Dealing With Hard Times
We at OurDayShopping.com encourage people to have a few months’ worth of money put aside for living expenses and also stock up to at least a one-year supply of food for emergencies and hard times. We offer food and supplies to help you with this goal.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon) have handouts, classes and a Web site that describes ways to prepare, store and cook with emergency food supplies so nothing goes to waste. I hope you will check out their site and ours to help you with your plans. Use this link to learn more about growing a garden.
If you don’t have a traditional garden plot, you can plant vegetables and herbs in containers that fit on driveways, balconies, roofs, and even window sills. This activity can be interesting and rewarding for adults and children alike. The following resources provide useful information about gardening in containers.
| Links to Gardening Web Sites *Note: The following links are not to official Church publications, but are provided as additional resource material. |
This Web site offers gardening how-to advice from the experts, a pest control library, gardening articles, and free newsletters. The site also features a children’s gardening section, recipes, and garden research.
On this site, read what other gardeners are saying about common gardening topics in the garden forum, find answers to your gardening questions in the Q&A section, browse the glossary of botanical terms, and learn from a list of frequently asked questions.
http://www.garden.org/ediblelandscaping/
http://www.garden.org/celebratingtheseasons/
Here are some additional gardening Web sites:
Food for Everyone Foundation FAQ
U.S. Dept of Agriculture – Home Gardening Section
Social and emotional self-reliance is an important part of the gospel plan. No one is immune from the challenges in this life. When social or emotional problems arise, counsel and support from family members, Church leaders, and other qualified individuals can often be helpful in becoming self-reliant.
LDS Family Services
This will take you to the LDS Family Services Web page.
Ten Common Challenges Facing Families
Library of Helpful Information
Working together makes it easier to accomplish our personal goals. Knowing we are not alone makes us less anxious about our future as well. We need to help those who are less fortunate than us in preparing for the future. In an emergency or a crisis, people will remember how you helped them and will be less likely to do something they would not normally do. This makes your community safer and more functionable in a crisis.
Use the citizens of New York City in the aftermath of September 11th, 2001 as an example of communities working together in a crisis; this making the reality easier to handle. We have the power within us to do this when we have a change in mindset. Everyone has the ability to think outside of themselves to help someone in trouble.
We all have encouragement and hugs to share, and the ability to make our environment more acceptable in a bad situation. It is up to each individual and as a group to put aside our own comfort to think of others. If we choose not to do so, it is hard to imagine at this time the results of that choice.
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