Your food storage looks fantastic! It's a huge job plus you have kids,a husband and a house to take care of. Don't let the haters get you down, you've done a great job!
I can't believe someone would unsub just because your basement isn't finished. Call that a blessing truely because they would be critizing everything you do or don't do. So honestly, in my opinion, I would be glad those jerks are gone!!! You do you, they can go pound sand!!! I love what you have done. Looks awesome!!!
What a great job done! No one should complain you didn’t finish. You and your family are always busy doing things. Wish I could do 1/2 of what you do. Great job. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
If that is why they stopped watching, then their loss. It was a big job with a lot of steps. You should be proud of the work you have done. And you are an inspiration to me!
Para mi eres SUPER MUJER, con todo ese trabajo de tu sotano, el cuidar la casa, el jardin y la familia, demasiado trabajo para una sola persona. Lo has hecho fenomenal. Eres mi heroína. No permitas que malas personas te hagan daño❤
You have impressed me with all the things you have accomplished since you started this homestead. Thus week has been great to watch you grow with all the things you had to do and praise God for your Mom being there to help you.
I think you did a fantastic job! It is a huge undertaking and it truly never ends. Great work! You should be super proud of yourself. If someone unsubsribes because they think it's taking too long, probably hasn't put in the effort it takes to prepare on a massive scale like this for a family. Just the time to plan where, how much and what to store is time consuming not to mention costly. Great job! I enjoyed spending the time with you and the family along the way. I look forward to the next adventure!
Well, just because that bozo unsubscribed because you hadn’t finished the basement in one day, I subscribed! It blows my mind that people forget that we are all human and have limits to what we can accomplish by ourselves! 🤦🏼♀️ Anyway, thanks for showing your process and for BEING REAL! The people who matter appreciate it! God bless you!
Persevere!!!! You rocked the basement storage area! Negative people are such unhappy people...don't let them steal your joy!!! Have a wonderful week. Hugs and blessings!
Jessica, you did an amazing job on your basement! You are right, things take time. I'am sorry that this person unscribed from your channel, but you still have me and many others who love you and your family.
I am living in Texas. I just got back into canning. I canned applesauce and strawberry jam this week. So excited about what is to come. Just found your channel and love your enthusiasm. Thanks for posting.
Hi from Pennsylvania! Great job! Your basement looks wonderful. My husband after 31 years, finally added more shelves to my root cellar. No more boxes under the beds! No more forgotten food! It's wonderful. God bless.
Mary Webb from Arkansas , the basement looks so good you did a great job. Back in 1976 my husband worked for the BIA and we lived on Annette Island at that time that is where the Coast Guard was stationed at we lived there for two years I had my fourth child in Ketchikan. Hope you have a great day.
This is why I just subscribed to your channel!!! Life is messy know matter who you are!!! You should never have to explain but thank you and keep doing life in your time!!!!!! 🙏
I live in Alaska also. Please don’t let peoples nastiness make you sad. Enjoy your accomplishments. Please also realize sometimes (a lot of the time) it’s one step forward 5 steps backwards. It’s okay your doing great. A lot better than I am lol
I know what you mean. Growing veggies 2022 was not possible. But we stocked up our 3 down stairs room pretty good. Well have no trouble feeding us. However after 23 yrs of drought in Ut we are running out of water. I got some stored but not for a whole year. St George experienced a earth quake today. Hope not any one seriously. I just remodel upper bathroom into a shower for the owner of our home. Wishing you a wonderfull day.
Your video came up suggested on my feed. This is the second time I jave watched your channel. Didn't even think if subscribed or not, but when you mentioned that comment and about your channel being real life I immediately thought "I am definitely making sure I am subscribed to this channel!" I like watching the progress and your honesty.
Wow that’s actually amazing. We are real not here for show. We realize we did the most crazy thing in giving up a 16 year career and ownership in a company to chase a wild dream before it was to late. We want others to just come along as we try and figure it out. And we know we have enough skills we (hope) believe we will get there. It’s a journey. So thank you for joining ours!
