A Fresnel lens looks like a piece of glass or plastic with tiny circular lines all over it, one inside the other. It is sort of like bullseyes that are very close together and that you can see through.
It is a type of magnifier. I discovered their existence because of receiving a catalog of optical supplies and another with surplus items in it.
You are probably already aware that you can light things on fire by using a magnifying glass held over it in the sunlight. You focus the sunlight on whatever you want to light and in a few minutes it starts smoldering.
If you use a Fresnel lens, the fire is generally more impressive than using a regular magnifying. The Fresnel lens does a better job of focusing and intensifying the effect of the sunlight to start a fire.
If you want to use a magnifier to start fires as part of your preparedness, it is better to have a Fresnel lens for this purpose.
As is the case with regular magnifiers, Fresnel lenses work better the larger they are. If you have a large enough Fresnel lens, you can melt metal with it. lol. Now I have started something, I am sure.
Most people have never even noticed the existence of Fresnel lenses. They are handy suckers if you like to make things and invent stuff. If you are among the aforementioned group, you really need to get your hands on a Fresnel lens.
I just posted on how to make a cheap solar oven yesterday. I did not mention Fresnel lenses in that post. This is because Fresnel lenses are powerful enough that it would require a lot of care to use on on a cardboard and styrofoam solar oven. Fresnel lenses used on one of those could easily start a fire.
Styrofoam releases dangerous gases when burned and a fire with the aforementioned solar oven would not be a good idea.
I have spent a small amount of time playing with a Fresnel lens, but I fully intend to spend more. Fresnel lenses have great possibilities that have not been explored yet, especially by me. I have plans for those things.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Monday, January 28, 2013
Cheaper Food Bill - Making Your Fresh Veggies Last Longer
You can make your fresh veggies last longer in your fridge. You, Dear Reader probably need to know how to do this. Recent studies show that 1/3 to 1/2 of all produce grown goes to waste. Not all of that is household waste, but a lot of it is. Wasting all of this food is costing you a lot of money. What could you do with up to half of your food bill money to use another way?
Not only is all that wasted food costing you money, it is costing you the Earth. I already did a post explaining what a "carbon footprint" is. Well, if you waste a lot of food, then it makes your carbon footprint a lot bigger. That means you are making a big contribution to climate change.
If you want to help save the Earth and your budget at the same time this blog post may help.
I hope you will use muslin, cheesecloth or other lint free towels instead of paper towels to do this.
When you get your groceries home from the store, you need to wash them off. Even if they are labelled "organic", that does not guarantee there are no pesticides on them. They have been sitting in the grocery before you got them and they don't want bugs crawling on their produce.
This post is going to be mostly about lettuce.
My first step is to run a sink of cold water. I add ice if necessary. I put one or two drops of dish soap in the water. Soap loosens up any oil based stuff, like pesticides, on your produce. I let the lettuce sit for a few minutes in the slightly soapy water and swish it once in a while. If you are very worried about pesticides, you need to swish it a lot and keep doing it.
I decide how to put the lettuce in the sink by how wilted, or not, it looks. If it is very wilted, I may leave it in one piece, attached where the roots were cut off, before I do much to it. The cut root area can help it take up more water to start with.
If the lettuce looks fairly fresh, I strip the leaves from the root stub and put them in the ice water that way. If I have put the whole thing in, I strip off the leaves once it looks a bit fresher and let it soak more.
The ice water should rejuvenate the lettuce if it wilted any in the store or on the way home. If this process is new to you, it will amaze you to see how fresh looking the lettuce is.
Once you are satisfied with how fresh and clean your lettuce is, then you need to drain the water off of it. I am not that fast at getting the lettuce ready for the fridge, so I leave most of it sitting in the water so it stays fresh, while I work on a little at a time.
I use a collander to put a bit of lettuce aside to work on. I use the collander to let it drip and I shake the collander gently to encourage the lettuce to drip a little bit dry.
If you use a salad spinner, now is the time to use it. If you don't use a salad spinner, you need to use towels to gently pat the leaves fairly dry.
Once the leaves you are working on are a bit dry, you need a large plastic container to put them in. It needs to be lined with cloth (or paper towels) to keep the leaves dry in the fridge. Wetness is what makes your lettuce rot quickly.
