Some days are awesome, and everything is going great. You think nothing could bring you down. Then suddenly, things fall apart. Life throws mind-blowing challenges your way, and you’re left there stunned.
Photo by Robin Mitchell from PexelsThese things happen to everybody. There are fires, earthquakes, tornadoes, and car accidents. Also, you could experience job loss, breakups, divorce, the list goes on.
You’ll feel so grateful if you get prepared beforehand!
So, here are 8 things you should do when things fall apart:
1. Make your daily life as pleasant as possible with what you have
The Shasta RV during the summerWhen my husband and I lived in a tiny 15 ft RV in Colorado’s high desert, it would get below zero (F) at night. Although we had a little electric heater, it was COLD.
In situations like that, you need to get creative with what you have to survive.
We weren’t doing this adventure to take pictures of our RV for Instagram or try to make people jealous. It was all about saving money, finding the right town and home to buy. But negative 24 degrees?!
Anyway, I’d rather live through the night than have a cute RV. A lot of heat was escaping near the windows, and they’d completely freeze over every night.
So, I cut open some boxes and duct-taped the edges over the windows. Then I tacked a fleece blanket over the cardboard. After that, I put up another layer of cardboard and another blanket over all the windows.
Then I put a tarp on the floor and a few blankets. Before I did that, if we put one of our 5-gallon water jugs on the floor, it’d freeze.
Oh, and we didn’t have running water for the entire 9 months.
Afterward, it was nice and warm. If you ever find yourself in a situation like that, get creative with what you have. You can always make life easier no matter what your circumstances are.
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Have you ever had a time when things seemed to fall apart?