
Archive for ' Personal Finances'
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!
“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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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! [...]



