@@modernhomesteadalaska you choice may seem crazy to others but seems smart to me. If we wait for the perfect time or when we have every perfect skill set to do what we feel is best for our family, opportunity will pass us by. I made a "crazy" move in 2017 I felt was best for my children's educational needs. Didn't even know how I would financially pay for it. But I did it and my children are in a better place academically. Family members talked poorly behind my back, accused me of thinking we were too good for everyone. But I kept my eye on the Lord and my children's needs and made the decision that was best for our little family. It was almost too late for my son so I am so grateful I didn't listen to the negative comments and unsolicited opinions. When we are at the end of our lives we will never look back and say I am so thankful I built an amazing career and made a bunch of money. We will look back and be thankful for the time with our family and how we cared for our family. We are blessed to be the caregivers of our families.
After going back and watching all the previous videos on how it all began... i am super impressed... that has been a huge undertaking... so well worth it. such an inspiration to me who just started this journey. Now im tellling myself ... it can be done.. it can be done. Jessica did it... so can I. thank you again
Just finished watching the video, I am Nylsa and I live in Puerto Rico, full tropical climate. Following you do the challenge was inspiring and although I did not achieve as much as you I certainly did more than I would have otherwise done. I have canned, dehydrated, bought at great prices and properly stored and I have organized and re organized my pantry space in my quite little house. I have found help to clean my house and get rid of things that are no longer needed and I have to say I feel great about it. Thank you very very much!♥️
Hi from Flagstaff, AZ. We have been out of CA for 13 years and still have an earthquake kit. One can always have an emergency kit, no matter where they live.
Poor excuse for a subscriber to unsubscribe. You are amazing in what you are accomplishing. Wish I had your ambition!❤ Stay focused on what works for you & your family! Blessings
Dearest Jessica 💞 You have done so well for the challenge. I know you, your mum, Aaron and the family have all worked hard to get prepared for the winter. You should be very proud! 👏 and I am extremely happy for you. Never worry about anyone who unsubscribed because they are all the worse for not having someone as motivating and wonderful as you in their life. I'm so pleased Caleb's eye is perfect 🥰 and I'm also very pleased you are starting to get eggs from your hens. Praying for you all. Take care and all the best from the UK ❤ 🇬🇧. Paula.
Great job lots of work . If you are concerned about stuff falling through because of weight maybe lay some lightweight wood lengthwise on each shelf . 🤗 you should be very proud of yourself !
Bungee cords on the ends of a cut to size cargo net, hooked to the shelf uprights and to hooks on the beams above the glass jar shelf would work well for earthquake control with easy access. You get good at that stuff living in Greece too.
Lol, I’M SUBSCRIBING because you didn’t finish it in a day! Real, authentic and to be honest, I’m intrigued about how you manage to live in Alaska. Great channel, and a beautiful home.
I can’t believe someone had the audacity to tell you they unsubscribed because you didn’t finish your basement in one day. Life happens! You keep doing you!
This is my dream, is to have a home where I have the space for long term food storage! We already have a chest freezer (which I am so grateful for), a decent sized shelf to store things on, but we live in a 1 bedroom apartment and have no place to put any food storage. I love how you set everything up - it is so efficient and you can SEE everything you have.
I just now found your video for the first time. Hello from Oklahoma. It is 3:39 in the morning and I'm folding clothes. WHY? I too am a Stay at home Mom. I can't always get my chores done during the day due to my 3yr old being a tornado. Don't let the angry folks gets to ya. Some of them have no idea what life is really like. Keep on, keeping on.
Great job and what a great acomplishment. It encouraged me to fine tune my garage pantry. I love going out there now and just stare at how nice and organized it is.
South East Texas,, you did a great job... I am disable and it has taken me a year to get a small back up pantry . Doing my best here.. am the same way " everything has a place ,and place has item .." I does make it easier to get to when needed
GREAT JOB! One small suggestion ... Since earthquakes DO occur in Alaska, it may be a good idea to secure your shelving to the wall and place a board across the front of each shelf. May the Lord bless you and your family in the days ahead. :)
You did great Jessica! You cannot please everyone.....so why try. Do what you feel needs to get done, and if you have to extend it, do that. I truly appreciate your channel.