Put one layer of leaves on top of the cloth liner of your plastic container. If you want your lettuce ready to eat, you can tear up the leaves by hand at this point. Do not use a knife to cut up your leaves, that will make them rot fast. They have plastic knives for cutting up lettuce and the ceramic knives might work also. I don't use them, but do mine by hand. I think they make the leaves rot a little faster, even if not as fast as metal.
Cover your first layer of leaves with a towel. Add another layer of leaves and cover that with a towel. Keep doing the same until your container is full. If too many leaves touch each other, especially towards the bottom of your container, they will rot faster.
Once you fill your container with lettuce, you need one last layer of towel to prevent the lettuce from touching the container lid. It is now ready to put in the fridge.
This container of lettuce will last a surprisingly long time. I have had them make it past two weeks. That is unusually long. It will usually last past a week, however. As I mentioned in my posts about how to save money on your shopping, the less time you spend in the store, the less money you will spend.
Keeping your lettuce fresh at home and not needing to go to the store to buy more when it spoils before you finish eating it, will save you money. It will add up enough for you to notice after a while, as long as you don't squander your savings on something you don't really need. I hope you will use your savings to buy something for emergency preparedness.
Not only is all that wasted food costing you money, it is costing you the Earth. I already did a post explaining what a "carbon footprint" is. Well, if you waste a lot of food, then it makes your carbon footprint a lot bigger. That means you are making a big contribution to climate change.
If you want to help save the Earth and your budget at the same time this blog post may help.
I hope you will use muslin, cheesecloth or other lint free towels instead of paper towels to do this.
When you get your groceries home from the store, you need to wash them off. Even if they are labelled "organic", that does not guarantee there are no pesticides on them. They have been sitting in the grocery before you got them and they don't want bugs crawling on their produce.
This post is going to be mostly about lettuce.
My first step is to run a sink of cold water. I add ice if necessary. I put one or two drops of dish soap in the water. Soap loosens up any oil based stuff, like pesticides, on your produce. I let the lettuce sit for a few minutes in the slightly soapy water and swish it once in a while. If you are very worried about pesticides, you need to swish it a lot and keep doing it.
I decide how to put the lettuce in the sink by how wilted, or not, it looks. If it is very wilted, I may leave it in one piece, attached where the roots were cut off, before I do much to it. The cut root area can help it take up more water to start with.
If the lettuce looks fairly fresh, I strip the leaves from the root stub and put them in the ice water that way. If I have put the whole thing in, I strip off the leaves once it looks a bit fresher and let it soak more.
The ice water should rejuvenate the lettuce if it wilted any in the store or on the way home. If this process is new to you, it will amaze you to see how fresh looking the lettuce is.
Once you are satisfied with how fresh and clean your lettuce is, then you need to drain the water off of it. I am not that fast at getting the lettuce ready for the fridge, so I leave most of it sitting in the water so it stays fresh, while I work on a little at a time.
I use a collander to put a bit of lettuce aside to work on. I use the collander to let it drip and I shake the collander gently to encourage the lettuce to drip a little bit dry.
If you use a salad spinner, now is the time to use it. If you don't use a salad spinner, you need to use towels to gently pat the leaves fairly dry.
Once the leaves you are working on are a bit dry, you need a large plastic container to put them in. It needs to be lined with cloth (or paper towels) to keep the leaves dry in the fridge. Wetness is what makes your lettuce rot quickly.
Put one layer of leaves on top of the cloth liner of your plastic container. If you want your lettuce ready to eat, you can tear up the leaves by hand at this point. Do not use a knife to cut up your leaves, that will make them rot fast. They have plastic knives for cutting up lettuce and the ceramic knives might work also. I don't use them, but do mine by hand. I think they make the leaves rot a little faster, even if not as fast as metal.
Cover your first layer of leaves with a towel. Add another layer of leaves and cover that with a towel. Keep doing the same until your container is full. If too many leaves touch each other, especially towards the bottom of your container, they will rot faster.
Once you fill your container with lettuce, you need one last layer of towel to prevent the lettuce from touching the container lid. It is now ready to put in the fridge.
This container of lettuce will last a surprisingly long time. I have had them make it past two weeks. That is unusually long. It will usually last past a week, however. As I mentioned in my posts about how to save money on your shopping, the less time you spend in the store, the less money you will spend.
