Prepping Supplies Small Overlooked Must Have Items Buy Now hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper I
was going through my prepping supplies it's always a good day to try to organize take an
inventory prepping supplies make sure you have everything emergency supplies you need today I
was going through little items little prepping supplies niceties that keep our life running
smoothly take up very little room prepper stockpile can be extremely helpful I share
some of those little prepping supplies with you in case you want to quickly add that onto your
list of things prepping supplies you need to figure out where they are in your home or if
you need to replace them or add a few into your prepping supplies these aren't in any particular
order they're just random and I'll just go through them and show you some ideas of little prepping
supplies you might want to have on hand I have a few different types of glues or adhesives a fix
it all adhesive and some little tubes of super glue it's simple to pick up a little pack of
glue because when you need glue you need it now you don't want to have to put super glue on the
list remember to pick up super glue at the store search for super glue in the hardware store and
then come back and remember where are those pieces you wanted to put together so it's so
handy if you have different kinds of adhesives glue on hand super glue never tends to last and
something I learned a few years ago is that even if you buy the single use super glue so that you
don't have to worry about you open it super glue dried up they still dry up super glue doesn't
last forever it would be nice if you could put something like this away and think that it would
last as long as your rice and beans but they don't and so you want to make sure that you're
checking over adhesives and glues to make sure they didn't dry all up inside the tubes or the
little bottles and they're not useful anyway so check over those things see if you need to add a
few more it's nice to have a variety of tapes we always hear as Preppers oh you need your duct tape
but sometimes that's not the only tape you need and I recently found wrap and repair silicone tape
that it's adhesive free tape bonds permanently and creates a water and airtight seal now I'm not sure
exactly where I might want to use wrap and repair silicone tape wrap and repair silicone tape could
come in handy for leaking gutters things like that in little drips that are coming in around
the window I think there might be a lot of ways that I might want to use wrap and repair silicone
tape so I want to have options in my arsenal of adhesives tapes and tools do you have plenty of
clothes pins clothes pins are handy for hanging up close to dry of course but even if you're putting
your winter gloves and mittens into a big basket so people can grab them on the way out the door
clip them together clothes pins so gloves are a pair and people don't have to dig around looking
for them clothes pins a nice way to put away your garden gloves you can clip them and then just hang
them over something to make sure they're dried out and shake off any mud or dirt later on clothespins
are nice to seal up things like chip bags in your pantry clothes pins bags of frozen food
that you open and take out a few items and you can clip it closed clothes pins at the top food
will remain fresher better longer and hopefully not spill all out of the bag either sponges can
be loaded with germs and I do regularly toss them and replace them I also put them in the
dishwasher run them through squeeze them out and that helps them last longer and be more sanitary
so make sure that you have a fresh supply of your cleaning supplies even down to the little sponge
think about little tools you can pick up a manicure set and you get nail clippers
tweezers Emery boards the whole little set can have a little bit of an assortment of tools and
those are going to be handy for a lot of different reasons you can put them in your bathroom you can
put them with your first aid supplies maybe you even want to have one in the car if you're ever
out and about and you get a torn fingernail or a splinter you could reach into your glove box or
your little emergency bag you have in the car and you can take care of any kind of little emergency
nail clippers are also handy to have with you most of the time because we run into little things that
we need to cut open or cut off and you can do it with nail clippers where scissors would be better
but a lot of times nail clippers will really do the trick do you have pets make sure you have an
extra leash keep one in your car keep one with your emergency gear if you have to bug out in
a hurry the last thing you want to do is lose your pet and so if you have one of these even
if you jump into the car and you take off and you can't find it or something you can have an extra
one in your car so that you can quickly clip onto your pet and help get outside walk them get them
to safety I keep extra leashes in my car I keep them with my bug out gear and I like to have them
around I don't have to worry about my little teddy getting loose I'll be able to keep track of him
and keep him safe have plenty of poop bags they're not only great for picking up dog poop you can use
them for just little gloves in an emergency if you need to because you can put them over your hands
if you need to move rocks or you need to pick up stick any kind of dirty things that you need to do
in an emergency you could use a poop bag just put it over your hand so that you keep clean from some
of the icky tasks we might end up encountering on a crazy day I was reading in the news recently
where somebody was complaining on an airplane that they were stuck on the tarmac and the bathrooms
weren't open and a child had to go to the bathroom in a plastic bag and I thought what's wrong with
that they figured it out I thought that was pretty reasonable and it was clever and it got the job
done and kept everything contained why is that something you go berserk and you need to sue the
airlines aren't you glad you had a plastic bag can you imagine what could have happened if the child
had wet themselves or peed on the seat in the airplane aren't you glad you figured it out and
you made the best of an emergency situation try to see that as you solved a problem that rather
