Making the Best of Basics
by James Talmage Stevens
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Twenty years ago, Making the Best of Basics -- Family Preparedness Handbook became the family preparedness bible for a generation. The '90s have brought their own litany of worries -- company downsizings, severe hurricanes and winter storms, flooding, government shutdowns -- that make in-home storage an attractive proposition again. The recently updated and expanded Ninth Edition of Making the Best of Basics is designed for the urban family. It offers a manageable and effective plan for show more accumulating, storing, and utilizing an in-home supply of food and other essentials to support a family in a near-normal manner for one year. Basics includes-- recipes for using stored foods, -- a section on common storage problems and solutions, -- lists of sources for storage items, -- charts to help you determine what and how much you need, as well as chapters on storing and using essentials such as water, wheat, fruits and vegetables, and fuel.-- Over 350,000 copies of earlier editions sold.-- This single volume tells you what to store, how to store it, and how to use it.-- Basics' unique "Family Factor" makes determining storage quandties easy. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Making the Best of Basics
- Original publication date
- 1974-02
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- Once upon a time there was an old man who loved to listen to the striking of his grandfather clock. He enjoyed it so much, in fact, that he kept it in his bedroom against the far wall. After retiring each night, he would lie ... (show all)in his bed, half-awake, listening to the striking of the clock. Whenever the clock struck, he would sleepily count the chimes. One night something went wrong with the clock's mechanism. It began to strike and he began to count. He counted to ten, eleven, twelve...then thirteen!...fourteen!...fifteen!... Suddenly he realized something had gone wrong and he was immediately wide awake. He reached over, shook his wife, and said, "Wake up, Ma! It's later than I've ever knowed it to be!"
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- English
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