all roosters.
I got so many roosters last year. I'm always willing to try old wife tale theories. So this year I'm going to try the short round eggs are girls theory (vs the longer pointy tip are boys). Can only try 😅
Praying and getting into God's word each day. Cleaning out one cabinet at a time all the while making sure I find something from the garden to preserve while it is still available. See you on the next one.
God works in mysterious ways. My 95 yr old mother died right before the the Big C farce. She was in assisted living. While saddened at our loss, we were so grateful that she didn’t have to go through any of the BS. My heart breaks for all of our elders that will have to going through this again. Don’t forget to stock up on books and non perishable items for your older family members on a fixed income. That includes pet food for any of their pets, they play an important part in an elder’s life.
A lady in our town, gave us 3 shallow case bottoms (like from the grocery store) of tomatoes and a box of cucumbers yesterday. She said she had filled all her jars, and was done canning. They don't do "extra" stocking or canning. While I am so very thankful, I sat outside just thinking I cannot understand why she didn't can it all. Its so obvious we are going to need as much as we can lay our hands on. I'm canning every single thing in sight ... even if its one jar of something. I'm sure there are at least 7-8 qts worth of tomatoes there. Pickles will be next.
I didn’t live through the Great Depression, but I was raised by my granny born in 1901, so we lived as though it was still the depression. Granny didn’t know how to do it any other way. I thank the good Lord for that upbringing. It taught me how to pray, plan, and above all be prepared for anything. She loved to say, pray for the best, but prepare for the worst! Thank you, Patara 🥰
That is so wonderful!!! I am peeling apples as I watch Patara. Got up to get a cup of coffee and read the comments. I got a 5 gal bucket of pears to do soon.
Working on elderberries this week end. New skills being learned at 70 years old. Picked more tomatoes. A drive to the discount grocery this morning. Saturdays are 10% off frozen foods.
We're fortunate to have access to free kiln dried lumber. My hubby just got both a trailer and pickup truck full. It burns very well and heats our little home in no time.
Picked up some replacement handles for garden rakes, shovels, axe and wheelbarrow today at a flea market and decided to buy three more boxes of Roma tomatoes to can more spaghetti sauce.
I watch you all the time, and my hubby and I are in Lenoir City this weekend to visit two widow ladies we just adore and hubby said, “Are you going to call Patara and ask her and James to lunch?” LOL he feels you are part of the family too. We live in So IN and learn everything we know about prepping from you! Love ya and keep up the good work!
Patara's face @ 11:39 Click stop. Your eyes are the windows to your soul. Mouth wide open, and a raised hand! The light outshines the dark. Keep shining brightly!
Just came home from grocery shopping 😮 Prices there, have certainly NOT come down. Aldi is still pretty much the most inexpensive option. And Aldi prices are a lot higher than they were in 2021.
Our woodstove saved us during the 2008 ice storm we had in the middle of Massachusetts. Most people went to hotels but we stayed in our home. We heated and cooked on it for the 8 days we were without electricity. We even boiled water for bathing etc also. Glad we did because alot of people who didn't have that heat source had frozen and broken pipes -major expense. We measured the temp in the house and hubby kept it at 55 degrees.
Just a suggestion on getting some free firewood. If storms go through ask the tree service guys if they can drop some wood into your yard. I was able to score some free wood. But we have to cut it and split it ourselves.
A huge festival that’s been going for 40 years up here in PA said they weren’t opening this year, just two weeks prior to opening. Reason: not enough employees. Restaurants are BEGGING for people to work. On the flip side, corporations are hiring and I know first hand, people apply and never hear back. They’re “creating” jobs they never intend to fill. All to fudge numbers.
Today our whole family which includes my husband , myself, 2 sons, daughter-in-law, and 4 grandkiddos picked apples at my daughter-in-law 's Dad's house. Wonderful apples to make all kinds of great stuff! It didn't cost us anything and we created wonderful memories! Busy busy busy!
My dad brought slabs (the outer part of the trees ) every year from a saw mill. 3 big bundles was always more than enough for the year. He only heated with wood. So his winter bill was only $75.
the cat tails in the background😂 love you patera. I wish I had the money to convert my fireplace into a wood stove. just gonna keep working hard and trying to save. yall, you can prep...2 cans here...there...you CAN do it😂
Went to the store today for just a few items. $65 for sandwich ham, bagels, cream cheese, mayonnaise, vinegar, and a red onion. We also bought some Sparkling Ice drinks. The vinegar and onion are for pickled eggs, they'll keep 4 or 5 months in the fridge and we have plenty. The mayo was to make egg salad out of the eggs where the yolks were to close to the edge so I couldn't pickle them. The mayo is $9! It's going to get worse folks, buy extra when it's on sale and put it away. And can like your life depends on it, because it does!❤❤❤
@@whatsittoyou1984 looking up recipes right now lol! I have oil in my preps and eggs in the coop! We didn't put in a garden this year because we are going to buy a larger property soon and wanted our yard to stay nice for the new buyers but I already have my seeds for next year! We won't be buying much from the store after this year.
We stacked two loads of firewood that has been seasoning since last year, and cut and chopped more wood to start seasoning for next year. We are finally ahead on something!!!
