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it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper do you ever ask yourself how am I supposed to find enough
money for prepping times are hard my budget is tight I'm already drowning in the bills and
the things that I need to buy there are always ways that you can pinch a few pennies you can
scrape a little bit together because guess what if you think times are challenging now
what if food costs more in the future what if your paycheck is less
what if your bills go up there are always those possibilities that we will face additional
challenges and times do require that we face the challenges that come to us rather than look at the
hardships of finding the money for prepping look on it from a positive point of view as a challenge
what can I find for as little money as possible that can really help me because when you look at
it from a point of view of scarcity that there isn't enough I won't be able to do it you put
a negative spin into your mind into your outlook and it can really harm you when you need to face
the struggles that are real and can really give you a negative outlook on your day-to-day life
so don't tell yourself in a negative way that you can't do it it's impossible
tell yourself man this is a challenge and I face challenges and hardships before I can do this
and it's important that I do so let's look first at groceries stop Teddy no you be good boy stop
first of all pay attention to what you're actually spending most people underestimate by a dramatic
amount how much they actually spend at the grocery store and that's why you may run out of
money before you run out of month when people are just jotting down their budgets they tend to say
oh I only spend 300 dollars a month on groceries when in reality if you go back over your receipts
and add up all that you really did spend it maybe closer to nine hundred even one thousand dollars
so the first thing you need to do is actually pay attention to how much you are spending at
the grocery store gather up your receipts or jot it down on a piece of paper and figure it out in
an actual real budget what is the actual amount then begin with a meal plan so that you don't
have extra foods that end up being wasted I think Americans waste something like 25 percent of the
foods that they buy they either have too much or they bought something they didn't like and food
gets pushed to the back of the refrigerator or the pantry and gets thrown away and wasted and
that is a lot of money that could be going to food that could be in your pantry that you do want to
eat and can be useful for you so keep track of how much you're actually spending and sometimes just
by making yourself be accountable you actually can find that you're maybe skipping something
you didn't really need or you're reaching for the generic one or you're passing by on that extra
bag of fruit that you already have plenty and might get spoiled before you use it I see that
in my own home and with family members that the amount of food that gets wasted and thrown away
is really sickening I try to use up every single amount of food every item
but everybody in my family doesn't feel that way and so that can be a challenge right there
so you need to try to make a plan by reasonable amount so that you don't have the leftovers that
are getting wasted if you're only going to use one onion this week don't buy three and end up
having two of them get wasted and thrown away because they got rotten before you could use them
instead of buying an extra item that gets pushed to the back of your refrigerator
choose an additional item that's in a can or package that can live in your pantry then those
pantry items are still there if they're extra and you don't have fresh food that's been spoiled that
you need to throw away just being cognizant of the amount of food that we're preparing for meals and
having a plan for the leftovers or maybe preparing smaller sizes or freezing some into batches
can actually help us not have so much waste I think most of us already know to shop look for
food on sale shop generic and use coupons if you can I've never found coupons to be very useful
I've cut them out taken them to the store gone around and looked and the item that I normally buy
is already less expensive than this alternative with a coupon it just depends where you live
but that's the way I found that coupons work for me unless it's something that I absolutely always
use I just don't even look at them anymore and I don't try clipping them out I see these shows on
tv where people are buying a thousand dollars worth of things with their coupons and they
bring it all home for practically free but I look over what they're putting away in their stockpile
they may have bags and bags of things but it may not be actual food that you could use to make
meals for your family don't just buy things that are on sale or because they're cheap buy foods
that you know how to cook your family is willing to eat and you have an idea of how you're going to
use it so that it doesn't just languish as waste in your pantry you can always get an extra bag of
beans or rice because those foods can last for a very long time or grab a can of soup chili fruit
vegetables something you can open and eat right out of the container in case you have a real
emergency such as a power outage you don't have to worry about trying to cook a bag of beans or
a bag of rice you can open a can of chili and eat it out of the can it may not be preferable to eat
something right out of the can but it's certainly going to be a meal that you can use to sustain
you whereas a bag of rice isn't going to work that way if you don't have a way to prepare it
so have variety in your foods every emergency has its own challenges if you're running out of money
or you're stuck at home through these quarantine pandemic days you could put on a pot of beans and
rice and let them simmer on the stove but if you're in a winter storm or hurricane and your
power goes out having something you can just tear open and eat is what's going to meet your needs
so have variety in your foods of things you plan to eat now things that you could eat that'll last
a few years and then the very longest lasting dried beans rice oatmeal the dried long-term
foods that'll last nearly forever to save money find more money for prepping go over your finances
with a fine-tooth comb are there subscriptions that you are paying for that you don't use anymore
are there memberships to things like gyms that you don't attend those continue to be taken out