Keeping your lettuce fresh at home and not needing to go to the store to buy more when it spoils before you finish eating it, will save you money. It will add up enough for you to notice after a while, as long as you don't squander your savings on something you don't really need. I hope you will use your savings to buy something for emergency preparedness.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Organize Your Shelves And Supplies
There is something about New Years that makes people want to change their lives for the better and get organized. I am no exception to this. My home is all torn up in an attempt to get better organized.
One of my favorite methods of trying to get better organized is to put like items or items for the same activity into a container together. I also like to label it all so I don't have to look through a lot of containers to find something.
I especially like Olde English Text Labels. Yeah. Yeah. I know they can slow you down reading them a little. But they look so incredibly beautiful on little labels on things. I just can't resist them. I especially like them in the kitchen.
They seem to be a standard font in Microsoft Office.
Here is a fairly painless way to organize your spices:
You need a bigger container that the spice bottles will fit into. I use old plastic ice cream buckets. They have a nice little handle to carry them with.
1) Pick out spices that you use for the same kind of cooking. I put all of my main dish spices together, all of the side dish spices, and dessert spices together in the same bucket.
2) Make labels for each bucket. I like to use a large font in bold for the side of the spice buckets.
3) Get some clear tape, wide tape is easier. Cut off the tape so the piece is longer than the label. I like enough over lap so the tape will stick easily to the bucket beyond the edges of the label.
4) Stick the tape over the label so that the label is covered. Leave some tape exposed around the edges of the label.
5) Stick the label with the tape over it onto the bucket.
6) Admire your new wipe off somewhat waterproof label on your spice bucket.
I also like to put herbal teas together in a bucket. You can also make a bucket tea kit with whatever you need to make yourself tea, in it.
It is also helpful to put a list of what is on each shelf on the cabinet door across from the shelf. You can mark off things as you use them. This makes it much easier to restock as needed, so you don't get caught short on something important during an emergency. It is easy to make a shopping list by looking at your cabinet doors.
If you want to get even more organized, you can input your supplies into a spreadsheet and use that to generate shopping lists and keep track of how fast you use different items.
One of my favorite methods of trying to get better organized is to put like items or items for the same activity into a container together. I also like to label it all so I don't have to look through a lot of containers to find something.
I especially like Olde English Text Labels. Yeah. Yeah. I know they can slow you down reading them a little. But they look so incredibly beautiful on little labels on things. I just can't resist them. I especially like them in the kitchen.
They seem to be a standard font in Microsoft Office.
Here is a fairly painless way to organize your spices:
You need a bigger container that the spice bottles will fit into. I use old plastic ice cream buckets. They have a nice little handle to carry them with.
1) Pick out spices that you use for the same kind of cooking. I put all of my main dish spices together, all of the side dish spices, and dessert spices together in the same bucket.
2) Make labels for each bucket. I like to use a large font in bold for the side of the spice buckets.
3) Get some clear tape, wide tape is easier. Cut off the tape so the piece is longer than the label. I like enough over lap so the tape will stick easily to the bucket beyond the edges of the label.
4) Stick the tape over the label so that the label is covered. Leave some tape exposed around the edges of the label.
5) Stick the label with the tape over it onto the bucket.
6) Admire your new wipe off somewhat waterproof label on your spice bucket.
I also like to put herbal teas together in a bucket. You can also make a bucket tea kit with whatever you need to make yourself tea, in it.
It is also helpful to put a list of what is on each shelf on the cabinet door across from the shelf. You can mark off things as you use them. This makes it much easier to restock as needed, so you don't get caught short on something important during an emergency. It is easy to make a shopping list by looking at your cabinet doors.
If you want to get even more organized, you can input your supplies into a spreadsheet and use that to generate shopping lists and keep track of how fast you use different items.
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Build On What You Have To Get Food Storage
Apologies for not posting yesterday. There was a power outage and I was not able to post. I decided to do the one for last night now.
It can be very discouraging when you have a big job to do and you don't have enough money to do it all. This applies to preparedness.