That's why you bring your kids with you to shop lol! I find deals like that and call my sons, they get a kick out of it, but I have over 50# of butter in my freezer!
I get coupons sent to me from Kroger and I had (2) 70 cents off of Kroger butter. I have a lot of butter in freezer but for $1.29 a pound I had to pick up a couple more. I love some of the sales Kroger has. Glad you got to stock up!
Shelling butter beans, water bath canning homemade pasta sauce and listening to you. We are asking prayers that we can get our small home finished. We are doing all the construction ourselves so we can have no mortgage. I have essentially been “without a permanent home “ for almost 18 months now and living with either family or in our RV.
I live in a rural area in southeast Kentucky and we are noticing a lot of homeless people living in the woods and coming onto private property. We are finding out that counties are receiving grants in exchange for bringing these people here. They have backpacks and government given boots on. Our food banks have said they are not from here, definitely a different accent from ours. I’ve never had to lock my door at night and it breaks my heart to have to start 😞
:) My daughter and I just went to McKay's on Thr! Love that place! Love you Patara for taking time to share parts of your daily life and everyday lessons we all need to hear, learn, and share. Sending a hug and a smile :) from central TN.
We had the opportunity to practice living off the grid during Idalia, it was actually a blessing in disguise, as we could see our weak spots and things we needed to do differently, and things (like another generator) that we need to get yet. I also need to get busy canning meat from our freezers! Luckily we didn't lose any, THIS time.
We have a monthly budget for the local Senior Food Pantry donations; and sometimes we squeeze a bit more. In August ('23) we came across pumpkin puree at a good price with a Nov 2023 expiration date; and a lesser brand for the same price with a 2024 date. We asked first if they had storage capability until Thanksgiving and did they want a head start on the Thanksgiving baskets IF we had money at the end of the month and IF there was any left. The answer was YES, YES! We are not super preppers but, when it makes dollars and cents we are extending our prepper ways beyond our household. With respect to our Senior Panrtry donations, we probably donate more than many but it is FAR from what we would like to. Consequently, we strive to maximize the dollars we do spend with the most amount of food using the same concepts we fill our larder with.
We bought an extra cord of fire wood because it was wet and the guy couldn’t use it. Well guess what in a few months of California summer, it’ll be drier than the Sahara so I bought that cord for $100. Loaded it, stacked it, unloaded it and restacked it all while 7 months pregnant. 😅😂
There were certainly high interest rates during the Carter years. I bought my first new car at 19% interest! However, you did not see the anything close to the homeless problems and bankruptcy problems of today! It’s scary out there!
I just started canning last year (thank you Patara for the inspiration and lessons!) and thought the amount of food I did can would last me a year. Total newbie mistake. I had to rely on canned food since my new home did not have a refrigerator and it took a while to get one. I also lost my job during that time so relied on canned food to save on groceries. What I thought would last a year is almost gone. Lesson learned..,,,can more than you think you need,
Was at Costco this afternoon, they were almost wiped clean of paper towels and toilet paper!!! No pun intended. I'm going back during the week to see if they will be restocked ( thankfully I'm prepared, but other family is just now waking up,).
Thank you for your message and reminders Patara! Its a busy, busy season here on the homestead. Just started up lessons for our homeschool year on top of preserving our 1/3 acre garden, milking the cow, feeding and moving the livestock. Cooked down a 5 gallon pot of spaghetti sauce today while my kids harvested 3 bushels of sweet corn after their homeschool lessons. Staying up late tonight to get all of the corn into the freezer. Tomorrow we start again making cheese, butter, canning spaghetti sauce, putting all the canning jars on the shelves. Little by little every day. Its a hustle before the snow flies!
Just finishing 16 pints of ground beef and will be canning chicken liver next. Have a great evening! Canning during the night time hours while it is cooler. Peace
Love my wood heat.. wouldn't be without it here in New England...been burning wood for 40+ yrs.. I baked some sour dough bread today, and I have some sour kraut fermenting... I have lots of books, including the lost book of herbal remedies.. nice to be prepared as much as possible.
I would give anything to have my old wood stove again. Not allowed under HOA rules here in my part of TX. Possible harsh, cold winter coming. No backup heat source. I miss my wood…
wow youve even got a ton a books on all this.. james is so lucky to have such a handy and bubbly little cutie like you! godbless yall thanks for your great show!
Love your thinking !!!!!!........... Im lucky enough to live in an area of hardwood mills and tree services , I get alot of limb drop offs and free falls of oak ...ash....birch...apple ....cherry ans walnut and Im very thankful for each piece of it!!.....our home was set up with forced hot air oil heat and its pricey up here in the northeast.... we added our wood stove to sublet the heat and it saved us over 1200.00 in last year heating season alone......... it can get cold here with below zero temps that can go a week at a time!.... once we lost power for 2 weeks and it was below zero for a week of that and we were warm and toasty !!!......... back ups and alternative methods are wise decisions
Canned three types of soup the last two days and need more jars! So thankful to have time to get more done over the weekend! Love you Patara! Thanks for your time and wisdom!
