Budget Prepping Supplies Anyone Can Afford Low Cost Prepping Frugal Items To Stock Up On hi
it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper are you concerned with budget prepping well
here are prepping items that nearly anyone can afford and they're items that are simple to find
they're usually inexpensive and they can really be life-saving for all kinds of emergency situations
we never know what emergency is coming but many of the prepping supplies that you would require
are commonly needed for all kinds of emergencies whether it's an earthquake a hurricane a
volcano pandemic coronavirue there are emergencies that can happen right within your own home
or all the way across the world as we've discovered during the covid coronavirus pandemic
part of the problem with deciding how to get started prepping what do I really need and what
can I afford is people look at the broad infinite spectrum of all of the possibilities they look
at the infinitely large rather than looking at the infinitely small start with small steps of
prepping seems too overwhelming because there are many tiny baby steps little tiny bits that you can
pick away at that can help your supply and your knowledge grow until you have a broad spectrum
of all kinds of things that you would need as a prepper be curious and expand your imagination
before you know it you'll have all kinds of great ideas of how to use simple things to
solve the problems that you face in any kind of an emergency prepared for anything what's the first
budget friendly prepping supply that you should have water it's as simple as picking up water at
the grocery store the water can sit stored safely in a sturdy container that you know that the water
is fresh for a very long time we know that we need one gallon of water per person per day for as many
days as possible but that is the absolute minimum amount of water that each person could actually
need we need water for drinking cooking hygiene and cleaning you think about all the ways that you
use water in a daily basis you're going to find that one gallon is not going to come anywhere near
to providing the amount that you would need on a regular basis so learn to pay attention to how
much water you actually do use and then stockpile as much water as possible for emergencies be
cognizant of the ways that you use water and maybe even help you cut back on the way that you live
your life on a day-to-day basis and it'll help you understand the importance of being prepared with
fresh drinking water you don't have to buy water at the store you can actually clean out things
like empty pop bottles clean them well fill them up and set them away with your fresh water supply
the next budget-friendly item that everyone needs would be lighters
or matches I like the long-handled utility lighters simply because they're easy to use
and you can reach all kinds of places with the long end to light whatever you want you can go
even to the Dollar Tree for prepping supplies find packages of matches remember though you need to
keep the package dry you need the dry matches and the dry strike plate to light your matches
if you can find some strike anywhere matches get a hold of those strike anywhere matches extremely
handy in all kinds of situations but they're a lot harder to find these days
to go along with your matches look for candles a very easy way to have a lot of light for a
long period of time is the tall candles in a jar they're sometimes called religious candles
you can pick them up for a dollar or two Dollar Tree candles they can burn up to 80 hours now
when you think about it you're going to need a candle in the dark it's not going to be dark
24 hours a day so candles that will burn for up to 80 hours can give you several hours of light
for many many days at a time one little flame of one candle is not going to light up a room so if
you're going to rely on candles for light make sure that you have several of candles
so that you can provide an adequate amount of light for your basic needs you can also
get smaller candles you can put them in little kits I put these candles together in a jar with
some strike anywhere matches and they're in a watertight airtight container so the candles are
going to be safe and dry and together when I need them in an emergency power outage I could take
the candles out use the jar as a holder to keep the candle upright safe and away from the wind
another great way to have a lot of candles is the tea light candles you can use several of
these candles together to heat up a can of food in an emergency just group the candles together
elevate your can of food over them and give it time and they will help warm up a meal if you
need to candles are not really great for say cooking but they're certainly good for heating
a great way to have food on hand for any kind of an emergency is to get some kind of bars whether
they're granola bars protein bars there's all kinds of ways that you can have a grab-and-go
meal that can fill you up doesn't require any refrigeration no cooking they're small and compact
you can buy a package of protein granola bars you have several days worth of food or a meal for
several people depending on the makeup of your family protein granola bars are an easy way to