When you first realize that you want to be prepared for emergencies, the size of your task can overwhelm you. The beginning stage of preparedness usually means you find out about the expensive way to prepare for emergencies. There are usually cheaper ways to do just about anything. That is also true for preparedness. Finding ways to save money on preparedness does not mean inferior quality.
You can save a lot of money on preparedness by investing a little bit of your time. Your time investment can mean you will have a better quality item than is available at any price. This is not always true, but it often is.
It is possible to build up money for the purchase of more expensive preparedness items. An example of how I did this was with savings on my power bill. I bought compact fluorescent light bulbs to replace regular light bulbs as I could afford them. This lowered my power bill every month.
The money saved from lower power bills went to equipment to do laundry by hand. Doing my laundry by hand saved me more money which went to items to save even more money and so on.
You living costs will probably be different from what mine were back then. You will have to take a look at your living costs and find where you can pry some savings out of them to get started. You will also need to plan the best place to invest those savings for the next tier of money saving and the ones after those.
Food costs are a common expense that modern people often spend too much on. Many of the most costly items in a food budget are the least healthy or nutritious. Examples of this are soda pop, junk food, and take out foods. You will probably be shocked at how much healthy food you can buy for what you spend on the examples I just mentioned.
Other bad habits besides food cost many people a lot of money they could use in better ways. Cigarettes or other forms of tobacco, or other kinds of recreational drugs are a real drain on a budget.
Candy and other sweets are usually very expensive on a pound for pound comparison to regular, healthy food.
Entertainment can be a huge drain on many budgets. Chances are very low that you will actually die if you do not immediately buy the latest music of your favorite singer. This is also true for seeing the latest movie by your favorite movie star or director.
Some of the vices that might have to be reined in can be things that seem innocent, unless taken to extremes. Expensive shoes or clothes, tools, jewelry, books, collections or redecorating often, can all sink a budget and make emergency preparedness impossible.
Sometimes you have to hold off on getting what you want right now to have something better or more important. Preparedness for emergencies is something better and more important to do right now. It is possible that waiting for what you want will save your life during the next emergency.
It can be very discouraging when you have a big job to do and you don't have enough money to do it all. This applies to preparedness.
When you first realize that you want to be prepared for emergencies, the size of your task can overwhelm you. The beginning stage of preparedness usually means you find out about the expensive way to prepare for emergencies. There are usually cheaper ways to do just about anything. That is also true for preparedness. Finding ways to save money on preparedness does not mean inferior quality.
You can save a lot of money on preparedness by investing a little bit of your time. Your time investment can mean you will have a better quality item than is available at any price. This is not always true, but it often is.
It is possible to build up money for the purchase of more expensive preparedness items. An example of how I did this was with savings on my power bill. I bought compact fluorescent light bulbs to replace regular light bulbs as I could afford them. This lowered my power bill every month.
The money saved from lower power bills went to equipment to do laundry by hand. Doing my laundry by hand saved me more money which went to items to save even more money and so on.
You living costs will probably be different from what mine were back then. You will have to take a look at your living costs and find where you can pry some savings out of them to get started. You will also need to plan the best place to invest those savings for the next tier of money saving and the ones after those.
Food costs are a common expense that modern people often spend too much on. Many of the most costly items in a food budget are the least healthy or nutritious. Examples of this are soda pop, junk food, and take out foods. You will probably be shocked at how much healthy food you can buy for what you spend on the examples I just mentioned.
Other bad habits besides food cost many people a lot of money they could use in better ways. Cigarettes or other forms of tobacco, or other kinds of recreational drugs are a real drain on a budget.
Candy and other sweets are usually very expensive on a pound for pound comparison to regular, healthy food.
Entertainment can be a huge drain on many budgets. Chances are very low that you will actually die if you do not immediately buy the latest music of your favorite singer. This is also true for seeing the latest movie by your favorite movie star or director.
Some of the vices that might have to be reined in can be things that seem innocent, unless taken to extremes. Expensive shoes or clothes, tools, jewelry, books, collections or redecorating often, can all sink a budget and make emergency preparedness impossible.
Sometimes you have to hold off on getting what you want right now to have something better or more important. Preparedness for emergencies is something better and more important to do right now. It is possible that waiting for what you want will save your life during the next emergency.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Making Up Your Mind To Survive In Tough Times
It is very easy to postpone decisions and actions until later. That includes emergency preparedness. There are a lot more people who think about getting prepared for emergencies than there are people who are actually ready for an emergency when it comes.
