Archive for ' Personal Finances'

INSTANT SURVIVAL TIP:  A simple step to bring you financial peace of mind Posted:July 30, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

INSTANT SURVIVAL TIP: A simple step to bring you financial peace of mind

If your family is facing a tough economic future due to a job loss, have you ever thought of paying ahead on your utility bills?  By adding extra money to your payments for water and power [...]

INSTANT SURVIVAL TIP:  Cash is king! Posted:June 28, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

INSTANT SURVIVAL TIP: Cash is king!

“Cash is king!,” a Chicago native told my husband one day.  I hadn’t heard the term before but considering that our friend’s family was reputed to have ties to the mob, I wasn’t surprised. I’ve thought [...]

Survival Survey:  The Debt Question Posted:June 03, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: The Debt Question

A few days ago I posted a few suggestions for preparing for the coming apocalypse, however you define ‘apocalypse’.  One of them was to become debt-free.  My reasoning is that having very little, or no, debt [...]

Buying gold – Is it better than saving? Posted:May 06, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Buying gold – Is it better than saving?

Guest post by Nicholas Boyle In the current financial climate, many people are giving a lot of thought to how they should use their money. Some are happy to carry on as normal, but others may [...]

Safeguard Your Income With a Back-Up Plan Posted:March 17, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Safeguard Your Income With a Back-Up Plan

Many years ago, a friend of mine made a comment I’ve never forgotten. “Every woman should have at least two different ways she can earn money.” Now that the economy has tightened up and many families [...]

Survival Survey: A Home-Based Business for TEOTWAWKI Posted:January 21, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: A Home-Based Business for TEOTWAWKI

This topic was suggested by Kiri who blogs at Springing Into Action. If you could start a simple, home-based business today that would provide a product or service that might be in demand when the stuff [...]

The Basics of Precious Metals, Part 2 Posted:December 28, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

The Basics of Precious Metals, Part 2

This is Part 2 in an interview with Chris Slife, President of Howling Coyote Silver.  If you have questions for Chris, email them to lisa @ thesurvivalmom. com, and I’ll post his answers. Q:  Will the [...]

The Basics of Precious Metals, an Interview with Chris Slife, Part 1 Posted:December 26, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

The Basics of Precious Metals, an Interview with Chris Slife, Part 1

If you have other questions for Chris, send them to me at lisa@thesurvivalmom.com. We live in a crazy, crazy world and one that doesn’t seem ready to return to normal any time soon.  In fact, we [...]

INSTANT SURVIVAL TIP: The Ideal Home-Based Business May Be a Blog Posted:October 13, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

INSTANT SURVIVAL TIP: The Ideal Home-Based Business May Be a Blog

I’ll bet you think I was born knowing all about blogging.  You probably think that putting this blog together was a piece of cake and that I did it blindfolded.  No?  Well, you’re right!  In the [...]

Many streams make a mighty fine income Posted:August 23, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

Many streams make a mighty fine income

It’s true.  Great minds really do think alike.  I’ve been tossing around ideas for an article on financial survival and developing streams of income when I see that Ferfal of Surviving Argentina beat me to it! [...]