The site is great and truly does make it simple and it keeps it organized too which is hugely important to me. I want to have everything mapped out on paper and not just random foods stocked in my house here and there. I'm going to posting my progress (slow as it may be).
Step 1: Food storage space. Done-- I've got closet in a spare bedroom. What I still need to acquire is a deep freezer.....
Step 2: Water storage. For our family of 4 we are supposed to have about 30 gallons of water. I've been filling up cleaned juice/soda bottles over the past 2 years and filling them with water to store in my garage. It was time for my yearly water rotation so we dumped them all out on my dying lawn:
To my dismay I found that about 1 out of every 5 of them had some mold stuff growing in the top. Yuck!
I learned that it is best to use a bleach solution to clean the bottles out (not just dish soap) and I also learned that I can't store them in the heat of the garage nor fill them up with the hose (the hose has chemicals).
So now they are all stored on the bottom Shelf of my closet. Rotating that much water every year in such small containers is going to be a PAIN so I think next year when it is time for rotation I'll just buy 10 3-gallon containers of water from the store.
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Here you can buy a 50 gallon container with a little pump to pump it out. That is the way to do it!
Our water has been in our barrels for quite a few years now. Who knows what sort of stuff we're growing in there. :-) You sure have some cute helpers with your storage stuff!
maybe you dont want ALL small containers but just a few incase you have to move the water...since it gets heavy fast.
I am saving pennies for my christmas gift one of these....drool
http://www.htistore.com/lifesaverbottle4000.aspx
yep that would be fabulous to see under the tree
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