have something to eat that you can grab and go are very inexpensive find energy bars that you enjoy
eating that your family likes and pay attention though to the best buy use by sell by date many of
them can last longer but not always depending on what they're made from I like the Nutrigrain bars
I've also had great luck with Clif bars lasting long past the expiration date they were still
great to eat right out of the package duct tape is a great item to have on hand for emergencies
but get the best quality duct tape that you can you can find duct tape inexpensively say at the
dollar tree for a dollar but it's not going to last and be as high quality as some of the name
brand larger size rolls that you might get at say the hardware store so find the best quality duct
tape that you can because it'll last the longest and be the most useful over the long haul of an
emergency situation dental floss is a super strong cordage you'll know how strong it is if you use it
because you can use it to dig all around in your mouth and it stays in one piece i've used dental
floss for sewing and it's super sturdy and strong the items stay together it also could be great to
use in a real emergency in a survival situation you could use it for fishing line if you needed to
i try to find dental floss that's unflavored for emergency purposes because say you want to use
it for fishing you don't want something that tastes like mint getting into the water your
fish aren't going to go near it coffee filters are fabulous to have for an emergency situation
first of all if you like to make coffee you'll want to have some of these and one of the ways
that you can make coffee in an emergency is to put some coffee in this take some of your dental floss
tie it up into a little packet and you can dip it in boiling water just like you would
a tea bag that's another reason you want to make sure that your dental floss is not flavored
because most people don't want mint flavored coffee these are also great you can pre-filter
any debris out of water before you put it through your water purification filter you can also use
these to line a plate for a meal so that there's little cleanup if you don't have a lot of water
these are also nice to portion out snacks to kids because it's a nice little container
it's already in like a little bowl or a cup you can put one serving into the little coffee
filter and serve it around they're also great for wiping up cleaning up in an emergency i've heard
they're really good for toilet paper there are emergency situations when getting clean can be
the difference between feeling great about facing the future or not i like to keep baby wipes on
hand they're great for sticky hands they're great for personal hygiene you can even use them if you
need to to wipe off the counter or an area if you end up with no running water for some reason
feeling clean goes a long way in helping you face with a positive attitude a difficult situation
the pandemic days of 2020 and 2021 have certainly made us appreciate having hand sanitizer but guess
what it isn't just for sanitizing you can also combine it with things like a cotton ball and you
can use it as a fire starter cotton runs are great for first aid i like them better than cotton balls
because if you're wiping off a wound they don't leave any of the fibers behind that a cotton ball
can so cotton rounds are great they're also fantastic to use as fire starters in an emergency
situation you can dab some petroleum jelly onto a cotton brown fluff it up and you're ready to
use your lighter or your matches to start a fire you can also pour some of your hand sanitizer onto
a cotton round and use that to start a fire if you don't have a good sturdy can opener get one
now yes it's easy to pick up inexpensive ones but if you really went into a grid down situation or a
long haul emergency and you have a huge amount of canned food in your prepper pantry having a sturdy
can opener is going to make the difference between being able to get all those cans open or not
so if you don't have a manual can opener make sure you get something and try to make sure that it's
the best quality that you can we always want to have plastic bags in our emergency supplies the
bigger the better the stronger they are the more useful they're going to be but even if you can
only find a few grocery sacks make sure you put them with your emergency supplies try to squeeze
them out as flat as you can roll them up fold them and put them in all the different areas where you
keep your emergency supplies did you know you can even use a plastic grocery bag to make a sling
in case you've hurt your arm open up the two sides of your grocery bag cut down the slits
fold it together and you can put it around your neck insert your arm and you have an instant slang
prepping is about being curious imaginative problem solving think about all of the
things that you have how can you make them serve your purposes for your emergencies
the more ways you've thought about how to use what you have to help provide the things that
you need to so that you can face any emergency that comes your way the better outcome you're
going to have to be able to face the next thing that comes along if you enjoyed my video i hope
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