Your home sounds wonderfully cozy and you must have some of the best views anyone could want. Lack of electrical outlets is the scourge of old housing, considering all the electrical appliances and machines that most of us have now. Just hooking up a computer can be a nightmare when you have limited...

I know how you feel. Just take a deep breathe and compartmentalize.....it can be very overwhelming at first. That's one reason I found the easy open buckets for my home were because people were telling me that for a year's supply I had to vacuum pack and re-vacuum pack etc...It drove me nuts...

If, like us, you are preparing your long term pantry for whatever reason (weather, gas savings, economic future) you may be a tried and true veteran of this longstanding homestead traditon or you may be new at it and ready to take the plunge. Either way, it doesn't matter if you live in the country...

My last post was hoping to see how very far I could stretch my $115 in groceries for our family of five (all adult eaters). This fun frugal challenge, however, came to an abrupt end when my husband took us on a switch in direction. We are now re-stocking our 6-8 month pantry. Why? and How? You may ask...

Tracy, Have you ever tried the cocoa mix that is on the Hillbilly Housewife website? There are many recipes under the powdered milk section. You might consider trying a small batch to see how it goes over. If it goes well, you could make it up and keep in canisters. You are very right in talking about...

Hi, I am looking for individuals or restaurants in the Chicago area that would like to share an order of 2000lbs of ground beef. I can take around 700lbs. If I could find 4 more people to share this ground beef order, we probably could get the beef for at least half of the price at the grocery store...

I recently switched my children from disposable diapers to cloth diapers. I needed a bucket to put the soiled diapers into, with a baking soda/water solution until there was enough for a full wash load. I phoned my local bakery to ask if they had a bucket I could have. To my suprise, the baker had over...

I use all kinds of jars for pantry storage and they hold up pretty well most of the time. It's just that, as you discovered, they're not air tight once they've been opened. Most of them would keep out ants or other small bugs, though. I went digging on the internet and came up with some more...

Oh I love these spice ideas! I have a whole spicerack of spices to be tossed - the jars (which I'd asked specifically for, for christmas, having seen them in a catalogue) are cute but not airtight. So with our humid summer the spices are spoiling. So I'm going to repurpose the jars to organize...

Since it's spring, many (some?) of us are doing a little spring cleaning. For me, that means cleaning out the pantry and the spice stash. What do you do with spices that are too old to use in cooking? There are some answers here: Old Spices , but let's put our heads together and add to that....