The Weightier Matters – June

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Food Storage

I know a year supply of food sounds daunting, perhaps even gross, but it really doesn’t have to be. I mean, I eat pasta and SpaghettiOs’s all the time and these are easy things to store for a year.

The Best Lesson on Money I Have Learned

I am working every day to pay for the mistakes of my youth. I look back and think, boy, just a little direction could have prevented a lifetime of debt. The good news is, that my kids will not be making that mistake. They are having this lesson drilled into them every day.

Vacation vs. Debt

I know the practical answer is that since we are in so much debt we should not be taking any vacations and working toward paying off our debt

Self Sufficiency – The Conclusion

The last 3 posts have been from my diary from 2014 when I quit my job. It is all I wrote on the matter and it showcased a great deal of my thinking at the beginning of this year and how desperate I had once again become.

Self-Sufficiency – Part III

I have been reflecting on an idea. What if The Prophets in the scriptures had a job? If Noah couldn’t build the ark because he was stuck at the office. If Moses was held up in a meeting, so he didn’t have the time to lead Israel. I think the question really is what is my purpose? Is it to sit in a cubicle every day until I retire?

Self-Sufficiency Part II

Today is a new day. A blank canvas. I have the world in front of me. I am bound no longer to a cubical. I quit my job. I may have been fired. It doesn’t matter. I now have choices. Options.

Self-Sufficiency, Dependency and Sickness – Why I quit my Job

I wrote this diary entry way back in July of 2014 when I put my family at great risk and quit my job. These were my first raw feelings about what I had just done.

The Air Conditioner and Furnace

We had a big blow to our budget, as our air conditioner has gone out. I am torn between this being a financial catastrophe, just when we were getting our affairs in order, and being a blessing that it happened now and not a month from now when the heat would be unbearable

Paying Off Debt vs. Protecting Your Family From Hardship