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    My One-Stop Complete List To Be Prepared in an Uncertain World

    39.2KViews Modified: Jul 25, 2022 · Published: Mar 26, 2020
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    My Complete List To Be Prepared in an Uncertain World: 125 +Things. lifebuoy

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    Obviously, the best time to get prepared for a disaster or an epidemic is not when a serious disruptive event is upon us. Prices of goods would be lower, we’d not be in panic mode and could process with common sense and a calm spirit — we’d make better decisions.

    Besides toilet paper, there is so much more to consider! PS You can print this!

    I admit, I’ve felt some urgency to start preparing for the last 18 months, but I didn’t know exactly why.  In some ways I’ve been working on being prepared since our children were small, when it dawned on me that we were responsible for their little lives.

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    Be Prepared:

    53% do not have a minimum 3-day supply of non-perishable food and water at home.

    Our budget would not allow me to gather all the items below overnight, so I’m starting slowly.

    Depending on the size of your family and your expected usage (under less than ideal conditions), calculate what YOUR family will need and make a plan—a ‘care plan’ as we used to call it in nursing— preferably one for each person. 

    You can download or print this partial chart!

    (Source FEMA, American Red Cross)

    What We Have Done To Be Prepared & Thoughts: 

    Clean water: If you’re dependent on local city water, what will you do if the water system is compromised for a week or two or longer? If the situation is dire, you could get by on about one quart of drinking water per day. The general rule of thumb is to have at least one gallon per person per day for at least two weeks, preferably four.

    Two to fours weeks, you say? When people are starving, panic will be in the streets.  It’s best to stay inside for at least 90 days till the killing and robbery and mugging die down.  Some say that in 90 days, half of the people will be dead.

    In an emergency situation, you should drink two quarts (half a gallon) of water a day – more if you’re in a hot climate, sick, pregnant, or a child. The other half gallon can then be used for hygiene (thanks in advance).

    You can run rain, pool or even stream water through your Berkey filters and still have pure, uncontaminated water to drink if the electrical grid is down for a length of time. It purifies both treated water and untreated raw water from such sources as remote lakes, streams, stagnant ponds and water supplies in foreign countries, where regulations may be substandard at best.

    The single best investment we’ve made was getting a Berkey water filter and extra filters.  Water Even If There’s NO Electricity: We Chose the Berkey You will need Green Scotch Brite pads for cleaning filters.

    For those with a 4″ well-casing, you can add a frost-free hand pump for water without electricity. We saved for this long ago and have never regretted it.

    Self-Protection: Our arsenal is outside of the “scope” of this post 😉 But I will mention SABRE Tactical Stun Gun & LED Flashlight as a nice personal backup (with training) recommended by sheriffs.

    Health Needs: Consider children, pets, and medicines. Write out your needs. For ideas: My Complete Guide to a No-Side-Effect Medicine Cabinet.

    Power: Consider a generator matched to your needs, but you need to have a finite fuel source in storage.

    Communication: (besides devices that still work) A wind-up emergency radio 

    We’ve tried to get as many of these supplies locally as possible (avoiding Amazon) to support our local economy.

    Equipment, survival type: 

    Gorilla tape, regular duct tape, masking tape (keep in a cool place so it won’t get sticky!)

    Packages of BIC lighters, plenty of matches in ziplock bags, some storm-proof matches, plenty of dry tinder or dryer lint

    Duracell batteries (CR123s will last up to 10 yrs. for flashlights), std AAs and AAAs, also 10 years) check your other sizes

    Flashlights, flashlights!!! And indispensable lantern-type lights like this VONT. Head lantern with LEDs. Be sure to match with batteries (large ones are a good self-defense weapon)

    Sea salt or Himalayan salt (not table salt) for electrolytes and minerals which every living thing needs (keep cool, and dry) We need salt for many things

    Bags of Epsom Salts (w/ no additives) for sore muscle soaks, drawing splinters, soaking wounds, detoxing

    Candles, many sizes: tea lights; flat, wide, chunky candles

    Lamp oil (paraffin oil), Hurricane lanterns (and wicks to match)  Vont hurricane lamps, Vont headlamps

    Plastic bags, esp. heavy mil contractor bags, (use as tarp, poncho, wind protection – get the best you can afford) (keep old grocery bags)

    Tarps with reinforced grommets, (store in plastic they come in)

    Paracord, 7 strand

    Blankets, high quality sleeping bags

    Thick plastic sheeting

    Socks, wool and cotton, protect your feet

    Medical supplies: Get a First Aid Only kit OR make your own— consider a good first aid guide, a tourniquet, blood pressure cuff and stethoscope, scissors, masks, wound dressings, tape, bandages, ace bandages, lidocaine spray, topical antibiotic, eye wash, etc. 

