2024 Changes for LFTN - Ep 826

Today, as promised, we will talk about what is changing as we move into next year, the why, as well as our usual Monday segments.

Featured Event: LFTN Spring Workshop - April 25-27, 2024

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Livestream Schedule

Tuesday Live, 12:30PM Central, Nicole Sauce and John Willis welcome Porterhouse!

Friday Homestead Happenings, 9:30am Central

Sunday: Monetizing Sunshine - Join us for an INTERVENTION with Willow to help her monetize what she does best - spreading Sunshine. I will be joined by a mastermind panel: Toolman tim Cook, Brian Aleksivich, Kerry Brown and 

TORNADO UPDATE

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• We fit 2.5 cows in the freezer by playing freezer tetris - yolink
• Pulled a PILE OF MEAT OUT for this week to stay on plan despite the ongoing construction chaos
• Crockpot roast: onion, garlic, cumin, 1 jar tomato sauce, salt and pepper. Add carrots 4 hours before finish or if you fumble that ball, precook them and add them in

Weekly Shopping Report

12/11/2023

We took our usual trip on Saturday. It was a rather gloomy day, but not truly yucky, and we stayed dry. Traffic was light.
Dollar Tree was first. The coolers (food and drink) are all in decent shape, as though perhaps an effort is being made. The store has become a LOT busier over the past few weeks, and three cashiers were open. Amidst the junk, there are some good finds here. Feel free to listen to Jinne on her "Homestead Corner" YouTube channel; she often does budget Dollar Tree prepper hauls.
Home Depot was second. FYI, they will shake your own paint cans for you, and I don't think there's a charge. The tag was missing in the store, but looking online it looks like a 2x4x8 has gone up 7 cents to $3.25.
Aldi was last. We found everything we wanted, but the chocolate is dwindling again. We got the last small piece of Atlantic Salmon, but the cashier said they were expecting a truck. There were some price adjustments. Staple prices were: milk: $3.02, eggs: $1.66, heavy cream: $4.69, OJ: $3.29, butter: $2.99 (-), bacon: $4.25, potatoes: $3.99 (+), sugar: $3.09, four: $1.99, 80% ground beef: $4.19.
A gallon of untainted regular gasoline is $3.699.
I made a quick second trip to Walgreen's on Sunday to restock vitamin C; somehow our last bottle was nearly empty. FYI, they typically have BOGO deals on vitamins and supplements, or buy one at full price, and the second is half price. The C was BOGO, so we now have a couple years' worth, for around $21. There were holes here and there for certain brands or sizes of various vitamins and supplements, but overall the selection looked complete.

Frugality Tip: none this week

Operation Independence

Poverty Mindset, Project Fatigue, and the color of my floor

Main topic of the Show: 2024 Changes for LFTN

No - I am not pregnant LOL

Remember my epiphany from this year's word: Breakthrough? Do Less

Healthier Nicole: fitness, family, food, time, Home

With that in mind and having tapped into some of the data for the podcast, your comments and interactions on social media, email requests and more, I realized that 2024 has to bring some changes so here they are:

LFTN, the podcast and show

1. Tuesday Lives will Become a Stand Alone Podcast
2. 3 shows a week on a schedule, Monday 2pm, Wednesday 2pm, Friday. 9:30am
3. Tactical will join me weekly - sometimes one or the other will be solo
4. Focus and topics: building freedom as an agorist, homesteading life and how to, community, creating success
5. Weekly Mail and marketing/clerical help
6. Increase Playfulness - or rather return to it, New shorts series
7. Clarity on affiliate promotions

THE HOMESTEAD

Refocusing on the things we love most

Building the event center where Tactical lives

Acquiring more land

Collaboration with Dawn Gorham, Homegrown Cooking: Cooking from snout to tail, video based, membership, etc.

SRF and LFTN Spring Workshop (EVENT PLANNER?)

Fewer speaking engagements - why

THE BOOK - an update

Project Accelerators and Mastermind

Holler Roast Coffee - to the moon! (SELL IT?)

Membership

Membership schedule for the year - 12 webinars, not monthly

New value ads, youtube subscriptions

Rental properties (SELL IT?)

Make it a great week!

GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. 

Community

• Follow me on Nostr: npub1u2vu695j5wfnxsxpwpth2jnzwxx5fat7vc63eth07dez9arnrezsdeafsv
• Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
• Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup
• Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b

Resources

• Membership Sign Up

• Holler Roast Coffee

• Harvest Right Affiliate Link