than you need to blame somebody for a hardship be glad you have the inner strength to figure it
out and then get going with your day dark nights are here have you got some solar lights you can
pick up the regular little yard lights and they usually have a tab that activates them but don't
activate them until you're ready to use them if you have extras for an emergency you can put
these with your emergency gear and then if the power goes out you can get it out pull the tab
and it's activated ready to go if you already have them activate it you have to keep them
charged in the daylight and this way if the power goes out at night it there's not a problem that
you didn't set it out and get it lit up that it's going to work just fine they come off this stick
they have another stick if you want to put them in the yard stick them down in the deep
snow you can still reach to the top and you can even take the tops off and then you can
put it even on a jar or something or set it this way if you wanted to like not use this
they're easy to use they last a long time and you'd be surprised how bright they can be at
night if you've never used these this solar light is something I found recently at the Dollar Tree
when I was in the lower 48 and I think it's great it has a nice big solar panel and it looks like
a light it has this steak in it but see it's flat and you can just set it on a counter in
the bathroom on the table in your house in your children's room and it looks like just a nice
little emergency light it doesn't look like a yard light from Dollar Tree does it so uh if you can
find some of these pick them up I wish I'd gotten some more and if you want them for the yard the
stick is there it's just in the bottom don't think the steak is missing you just pull it out and turn
it around and there it is and yes it does come apart you wouldn't have to use even any of this
you could set it like that but I think it looks better with the base and of course you would take
off this sticker for it to look the best but I think this is a handy little light I'm glad I have
a few of them I wish I had more heavy winds winter storms hurricanes tornadoes power goes out for all
kinds of different reasons have some emergency candles even some little tiny ones but if you're
going to get the little small ones they don't last very long so make sure you get a big pack of them
the bigger the candles the longer they usually last so you can look even for five hour emergency
candles you can even get the big candles in a jar there's all kinds of different candles you
can find I've read many times people are saying pick them up at thrift stores but I have never
seen candles cheap at thrift stores it's it's uncanny that you want a used dirty candle when
you could go to the store and pick up a package of them for about the same price that they asked
at the thrift store maybe that's an Alaska thing I don't know but if you've ever found candles at a
bargain at a thrift store leave it in the comments below because I would sure like to hear if that
really works or people are just guessing that that's a good idea along with your candles pick
up some extra matches and I like the long utility lighters because then even if you put your candle
down into a jar you can reach down in and light it these are great for lighting the barbecues gas
grills fireplaces fire pits all kinds of things so it's great to have the long utility lighters
and some matches to boot and the strike on the box matches have to have the strike plate on the
box don't think that you can take them out and put them in a jar or something and add sandpaper
that's not going to work there's a chemical on the strike plate and there's a chemical on the tip of
the match and when you strike it it mixes those combines them together and that's what causes the
fire that's why strike on the box needs the box or in a lot of times they'll call them safety matches
if food storage is your thing buckets of beans rice pasta oatmeal all kinds of different dried
foods and if you don't have a bucket wrench please make sure you get one the day may come
and you really need to open those buckets and eat that food you need to be able to get the lid off
it can be so hard on your fingers sometimes you can't even get it open so make sure that you get
a bucket lid wrench so that you can pry open those buckets and get to that food if you need to cold
and flu season have some cough drops sometimes you can find them with vitamin C and that's a
nice supplement to have your body needs vitamin C every day it can't store vitamin C that's why
Sailors used to get like scurvy that they would have bleeding gums and health problems because
they couldn't get the vitamin C they couldn't have fresh type Citrus type fruits that could
help keep them well so have some cough drops and perhaps some vitamin C as well eye drops that's
a nice little thing that I like to have on hand and don't forget lip balm you can find chapsticks
this one is Vaseline which is also handy because you could put one in your bug out bag and then an
emergency you could rub it over a cotton ball and start a fire you could do it with chapstick too
but sometimes nice to have the actual petroleum jelly because that works great for starting fires
more so than chapstick but chapstick works but the Vaseline petroleum jelly works the greatest
so be thinking about all the little items you might want sewing needles spools of thread
eyeglass repair kits tiny little tool sets there's so many little things that can help
keep our life running smoothly so look over the things you have think about the things you need
and what you would do in an emergency situation the wind is Flowing crazy here today and if the
power went out I want to make sure that I have some candles and some lighters some flashlights
and fresh batteries then it's also nice to have a camping stove even little cans of Sterno fuel
look over your Basics make sure you have what you need if you can think of any other small prepping
items that we might have overlooked and we want to make sure that we buy them now too leave it in
the comments so we can think about those things and add them to our shopping and prepping list
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