    For remedies and supplements by category see My Complete Guide to a No-Side-Effect Medicine Cabinet

    How I Use Essential Oils as an Alternative to Antibiotics.

    Never be without toilet paper. Put 4 rolls in 2 gallon Ziplocs and put 1 bag in each car, one in the garage, one under each sink in the house. That way, regardless of what disaster occurs – you are prepared.

    Longer term needs I like to have in hand to be prepared:

    Sanitation:

    • Bleach, splash-proof, medicine dropper to disinfect water if no alternative (see Berkey above)
    • Much safer than bleach, 3% Hydrogen peroxide is recommended by the EPA for use in Healthcare, Institutional, and household use and kills coronavirus on laundry, skin, and surfaces
    • Hand sanitizer and wipes: store-bought hand wipes, baby wipes, I can also made my own with castile soap, olive oil and ess. oils.
    • DIY Hand Wash kills viruses and bacteria: 3% hydrogen peroxide diluted 1:1 with plain water. Soak hands for 30 seconds and do not rinse, then dry.
    • Gloves, nitrile, latex, etc.
    • Luggable Loo is very inexpensive for the convenience it will add to life with no water. You’ll need bags.

    Laundry: to simplify you CAN use dish soap, just not much! Under tough conditions, I would use Dawn dish soap to cut grease even though it isn’t the most healthy.

    • Measure the dish soap. Don’t add the same amount of dish detergent as you would when using laundry detergent. If you add too much dish detergent, it will foam up and spill out of the machine. Always add the correct amount:
    • Add 1 teaspoon for small loads;  2 teaspoons for medium loads; 3 teaspoons for large loads.

    If no electricity, folding dryer racks, wash tubs, clothesline and clothespins (from Lehman’s catalog)

    Trash: Heavy duty trash bags (high 3 mil), kitchen garbage sized, Ziploc bags, regular trash bags

    Dental care: toothbrushes, toothpaste, dental floss, dental pick

    Personal care items: quality fine-edge tweezers (splinters), cuticle scissors, scrub mitts, lotion, feminine hygiene needs

    Plenty of underwear, socks, sunhats, ball caps, gloves (both warm and cold weather)

    Hair supplies: clips, elastic hair bands, basic shampoo, conditioner, combs, brushes

    Eye care: extra Contact lenses, spare glasses, CL cleaner, spare sunglasses

    Paper goods: besides TP, paper towels, enough paper plates, cups, disposable utensils to get by for a while

    Pet needs, pet food, litter?

    Fire extinguisher(s)

    Paper and pencils/pens

    Books, games, puzzles or other activities for children

    Heirloom seeds. Hybrid seeds cannot reproduce in many cases. (Learn how to garden now, so you know what you are doing if/when you really need to!) A small kiddie pool makes a quick, cheap raised single-season garden bed. Download directions from these posts and save together with seeds:

    • plant potatoes
    • straw bale gardening, cold-frame gardening
    • gardening in partial shade
    • Back to Eden gardening

    Basic cleaning supplies: Baking soda, white vinegar, your favorite cleaners, 5 gallon buckets, gloves, rags, paper towels, various spray bottles

    Stock up on Dish soap if there is no electricity! (Dawn removes grease) Scotch Brite pads, scouring powder

    Wash cloths, (I buy inexpensive 12 packs at Walmart), save clean rags and old towels, save clean old clothes for cloths

    Cooking needs: (you may never need any of this, but it’s good to have some level of preparedness)