Planning a new and improved garden for next year. Have started on it, got everything I need with backups. I have a backups for everything. DO NOT USE TREATED PALLETS FOR GARDEN BEDS, USE ONLY THE ONES MARKED (HT).😊
I live in a suburb in the San Francisco Bay area. The medium home price is $1.3 million and there are homeless people at the gas stations and shopping areas. This used to be one of the best suburbs you could live in if you could afford it. They are spreading it on purpose. They are desensitizing us to, what will amount to a Mad Max world.
I have had wood heat over the last 48 years sometimes my only source sometimes backup. I appreciate your channel very much I am single and 70 so I pay a firewood provider and I always pay him extra to take his wife out to dinner as I tell him and he has always told me when I call he has me at the top of his list. He always brings me dry hardwood that is split for my stove size. I trust my supplier never have a chimney problem. If you are able please have a 2 year supply at home.
I just wanted to say thank you for your videos. They are really helping me to stay motivated to keep going. One suggestion for your viewers. Find one like minded person with whom you are committed to support to keep doing the next thing. My daughter and I have been practicing this for some time now. No guilt... prayer and encouragement for each step. It is not a sprint; it is a marathon. Just do the next thing.
To prepare for this coming winter, I have stocked up on pellets for the pellet stove, and I bought another blanket. I also bought batteries for my flashlights and the smoke/carbon monoxide detectors. Of course I am still buying and stocking food - I think I am pretty well set for provisions. Thanks for always urging us onward.
If you leave the fans on your furnace running, turn on your gas fireplace, and turn your furnace off the blowers will circulate the the warm air from your gas fireplace. That’s a tip from our furnace guy, which really helps with the bill, as it costs almost nothing (compared to the furnace), to run your fireplace.
I always burn pine, but usually only as fire starters. I store containers of small pine sticks, because nothing is worse than freezing to death or getting sick from being cold. I would advise everyone to get you at least one 5 gallon bucket of pine chips and save it in your emergency unit. To use, wrap the dry pine stick or chip in paper and light. It will catch fire immediately or almost immediately. It's also great to re-kindle fires. Next very important advices, make sure your chimney is triple wall or at least double wall and get wood stove or/and chimney thermometers, and finally clean your chimney and wood stove as often as possible. Always, better safe than sorry. Laziness kills.
You always make me smile with your words of encouragement. You have a great disposition! TY for being you! 😁 I have family near Knoxville. I’m sharing this with some of them. 😊
My husband is disabled and there are only 3 of us on our small homestead. In 2017 he flipped his dump truck and in order for him to get anything from workers comp they told him he has to go back to work and work part time. The sad part of all of this they give too poos about my husband speech how he still looses his balance and he really can’t remember a lot because of his brain injury. But he has told me most of the people he works with doesn’t want to work. And yes homeless people have been showing up a lot in the suburbs of Ohio but they’re trying to sweep it under the rug and the theft is going crazy here
Get a workerscomp lawyer they will fight for him they don't get paid till he gets paid they don't charge you till they get you a settlement prayering for you
I'd love to see or hear what your grandmother thinks about saving plastic containers like gain pod containers. I'm a single mother but would like to see if I prepping ok. Any ideas ok. I been saying toilet paper rolls & been saving lint to put inside the rolls. For fire starters.
I went to store this week and had the best conversation with one of the cashiers. She worked at a nursing home during you know what. The staff threw away everything in the library, they took the mailboxes out of the residents rooms and took and opened their mail. The residents were completely cut off from family and each other. She quit after two weeks because residents were constantly crying from isolation after just two weeks. We must not let this happen again. If you can bring family home or help them with independence, please pray about doing so. If you have neighbors that are independent, but need a little help, please take time to check on them, bake them some bread or offer to run errands. My sweet neighbors in their 80s watch MSM and are already afraid to go out. The WH website lists over 1million deaths. Dear Jesus please help us for what is to come against us!
I have an eighty one year old neighbor who I have been her pit bull since all of this began, they ( staff members, in hospitals and rehabs) around here do not treat seniors with any respect.
@laura-vv6cf - what's your point about 1 million deaths?
Another announcement of different variant. Enough
My aunt was in a home at that time and family had to stay outside the window to visit. Couldn't touch or hug. Touch is a basic human need and "they" know that. She passed away almost 2 years ago. 😢
@@RavenWolfDrum69Amazing that different companies are already distributing masks and signage is already being printed. You think many would have learned the first time....
I filled the blessings boxes in my community 2 times last week. I came across a man, and we had a conversation. I was more blessed than he was. His story broke my heart. We all need to help one another, even if it's just listening to them or giving a well needed hug.
Amen I completely agree about this 🥰🙏
🤗 🙌🏼 Blessings.
The blessing boxes near me people come and clear them out leaving nothing for the next person. It’s been an ongoing issue that no one knows how to stop. Maybe you can’t.
Amen
I helped a young mother in Walmart who didn't have enough to pay for her groceries. And the guy in front of me kicked in some cash too. Made me feel good to help
As I got the notification for this video, I was reading an article in the WSJ about how “rosy” the economy is. I’m not an economist but I did take economics in college, and the economy isn’t that rosy. The benchmarks they used can be easily explained using common sense, but they won’t tell you that. Stock up and prepare now, fill your pantry, fill your freezers. That’s your best hedge against inflation, it’s going to be bumpy and the road will get rougher but we will make it through this. Prayers and blessings for the community. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Today my grandson was reminded of a gas station having customer appreciation day and he filled up his truck for 1.99/gallon. My granddaughter asked me to teach her how to cook (granted she is 16) and I couldn't say yes fast enough. I'm over the moon that they are hearing me. Blessings
I asked the postmistress if there was a local blessing box after we moved here. She told me where it is and that the church requested we mark through the barcodes so people don’t try to return things to the store for money. I try to drop things off when I can.
