Water is Life Especially in an Emergency Situation

It seems to be happening more and more. The floods, fires, mudslides, tornadoes, hurricanes and sundry other natural disasters that make living through the aftermath a frightening challenge.

Food, water, fuel, power, everything we count on and take for granted in daily living becomes difficult or impossible to get.

While some items can be stored against an emergency, this article will address why you need a portable water filter to use in disasters. Our water supply systems are more fragile than you’d imagine when you turn on the tap and get fresh, clean water every time.

A natural disaster can compromise water delivery pipes fouling the water so that it is unsafe. If supply is cut entirely, you can make standing or rainwater safe to drink if you have an appropriate filter. A family with limited food rations can survive for some time. Without water, life expectancy is short.

There are a number of cost effective purification options that you can have at home to hedge against the loss of potable water.

berkey filtersLet Gravity Do the Work

One option is a gravity-powered filter. Water from whatever source available can be used.  Gravity systems operate by, yes, gravity. The user pours the source water into the top portion of the unit, and as gravity does its job and the water makes its way down through a system of nets and filters that remove smaller and smaller pieces of debris and sediment. Finally, there is a filter that looks similar to those found in filtrating water pitchers that removes the microscopic nasty stuff we can’t see. These systems can deliver enough clean water—one gallon per person per day—to survive nicely.  berkey water filtersBerkey water filters are gravity based and portable enough to take anywhere.

Gravity operated systems come in a variety of materials; plastic, ceramic lined metal, even canvas. Prices and sizes vary, so do some research before you make a purchase. The basic operation is the same across all types, its mostly the capacity and portability that vary.

Solar Powered

Another option is a solar powered filter. Obviously, it uses the sun as its power source, but can also be powered by a vehicle’s cigarette lighter or a 12 volt battery. It produces one gallon per minute when electrically powered.

As with most filters discussed here, the solar powered filters have three stages of filtration, which takes out bacteria and virus sized nasties.

These units are far more expensive than the gravity fed variety, but they are fast and reliable as long as the sun is shining. If planning for emergency water supply, it seems wise to rely on gravity or the sun as they are likely to be operational. Batteries don’t last that long and if you have no fuel for the car, the cigarette lighter isn’t likely to work long either.

 

Hand Pump Filters

Again, there are many varieties of the hand pump filter on the market, and all operate on the same principle. The choice of designs is extensive, and the price range is from around $10 to over $200 based on material and capacity.

The basic premise is the same for all hand pumps. You have the filtration unit with all the good stuff in it that takes the impurities out of the water. You put one hose, dedicated to going into unfiltered water, into the water source. There’s an output hose on the unit that goes into whatever receptacle you have chosen for your clean water.

When all this is in place, you pump. By hand. No power source needed other than a little elbow grease. Some models have a plunger, another a lever. Either way, as fast as you pump, you’ll get clean water as soon as it has passed through the filtration layers.

Storing Your Hard Earned Clean Water

Now that you’ve guaranteed that you have drinkable water, how you store it matters. Many plastics off-gas harmful chemicals and can disintegrate over time.

Purchase food grade plastic containers. These are best for long term storage. If you plan to filter your water as needed and not store it, you can use any high quality water bottle. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, does not recommend re-using milk or juice containers to store water for long periods. Even with scrupulous cleaning the plastic will still harbor proteins and sugars that may prove harmful.

We never want to think about it, and have often left the planning to the “wack-o” survivalists, but after Hurricane Sandy, I’ve taken a new look at being ready.  Also you can find multiple healthy living products at HEAMotivation.com.

Choose your filtration system and scope out the swimming pools in your neighborhood; they are a great source of water that you can filter and drink until help arrives.

