Gerald Celente helps keeps me motivated

Does anyone out there listen or read Gerald Celente? Within the last few months I have found different posts, articles and videos by him and find his information pretty concerning. I mean, for Joe average, it looks like life not only in this country but world wide is going to get pretty difficult.

What I do like about his information is, it helps to keep me motivated. I keep trying to find ways to further my preps. One such way is over the past few months when we have needed to purchase items, usually clothes, we shop second hand stores. I have routinely found items that I can wear that still had the original store tags on them for pennies on the dollar. That has been a real plus for us as my size and weight have both been reducing and I’ve needed to purchase new clothes.

Anytime I can save money, to either save, or use elsewhere (such as bills) that’s great. Another place I found to be of worth is Aldi’s food store. They’re not fancy, but the saving are good. Do a Google search to find the one closest to you. Also for some of your larger purchases of rice or noodles try the Asian markets. Here in the Twin Cities, University Ave and that area in St Paul has lots of them. My favorite is one off of University and Dale. They have a good selection of lots of items and the store is pretty clean.

Apartment Food Storage Space

It has been a couple of weeks since my last post. My idea today is to start thinking outside the box for storage area ideas. I live in a small apartment. Having space available for food storage has always been a problem, especially when we had a kid still living with us. Now this has not always been the case. When we owned our own homes and had basements available, we made our pantries in the basements.

Here in our apartment we have to utilize space better. We also decided to give up the idea that our home will never be a model or on the cover of better homes and garden. We have had 2 liter containers of water stored behind chairs in our living room. Now we only have a few 5 gallon Jerry cans of water behind these same chairs. The upper shelves in our closets are for storage of larger #10 cans. One deep broom closet has 6 gallon buckets of wheat and rice stacked floor to ceiling along the back wall. Another closet has light weight metal shelves installed that are used to stack boxes of dry goods. The spare bedroom that used to be my sons room is now my wife’s “sewing room/food storage room.” I was lucky to be able to get for free some very heavy duty metal shelving and installed four of them in this room. They are used for canned goods and a few items we use a lot of.

In the master bedroom we have rubber maid style totes along another wall stacked two and three high. Some of these contain first aid gear. Some items I hope we will never use but we were able to procure during better times. One of these totes contains cold and flu medications. Others contain pasta’s and macaronis.

We have 72 hour kits in back packs stored on the floor of a closet easily retrieved. That reminds me its time again to start switching out some of the winter items in these packs for spring and summer gear. Under our bed has items stored. We have a couple extra dressers or bureau’s that are dedicated to storing candles, wicks, emergency radios, lights, first aid items.

Most stuff is out of the way of the casual observer unless we are careless and keep doors open. Operational security is important. I don’t want it known far and wide we have items that may be of value under less than favorable climates or a SHTF scenario. Our little place is crowded and its time to de-junk and make better use of what space is still available.

Those are my thoughts for today. In a small apartment it is still possible to find some space to store food. Our Prophets have been asking us to do this for over 60 years now.