budget friendly prepping supplies stock up now covid19 coronavirus pandemic second wave
hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper I'm out at Granny Camp
which is my Alaska off-grid cabin I was thinking about some handy prepping
supplies that maybe you need to make sure that
you have in your stockpile or your stash all of these are very handy prepping items but
they're not very expensive and they would be something you could pick up a
little at a time when you go out to the store the first
thing you should consider getting are extra candles tea lights candles are nice
because you can get a great big pack of the candles
you could spread them around so you have more light in a power outage situation
you can place them in a jar so that you have a little candlelight lantern
and there are lots of easy ways to use the tea lights candles
if you want longer lasting small candles look for votives candles they have more wax in
them they have several hours burn time where the tea lights might
last an hour or two a votive might last four
even eight hours you can find long burning votives that last
quite a few number of hours look for the pillar candles sometimes they're
religious candles you find them they're already made in a
jar and they can burn for up to 80 hours if you want to stock up on the pillar
candles look for the long fireplace matches so
that once your pillar candle starts to burn down
you can still light it make sure with your candles that you have
lighters I call these clickers the long utility lighters stock up on matches
see if you can find the strike anywhere matches they're harder to find but
they're certainly more useful with the strike on the box matches you have to
have the strike plate on the box for them to work some people
tell you store them in a canning jar and just add
a piece of sandpaper but that's not going to work if you have
a strike on the box matches there's a chemical on the strike plate
on the box and a different chemical on the tip of the match and you have to
strike them together for them to light so make sure if you
have strike on the box matches that you keep the box dry
look for little cans of fancy heat or sterno fuel metal tins it's like a tiny
alcohol stove you unscrew the top light the wick and you can place the fancy heat or sterno can
under a pot and heat your food it's not going to
heat it as easily or as quickly as a camping stove
but it can certainly do the trick you can also use several of your votive candles or
tea candles to heat up food as well six or eight
votive or tea candles can do a great job of heating food
in a power outage or emergency situation look for inexpensive emergency lights
that take a battery i found these at the Dollar Tree they
are super bright LED emergency battery candles you can also place them in
front of a mirror to reflect the light it helps you have a lot more the solar
yard lights are a great idea these things last forever
when you buy the solar lights they have a tab they're not activated until you pull the
tab so store them with the tab in place because then they already have
a charge in them if you're storing something like
a porta potty luggable loo portable toilet stick one of these in there too you need
to find your port-a-potty in the dark you can set one
of these lights with it and you can find it
the solar lights are also great to take camping so you can find your way around a dark
campground stock up on over-the-counter medicines
maybe you want fever reducers muscle relaxers
stomach medicine diarrhea medicine cough medicine cough drops maybe an
extra pair of glasses readers you can buy them at the Dollar Tree
look for eyeglass glasses repair kits not only do they have things that can keep your
glasses repaired but they have tiny screwdrivers
which are great for all kinds of little repair jobs
then look for handy items that help you fix things
keep things maintained and help you just keep your life
operational on a day-to-day basis maybe you want some duct tape
super glue zip ties have some rope even a clothesline and
clothes pins in case the power goes out or you don't
have enough money to run your dryer you can still wash your clothes and hang
them up to dry get an extra pair of scissors and a
sturdy pair of work gloves this is just an assortment of items that
can help make your life easier on a day-to-day basis
they're inexpensive easy to pick up and they might be something you want to add
to your prepping gear supply if there's an item that you think is
important to the everyday essential survival gear leave it in the comment
below so we can all learn from each other
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