Berkey Water Filter Coupon Codes

We located some deals on berkey water filters for June 2013. These deals are for up to 15% off. Berkey sells what are known as gravity filtration systems. Essentially you poor the water into the top of the filtration system and it flows downward. The water flows down through the filters and comes out the bottom fully filtered. There are a couple of benefits to this. First of all the water pushes down and forces itself through the system as quickly as possible. Secondly, and my favorite, is that electricity is not needed. You do not need to plug in a berkey system. This means that it is portable and you can take it with you. There are stainless steel Berkeys and highly durable plastic versions as well. Use them indoors or outdoors. No onto the coupons!

Berkey Coupon Codes
berkey coupon codesThese codes allow you to save 5% to 15% depending on the number of systems you purchase. It does not matter which system you purchase. If you purchase 2 you receive 5% and over 6 you save 15%, here are the deals as found here: http://www.heamotivation.com/info/Coupon_Codes

Code: JUNE1305
Coupon Details: Save 5% when you purchase 2 or more

Code: JUNE1310
Coupon Details: Save 10% when you purchase 4 or more

Code: JUNE1315
Coupon Details: Save 15% when you purchase 6 or more

Quick math: 15% ends up being $15 on every hundred, one $300 system will save you $45, and if purchasing 6 you will save $270. That is a decent savings.

Simple Steps to Find the Best Deal

I think I have found the best way to find the best possible price online for an item. There were two different scenarios. One scenario is when you’re looking for an item that can only be purchased by a particular company. In that case you cannot purchase it from another company so there is no reason to look at other stores online. For my example I was looking to obtain a domain discount I already knew I was going to use GoDaddy.com. So in that case I just wanted the best possible price at their store. Therefore I look for discounts I could find from them and I came across this squidoo.com lens. So in this case you would use step two and three below and not need step one. Now let me explain why there are three steps below. The reason is because in this example we are going to find the best price for an item we want to buy and we can search stores as well as discounts. To obtain the best deal you need a combination of both, let me explain.

Step 1 : Store Comparison
The first thing you would do is compare stores. In his example you would start by searching for the best price at each store. Going to a lot of stores is quite difficult and time-consuming. Therefore we use what is called a comparison engine. So open your favorite search engine and look for comparison shopping engines, by using that as your search term. Once you find an engine you simply type in the item you are looking for. Let’s say we were looking for a 50 pound bag of Purina chicken and rice dog food. Then you click the search button and it will show you a list of stores and the best prices at each store. Normally you would think you are done because you found the best price of each store. But you can still obtain a better price. So now I want you to write down, and keep that window open, the top 10 stores with the top best prices. Now onto step two.

Step 2 : Coupon Searching
The second thing you do is find the best deal for each store. Typically online you will not find discount for particular products such as our peer arena dog food. What you will find is a discount for the store that is selling the dog food. So in this case go to your favorite search engine again and use the name of the store that you just found such as Petco and then also tack on to your search query one of the following words: coupon, source code, promo code, discount, voucher. Do a search for each of those and try to find, like I did in the Go Daddy example above, a list of coupon codes. Find the best possible discount you can get at that store and write that down next of the store on your list. Do that for each store’s you have the best possible discount for each.

Step 3 : Calculate the Best Price
Now the third step is to calculate the best possible pricing store. So you take the best price you receive for store one and use a calculator to determine the price after applying the discount you found the store one. Continued down the list of all 10 stores until you now have the price you have written for each. Then you actually have the best possible price you can get at each store. Now you choose the store along with her discount that has the lowest price. Quite often you will find that a store that had a high price when you were looking in the comparison-shopping engine may have the best price after applying their online coupon. Wild as does take time it will yield you the best price.

Good luck in your online shopping and getting the best deal you can.

Ten Great reasons to Use GoDaddy Hosting

Here is my post on godaddy hosting and why to consider them, the top 10 reasons are below.  First why did I decide to even concentrate on this company at all?  Mainly because of all of the marketing hype around them butabove all because of the many accomplishments they have made in the domain registrar arena.  With Go Daddy hosting you’ll get the following features in this list.

