@Amy Dixon – thank you so much for the link!
@Loving Life – exactly – I agree. You need to fit in and have a community. I believe that, too. However, I live in a neighborhood with both drug dealers as well as some other people who have expressed disapproval of people who have more than they do and actually voice their opinion that that “more” might just belong to them in certain cases. I won’t say more. Due to some rather complicated circumstances, we do not have the option of moving at the moment, so it is important for us to look as much as possible like everyone else (economically, that is), and to be friends with my neighbors, if at all possible. I also try to make it a point to share with those that are truly in need (rides for those without a car, small loans, eggs to a family with children that has run out of SNAP, etc.) without revealing that we have food storage, and in the hope of encouraging community. I need to do better in that area. Right now, however, people on SNAP do not seem to want anything to do with beans and rice anyway, because I have offered it in the past and been turned down. We do each have our own circumstances and need to use wisdom to discern what our actions should be.
Jan. 5 – I worked like crazy so I can take Sunday off. Daughter drug every last piece of clothing out of her closet and laid it on the daybed with the hidden storage so she can get rid of at least half of it. That is the goal anyway. Husband bought some bottled water for water storage. It fit perfectly under the daybed, so I changed my mind and decided that under the daybed will be our water storage. I can get at least 40 or more gallons under there with nobody the wiser for it.
Jan. 6 – Most of the day at church along with traveling back and forth, then visited Dad in nursing home. Spending the evening working on the 2019 goals and trying to arrange work so it’s all done before daughter’s surgery on Thursday.