ready today I'm gonna share with you what I got this week at the thrift store
for five dollars and under that's right five dollars and under and I got
something that's going to help me in my survival series first thing I got for
seventy-five cents was this beautiful candle it's a caramel candle now as you
know I love making my own candles but this is a mason jar so I can use the
mason jar as well and it smells really good so I got this for 75 cents now this
week the blue tags were half off so I only paid 35 cents for it and then for
an upcoming video I'm going to be making my own TV dinners and for a dollar I got
these so we're gonna make our own TV dinners that we can freeze I think this
is gonna be a great video that you're all gonna enjoy how we can make TV
dinners that don't have any preservatives and not that high sodium
that you get at the grocery store and then for 25 cents I got this little
measuring cup and I really like it it's the stainless steel and I'm always
looking for these because I put these in my bought food so for 25 cents I got
this it last but not least for two dollars I got canned heat it's canned
heat this is going to be great in a survival series because we can use this
to heat our food in an emergency let's just say I couldn't go outside and start
a fire for some reason we have this stir no can't heat for two dollars and it
gives me I think it's three of them and I think one of them lasts 12 hours long
so we're going to use this and put it in our survival bucket and then for 25
cents I got this other little scoop I thought it was so adorable as you know I
love these little stainless steel cups measuring cups and they're great for in
my food storage so for under five dollars I got all of these items too bad
of a day I got a few things I can use to make videos and things that I can help
in my preparedness so many of you are asking ok Tessie what are you going to
start on the next project in the next challenge we are still going to go on
with our dollar challenge a $5 survival challenge
but this time we're going to be using a different store for our five dollar
challenge and I can't wait to share with you next week a four part series once
again how we're gonna take five dollars and we're gonna use that survival food
but it's a different store this time so you're gonna have to so you're gonna
have to stay tuned until you find out where we're going this time I'm busy
today in my pantry because I have all of these jars and I'm putting some dried
food in them to store up but so many people have asked me could I share a
little bit about my prepping library as you all know I have an extensive library
I have a library that shows a lot about canning prepping food storage and all
kinds of things might want to share with you a few of the books that I really
enjoy that are very unusual they're not the kind of books that you're going to
see on all the survival channels a lot of times you will see the prepping
library and oftentimes they will have the same books but I thought I would go
with something a little more unusual books that are very easy to find
extremely cheap used but something different than what you see on the other
channels here the channels like mine included we have so many challenges and
a lot of times you scroll through all of the videos and the same channels have
the same challenges and when you see one person do something we kind of get tired
of seeing everybody else do the same thing so that's why I've always tried to
be very different on my channel in other words I have cheap meal Monday in
crock-pot Wednesday these are all things that I came up with for my channel
thrifty Thursday going to the thrift store for five dollars and under and
heart-to-hearts these were things I tried to do to make my channel a little
bit unique and a little bit different than what you would see every day I know
that people are very busy and then having somebody to watch my channel it's
very humbling and I'm very honored so I'd like to give you all
kinds of new things things that maybe you hunt wouldn't have been seeing at
other places I'm going to share with you some books that mean a lot to me are
helping me a lot in my learning of prepping skills
spook I'm going to share with you is by Cheryl Driggs it's called simply
preparing lunch into food storage Wow I don't follow the Mormons religion I do
really love their food storage tips and this one is brought to you by the
Mormons but you can buy it used on Amazon and I paid less than five dollars
for it also there is a website called thrift books that you can get books
extremely cheap and here it talks all about being prepared it's everything you
need to know about being prepared non-food food very down-to-earth and so
this is my choice number one for a prepping book simply prepared by Cheryl
Fisher Driggs all of these books I bought very reasonably priced and they
were all under $10 that's including the shipping I got him on Amazon or thrifty
books thrift books the next one I loved was from the 70s and this one too
I received online it's called the food storage guy in cookbook and it is by Sam
and Andy 1969 food guide food storage guide and cookbook this is a really good
one for food storage it is written in big print it has meals using the food in
your storage it tells you how to store food this is a very highly recommended
book that I would recommend now I bet you're saying okay testy well these are
books that are great for homesteading and great if you have an acre of ground
is there any books for me giving an apartment and I don't have all of the
acres and things that you do well my friends one of my favorite books is
actually called homesteading in this city down-to-earth guide to cheap the
city living and this is another book I got very cheap
it's a survival manual for young people living in town or off-campus now this is
what you would call a frugal book a book about how to knit frugally and cooking
your own meals this is a very good book extremely good I love it Nancy single
men homesteading in the city all time favorite author those of you who
subscribe to back to earth living and countryside back in the 70s would know
who this is she is my go-to person for living
frugally learning how to homestead and maybe just maybe being a little bit off
the beaten track as far as when it comes to some things that she does as you know
I don't always follow the USDA guidelines for canning but I'm very
educated and I take great precautions in my canning and we want to talk about
Jackie clay Jackie clay is my ultimate favorite person when it comes to living
frugally and canning you will find things that she does very non-mainstream
you will find things that she does very not acceptable to some people but I love
Jackie clay she talks about canning cheese and milk and canning butter she
talks about all these things this is Jackie clay and this is one of
her books now this one here is a little more expensive it's very hard to find
this is the Bible of home canning when it comes to survival skills in canning
growing and canning your own food by Jackie clay this is used and I paid $20
for it but this is my favorite all-time book she has a lot of books and this one
is called recession-proof your pantry self-reliant looks a lot about the
nitty-gritty part of off-grid living homesteading this is not the fancy
homesteading that you will find maybe in some of the 20th century
type of books this is down-to-earth hillbilly type vetting and living a
homestead type lifestyle Jacquie clay you can look up Jackie clay there's a
lot of articles on her and I think you will enjoy it you will be able to glean
some of her recipes if you search her name
I know countryside has a few of her articles that are online another one I
really enjoy is called becoming self-reliant how to become less
dependent on society and the government by Ken
Larson this is great for producing your own food this is great for learning how
to store your food how to live in a grid down situation and how to save your
money in different areas that would be recession proof this is another really
good book this is a book that the men would also enjoy I hope you enjoyed some
of these more unusual prepping and homesteading books I have a lot of books
to share with you but I wanted to share with you the main books that I use 90%
of the videos that I make there are videos of the things that I have done in
the past there are not new things I'm doing just for videos there are things
that I have done by reading in books I choose to read and gain my knowledge
from books books is where I gained everything that I know the reading and
then it's through doing the things that I've learned in these books the internet
is great it's a great resource for things to learn but in a downgrade
situation or things would happen badly in this economy you're gonna need to
rely on books when I didn't have electricity for that day the first thing
I thought is I was so glad for my books because when you don't have the internet
what are you gonna have you're gonna have what's up here and you're gonna
have what's in here and I don't know about you but sometimes what's in here
gets lost in there but what's in here will always stay the same take everyone
and we'll see you guys tomorrow hey everyone it's time for Danny's diary
there were January the 18th 1943 today Mannion and
I went to eat on the ground still is so cold and that it's covered with snow
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