You could have the rest of your life to regret not being prepared for an emergency, once you are in the middle of that emergency. The worst part of it, not being prepared when an emergency hits you could mean the rest of your life would be a very short time. You could die because you are not prepared.
Life in our modern times can be very stressful. That stress can make it hard for you to make decisions. I have had that problem myself. There is a tool that I use, and have shared in previous blog posts. It is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
I drew my own diagram of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, so there will be no problem about bothering someone else's copyright for it. I would appreciate it, if you print it out to use, that you will keep my copyright information on it, please.
Here it is:
The use of this diagram can help you to focus on your most immediate survival needs first.
You could have the rest of your life to regret not being prepared for an emergency, once you are in the middle of that emergency. The worst part of it, not being prepared when an emergency hits you could mean the rest of your life would be a very short time. You could die because you are not prepared.
Life in our modern times can be very stressful. That stress can make it hard for you to make decisions. I have had that problem myself. There is a tool that I use, and have shared in previous blog posts. It is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
I drew my own diagram of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, so there will be no problem about bothering someone else's copyright for it. I would appreciate it, if you print it out to use, that you will keep my copyright information on it, please.
Here it is:
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| Copyright 2012 Yvonne Begley |
I believe that climate change emergencies will become increasingly common as time passes. One of those is the drought that hit most of the connected 48 states of the USA. The drought this year includes almost all of the most productive farmland in the country.
We can expect food production to become more and more difficult as climate change continues.
I hope that you and your family will work on your emergency preparedness. I hope that you will be ready when the next emergency comes to your area.
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Surviving Different Kinds Of Disasters
Some of my posts talk about different kinds of disasters and how to prepare for them. There are a lot of similarities in the preparations that you need to make to survive different kinds of disasters. Volcanic ash fall will have a few differences from preparedness for a tornado, however.
You need to know what kinds of specific disasters are likely to happen where you are. We all need to prepare for disasters in general and we need to prepare for the specific disasters that happen in our area.
I already posted about most types of disasters in earlier posts. I provided links to agencies that cover specific disasters in great depth. They have everything you need to know about the kinds of disasters that your area gets most often.
I will do post links again to agencies that cover all the specific kinds of disasters like hurricanes and mudslides, and what you need to do to be prepared for them. I do not plan to write entire posts again about most specific kinds of disasters. I will see about making it easier for you to find my earlier posts, though.
I will do new posts about earthquakes. New information has been made available that changes what is considered best to help you survive an earthquake.
I hope you will study the sites that tell you more about what you need to do to prepare to survive the disasters in your area. Everyone needs to prepare for nuclear disasters, no matter where you live.
Here is a link to the Red Cross for basic family preparedness. You can see more information on the site.
http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.d8aaecf214c576bf971e4cfe43181aa0/?vgnextoid=72c51a53f1c37110VgnVCM1000003481a10aRCRD&vgnextfmt=default
Here is Red Cross Information about earthquakes:
http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.53fabf6cc033f17a2b1ecfbf43181aa0/?vgnextoid=6f461c99b5ccb110VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD&currPage=13cbb969ae282210VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD
If you look along the left side of this page you will see a list of links to pages about different kinds of disasters.
Find and study all of the kinds of disasters that are likely to happen in your area. Most of them probably have links to PDFs about how to prepare for that type of disaster. You might want to print out those PDFs or at least take notes.
Here is a link to a PDF of an earthquake safety checklist by the Red Cross:
http://www.redcross.org/www-files/Documents/pdf/Preparedness/checklists/Earthquake.pdf
There is some controversy about earthquake safety. It is about the idea of the "triangle of life", an idea that has been discredited in the USA. Drop, cover and hold on has the numbers of expert supporters. I am going with, "drop, cover and hold on". Here is a link to a site that tells about this. http://www.earthquakesolutions.com/id44.html
Here is a link to a Red Cross page that tells you how to prepare for a chemical or radiation disaster. I think you need to know a lot more than this, but it is a place to start.