Top 10 Factors to Use GoDaddy Hosting:

1. accounts with 500 email addresses, or even more ; chances are you will not need that many or even close, but 500 is sufficient for most small businesses.  Not only will you want to provide an email address for everyone in the company but it is not uncommon to have generic addresses also such as pr@yoursite.com, help@yoursite.com, and others;

2. 25 MySQL databases with 1 GB each, or even more ;  why would you want this?  If you install a CMS (content management system) such as WordPress it will use 1 database, therefore you could install 25 wordpress websites if you so desired;

3. unlimited Websites (host as many sites as you want); this means that you can register multiple domain names and host every one of them with on web hosting account.  Many people think that you need to purchase a new hosting account every time you would like to setup a new website and that is not the case.  You can setup 25 with their plans.

4. auto-install your favorite apps; which means you can install systems like WordPress with the push of a button from your control center.  That may sound obvious but let me tell you it is a time saver as I used to install WordPress by having to FTP into a hosting account, create a database, upload files, manually edit configuration files on the server and hope that the scripts would then install the system for me.  Those days have ended with Go Daddy.

5. daily backup; this is key to keeping your site up and running and not losing your work. Imagine if your site was destroyed, just gone, and you could not get it back . With their daily backups they wil always have a copy of your site in case you or someone else did something to destroy your website. This is piece of mind.

 

6. hosted across multiple servers; what this means is your website is on more than one computer.  When you get a hosting account you are essentially renting a slice of a computer, a piece of it.  Others are also on the same computer. It is possible that if your website is only on one computer (as other companies do) and your neighbors on the same computer do something to crash the computer, then your website will crash also.  With GoDaddy hosting they make copies of your website onto multiple computers so if there is an issue with one computer your site will not likely crash as it is already on other computers.  Replicating your site across multiple computers for you is an incredible feature for them to offer, in the past you’d probably of had to do it yourself with hardware and it was time consuming as well as expensive.

7. load balancing; this is an amazing feature at the current price point; Imagine if you had a cafe or restaurant and one door, you have plenty of space inside but people cannot get through the door, then they leave.  That can happen with your website if a lot of people visit at once.  Load balancing instantly creates another door or two at your restaurant and then funnels some people through each door so you do not lose the customers.  That is a perfect analogy for load balancing. Essentially as your website is replicated on multiple servers they route your site visitors to different computers to assure everyone can view your site.

8. security; if you’re like me you have no idea the best way to keep people out of your website and from doing harm.  Luckily they protect you from problems such as Dos (denial of service) and other malicious attacks, don’t worry if you have no idea what it means just know that it’s good

9. malware scanning; you don’t want someone to upload bad software to your website or others may download it and your site can loose credibility as well as have problems with search engines.

10. price; surprisingly the prices which include the above are well below $10 a month, many times in the $5 range and you can use a of the discount promo code to acquire it even cheaper.

So there you have it.  My top 10 list of why you may want to givegodaddy hosting a chance.  I could go into more detail but you will find from their site many other positive features that I did not even cover.

 

 

Best Places to Get A Free Coupon

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Trying to find a free coupon?

You’ve probably heard from fellow shoppers and customers about the many things one can have and receive with a single coupon. But the best thing that probably intrigued you is the fact that these coupons are free.

It’s true. From time to time, shoppers are offered by companies a free coupon. The trick is in locating the places where you can get a free coupon.

A Free Coupon in Groceries

One of the best times to get yourself a free coupon is whenever you go out to buy groceries. Places where you shop for groceries like supermarkets and convenience stores, there are lots of opportunities here wherein you could get a free coupon; not just one but maybe even several at the same time. Some of the first coupons were distributed together with basic grocery items like cereal boxes and shampoos. Up to today, one can always rely on groceries for your favorite free coupon.

Free Coupon in Social Networks

Looking for a free coupon? Do you like social networking sites like Facebook? Guess what, you can get some free coupons while logged and engaged in social networking. Social networking sites have improved much in their interfaces, allowing for companies to place online advertisements for site members to view and click. When there is online advertising, there will surely be a free coupon offered from time to time. Even your friends will have links for getting a free coupon.

