[Miz Pat]

I try to be a month ahead on anticipated bills in my checkbook. I have a savings account for those drastic emergencies involving unemployment or the house burning down. I have a stockpile of expensive type vitamins, and I try to keep an extra freezer full of cheap cuts of meat (i.e. stock up when the price is good and use when the prices are bad). I keep flashlights and candles around in case of extended power failures, and I have a crank up radio that shines a little light when you crank it and plays the radio off that. I try to keep dry type staples in my pantry (canned goods, spices, teas, beans, flour (within limitations). I keep old liter bottles filled with water in the bottom of the standup freezer to keep the freezer cold in the event of a power failure and they are wonderful to take along on long trips, because the water melts slow and is icy cold.

This is all good, but the worst thing that happens in finding mystery meat frozen and wondering if its any good. I really need to organize the freezer.

Pat