Thank you for the heads up.
People where I live look at you like you've got 5 heads if you ask about those. They don't exist here. Churches seem to think their food pantries are enough :-/ I'd put one in myself but we're moving.
Dishwashers and washing machines are a great blessing to all of us. Think of how hard life was for our grannies. Thanks for the reminder
Mother's don't have enough hands and time to get everything done. We are the big supporters for the whole family doing everything for everyone.❤❤
Even when they move out we are still helpimg
Yeap, as I prepare everyone going out the door this morning, my tea goes cold (of course) and I actually smile knowing I'm doing my job as a mum
Canned more tomato soup today. Sourdough starter is a success so bread is rising and pancakes fermenting for tomorrow after church. It's in the fridge for the next round of baking.
All this while on crutches 😂.
Oldest daughter is canning and wants help with the soup. You gotcha!
6 yr old granddaughter announced she wants her own garden. Yep! You got it ❤
Keep on prepping
Awesome 😂
Love it
Please tell me how to prepare a sourdough starter . 🌷
@@shonnamay8331 just Google it.
Thank you Father in heaven for answering our prayers 🙏❤
I was able to split wood, go to the thrift store for preps (actually everything in it is free!) and I got: a blanket, arm sling, sweaters and a fleece coat for my son.
Everything helps!
We have a free thrift store in town (swap shop) and it is SUCH a blessing! My recent best finds include a wool LL Bean coat and a beautiul covered roaster set, with rack. My candle collection is mostly thanks to that place lol.
I have a full sized fireplace with a full "heatelater" insert. I have 2 squirrel cage fans that pull air over the manifold and insert the duct directly into the central heat & air intake. Lost power 6 days once and ran both fans off a little 2000 generator and heated the house during below freezing temperatures. We cooked over fire, stayed warm and had a great time as a family using wood. Please don't tell Joe Biden we did this, he will blame the next hurricane on the climate change we have caused by burning wood.
He already has..their coming for fireplaces and wood stoves for that reason. I have a fireplace too, love it. I have never bought a home without a fireplace for that reason…keep warm for power outages. And I’ve experienced it it and saved me a few times. This demonic administration we got wants us dead…especially us old folks. We know better!
Lol that’s awesome glad there are still some people with brains!! Keep on keeping on!!
I think it’s coming 😖
You are spot on!!! The Great Depression lasted for a good 10 years!!! We can't expect anything less!!!!
Well over 10, yes.
@katie7748 around 20 to climb out.
I was working full time and pregnant with our first child when Carter was President and I can remember paying 12.5% interest on our mortgage payment!😳 Wow! Yes, we all should be preparing for the next few years. Inflation isn’t going away; not with the way our government is handling things.😘❤🙏🏻✨
I paid 18٪ interest on my first home during Carter. I was fresh out of nursing school being paid $5.35 /hr.
The first of many life lessons...
How did we ever do it? I guess we cut back on everything and never splurged!@@karingarrett7862
Patara,
It blows me away at how people have to voice their opinions. I appreciate your videos and I’m right there with you. We are doing everything we can to keep going. Im taking inventory just to see where we are.
We have kids that absolutely don’t get what is happening and this makes us work harder. We are both 65, I still work full time and he is on disability. I don’t want to depend on Washington for anything!!!
Keep up the good work! We love watching your videos and yes, the garage is on our list too.
I don't think we have to worry about Washington doing anything for us!
My parents didn’t even have a credit card in the Carter years. Most people didn’t. That is a big difference now than then.
Thank you. We (misses/me) heated our NH home with a wood stove for over 30 years. It warmed us. We used it to cook on, dry our clothes (on racks), kept a kettle going on it and often sat reading near it. We maintained a 3 to 4 year supply, mostly from our wood lot. In NH you can purchase a permit to harvest cord wood on Nat'l Forest land, buy truck loads of log length from loggers, get some free stuff from the power line clearing, buy from folks who sell it. We even got free wood from storm cleanup. We miss it.
I live in NH and I am so thankful for our woodstove. It's in the basement but keeps the main living area of our ranch toasty. I can cook on it with my cast iron when I want or need to. It was a lifesaver when an ice storm in Dec '08 took out power for 10 days!
We don't pay anything for wood. He picks up wood from downed trees all year long. It really helps out a lot.
