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When I was really young, my father was out of work for almost an entire year, and we lived off of the year's supply that my parents had stored. (My mother really knows how to cook the basics!)

We had never imagined we would have to really use what we had stored. But now we remember that time with such gratitude for having saved enough to provide for ourselves while he was trying to find another job.

If you can make yourself even a little bit more self reliant, during difficult times you can save your own sanity by not feeling too dependent on others. By providing for your own basic needs, your emotional needs are not as jeopardized.