I'm gonna talk a little bit about self-sufficiency and some of the things
that people don't talk about these days and I'm in the bathroom and I just had a
shower and I have to dump the water into a bucket and it got me really thinking
about self-sufficiency and what would you do if times weren't bad let's just
say a big part of the population of people have they have public sewer they
have public water what would you do if you have public sewer and water and your
infrastructure would shut down these are things we have to think about and while
I live this way on a daily basis I don't worry so much about this because I have
a private well and have a private water but people are like talking about it
they don't like talking about the nitty-gritty if things would get bad and
self-sufficiency and so I've learned to use every drop of water to my full
advantage I learned to take a shower in less than five gallons of water and then
would have done i sterilize everything so I sanitize and sterilize everything
because I like to keep clean and I want to know that my home is clean when you
do things like this it's really important that you keep clean would you
know how to stir lies and sanitize things if the infrastructure would go
down would you learn would you know do you have books that you can read if
these things would happen all right now we got our bucket of water what do we do
with it if you had no plumbing and no sewer where would you go with it
this isn't some kind of proper drill this is my everyday life but what would
you do I want this video to get you thinking a little what would you do at
the infrastructure of your home would break down and it would be with
everybody the whole worldwide that can happen Venezuela and look what happened
there that was a rich country and you know what it's not that way anymore now
is it
what would you do if you had trash how would you get rid of it well this is
what I do these are the skills your grandparents did a lot of people who
live in rural America still live this way but what would you do if you had no
trash collection what would you do tomorrow
everything in your life would be different have you thought about it this
isn't a scare video it's just a video to share with you the life of some people
in the life how some of us live and a life that you could possibly live some
day if the economy would go down it doesn't take much to make a difference
in our economy and what would you do what would you do to be more
self-sufficient what would you do if you had to live like me
I enjoy this lifestyle I enjoy it immensely
it's part of my life but what would you do if everybody had to live this way it
revolves around buckets buckets buckets and buckets buckets for the fresh water
and buckets for the gray water do you know the rules about using grey water do
you know that you never mix fresh water with grey water do you have buckets that
are designed for that it's a lifestyle it's something that you don't learn
overnight but when things get bad you learn it pretty quickly so I'm going to
share with you now a little bit in the end of this video what I was working on
this week because summer is over and the snow is starting to fly and I really had
to get my stuff finished because being self-sufficient means you always have to
look ahead so you're always looking ahead and making sure that you got
everything covered in case things would ever happen
the first snow of the season that greenhouse this full of garden seeds but
I still need to bring in the house and put in packages oh my goodness it's like
I don't have enough of time in my day but that's what I'm gonna work on today
let's get those seeds out of that greenhouse and get them packaged oh my
word it's so beautiful though look at the snow so the first thing I'm gonna
work on and this is for my healing salve that I make and it says marshmallow
leaves it's all kinds of herbs that I had out the garden I had a video on it
but I have to get this stuff packaged and put away so make sure you label all
of your things really good it's hard to believe all of this stuff is actually
going to be just a few envelopes if you wonder where I get envelopes like this I
can share with you in the description box below because I love these be enough
to make me enough of healing sad to last me for probably about a year and I have
a lot of videos and how I make my healing staffs and I will be making some
new videos as well so there we go it's packet number one and that's my
marshmallow root and leaf sad the herbs for the SAP so the next thing we're
gonna do is I'm gonna put that in this basket the next thing is all of these
marigolds and this is miracles in calendula together so I'm gonna have to
painstakingly take all the leaves out of the flower heads now these are the
marigolds that I grow every year and many of you have gotten my seeds
through the years I will be selling seeds again probably in the spring so
I'm gonna go ahead and do this and when this is done then we will package these
up as my marigold garden seeds this is the potpourri here all the tiny black
seeds that I put in a sieve and they went down into here now we will clean
these seeds up better but it still has lots of black seeds that are coming out
of here so we're going to finish doing this I'll put this in a pretty
bag so we have this to make her gifts so we have the sunflower seeds here we have
this we got a package these into my garden seeds and then I'm working on
some tea so I'll show you what everything looks like when we're
finished so what we're gonna do is we are going to take this and run it like
this and then we're gonna do it again
and there we have the pure seed and now all we have to do just put these into
our seed envelopes now all we have to do is when I'm ready to make this craft is
add some scent to it so we'll put that in here as well now we have to work on
is some of our tea so I want to clean everything out and now we'll work on the
tea
you put all the tea in here like this
this is a really strong menthol tea which I use to make essential oil this
is a really strong menthol tea which I used to make essential oils as well
we're just gonna crinkle it up like this and we'll get the tea needs out of it
so we drink this this is good for making homemade Vicks which is really easy to
make and I'll have some videos coming up here in January making all of these
things
since I have a large supply of tea I
don't have to worry so much if I waste some of it alright so this is the tea
I'm gonna go ahead and we're going to chop this up real finely now last but
not least is the Colangelo seeds and these are my prized possession so I'm
gonna take a lot of time and getting these seeds off the flower heads because
this is what I grow to make lotions I use this to make SAVs I use this for all
kinds of things and these seeds I need to plant next year because they're not
that cheap to buy but they're so easy to harvest on your own so I'm gonna go
ahead get all the seeds out of these so I have them for next year because these
are very important to me when you grow your own flowers and save your own seeds
you really have more of a connection with just being more self-sufficient so
now I don't have to go trying to look for these seeds I have them on my own
there you go everyone all packaged up and ready for this spring and my
greenhouse is all ready for this spring but I'm gonna do a little bit of
decorating in there for Christmas so I got everything cleaned up and now I can
decorate this week for Christmas I love my greenhouse I think that's the number
one thing that I like and that I got this year and it's under $60 and I got
this greenhouse and I think it is fabulous I can use it for so many things
not just growing things but decorating and spending some time in there and
working on herbs so I take my basket and put it in the house and put it
everything away and get ready now for Christmas
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