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George always put change in the bo, I had always done the stamp thing. When I first noticed change in the mailbox, I had honestly thought that the inmates found some change in the yard and put it there, lol. Change in the box works SO much better, and although it's $0.02 more per envelope every...

We have forever stamps, though I think you have to request them from most PO's. We just throw an envelope in the mail box without a stamp. When the change in the box gets a little low, we throw a pocketful of change in there. We're awful!

Apparently, I have some money at the store. She called me up to check, since they need MORE stock and have a few checks there for me. Guess I'll have to pick up some more jars and get cracking on candles.

Maybe I can save my coat. It's white and I was wearing it for chicken check-ups after a wet day. Now, I won't wear it anywhere but to the feed store now, and it wasa very expensive hand me down Columbia from my mom. Looking at other coats, the cheapest I want is $90 on clearance (50% off)!!! G's...

Eating out is ridiculous. We get a gift card or two every year, so we go. $25 on a gift card, but $65 for the freaking meal for the two of us! For $40, I could feed the family of four for several days, breakfast, snack, lunch and dinner! For saving, I didn't do much today, but I did duct tape...

Even tiny storms make people crazy. When Sandy came along, store shelves were bare here. Know what we had to do to prepare? Fill my water jugs and some buckets full of water. It's nice to have that level of security. Even the boyfriend likes the idea of skipping sections or products at the...

Honestly, I've noticed that more po'folk prep than richies. We KNOW what hunger is like, we know the difficulties of choosing which bills to pay and which ones you can let slide. In Pa, if you have children, it's illegal to shut the power off in winter, even if the family isn't paying. We only...

Sold two more dozen eggs. Only sold them at $10, since it was for a biology class. Still need to cover some costs, but don't have to charge full price for a bunch of kids.

Lol. They each have their own section of the yard and don't fight too much. I do need to do something with that blue barred ameraucana though. He's the lowest roo, not counting the cornish roo, who isn't breeding. He gets beat up by everyone, even the turkeys hate the poor guy, lol. I just hate...

We got the house knocked down to $128k, because of some fixes that need to be done (though there really isn't much, it's certainly livable). My turkeys have been doing well, an egg per day from the two hennies and a 100% fertility rate. Too bad the chickens aren't quite that fertile, despite...

Sold two dozen eggs yesterday for $15. That covers the eggs, cartons and leaves some left over. Actually, based on feed and laying in the past ten days, that's $8.76 in profit. Not too shabby ladies! And, the fella wants to get more later. Plus, with spring approaching, a new electronic...

I will, but there won't be any light brahmas in the mix by then. They don't lay as well as some of the other breeds, but it means that you'll only get a chance of feather legs from the silkie mix. I'm not sure if that matters to you or not.

Mine is too. I have room for nine more eggs right now. Granted, if I had the flats I need, I could fit another ninety eggs in there, lol. I based price on $5/dozen, but then shipping and packing materials are what drives the price higher. Anyone close enough is certainly welcome to pick up for...

I have a mixed flock of leghorns, cornish cross, an ameraucana, an ameraucana/silkie mix and light brahmas covered by leghorns and ameraucanas. The leghorn hens don't seem to allow the ameraucana roos to breed them, but everyone else does. So, with "hen's choice" from this flock, you'll get a...

I buy black tea. 100 tagless tea bags for a buck. I'll add mint occasionally, which I grow here. I'd love to do some chamomile though! It costs me $0.03 to make a pint of tea. I could knock a cent off of that if I only used one tea bag instead of two, but whatever. Costs more when I sweeten it...

I don't believe in the end of the world. As it stands now, I help where I can. I don't believe older or city folk should die just because they cannot raise their own food. In today's world, people are saying to let anyone who cannot raise their own food starve. Total folly and crude thinking imo...

The sad thing is that many are unwilling to help others. I'm a member of another larger forum and was quite dismayed by the vast majority of thoughts leaning towards "let the people starve" even long before any end... This was just in a discussion about milk substities and those who couldn't...

Looks like our move in date will be about mid-February. That's when I'll be starting school again, so it'll be a bit rough at first. I'll have to see if we can build homes for the birds, then transport them there. It'll be a bit much to change my schedule, then come here to care for the birds...

I guess I'm also prepping for personal financial disaster as well, and fighting inflation. Cheaper to grow or make your own, most of the time.

You mean besides Y2K? If you read old books and journals and such, someone is always claiming the end of the world as we know it. I've never bought into that crap. I prep, but I prep for realistic things, like storms and the like, not for aliens, monsters and zombies.