You have worked hard to accomplish having a well organized pantry. I love how it looks & the totes all matching is very pleasing to see! I hope your inventory system works well for you! 💜
You did a wonderful job on the basement. Would change anything. I would store the same way. Beans with beans, cans with cans, etc………… 👍😎 You are rocking it girlfriend 🖐. Remember, don’t let others bring you down. Great job. Have a wonderful day 🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩
This is great! Hard work paid off, even if it did take all day(s) to eat the big ole frog. Wish I had a basement… I’m in temporary townhouse living. Love my home, can’t organize and store as well as you have here. Super excited for you and a little bit jealous. Enjoy!! Really real and not frilly, and I Love it!!
Hi am new to your you tube channel. From Texas. Am in my 60's . Just starting to get into prepping and gardening. I have alot to learn and do. I wish you could bottle some of your energy and send it my way. Can't wait to see your other video's
So here's my suggestion I would definitely get some pallets and cut them down to the width and length that you need to put on those shelves. Because that wire mesh is going to start to bend over time. That is not going to be sturdy at all. And it's not easy to slide things on it. Yeah I would either that or get sheets of plywood they were thick.
@@modernhomesteadalaska you have to be one of the sweetest persons ever. Because I reread my post and I'm like boy don't I sound bossy or condescending and I'm like I totally don't mean that I'm a very nice person LOL
My part in the #everybitcountschallenge was "I Ate every bit of chocolate that was in the house " , Great job completing the storage i dont know where you get the energy from ,i am tired just watching you ❤
Absolutely love the basement pantry! Fantastic job! One unsubscribed follower = many subscribers that actually follow and view your channel. It will definitely pay off in the end for you and your channel. Edit: I reorganized a spare bedroom closet into longer term food storage. Organized my pantry closet and preparing for fall. I don’t think I’ve stated, but I live in Michigan.
you are doing a great job, I really enjoy your channel, and the other alaskan homestead channels, it is my dream to live there so I am living vicariously by you and the other channels 😀 (from the UK)
Thank you. Funny story our daughter was in a mood one day and we were building and she was with me getting paint. And says I want to paint the door bright yellow. It will feel happy when it snows so much. I said great if we hate it it’s just paint we can change it. I agree though it’s a happy color.
Hi there new to your channel, from Northern Manitoba Canada. Just a thought/suggestion.....you need to consider the heat from the wood stove, maybe now is time to build a wall for your food storage area in basement. To keep that entire area cooler....as the heat will make the freezers worker harder. But still an amazing job 👌 love it!!
Thank you. We will get there. Luckily they couldn’t be further apart in the basement as far as heat transfer goes. I agree we had a deep freeze on our garage in Arizona ended up moving it inside
I had my gallbladder out on August 1st...but the best news is I will never have to deal with another gallbladder attack again!!! August 18th, my surgeon cleared me to begin increasing the weight I could lift...but that's also the date my dad's diagnosis was changed from a bone marrow disorder to Acute Myeloid Leukemia and he was put on hospice...at which point, I took a week off and flew home to help care for him. (He's 96...and...he's lived a long, exemplary life...and we can't keep them with us forever, unfortunately.) Soooo...I wasn't able to work on the challenge, but once things settle down, I'll get with the program wherever I can.
@@modernhomesteadalaska Thanks! He's in the very final stages so I'm going to fly home again Saturday morning. Hopefully I can get "wonders and thunders" done once everything is done.
Wow!! This is amazing!! I thought my larder was in good shape and well stocked but I definitely picked up some tips and tricks and a few more items to try to add to our own stores. Your larder is goals for me!
Hey I'm Sharon and I am a new subscriber to your channel I truly fell in love with your content with your personality and with your family you are a true inspiration you are a great wife a great mother a great sister a great human being please don't let the negativity bring your happiness down I have been watching all your videos from back to back and I am hooked I'm here to stay I am from New York City the Bronx sending you lots of positive energy positive vibes and lots of blessings to you and your beautiful family take care sweetheart you are amazing never forget that! 🤗👋🦋❣️😘🙌🙏🏙️
Hi, just ran across your video this morning and enjoyed it very much. I am retired, living in Kansas with the warden, I mean husband and 2 dogs. Good job on the basement
Newer subscriber here because you seemed so real from the few videos I have seen. Super excited to see all your videos. Amazing amount of work. We have tried to get containers for more long term storage but even finding them has been hard in my area. We are currently visiting my parents and stopped to get mason jar lids and hope to find gamma lids too. You do what you can when you can and you did a ton of work that is going to make your life so much easier!
