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DIY emergency kit with a 5 gallon bucket
hi it's AlaskaGranny I'm on my way to one of my friends house with one of my free buckets from the
grocery store I want to help her get started with prepping and make an emergency supply kit in a 5 gallon bucket
because she said to me I don't have the time
or the money to get prepared or start prepping with all
this Bug Out Gear and emergency supplies
I said I bet you have some of those things in your house you just
need to get your emergency supplies gathered and store them in a 5 gallon bucket
organized so I said I will come down with a 5 gallon bucket
I will spend 5 or 10 minutes looking around for emergency supplies you already have in your house and then I will make an emergency kit in a 5 gallon bucket
for you with your emergency supplies you already have
the challenge is on I'm making an emergency kit
for one of my friends that doesn't think they can do it themselves
I think they can
and this is what we ended up with here are the basic supplies you need in your 5 gallon bucket emergency kit
roll of paper towels Kleenex
toilet paper napkins plastic utensils
when you go to the store you know you by big packs of napkins kleenex
toilet paper and paper towels
take one out immediately put it away in emergency supplies use up the rest in
your everyday life
because if something happens you're gonna be super glad if you can go to your
emergency cupboard and find another roll or two if there's a real emergency
we also found some cotton balls
and I rubbed them with vaseline put them with a lighter
for emergencies and she needs to get matches we didn't find any matches
we found different sizes of disposable bags and she's agreed to get some big black
plastic ones
we found a flashlights and batteries
toilet paper tubes for stuffing in things like lint for fire starters
bar of soap a pen
and paper that's important to have because if you need to
write a note for somebody you need to have the supplies to do that
she was surprised to see how few emergency food items she had we found
some little cans of
chili stew beans and Franks a can of
fruit and a can of green beans and that was basically it
and hot chocolate and tea bag you know what
even if you like fresh things say you like to eat fresh corn on the cob get a
can of corn
put it away in an emergency you can still eat foods that are
familiar to you
stock up some food you can just pop open and eat
if there's a power outage if there's a
blizzard if you get sick
you need to be able to take care of yourself
and we got a sweat shirt and a pair of warm socks for both of them
and we made a list of things that she's promised to work on
she realizes it isn't very hard you do have a lot of things on hand you just
need to assemble them
so we've got the list for things like first aid kit
more food matches water there's no extra water stored in that house
a radio that winds up wet wipes
the garbage cans a manual can opener
flashlights candles
and local maps so if your friends think they can't do it go over and give them a
kick start get them going because after we did this she decided you know what
it is kind of important it's kind of fun and it
isn't that hard to do let me know what you think about
the start we got for my friend making a 5 gallon bucket emergency kit
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