or automatically charged and we tend to just overlook them over time because we are so busy
with our day-to-day lives and that's one of the reasons they try to get you to sign up
for memberships and subscriptions because people don't tend to ever use them they don't cancel them
and then the company continues to make a lot of money it's in their interest to give you
a subscription or a membership not for you so look over make sure you're not getting
charged for things you're not using or don't need anymore you may even have apps or extra
channels on your cable things on your phone look over all of the ways money is being taken out
or spent to make sure that it's all going in a mindful way for things that you really do want and
you do need give a call to your insurance agent is there a way that your rates can be lowered
are they charging you for particular items that maybe you don't need anymore
there might be ways your insurance company can help you adjust your rates so that it more fits
in with your budget it's the same thing with say your cell phone or your cable company
sometimes if you call them and say why is this so much I really can't afford it and they'll say
oh we've got a special going on right now that's happened to me a few times and I
was able to save quite a bit of money and the only way you're going to get that is if you ask
just remember getting a discount on something that you didn't really need or intend to buy
is not saving money because you're still putting out the other amount that meets up to the discount
if it is something that you need and not just want ask for discounts when you go places
sometimes they give student discounts senior citizen discounts and there are all kinds of
crazy ways you might be able to find something if you work for the government ask for a government
discount ask for a military discount think and be creative and maybe you can find a way that you can
save a few pennies pinch a little back using a discount that you forgot to ask for before
America is also a tremendous disposable society if something doesn't work properly people just
throw it away and they get something else try to figure out how to make things that you have
work for you or work differently work better be creative see what can I use this for
try to figure out how to fix things rather than replace them there are all kinds of things that
you can learn to do on the internet check out some of my videos some of them are pretty interesting
but there are many many kinds of topics and items just google what you're looking for how
to fix add the name of your item how to use put in something that you have you may just
find a unique way to use what you already have to make something that you really need
the next way to save money for prepping is to declutter some of the things that you can sell
some things you can donate get things out of the way and a lot of times by clearing out your area
making your life less stressful because you don't have so much clutter around it allows
you to think better use your space better maybe find something valuable like a few dollars or a
check you forgot to cash or even a gift card clean up declutter keep things organized and
you're also then making space for when you do get more prepping supplies you'll have somewhere to
store them in an organized way something that I've always done is when I pinched pennies I actually
save them if you go to the store and you know you spent ten dollars less than you had planned
put the ten dollars aside so that you have it for next time otherwise money just flows out of your
wallet through your fingers empties your pockets but if you actually put it away in a jar in an
envelope in a special little hiding spot before you know it you'll have the extra money having
that extra cash on hand can be a real lifesaver it can allow you to buy things that you really need
or have the money to go towards an unexpected bill that can save you from some catastrophic type
emergency event pay attention to your health try to make the healthiest lifestyle choices that you
can the healthier you are the less it costs you to live because you aren't running to the doctor
paying for medication worrying about your health health care is extremely expensive and the less
health care that you require the fewer medications that you need the less visits to doctors and
specialists for conditions that could be avoided by a healthy lifestyle the more money that leaves
you for the things that you really want prepping can actually save you money too when you buy food
on sale and you have it in your stockpile you can eat that food later when the price may have gone
up for example something that used to cost a dollar a year ago now might be a dollar twenty
nine so if you can go into your pantry and get that can for a dollar and eat it today
rather than need to go buy one for a dollar twenty nine you're saving yourself the difference that
the prices went up prepping allows you to have supplies on hand when you need them I know when
my kids were young and they actually went to school I used to stock up on school supplies
at the beginning of the year you could get folders for nine cents you could get boxes of crayons for
39 cents you could have extra paper and a pair of scissors and we had a little shelf in their house
that was the school supply center whenever they needed to do their homework or they needed
new crayons for school or needed another pencil we could go and get it from there
because if you look for those types of items in the middle of the week in the winter time you end
up going to a store and find out the paper you could have bought for 19 cents is now 2.59 for
a few sheets of paper that your child needs you've probably all experienced some of those emergencies
that end up costing you not only the time that you have to then go and find those items but
it also is the aggravation how much extra it costs you when you could have had it on hand
one of the things I've done in my life is try to use what i have to make what I need and it
helps you be creative it helps you find solutions and it helps you have a better outlook that I can
probably figure this out and then if I can't then maybe it's something that I really need
being able to be creative and figure it out and decide what's really important gives you
a better outlook on your day-to-day life than the worry of not having enough so pinch a few pennies
gather some supplies that you really need and try to cut out the clutter and the waste that use up
our time take up our space and don't bring the joy that we need in the life that we choose to
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