Buying Bulk – Storage Solutions
Buying necessaries in bulk makes sense to me. But, as I pointed out in a recent post, a lot of people avoid buying in bulk, and even deride those who do, simply because they can’t find the room to store bulk goods till needed. The first step toward creating your own buffer against just-in-time supply [...]
Buying Bulk Buffers Against Just-in-Time Supply
“Shopping at Costco is ridiculous—I don’t need to buy a case of [name any consumer product] at a time!” This often-heard opinion may get a laugh in comedy clubs and cocktail parties, but it indicates to me that the speaker has done very little critical thinking about the state of our world. Modern society has [...]
Taking Self Reliance on Tour
Even self reliant people can’t always stay home. Sometimes, we just take self reliance on tour, a tour of a location we have no control over but are just observers in. We recently ventured into a couple new states as tourists. Our stops included a large city, and while I am very comfortable getting lost [...]
Know Your Rights
To know your rights is truly how free you are. Most of us choose to live within laws and regulations by driving vehicles that must be licensed, and by keeping our lawn mowed if we choose to live inside a city limit, and by not carrying a firearm if we choose to enter a government [...]
Self Reliance is About Awareness
As we continue to define what self reliance means, we need to add in the idea of awareness. It’s important to help us manage our lives and be prepared to deal with what comes our way, be it self-generated or foisted upon us by others. It’s difficult to change or influence anything in our lives until we’re [...]
Self Reliance – Articles Revisited
Welcome to another fun filled Friday where we take a dip into our archives to resurface some gems from the past. As you know, our blog is dedicated to the idea of being self-reliant. This equates to a self-directed and self-managed life, filled with optimism about how we can make a brighter future for ourselves. [...]
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