That nice where are you guys at? Im in Colorado and they used to give permits for free wood but i havent seen that for a few years
Pennsylvania
Patra, just wanted to share something with you. For people that burn pine. Or any wood for that matter. And old lady in our community told me years ago. That she put her potato peels in the wood stove and it kept creosote from building up. I know that she and her husband lived in the same place many years. They decided to have their chimney cleaned. The man that cleaned it couldn't believe how clean it was. He asked them. When was the last time it was cleaned. They told him never. WHAT, she told him about the potato peels. He was amazed. Anyway this is what I was told. Ask some of the old timers and see if they have ever heard of that. Love you channel. Thanks sharing with us. God bless
You guys are going into autumn. Collect those acorns. Spring has sprung in Cape Town...sort of...some warm, some chilly, some whet days. Had a really cold winter (for us), looking forward to summer.🌻🌞🐝🏖️🌊🍦
My motto has always been I'd rather have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it. Thanks for the motivation and info.
I live in a small town and the businesses started doing challenges to other businesses filling the blessing boxes through out the town so each week they fill each one ❤
That’s so encouraging 💕🇨🇦
Love, Love, Love the 'Blessings Challenge' that your small town is doing each week. Kindness and generosity and 'blessings' in every gesture! Sending love your way and all the best to everyone♥♥♥
I'm chuckling right now, I can see Ginger's tail behind you. She must have been rubbing against your back. Too cute. Love and appreciate you so much. I am taking your challenge seriously. God Bless you all!!!!
We were married in 1980….weeks worth of groceries for 2 was $40….and we cooked meals at home…thank you Patera for your honesty and speaking the truth! Love and prayers to all your viewers❤ and anyone still hiding from the truth.
6 cord down, 4 more to go here. Then the next 10 arrive next week. Labor day here means work.
I was a teenager when Carter was President. I'll take those years over these years any day of week.
Besides trying to be frugal and pull back on certain things what we eat, I personally am trying to watch my portions, for the sake of trying to lose weight but also stretching the meals out as well. Like you said, Patara, do it now "while the wood is green", instead of waiting until we're in a situation where we must cut back just to make sure we have enough. I've been prepping for a while now, and praise God, I'll be ok; it's the darn oil heat I'm worried about once again this winter (I live in SW PA). My landlord was hoping to get it switched out, but because of other things happening that he had to fix here and there, we're all stuck with most likely paying huge bills again 3-4x between Oct-April. Thank you for all you do to keep us sharp and ready for whatever else comes down the pike! 🥰🥰
I have gas heater but worried it won't be there or be expensive so I bought a Mr. Heater and propane bottles at Walmart.
Dehydrated tomatoes overnight. Picked green beans. Going in a few weeks to an Amish area to stock up on staples to put back. Working slowly but surely. It's all we can do! ❤
PHX AZ. Gas last month was $3.55 and yesterday I paid $4.59. Last year I started collecting recipes like 2 ingredient biscuits, 2 ingredient cakes and others like that. Getting food with less ingredients is cheaper and helps my pantry last longer. Prepping and praying. 💕
I put up rice, sugar, and wheat berries in Mylar bags today. We’ve also been cleaning out and organizing our second floor.
Do the mylar bags keep the rice fresh? I've been trying to figure the best way to save a large amount of rice without it going stale.
I've been concerned about our chickens getting older and not producing. Three weeks ago I had two hens go broody, they are both sitting on the same nest so fingers crossed the eggs
hatch and aren't all roosters.
I got so many roosters last year. I'm always willing to try old wife tale theories. So this year I'm going to try the short round eggs are girls theory (vs the longer pointy tip are boys). Can only try 😅
If you get too many roosters, can them!
Fatten the roosters and cook them
Praying and getting into God's word each day. Cleaning out one cabinet at a time all the while making sure I find something from the garden to preserve while it is still available. See you on the next one.
God works in mysterious ways. My 95 yr old mother died right before the the Big C farce. She was in assisted living. While saddened at our loss, we were so grateful that she didn’t have to go through any of the BS. My heart breaks for all of our elders that will have to going through this again. Don’t forget to stock up on books and non perishable items for your older family members on a fixed income. That includes pet food for any of their pets, they play an important part in an elder’s life.
So true I lived through the Carter years too and this doesn't even compare!!!
A lady in our town, gave us 3 shallow case bottoms (like from the grocery store) of tomatoes and a box of cucumbers yesterday. She said she had filled all her jars, and was done canning. They don't do "extra" stocking or canning. While I am so very thankful, I sat outside just thinking I cannot understand why she didn't can it all. Its so obvious we are going to need as much as we can lay our hands on. I'm canning every single thing in sight ... even if its one jar of something. I'm sure there are at least 7-8 qts worth of tomatoes there. Pickles will be next.
I didn’t live through the Great Depression, but I was raised by my granny born in 1901, so we lived as though it was still the depression. Granny didn’t know how to do it any other way. I thank the good Lord for that upbringing. It taught me how to pray, plan, and above all be prepared for anything. She loved to say, pray for the best, but prepare for the worst! Thank you, Patara 🥰
We always use 1/2 of the amount of sugar in a recipe for cookies except meringue cookies.
I was blessed by my Gramma and mom to learn Depression era cooking. Both lived through it, my mom was the oldest so she grew up fast.
Massive canning weekend for me. All stuff i got from my garden. Which is awesome because I've never gotten enough out of a garden to can before
That’s awesome! Very exciting I bet💕🇨🇦
That is so wonderful!!! I am peeling apples as I watch Patara. Got up to get a cup of coffee and read the comments. I got a 5 gal bucket of pears to do soon.