Free Coupon While Shopping Online

Do you do shopping online? If you do, then it’s close to impossible that you won’t be offered a free coupon while doing such. Coupons are primarily offered for customers especially the loyal ones. If you’re a regular online shopper, you are sure to be offered a free coupon in the online stores where you are considered a regular.

Where to Hunt For Coupon Deals

coupon dealsIt’s not just the shopping enthusiast who will love coupon deals, but probably everyone else too.

Coupon deals enable you to take advantage of special coupons which grant you purchase discounts on certain items. Whenever you use these special coupons, the prices of the items are marked down thus giving you significant savings.

Coupons from coupon deals also entitle you to certain items and services offered only through coupons and here are several places where you can look for coupon deals.

Coupon Deals In Online Shopping Sites

Coupon deals can be found all over the internet, especially in websites that offer online shopping. With the invention of online coupons, many of the stores that used to offer coupon deals in their stores also offer the same coupon deals when they put up the online equivalent of their stores. Whenever you visit their site to shop online, they offer you their online coupon deals.

Coupon Deals In Popular Printed Media

One of the places for hunting coupons was with newspapers, especially the local ones. Coupon deals could be found especially in the Classified Ads Section, together with other items advertised for sale.  Today, coupon deals can still be found in newspapers and even in popular magazines. Many of these printed media offer coupon deals in the hopes of enticing customers to buy and subscribe with them. Coupons offered range everywhere from fashion items, wellness products, health and fitness items and many more.

Coupon Deals In Department Stores and Supermarkets

Some of the original and still good sources of coupons are popular grocery items. Notable among these are cereal boxes. Today, coupon deals can still be found in many stores like supermarkets and department stores. Many of these stores offer many items and products which when you buy, entitle you to some really cool coupon deals. The coupon deals offered are for attracting more shoppers to the store.

Getting Printable Coupons for More Savings

printable couponsThere are many great benefits one can have with printable coupons.

Remember those strips on the top of cereal boxes which you can take to the grocery store? Printable coupons are the modern day version of that.

Instead of cereal box tops, you get printable coupons over the Internet. Once you have downloaded them, you can then exchange them and redeem the benefits they give.

Use Printable Coupons for Great Discounts

Coupons are always associated with discounts; the same thing goes with printable coupons. Almost all of them allow the bearer to avail of price discounts for all sorts of items. Use printable coupons to earn discounts in supermarkets, grocery stores, convenience stores, and even in department stores and specific boutiques. By using these printable coupons, you can save a substantial amount of money. Because of the savings, you also get to buy more items and stuff.

Use Printable Coupons to Get Free Great Stuff

Printable coupons also allow you to get free stuff. For companies that offer printable coupons, this is a sort of market research in testing consumer behavior. And for them to get consumer’s data, they have to entice them to spend. That’s why many of these companies offer free stuff through printable coupons. Be on the lookout for these printable coupons that give away stuff, and grab a chance whenever you find one.

Use Printable Coupons to Take Advantage of Special Promos

Another great thing about printable coupons is that some of them let you avail of special promos. There are printable coupons which give you a chance to win even bigger prices, like trips to popular tourist destinations. There are also printable coupons which let you avail of free services like spa and salon treatments. What can you lose, so why not try some of these special promos that are available with printable coupons.

Top Domain Sales

I personally like to use coupons to save money but I also like to look at it as though I am making money. If I did not spend it then I made it. At least that is my reasoning. Also some things you buy you can resell like domain names. They are assets. You can get them for around $10 give or take and potentially sell them later for a nice price. Would you believe that some domains have sold for millions of dollars. I saw a list on this site of the top domain sales and here are a few.

  • fund.com : $9,999,950
  • diamond.com : $7,500,000
  • korea.com : $5,000,000
  • shop.com : $3,500,000

and many many more domains have sold for over one million and others for hundreds of thousands. The list on that page shows 500 domains that sold for over $100,000.

