Sometime during October is Fire Safety month/week/day/hour, frankly I’m too tired to look it up but you can assume that I am right. Anywhoo here is a list of some things you need to think of to be fire prepared. Just the other day I ran a fire drill with the kids, they think it […]
Every year around this time our local Green Giant plant (General Mills) puts on a charity parking lot sale. You can get case lots for better prices than Sams or other discount clubs. It’s a really good deal. For example a case of 48 Nature Valley Granola bars is $10 ($0.21 each) or 24 cans […]
What do you do when you receive this voicemail? “Honey, the wildfire is headed toward the house, we were told to evacuate, going to {psht} {crackle}” Now he/she won’t answer the phone, lines are probably overloaded. Do you A. Panic, B. Go to your pre-arranged rally point and hug? Having a detailed preparedness plan can cut through […]
Ok quick poll, who loves Mac-n-cheese (if you didn’t raise your hand I’m not sure I want to know you…) Almost everyone right?! Well Ima gonna tell yall how to make REAL mac-n-cheese, not that powdered box stuff either… (although the velveta shells and cheese does have a special place in my heart). And listen, […]
Hey, welcome to episode 58! So in honor of our great nation’s independence we decided to clean the carpets! Woo, fireworks and house cleaning, THANK YOU AMERICA! We calculated this quite carefully, listen to this super awesome podcast to hear the most excellent and insightful reason we chose Independence Day weekend to clean our carpets…. […]
As per tradition the first podcast of the month is the Do1Thing episode. July’s tasks are dealing with a family communications plan. Things discussed in this episode. Have a phone with a cord and a car charger for your cell phone Develop a plan for how your family will stay in touch during a disaster […]
This blog isn’t really about pimping other people’s contests but it is about giving you information about things that can help you, so I will post some contests/giveaways/etc, that I think you might be interested in. Even though this reduces my chances of winning I just can’t let them go on in secret. So in […]
Funerals are something we try to avoid thinking about on a day to day basis, and this can really get us in trouble. The fact that we are distraught and emotional when we are trying to deal with Funeral Directors is used by them to get extra cash. So within this podcast we discuss some […]
June is a unique month… well not really I am just too lazy to come up with another introduction. Anywhoo as far as Do1Thing.com is concerned June is the time to focus on unique family needs in a potential disaster. This one hits close to home, my parents always told me I was unique so […]
Again this month we feature the “baby steps” from Do1Thing.com. May is all about a preparedness plan, incidentally exactly what I did for the last episode. (I didn’t know or plan it this way). In the interests of me being a lazy… ummm guy I am gonna say just listen and the links at the […]