My earlier posts include a link to an entire book that you can download for free that tells you in great detail how to prepare for a nuclear disaster. There is also a link to a site that tells you how to make a "computer" out of paper, cardboard and plastic to calculate the effects of a nuclear blast. This blog has a post with a diagram I made of really basic stuff about what happens in a nuclear blast on this blog.
There are a whole lot of posts on this blog about nukes and nuclear disaster preparedness for you and your family. This is stuff you need to know. I hope you use it so that you can be safer.
You need to know what kinds of specific disasters are likely to happen where you are. We all need to prepare for disasters in general and we need to prepare for the specific disasters that happen in our area.
I already posted about most types of disasters in earlier posts. I provided links to agencies that cover specific disasters in great depth. They have everything you need to know about the kinds of disasters that your area gets most often.
I will do post links again to agencies that cover all the specific kinds of disasters like hurricanes and mudslides, and what you need to do to be prepared for them. I do not plan to write entire posts again about most specific kinds of disasters. I will see about making it easier for you to find my earlier posts, though.
I will do new posts about earthquakes. New information has been made available that changes what is considered best to help you survive an earthquake.
I hope you will study the sites that tell you more about what you need to do to prepare to survive the disasters in your area. Everyone needs to prepare for nuclear disasters, no matter where you live.
Here is a link to the Red Cross for basic family preparedness. You can see more information on the site.
http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.d8aaecf214c576bf971e4cfe43181aa0/?vgnextoid=72c51a53f1c37110VgnVCM1000003481a10aRCRD&vgnextfmt=default
Here is Red Cross Information about earthquakes:
http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.53fabf6cc033f17a2b1ecfbf43181aa0/?vgnextoid=6f461c99b5ccb110VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD&currPage=13cbb969ae282210VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD
If you look along the left side of this page you will see a list of links to pages about different kinds of disasters.
Find and study all of the kinds of disasters that are likely to happen in your area. Most of them probably have links to PDFs about how to prepare for that type of disaster. You might want to print out those PDFs or at least take notes.
Here is a link to a PDF of an earthquake safety checklist by the Red Cross:
http://www.redcross.org/www-files/Documents/pdf/Preparedness/checklists/Earthquake.pdf
There is some controversy about earthquake safety. It is about the idea of the "triangle of life", an idea that has been discredited in the USA. Drop, cover and hold on has the numbers of expert supporters. I am going with, "drop, cover and hold on". Here is a link to a site that tells about this. http://www.earthquakesolutions.com/id44.html
Here is a link to a Red Cross page that tells you how to prepare for a chemical or radiation disaster. I think you need to know a lot more than this, but it is a place to start.
My earlier posts include a link to an entire book that you can download for free that tells you in great detail how to prepare for a nuclear disaster. There is also a link to a site that tells you how to make a "computer" out of paper, cardboard and plastic to calculate the effects of a nuclear blast. This blog has a post with a diagram I made of really basic stuff about what happens in a nuclear blast on this blog.
There are a whole lot of posts on this blog about nukes and nuclear disaster preparedness for you and your family. This is stuff you need to know. I hope you use it so that you can be safer.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Search Engines For Disaster Preparedness
Some of the readers who have found their way to my blog have used search terms that show they do not know how to look up preparedness items, like food. This is one of the most important uses of your computer for preparedness. I already posted a while back on the subject of computers for preparedness. This time I am going to post about search engines for preparedness.
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You do not need to know much about computers or even the internet to use a search engine to find preparedness food and other disaster supplies. You do need to be able to figure out words to put into your browser to get the items you are looking for to show up on your monitor screen.
You do not need complete sentences when you are looking for something on the internet. Complete sentences can actually be a hindrance in your search. A complete sentence can have the search engine looking up millions of appearances of the word "and", for example. This slows down the results and gives you a lot of useless information.
An example of what you don't want in your search is: "Where can I find disaster supplies?" Below is a screen shot of a search with that sentence. Notice that you got almost 5 1/2 million results. You probably don't want to spend the time to look at 5 1/2 million search engine results.
Worse yet, the top results page are probably going to be very expensive. If you need to stretch your emergency preparedness budget, buying cute little disaster kits all packed into an attractive box is not the way to go. That kit will not be tailored to your individual needs and will cost much more than you picking out what you want in your emergency supplies. This does not mean that you cannot use anything on the results page, however. It won't hurt to compare items and prices.
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