So you can obtain a domain at a registrar and hold it until you may want to sell it. Here is how it works. You never truly own the domain you just get the right to control it. Every year you have to pay a fee. You can get a domain at a great price using a godaddy coupon at checkout to save some money. Then you have a one year registration and no one else can register that exact domain. You have to pay a yearly fee or you lose control of it.

Be Sure Not to Lose It
There are a couple ways to assure you do not lose the domain. You can pay multiple years up front, so you could pay for 10 years (as an example). If you do not want to pay all at once you could decide to setup an auto-renew function that will automatically bill your credit card each year. You can also set it up to bill a pay pal address. You will just receive a notice in your email once a year telling you that you paid your yearly fee. Setting up the auto-renew is probably a wise thing to do.

How to Sell Your Domain
Since you do not truly own the domain, this is what you do. You can offer your domain for sale and you can even put it on a site like godaddy.com for sale or for auction. You can set a minimum price much like you would on an ebay or similar site. When someone buys the domain you transfer the ownership of the domain to them. It is very easy to transfer from one person, or one account, to another. That is all there is to it. The purchaser now has the domain and you now have the cash.

Big Berkey Water Filters – The Best in Water Purifying

Big Berkey Water FiltersWhen it comes to water purifiers, nobody does it better than Big Berkey Water Filters. Big Berkey has the finest water purifiers, capable of purifying thousands of gallons of drinking water.

It doesn’t matter if it’s plain tap water, or really contaminated water. That won’t be a problem because Big Berkey Water Filters can handle it! With Big Berkey, you are assured of clean, clear, refreshing water every time.

No More Contamination – Big Berkey Water Filters

With Big Berkey Water Filters, you will no longer have to worry about drinking or even getting into contact with contaminated water. Big Berkey Water Filters utilize the latest water purification technology to remove all harmful things present in water. Harmful organisms like water borne bacteria and viruses are immediately terminated while substances which are dangerous to humans like lead and mercury are totally detoxified and removed.

Very Affordable Big Berkey Water Filters

You must be thinking water purifiers are costly, that all the amazing technology that goes into making water potable and safe to drink comes at a hefty price. But that is not the case with Big Berkey Water Filters. This is because Big Berkey Water Filters can be used for a long time, able to purify up to 3000 gallons of water. That translates into having purified drinking water at a cost of just several cents a week. Anybody can afford that right!

Health is Guaranteed with Big Berkey Water Filters

Thanks to Big Berkey Water Filters, you will always have safe, drinking water for you and your entire family. You will always have water safe for consumption not only at home but even also while on the road. Safe water means less health concerns;, that is one of the end goals of Big Berkey Water Filters, to guarantee your good health.

Enjoying the Benefits of Online Coupon Codes

online coupon codesYou may have tried using coupons to buy groceries and other items at a supermarket. Not only do these coupons give you free items, you also get price discounts for buying specific items. Today, you can enjoy the same benefits when you do online shopping with online coupon codes. These online coupon codes can be found all over the Internet through websites.

Online Coupon Codes for Discounts

Just like the traditional grocery coupons, online coupon codes are used to avail of price discounts for a number of items. When you get online coupon codes from the Internet, you can then download and print them so you could present and remit it to selected stores who would then mark down the price of the items you would purchase. Given effort and patience, online coupon codes can save you money.

Online Coupon Codes for Market Research

Companies that use coupons target specific items in the market. The companies are very much interested in consumer behavior, particularly the preferences of consumers over certain brands. In doing so, companies have a better grasp on how to better attract more customers and improve the products they sell.

With more people looking to shop over the Internet, online coupon codes similarly achieve this objective by providing data through online purchases made using these online coupons.

Online Coupon Codes for Advertising

Online coupon codes are sought after by many people in the web. After all, online coupon codes not only give you a discount but also special limited offers on certain items. As such, there are a great number of websites who advertise online coupon codes on their page.

Hopping on the interest and hype generated by these online coupon codes, websites pair them with their other online ads to be able to generate more online revenue.