    • Have on hand propane canisters, large size and small, an outdoor grill with at least 1 stove burner
    • Cast iron (non-stick) or other skillets, Dutch oven, stout scissors for cutting, good set of knives, 2 manual can openers, tongs
    • Pots, pans, stainless utensils, 4-5 day ice chest, big stock pot for boiling water
    • Fire pit accessories where you CAN cook if needed, grate, coffee pot with stay-cool handle (supply of readily cut wood)
    • Do you have a wood stove? That’s both heat and cooking surface.
    • Green Scotch Brite pads to clean pots and pans

    For hunters: Morton Coarse Kosher Salt (quantities) for preserving meats, 5 gallon buckets with lids. (The salt solution was judged ready when it would float a raw egg. This solution would require approximately 4 lbs of salt to 2.5 gallons of water.) Preserving meat without salt

    Prepare with Nutritionally-Dense Foods: 

    Freezers are grid-dependent appliances. See my post Food Storage: 10 Foods That Last Practically Forever

    I keep a good quantity of pasta sauces, simmer sauces in glass, and other canned foods. Canned salmon, tinned sardines, raw honey, almond/peanut butter, etc.

    Beans and white rice are long-lasting foods that provide a complete protein when combined. You can opt for different types of legumes that you might like better or find easier to digest than pinto beans, like high nutrition garbanzos, red kidney beans, or lentils.

    Do not try to store brown rice long term (>6 months). White rice will store MUCH longer!  Since brown is the healthiest to eat, keep some on hand. A month supply is good. And just rotate through the stash. Save the larger quantities of white rice for long term and no need to rotate through it as much. White is for when we don’t have other options. (Even then supplemental nutrition will be needed.)

    We put whole oat groats (and other whole grains) in 3 gal tubs and have a Marga oat roller. For the most bioavailability, soak your beans and grains.

    You can purchase high-quality freeze-dried food from Valley Food Storage, Legacy Food Storage or Wise Emergency Food. I plan to learn to make pemmican to stockpile some meat. Pemmican is considered to be a survival super-food.

    Learn how to identify and forage native food – a skill that has been lost.

    Essential Oils Go a LONG way as effective antimicrobials: Essential oils store for years and a little goes a long way. An especially useful oil is my thieves blend.

    My Top 10 Essential Oils.

    Be prepared to Create a “sick room”:

    People can get hurt, catch colds, and get fevers. You can’t just run out to the store easily when there is a pandemic going on. You have to have all of the supplies you need ready.

    Make sure you have the common painkillers and prescription meds, etc.  See My Complete Guide to a No-Side-Effect Medicine Cabinet.. And see “sanitation” above.

    Bug Out Bag

    To make my husband a BOB for Christmas, for final ideas I went to the Sensible Prepper. See his list below:

    Bug Out Bag Contents: Total Cost (approx. may change) $313.76 plus tax

    • Morph 26 Back Pack $18.97
    • Leather Gloves $9.56
    • 550 Paracord $5.97
    • Maglite Flashlight $22.32
    • Energizer Headlamp $19.97
    • Duracell AA Batteries $6.18
    • Water Bladder $9.97
    • Arctic Watch Cap $5.00
    • Waxed Cotton Ball Cap $7.47
    • Bear Grylls Basic Survival Kit $19.97
    • First Aid Kit $15.88
    • Survival Reflective Tent $8.74
    • SS Thermos $18.67
    • Cotton Balls 200pk $1.88
    • Petroleum Jelly $.97
    • Survival Food Bars $4.97
    • 4- 1 Whistle $3.97
    • Gorilla Tape $5.97
    • Coleman Bio-Wipes $3.97
    • Dust mask $.97
    • Dickies Work Socks $8.77
    • Sawyer Mini Water filter $19.97
    • Safety Glasses $5.97
    • Suspension Multi- Tool $26.84
    • Tealight Candles 50ct $2.33
    • Stanley Wonder Bar Tool $8.97
    • Gerber Prodigy Fixed Blade Knife $49.97

    We personally have not done every last thing listed to be prepared, but I have expanded this post to stimulate thinking on what you may need!

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    We can thrash around for answers about what to do, but our God can direct us in a way we never could by ourselves.

    “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
    ~Benjamin Franklin

    “In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
    ~Jesus speaking in John 16:33

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