As a cabinetmaker I have all the wood to heat I can use! It’s always a warm winter!
Working on elderberries this week end. New skills being learned at 70 years old. Picked more tomatoes. A drive to the discount grocery this morning. Saturdays are 10% off frozen foods.
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Moses had a career change at age 80
He lived in excellent shape until 120
Keep going!
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Everybody, pray for nation. America has lost her way.
We're fortunate to have access to free kiln dried lumber. My hubby just got both a trailer and pickup truck full. It burns very well and heats our little home in no time.
Picked up some replacement handles for garden rakes, shovels, axe and wheelbarrow today at a flea market and decided to buy three more boxes of Roma tomatoes to can more spaghetti sauce.
Replacement handles … I didn’t think of that! Thank you!
Yes I have been stocking up on supplies as quickly as possible
I was just fixin to head to bed when this came up. We got free pallets and built our fence for our chicken run. Hardware cloth over it and above it.
I watch you all the time, and my hubby and I are in Lenoir City this weekend to visit two widow ladies we just adore and hubby said, “Are you going to call Patara and ask her and James to lunch?” LOL he feels you are part of the family too. We live in So IN and learn everything we know about prepping from you! Love ya and keep up the good work!
Patara's face @ 11:39 Click stop. Your eyes are the windows to your soul. Mouth wide open, and a raised hand! The light outshines the dark. Keep shining brightly!
Just came home from grocery shopping 😮
Prices there, have certainly NOT come down. Aldi is still pretty much the most inexpensive option. And Aldi prices are a lot higher than they were in 2021.
Aldi had ground beef on sale for 1.99 this week.
Our woodstove saved us during the 2008 ice storm we had in the middle of Massachusetts. Most people went to hotels but we stayed in our home. We heated and cooked on it for the 8 days we were without electricity. We even boiled water for bathing etc also. Glad we did because alot of people who didn't have that heat source had frozen and broken pipes -major expense. We measured the temp in the house and hubby kept it at 55 degrees.
I remember that ice storm. We were cold. I ha e since gotten a wood stove because of that. It will only heat my upstairs but we will be warm.
Thank you for talking about blessing boxes in the past. I found one in my town and I look for sales and help fill the box. Its usually empty.
Just a suggestion on getting some free firewood. If storms go through ask the tree service guys if they can drop some wood into your yard. I was able to score some free wood. But we have to cut it and split it ourselves.
A huge festival that’s been going for 40 years up here in PA said they weren’t opening this year, just two weeks prior to opening. Reason: not enough employees. Restaurants are BEGGING for people to work. On the flip side, corporations are hiring and I know first hand, people apply and never hear back. They’re “creating” jobs they never intend to fill. All to fudge numbers.
Today our whole family which includes my husband , myself, 2 sons, daughter-in-law, and 4 grandkiddos picked apples at my daughter-in-law 's Dad's house. Wonderful apples to make all kinds of great stuff! It didn't cost us anything and we created wonderful memories! Busy busy busy!
Finally got all my ingredients to make my vegetable soup tomorrow. And got six cans of campbells chicken noodle soup for .99 a can.
My dad brought slabs (the outer part of the trees ) every year from a saw mill. 3 big bundles was always more than enough for the year. He only heated with wood. So his winter bill was only $75.
the cat tails in the background😂 love you patera. I wish I had the money to convert my fireplace into a wood stove. just gonna keep working hard and trying to save. yall, you can prep...2 cans here...there...you CAN do it😂
We have a Better than Ben's insert. I cook on it like a wood stove.
Made a cardboard box oven and do all my baking in it.
Went to the store today for just a few items. $65 for sandwich ham, bagels, cream cheese, mayonnaise, vinegar, and a red onion. We also bought some Sparkling Ice drinks. The vinegar and onion are for pickled eggs, they'll keep 4 or 5 months in the fridge and we have plenty. The mayo was to make egg salad out of the eggs where the yolks were to close to the edge so I couldn't pickle them. The mayo is $9! It's going to get worse folks, buy extra when it's on sale and put it away. And can like your life depends on it, because it does!❤❤❤
Making mayo with farm eggs and healthy oils is a small act of rebellion my love 😮
@@whatsittoyou1984 looking up recipes right now lol! I have oil in my preps and eggs in the coop! We didn't put in a garden this year because we are going to buy a larger property soon and wanted our yard to stay nice for the new buyers but I already have my seeds for next year! We won't be buying much from the store after this year.
@@brendahoffer5534 mayo rebels unite!!! Blenders, ho! :)
A lot of woodworkers are being let go, lay’d off in North Carolina.
@@fancythat5136 that's so sad. I'm from North Topsail :(
I had sticker shock Friday at Walmart here in SE Kansas. 10 pounds of russet potatoes were $12.98!! Glad I planted some this year.
I bought “The Tightwad Gazette” and can’t wait to read it!!!
We stacked two loads of firewood that has been seasoning since last year, and cut and chopped more wood to start seasoning for next year. We are finally ahead on something!!!
In my area we tie winter hats and gloves to street signs etc. for the homeless.
Woo Hoo Kroger has butter on sale for $1.99 limit of 5. I absolutely bought 5!