Thank you so much. It has been so hard yo get lids. I ran out and that’s how we ended up with the black and yellow. Went back to get some black and yellow for car emergency kits all gone! So good luck and best wishes you find what you need.
Hi Jessica, my name is Robin, I live in Utah. I have just discovered your channel. I've been binge watching! 🤣 I say good by to the ney sayers. Boo. I love that it took 3 days and no magic. Its real life. I have started my own channel 😳 but dont want negative people so havent posted for a few months. I cant wait to hear how the cheese turned out in a few months. I tried it last year an after about three months it started to weep. I still ate it. Just sliced off the bad🤷♀️ we are all still alive.🤣 Keep up the great videos. Lllooovvvee them.💜
Jessica, it's been so fun to watch what you've been up to for this challenge and all of the extras you threw in. I appreciate that you are real about your life and I've learned a lot. Thank you for bringing us along, even with all of the work you've been doing. Congratulations on the eggs and that food storage is a thing of beauty!
Looks great I would add more paper towels and toilet paper for your family size. I live alone but out in the country and I keep 4 big this of each and personal things. I don't go outside if it ices because of falling. From the strokes I have nerve damage and hurt bad with Im cold. So come winter I have all big things and as much of the things I know Ill use over the winter most things like that I keep 6 mos. At all times. I seem someone do a meal kit in a big ziplock bag. I think I'm going to make some and keep a week or month food in a tote. I think having 2 or 3 month meal kits is something I will be working on. I have a year 25 year food. I don't get into in a closet. Love what your doing proud of you. People who have bad balances or problems need to get bigger things in before winter because of falling. Not just at home but at a store to the car or pickup all they can.
Totally agree on the paper products. It’s that thing that until recently was still so low inventory so I stayed away from big stocks. But should reassess now that it’s fully available.
I'm in union SC so we don't get snow 😭 but I have been working on getting back into making my spare room a pantry that will work for us for up to a year plus any space we don't use also going to use for food storage items we plan on building up and out so I can have a better option for food storage but for now I'm working with what I can , plus looking forward to doing garden next year homesteading I have to say always keeps me busy ,I love what you have done
You know you have done a wonderful job in the basement! The person looking for "instant basement fairies and elves" should look elsewhere! It takes real work ethics to get things done in the real world. I actually wondered what that commenters' basement storage looks like or even if it exists? We need more of your positivity and great vibes!! I look forward to the next challenge because it gives me the incentive to move forward on my own journey! Stay safe and stay strong. Be blessed!! 💖
Greetings. I'm from New York City, living in a small house in one of the outer boroughs. You've accomplished a monumental task indeed! Everything is in place and ready for the winter, which I know can be harsh in Alaska. I've been restocking my extended pantry with items I know I can get by with if I don't want to travel through the snow on a grocery run. Since I'm single, I don't need tons of provisions, but I get what I eat and what my body needs.
What kind of person says that 🤔 you and you're family should be so proud of yourselfs I always look forward to your channel 💗 love from Belfast northern ireland ❤❤❤❤
Hello this is under my husband’s name but my husband and I Sharon live in WV. Love your videos and your help with organizing and your encouragement. We were able to organize our pantry and have extra food available and working on stocking our freeze with meat. Thanks for your videos. You are an encourager to others. May the Lord richly bless you and your family.
Omgosh, I was so shocked to hear that someone unsubscribed because you didn't finish your basement in one video! Wth? You definitely do not need people like that on your life or subscribed to your channel. Such a selfish petty person. You're way better off without them. I think you're amazing and as with all of your family so hardworking, and things do NOT happen by magic! Love ya work. Take care, Dee from NZ ❤️
People are so strange somedays. And I just wanted everyone to know it’s unrealistic for me to portray you should be getting jobs that big done in one day. And if I could do that, we all know that’s some evil magic if you can.
So the person leaving your blog GOOD RIDDANCE !!!! Jessica girl you have worked so hard organising your food store, it looks Great 👏👏👏👏👏 Yah 2 eggs 🥚👍👍👍 By the way in my humble opinion your videos are fantastic 😊😊 Love from the UK x
