What a year! RancherMan & I have enjoyed a wonderful year filled with fun projects and new endeavors. Here’s hoping your year has been wonderful as well. To celebrate this year coming to a close, today I’m sharing with you the TOP 10 Homesteading Posts of the Year! Curious to see the most popular posts on the blog this year? Read on, dear friends.
Soft, Delicious Sandwich Bread
I’d tried unsuccessfully for years to make a fluffy, soft sandwich bread. FINALLY – SUCCESS! My KitchenAid helped make the whole thing easier.
The TRUTH Behind Perfect Facebook Posts
Don’t begin to think negatively about your own life when you see your social media friends with their picture-perfect holiday.
Final Week Of Our No-Spend Grocery Challenge
Many readers were interested in our month-long grocery challenge where we spent NO money on food. Read this popular post.
Unlocking The Secret To Long-Term Potato Storage.
Lots of you were, like me, hoping to find the answer to unlocking the secret to long-term potato storage
One of RancherMan’s favorite meals made in the slow cooker. Easy AND Delicious – what’s not to love??!
In June, our guest poster Ashley shared with us her own food challenge of NO refined sugar in their diet for a full month! The first week along with its sugar-free recipe was especially popular with the readers.
I hate to use poison, and apparently so do many of YOU! This Homestead Hack post was very popular!
I often make my own Cream-Of-Whatever soup from scratch. It’s quick & easy and with so much less salt and hard-to-pronounce ingredients than the commercial stuff.
Facebook was Really Friend or Foe
After a particularly disturbing Facebook interaction I began wondering if social media sites were really a friend or foe. Many of you weighed in with your own experiences.
DITCH The Plastic & Use GLASS In My Fridge.
This post shares how I’m able to (for the most part) ditch the use of plastic in my fridge. According to the readers there were some surprises in this post.
So there ya go, the top 10 posts of the year on the blog There’s not been enough time for me to accurately include the top November & December posts of course, but following are your two BONUS posts – the top November and December posts as of this publishing:
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November
One of my New Year’s GOALS this year (not Resolutions) was to learn to sew. And here’s my very first, very EASY project. If *I* can do it, anyone can! Cute, Repurposed Denim Fabric Baskets.
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December
Homestead Hack – SMALL JARS: I needed small bottles to hold my gifts. I’ve found an alternative to purchasing empty bottles that works beautifully!
TA-DA! Those are the most popular homesteading posts of 2015. It’s fun to look back on the faves from prior years as well, check these out too!
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I’ve enjoyed the journey and I hope you have too. Thank you all for sharing the journey with me!
~TxH~
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Hi there! These are fantastic ideas! Oh my, I just stumbled across your blog and am thrilled that I did! Subscribed & bookmarked! I really enjoy networking with other bloggers, especially other homesteaders. If you’re interested, please visit my blog, and subscribe to stay in touch! Merry Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Awesome – thanks! I see you’ve subscribed but the subscription is not active until you respond to the message they sent to the email you used. (Sometimes it ends up misrouted into junk mail, might check there if you don’t see it in your inbox.) I skipped over to your blog to check it out – OMGosh I LOVE IT! I’ll be subscribing to your blog today! ~TxH~
Great review of ideas. I think I need to go on a grocery freeze after the holidays. Not sure I would make it a month though. Looking forward to next Friday. Merry Christmas.
I was surprised at how much groceries we really had Cynthia. And the pantry & freezers got cleaned out quite nicely too. ~TxH~
I found a few I need to check out. Looking forward to reading “Glass in the Refrigerator” and “Long Term Potato Storage.” Thanks for sharing these!
Thanks for the great idea. I’ll use it for my December 31 post. – Margy
Happy New Year!! I just wanted to comment and let you know that I read your blog post every time I receive your email. I get a lot of emails with the latest blog post, that I signed up for thinking I would read them but slowly I have weeded out the ones that I don’t. I enjoy reading yours and have learned a lot. Thanks for the recap of 2015. Looking forward to reading and learning more.
Marie in Montana
OMGosh Marie – what incredibly sweet words for me to read this morning – you made my day! (MUAH) ~TxH~