Good goin'! 🧡🧡🧡
That's why you bring your kids with you to shop lol! I find deals like that and call my sons, they get a kick out of it, but I have over 50# of butter in my freezer!
I get coupons sent to me from Kroger and I had (2) 70 cents off of Kroger butter. I have a lot of butter in freezer but for $1.29 a pound I had to pick up a couple more. I love some of the sales Kroger has. Glad you got to stock up!
From all the comments I would say sounds like quite a few need to make ghee and free up freezer space🤣
@@hearthecrysofthecrusaders3357 I have quite a bit canned
I've been moving as fast as I can It's really satisfying to know I got a couple of things less to worry about
You have it right Patara. They don’t care. Keep on praying and keep on prepping 🙏🙏🙏
Shelling butter beans, water bath canning homemade pasta sauce and listening to you. We are asking prayers that we can get our small home finished. We are doing all the construction ourselves so we can have no mortgage. I have essentially been “without a permanent home “ for almost 18 months now and living with either family or in our RV.
I live in a rural area in southeast Kentucky and we are noticing a lot of homeless people living in the woods and coming onto private property. We are finding out that counties are receiving grants in exchange for bringing these people here. They have backpacks and government given boots on. Our food banks have said they are not from here, definitely a different accent from ours. I’ve never had to lock my door at night and it breaks my heart to have to start 😞
:) My daughter and I just went to McKay's on Thr! Love that place! Love you Patara for taking time to share parts of your daily life and everyday lessons we all need to hear, learn, and share. Sending a hug and a smile :) from central TN.
I have been doing the things after my daily stuff. I am tired but very happy with the slow progress. Thank you. It is a great feeling.
Slow and steady, we’ve got this
We had the opportunity to practice living off the grid during Idalia, it was actually a blessing in disguise, as we could see our weak spots and things we needed to do differently, and things (like another generator) that we need to get yet. I also need to get busy canning meat from our freezers! Luckily we didn't lose any, THIS time.
We have a monthly budget for the local Senior Food Pantry donations; and sometimes we squeeze a bit more. In August ('23) we came across pumpkin puree at a good price with a Nov 2023 expiration date; and a lesser brand for the same price with a 2024 date. We asked first if they had storage capability until Thanksgiving and did they want a head start on the Thanksgiving baskets IF we had money at the end of the month and IF there was any left. The answer was YES, YES!
We are not super preppers but, when it makes dollars and cents we are extending our prepper ways beyond our household. With respect to our Senior Panrtry donations, we probably donate more than many but it is FAR from what we would like to. Consequently, we strive to maximize the dollars we do spend with the most amount of food using the same concepts we fill our larder with.
We bought an extra cord of fire wood because it was wet and the guy couldn’t use it. Well guess what in a few months of California summer, it’ll be drier than the Sahara so I bought that cord for $100. Loaded it, stacked it, unloaded it and restacked it all while 7 months pregnant. 😅😂
There were certainly high interest rates during the Carter years. I bought my first new car at 19% interest! However, you did not see the anything close to the homeless problems and bankruptcy problems of today! It’s scary out there!
Our car loan was 22 % back in the 70s!!!
I just started canning last year (thank you Patara for the inspiration and lessons!) and thought the amount of food I did can would last me a year. Total newbie mistake. I had to rely on canned food since my new home did not have a refrigerator and it took a while to get one. I also lost my job during that time so relied on canned food to save on groceries. What I thought would last a year is almost gone. Lesson learned..,,,can more than you think you need,
I got some raised beds on clearance. Spent a few hours putting them together preparing for more future gardn space
Saw mill wood has saved us more than once, when we mis-calculated for our first few winters here
I got some Great Value Bacon 24 oz pkg at Walmart in NE Texas on Tuesday for $5.97 and today I checked our local Walmart and same bacon was $8.87
Was at Costco this afternoon, they were almost wiped clean of paper towels and toilet paper!!! No pun intended.
I'm going back during the week to see if they will be restocked ( thankfully I'm prepared, but other family is just now waking up,).
Thank you for your message and reminders Patara!
Its a busy, busy season here on the homestead. Just started up lessons for our homeschool year on top of preserving our 1/3 acre garden, milking the cow, feeding and moving the livestock. Cooked down a 5 gallon pot of spaghetti sauce today while my kids harvested 3 bushels of sweet corn after their homeschool lessons. Staying up late tonight to get all of the corn into the freezer. Tomorrow we start again making cheese, butter, canning spaghetti sauce, putting all the canning jars on the shelves. Little by little every day. Its a hustle before the snow flies!
Just finishing 16 pints of ground beef and will be canning chicken liver next. Have a great evening! Canning during the night time hours while it is cooler. Peace
Please guide me in canning chicken livers. Tia.
Love my wood heat.. wouldn't be without it here in New England...been burning wood for 40+ yrs.. I baked some sour dough bread today, and I have some sour kraut fermenting... I have lots of books, including the lost book of herbal remedies.. nice to be prepared as much as possible.
I would give anything to have my old wood stove again. Not allowed under HOA rules here in my part of TX. Possible harsh, cold winter coming. No backup heat source. I miss my wood…
I appreciate you & love you! You are always encouraging - very bold & honest but encouraging. Have a blessed weekend. Laboring together!
