Bruce David, Acting Director/Co-Founder

Message from the Founder

   There’s no “one size fits all” solution to survival during challenging times. “Things” don’t matter all that much. It’s nice to have toys and gadgets, but toys can be replaced and we can still enjoy life without owning every new gadget.

Our group was founded in 1998 as a means of creating our own support group if you will…the goal was to ALWAYS be prepared in terms of stocking up, debt reduction, self employment and more.

When times get hard and finances are tight it can be tough to figure out how you are going to survive month to month, pay your bills, and put food on the table. The following are some good tips for preparing yourself for hard times, and surviving them when they hit.  These are things you can do on a daily basis to make surviving hard times much easier.

I invite you to visit our sister site too, which offers a ton more DIY information (site address below).  Each site is maintained by a volunteer staff.

One of the most important parts of surviving hard times is having food to eat, and ways to feed yourself and your children. With the economy starting to decline, and with foreign trade prices increasing, we are seeing a rise in grocery prices. Most experts agree that the food prices are not going to go down, and may even increase as much as double in the next few years. In order to help yourself survive some tough times, and to be able to feed your family with high grocery prices, it is a good idea to stick up on non-perishable items, and store some food in your home.

 You can start small and buy a few extra items each time you go to the store. If you are worried you have no place to store extra food, consider using spaces like under the bed. You can fit hundreds of pounds of rice, beans, tuna, etc. in the space under the bed, and should you barely have enough money to make your bills, you will be grateful to have that food under there. Think about the foods you like to eat, and stock up on anything that is non-perishable.

Aside for the need everyone seems to have for more time, we all need extra cash too.  You’ll find some resources referenced here and elsewhere on our sites.

Work from Home

The first is www.NARMS.com.  Quite a few of these are Independent Contractor jobs, but they do also post management jobs there as well. The management are  positions you might want to apply for. These are usually human resource as well as management positions and experience in merchandising is preferred.

The second is www.arise.com this is a customer service group. They basically hire people to work from home doing customer service calls for major companies. My understanding is that they pay $10-$14 per hour, and you will need to have a land line phone and an internet connection. You can set your own hours, but they do request a certain number of hours a week.

If you have resources you’d like to include, please send them to us at:

minimalistgroup@yahoo.com

Yours for better living,

Bruce David, Acting Director

Our sister site offering many DIY resources, job resources & more.

www.poormansurvival.com

Excellent Money Saving Resource Site

http://www.tiphero.com/newsletter.html&lpid=1?gclid=CImA76bysZoCFRIcawodRjvGcA