With a new year upon us it’s a great time to start all those plans you’ve thought about a couple dozen times of starting your food storage and emergency preparedness planning.  Though I love the holidays, I have to say, I love a good New Years celebration.  It’s the feeling of newness that is contagious.  A new start, a new beginning, the opportunity for start overs and resets.  I usually take the time to sit down and jot down a few resolutions for myself.  It’s a good exercise and I think when we write things down ideas become realities.

The other thing January ushers in is tax season.  The time of year that my sister, the accountant usually becomes some alternate version of herself as she prepares and files and stays up much too late to get everything in for her clients.  She usually emerges as some resemblance of herself come April 16th or so.

Taxes…should you be among the lucky ones to receive a return, may I suggest a possible way to ear mark some of that sum of money.  Emergency Preparedness supplies!  We do this each year as we purchase something big or a lot of little things that jolt our inventory down in our storage room.  Maybe it’s a few hundred dollars, maybe it’s a bigger purchase.  What ever the circumstance it’s an easy way to add stock to your shelves.

I’ve mentioned before that one year we purchased a 2 person year supply of food.  We have 5 in our family, but our rational was to purchase a few of these over the years and at some point have 5 one year supplies of food that has a shelf life of 30 years.  Along with the rotatable food storage we accumulate on an ongoing basis, we’d have a great supply of food in the event that we should need it.

The goal is the antidote of worry and stress as I mentioned in my very first post.  Peace of mind is a priceless thing and an easy place to invest some of the return we get in our taxes each year.

Happy New Year.