Thank you so much!
Worked out, cut grass and canned today.
wow youve even got a ton a books on all this.. james is so lucky to have such a handy and bubbly little cutie like you! godbless yall thanks for your great show!
Love your thinking !!!!!!........... Im lucky enough to live in an area of hardwood mills and tree services , I get alot of limb drop offs and free falls of oak ...ash....birch...apple ....cherry ans walnut and Im very thankful for each piece of it!!.....our home was set up with forced hot air oil heat and its pricey up here in the northeast.... we added our wood stove to sublet the heat and it saved us over 1200.00 in last year heating season alone......... it can get cold here with below zero temps that can go a week at a time!.... once we lost power for 2 weeks and it was below zero for a week of that and we were warm and toasty !!!......... back ups and alternative methods are wise decisions
Canned three types of soup the last two days and need more jars! So thankful to have time to get more done over the weekend! Love you Patara! Thanks for your time and wisdom!
Menards has them on sale
@@MargaretFinnell Thanks for the tip! I’ll check them out!
Planning a new and improved garden for next year. Have started on it, got everything I need with backups. I have a backups for everything. DO NOT USE TREATED PALLETS FOR GARDEN BEDS, USE ONLY THE ONES MARKED (HT).😊
I live in a suburb in the San Francisco Bay area. The medium home price is $1.3 million and there are homeless people at the gas stations and shopping areas. This used to be one of the best suburbs you could live in if you could afford it. They are spreading it on purpose. They are desensitizing us to, what will amount to a Mad Max world.
I've been living in the same house for almost sixty years
I have had wood heat over the last 48 years sometimes my only source sometimes backup.
I appreciate your channel very much I am single and 70 so I pay a firewood provider and I always pay him extra to take his wife out to dinner as I tell him and he has always told me when I call he has me at the top of his list. He always brings me dry hardwood that is split for my stove size.
I trust my supplier never have a chimney problem.
If you are able please have a 2 year supply at home.
I just wanted to say thank you for your videos. They are really helping me to stay motivated to keep going. One suggestion for your viewers. Find one like minded person with whom you are committed to support to keep doing the next thing. My daughter and I have been practicing this for some time now. No guilt... prayer and encouragement for each step. It is not a sprint; it is a marathon. Just do the next thing.
To prepare for this coming winter, I have stocked up on pellets for the pellet stove, and I bought another blanket. I also bought batteries for my flashlights and the smoke/carbon monoxide detectors. Of course I am still buying and stocking food - I think I am pretty well set for provisions. Thanks for always urging us onward.
Prayers for all of us 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Me too!🙏
We take two months each year and only eat out of our stored foods. It’s great practice to do this, and test yourself.
We are also doing that, too for the month of September. Trying to make sure I am eating my older foods that are getting near their expiration date.
Goober smoocher!!! I love it! Gonna have to remember that one! 👍 We did the same thing with our wood this year too! Great bargain! Love you Patara!💖
Peddling as fast as I can👍 prepping for fall planting...
I'm right there with you, worked on it today!!!
If you leave the fans on your furnace running, turn on your gas fireplace, and turn your furnace off the blowers will circulate the the warm air from your gas fireplace. That’s a tip from our furnace guy, which really helps with the bill, as it costs almost nothing (compared to the furnace), to run your fireplace.
I can do the same thing with a wood stove, correct?
I always burn pine, but usually only as fire starters. I store containers of small pine sticks, because nothing is worse than freezing to death or getting sick from being cold. I would advise everyone to get you at least one 5 gallon bucket of pine chips and save it in your emergency unit. To use, wrap the dry pine stick or chip in paper and light. It will catch fire immediately or almost immediately. It's also great to re-kindle fires. Next very important advices, make sure your chimney is triple wall or at least double wall and get wood stove or/and chimney thermometers, and finally clean your chimney and wood stove as often as possible. Always, better safe than sorry. Laziness kills.
You always make me smile with your words of encouragement. You have a great disposition! TY for being you! 😁 I have family near Knoxville. I’m sharing this with some of them. 😊
My husband is disabled and there are only 3 of us on our small homestead. In 2017 he flipped his dump truck and in order for him to get anything from workers comp they told him he has to go back to work and work part time. The sad part of all of this they give too poos about my husband speech how he still looses his balance and he really can’t remember a lot because of his brain injury. But he has told me most of the people he works with doesn’t want to work. And yes homeless people have been showing up a lot in the suburbs of Ohio but they’re trying to sweep it under the rug and the theft is going crazy here
Get a workerscomp lawyer they will fight for him they don't get paid till he gets paid they don't charge you till they get you a settlement prayering for you
@@sophiagrace8362 we have one it’s part of the game he has to work to show he is truly unable to work
I'm Wooster, Ohio... Where r u ?
@@user-tk7qo4rh4y my husband is the man who flipped his dump truck on 30 close to Ashland
I'd love to see or hear what your grandmother thinks about saving plastic containers like gain pod containers. I'm a single mother but would like to see if I prepping ok. Any ideas ok. I been saying toilet paper rolls & been saving lint to put inside the rolls. For fire starters.
Just an FYI, if your laundry has a lot of synthetic fibers (like polyester) that lint won't do much.