About this product: Always Be Prepared What if your life was disrupted by a natural disaster, food or water supply contamination, or any other type of emergency? Do you have the essentials for you and your family? Do you have a plan in the event that your power, telephone, water and food supply are cut off for an extended amount of time? What if there were no medical or pharmaceutical services available for days, weeks, or months? How prepared are you? With this guide by your side, you and your family will learn how to plan, purchase, and store a three-month supply of all the necessities—food, water, fuel, first-aid supplies, clothing, bedding, and more—simply and economically. In other words, this book may be a lifesaver. Inside you'll find 10 steps to an affordable food storage program plus how to: ·Prepare a home "grocery store" and "pharmacy" ·Use what you store and store what you use ·Store water safely and provide for sanitation needs ·Create a first-aid kit, car kit, and 72-hour emergency kit for the whole family ·And many more invaluable hints and tips "This clear, concise, step-by-step program is not only affordable and doable, it's essential in these uncertain times. Now, everyone from apartment dwellers to basement owners can store a three-month supply of the essentials, including peace of mind!" — Joni Hilton, author of Once-a-Week Cooking Plan and Cooking Secrets My Mother Never Taught Me
About this product: A complete guide to emergency preparedness for our uncertain times. Virtually an encyclopedia of food storage and personal preparedness, it covers topics from exactly how to design a food storage program tailored for your particular family to growing and preserving food, storing fuel, alternate energy, emergency evacuation kits, medical and dental, surviving biological, chemical and nuclear terrorism, communications, selection of firearms and other survival tools, and preparing for earthquakes.
Dozens of detailed, expert checklists and tables with photographs and index. Extensive book and resource lists with regular and Internet addresses. An absolute must for those serious about preparing for and surviving during our dangerous times.
About this product: Anyone can learn to store fruits and vegetables safely and naturally with a cool, dark space (even a closet!) and the step-by-step advice in this book.
About this product: A do-it-yourself guide to designing, building, and maintaining water tanks, cisterns and ponds, and sustainably managing groundwater storage. It will help you with your independent water system, fire protection, and disaster preparedness, at low cost and using principles of ecological design. Includes building instructions for several styles of ferro cement water tanks.
About this product: If two or more people live under the same roof, chances are they're vying for storage space — no matter how large the home or how few their belongings. This book has the answers. With hundreds of color photos and drawings, Taunton's Home Storage Idea Book is filled with loads of creative ideas and flexible solutions to home storage challenges — in every room of the house.
Away with plain plastic boxes and utilitarian metal filing cabinets! With a little inspiration in the form of unusual containers and furnishings, storage also has style. And, for an imaginative showcase of solutions, Country Living is the best place to go. Storage Style presents smart, fun ideas from the most welcoming homes anywhere—clever tricks for organizing that infuse rooms with personality, wit, and flair. For example, a vintage dollhouse attached to a kitchen wall becomes a charming, unexpected spice rack. A lift-top pine trunk topped with a cushion masquerades as a window seat—and serves as a perfect hiding place for board games, toys, and other bric-a-brac. Or try classic country baskets, armoires, and more. These space-saving, clutter-camouflaging design schemes shout “pretty” with understated practicality.
This developer’s guide for designers and programmers of mass-storage devices that use the Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface provides developers with information on how to choose storage media, interface the media to a microcontroller or other CPU, and write device firmware to access the media and perform USB communications. Comparisons of popular storage-media options to help users choose a media type for a project are included, and the types described cover hard drives and flash-memory cards such as the MultiMediaCard (MMC), Secure Digital (SD) card, and CompactFlash card. Helpful tips on developing an embedded host that can access USB mass-storage devices are also covered.
About this product: Got a minute? That's all it takes to conquer clutter! Organizing guru Donna Smallin offers hundreds of quick tips for storing all your household items.
The latest in Storey's best-selling One Minute Organizer series, The One-Minute Organizer A to Z Storage Solutions offers practical advice based on the time-tested principle that everything — absolutely everything — has its place.
From airline tickets to X-rays, Smallin suggests handy ways of organizing common household items neatly, and in a way that makes the items easy to find. Her idea of "storage" goes far beyond baskets and plastic bins; with her help, readers will not only be able to keep their household items from piling up on the kitchen counter, they will also be able to find everything they need in a matter of seconds. Smallin tackles some of the most vexing clutter — children's artwork, receipts, holiday decorations, and mismatched socks.
Her tips are at once creative and commonsense — like storing earrings in ice cube trays, one set per cube, or investing in furniture that can double as storage units.
Items are presented alphabetically for easy reference and browsing, and the book's colorful, quick-read format makes it both practical and fun. To help readers who are new to a clutter-free lifestyle, Smallin also includes some basic timetested organizing principles — like discarding old items as you acquire new ones, and donating items that haven't been used in more than a year. Every page brings even the most clutter challenged reader closer to a more ordered life.
With the help of this concise, no-nonsense reference, readers will enjoy more time and less mess. Best of all, they'll also be able to find that take-out menu, spare tube of toothpaste, and ever-elusive matching sock, every time.
About this product: A key resource for self-storage operators to make more money in the ownership of self-storage. Derek Naylor of Storage marketing solutions, says it best: "RK nails the right idea on the cover of this thought-provoking and insightful book. As the self-storage industry becomes more competitive, operators need to focus on more than just collecting monthly rent from their customers in order to thrive. Th ere are very few people that I would recommend to advise you on this subject, after reading this book, RK is one of them. Th e fact is, you can make more money in self-storage and this book is an excellent guide for you to do so." - Derek M. Naylor, President, Storage Marketing Solutions Visit www.h2mmm.com and order Volume 2, How To Make MORE Money In Self-Storage!