The Homestead Mindset Anywhere: by Donna Miller : re-using

A tip to 'thinking like a homesteader.'

Millers Grain House — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:55:00 GMT

Well, weather you care to learn these tips because you dream of 'Little House on the Prairie Days' or you just want to stretch the dollars you have, a homesteader's mind works a little differently than most. One main thing is to look at any...(read more)

Weekly Preparation Practice Checklist

Millers Grain House — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:00:00 GMT

I have come up with a list of items that warrant practicing each week to prepare for an uncertain economical or governmental future. It isn’t being pessimistic to actually WANT to and look forward to being able to be more self-sustaining and out of debt...(read more)

Saving pennies does add up

Millers Grain House — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:08:00 GMT

Plastic baggies.

Aluminum foil.

25# -50# Grain bags

Mulit purpose uses for things like a dehydrator.

Cheap storage for pots/pans/lids.

One grain used many ways.

All these (and more as my mind works) are multi-use topics that help me save pennies around our home. This has helped us in the lean times more than me going to 'work' for someone else.

Very shortly, I will have new series on my youtube channel that branches into use, re-use, recycle and re-think uses of many items we typically toss.

It's amazing how the pennies add up when we just take the time to think outside the box.

If you want to be updated with visual tips and instructions to saving pennies in many areas, please visit my youtube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/user/thewheatguy

I hope you will check it out - it's like sharing face to face the tricks I've learned as my homesteading mindset has developed during our families journey!

Please stop by.

Best Blessings!

Donna

How to stretch a left over baked potato.

Millers Grain House — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:21:00 GMT

Now, I know there are more ideas than this one....but this is our FAVORITE way to use them rather than toss them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MumZcIjTJQ

It's short so it should load pretty fast!

Best Blessings and enJOY!

Donna

An Audio-Visual Tip for Saving Money on Groceries!

Millers Grain House — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:03:00 GMT

An Audio-Visual Tip for Saving Money on Groceries!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cycj1dEAK0Q

“Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime”—Author unknown

More visual tips uploaded every week (usually Fridays) so you can not only READ what I'm talking about with a Homesteading Mindset, but also SEE and HEAR some practical steps to saving $$.

Best Blessings!

Donna

For starters...what is the 'Homestead Mindset' ?

Millers Grain House — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:41:00 GMT

Since this is the initial post for the blog, it seemed suitable to set the pace with at least an attempt to define the title of the blog and what a 'Homestead Mindset' is by definition. Since this blog is about developing that mindset anywhere and not just on a massive 100 acre farm, it seems likely that some readers may think there's no way they can do that, because they live in the suburbs or the city. Hopefully this blog will help dispel that belief and enlighten others to develop the 'homestead mindset' - no matter where you may call home.

Historically a homesteader was a person who was a pioneer; one who set out to 'do it themselves' and forge new territory; to make an untamed place a home. Much of that mindset and thought process has been elevated in our society with the convenience of so much of our daily lives. The pioneer spirit seems left to only a celebrity status, but it need not be so. The homestead mindset is best suited to the small tasks that add up to great results.

Some character traits that are common to a homesteading family would be (but are not limited to or all required):

· Using, re-using, recycling into new uses what one already owns. Known to some as 'making-do.'
· Careful thought before purchasing any item(s), not just large ticket ones.
· Making from scratch any number of items: food, clothing, etc.
· Somewhat of a minimalist lifestyle.
· Gardening, preserving and stretching food dollars.
· Free from 'keeping-up-with-the-Jones' disease.
· Joy in creative depravity (more on that later).

To try to define the mindset of a homesteader may be too large a task to try to fit into one post. The above list could go on and on and on with examples. To develop that mindset is a journey. With the economic times that many of us are facing right now, it would behoove us to do a little rearranging and changing of our minds to make it though, get out of debt and be freer for our future.

We have lived in the suburbs, lived in the city and lived on a homestead. So I know that its how you think that helps you cope and create, stretch and save, enjoy and endure, not a geographical location that gives you the homestead mindset. Hopefully you’ll join me on this journey of creating the homestead mindset anywhere.

Best Blessings ~ enJOY your life!

Donna

Donna Miller is a work-at-home wife and mother. She delighted to share her trials and triumphs of learning homestead anywhere. The Millers own and operate Millers Grain House which offers Organic and Chemical-free Whole Grains, Bosch Mixers, the NutriMill, instructional tutorials, recipes and more.