100 items to stockpile now has been around for awhile and I think it is time to revisit it. Start where you are, start small, just start. Preparing for emergencies involves foresight and planning. One critical aspect of readiness is building a stockpile of essential items that can sustain you and your loved ones during…
Welcome! Are you here from my list of 22 Emergency Preparedness Tips? Awesome! What are the 5 Levels of Preparedness? It’s a helpful tool to assess how ready you are for an emergency, whether it’s a natural disaster like an earthquake or snowstorm, or a personal crisis such as a major illness in the…
This post is the show notes for my first Podcast (that has now been lost in the abyss of the internet. New show coming soon) Be easy on me! I am still learning and excited to bring you more content this way. Understand that there is no way to prepare for every possible scenario. What…
What does being prepared mentally for an emergency even mean? Does it mean reading as many news articles as you can so you know what is happening in the world? Actually, I feel that would be counterproductive to ones mental stability. Mental preparedness could save your life. How much knowledge do you have? You can…
Medical Preparedness~Preparedness is more than Beans, Bullets, and Band-aides. This is the third post in the series. You can also read about Physical Preparedness and Spiritual Preparedness. The title says prepping is more than beans, bullets, and band-aides, then I go an write about medical preparedness. This post isn’t about the little first aid kit from…
If you are Prepper, or if you aren’t first aid is something we all should be diligent about. Think of the money that can be saved by not having to go to the E.R. Now, don’t get me wrong. If one of my kids breaks their leg in a soccer game and the bone is…
I don’t even know where to begin on this Prepper’s Long Term Survival Review…I really like this book THAT much. Now, believe me, I have read my share or preparedness books. Fiction and Non-Fiction. This book was different. In the beginning of each chapter he has a fictional journal entry. He is journaling what life…
Do you have an Emergency Preparedness Binder? Do you need an Emergency Preparedness Binder? I didn’t think I did until I went to take inventory and realized I didn’t have an easy way to track my preps. I purchased an accounting notebook thinking that would work. It didn’t. I have tried a few apps, on…
5 Survival items I would buy if I found $100. $100 won’t get you everything on this list, you would have to choose. These could be survival or prepper items. This list could be exhaustive, but these are the first things to come to mind. Kelly Kettle To boil water to make it safe to…
Here are a few things you should do, right now, for pandemic preparedness. H1N1 is spreading, at a rapid pace, across the US. The last thing you want is for it to be where you are and you not be prepared. Not be ready for it and have to go to the store. When I…