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Many of us have resolved to trim our budgets and fatten our wallets, well in our house we have, and I am sure you have at least looked into doing the same too.
If you are one of the millions of Americans who seek to cut costs, an effective way is to consider shopping for some items used. I promise they are not gross items like your grandma’s flower sofa!
Not only will you be saving money, you will be conserving natural resources. Here are eight items you should always purchase used.
Bonus: How to Make Pemmican, the Original Survival Food
Invented by the natives of North America pemmican was used by Indian scouts as well as early western explorers.
Native Americans spent a great deal of time on the go and depended on having portable, high-energy, highly nutritious, and filling foods that would last for long periods of time without refrigeration.
Pemmican is a portable, long-lasting, high-energy food. It's made of lean, dried meat that's crushed into powder and mixed with hot, rendered fat. This makes it one of the ultimate foods to have stockpiled for when SHTF or disaster strikes.
Learn How to Make Pemmican
People really should avert their gaze from the modern survival thinking for just a bit and also look at how folks 150 years ago did it.
These guys were the last generation to practice basic things, for a living, that we call "survival skills" now.
