Prepping For Beginners Beginning Prepper Checklist Make Your Prepping Count Beginning
Prepping Checklist have enough for 2 weeks
hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper the first thing i wanted to talk about today was a very special pleasant heartwarming experience that i had yesterday
i have been outside of Alaska helping take care of my grandchildren and when i was at the airport
i met somebody from Palmer Alaska who came up and introduced themselves to me and told me how much
it meant to them about all of my videos and how it helped them with prepping and i want you to know
that that was very heartwarming that i really really appreciate that and that's one of the
reasons that i make AlaskaGranny prepping videos is because i do feel like prepping is important
and being able to take care of your family is like one of the most important things that we should
want to do in our lives thank you so much to my friend from Palmer Alaska for taking the time to
speak to me because it absolutely touched my heart and reinforced why i do these videos and why it's
important to me to continue to make videos to help people be prepared so that they can make the best
of every single day of our lives and that's the whole reason that I'm a prepper and that's why I
want other people to be too so that you can have the best life every single day so yeah anyway i
was very touched and very i feel very blessed that i was able to help someone so thank you very much
so with that if you're new to my channel or you're new to prepping i thought it would be important to
give a beginner prepper checklist if you're just beginning to prep or you've had circumstances in
your life that have changed that you haven't been able to prep for emergencies for a while
and you want to get going again it's never too late to prepare don't ever believe that
there's no time left that we're like eek the world is coming to an end SHTF because nobody knows what
the future holds but we do know that challenging times are ahead we still have time to prepare and
there are basics that we can do so if you haven't been prepping at all or you want to check over
what you're doing to know if you have what you need look over the things prepping supplies that
you have in your home could you be self-sufficient for at least two weeks if you couldn't leave your
house like what happened at the beginning of the pandemic if you could not leave your home do you
have enough food that you could make meals breakfast lunch dinner snacks beverages do
you have those food supplies things that if you couldn't leave your home you have enough food
for those purposes do you have enough hygiene supplies do you have the shampoo body wash soap
toothbrushes toothpaste dental floss Hand lotion do you have all of those personal hygiene prepping
supplies that you would need if you have little ones do you have enough diapers wipes baby formula
any over-the-counter medications that you need or just prescription medications do you have at least
two weeks supplies of every single thing that you need do you have the dishwasher soap toilet paper
and the cleaners that you use on a daily basis so that you can keep things going for two weeks
what if there was a problem during those two weeks that the power went off do you have a way
to prepare those prepper pantry foods do you have the extra water on hand in case your water becomes
contaminated you can't turn on the water to add to those foods do you have a way to prepare those
foods and make those foods safe do you have a way to store prepper pantry foods that's one reason
that i like to count on having shelf stable foods stockpile that are i can just open and eat them
even if i can't cook them that they're still able to be prepared foods that you can open and eat you
don't need to do any cooking that you could still eat them and then have foods that you could use
a little bit of water a little bit of cooking nobody knows what the future can hold and so we
don't know if we'll have the water that we need the power that we need and so you want to have
an idea of how can i cook if i don't have power how can i have water stored up in case the water
stops running or is contaminated and how can i do things i keep myself clean maybe i need baby wipes
maybe i need a portable toilet and i want to make sure that i can take care of my family's
hygiene and sanitation needs as well then what if something happens that you have to leave your home
and don't ever say i would never do that you just need to look on the news to know
that many people have been forced from their homes by forest fires they've been forced from
their homes from hurricanes tornadoes the floods that have happened in so many places and just
something can happen a tree can fall on your house and it isn't safe to be there a train could derail
there's just so many things that could happen you don't want to ever say i would never leave
my home because in an instant your life could change forever when you need to
and so the point of life is prolonging your life not the things in your life but your actual life
so you need to have a bug out bag you need to have something you can grab and go that can keep you
going so that you have the things that you need i've made videos i'll put a link to them about
what you should have in a bug out bag if you're not sure of what that is you want to have the
basic supplies that can keep you going for a 72 hours so we call them sometimes a 72-hour kit
so have the things together and then think about it what are the things that i value the most what
are the most important papers what are my most important items if you only had a few minutes
what are the items most important to you that you would want to grab and have forever don't ever try
to risk your life to save things you can always get more things but there are important documents
that you want to have a copy of with your bug out bag and then anything that's most important to you
think about it now and have a way that you know where that is and you could grab it in an instant
if you had to but if you only have an instant to save your life then don't take anything just get
out of your house you can always get more things never forget that it's the whole point of prepping
is to preserve your life think about the emergencies that can happen if you're away
from your home what if there's a snowstorm in the middle of the day what if there's a power outage
or some local emergency when you need to evacuate from your place of business or
from a store where you're shopping or wherever you are and you need to get home now you need to
have some supplies in your car some maybe some supplies at your work and have a plan with your
children and your family what if your children are at school or the babysitter or your spouse
is at work how can you have a plan of how you can get home safely or if it's not safe to go home
where can you meet so that you can be together and know that each other is safe and that's one reason
that you want to make a plan and have the most important contact information on a piece of paper
so that you have it written down in case something happens you lose your phone the phones don't work
how can you contact the most important people to you the people that you would need to contact such
as your babysitter your relatives your employer your insurance company your health care provider
there are many times when you might need to have those numbers on hand you want to have
those important contact information written down so that you have it with you then keep
a current photo of your family and your pets so that you can identify who you're looking for and
show that you belong together that to me was one of the most heart-wrenching things from the 9 11
when people were putting up photos have you seen this person please help me find them it was just
gut wrenching can you imagine if you didn't have a current photo and so you weren't able to provide
that information and that's one of the ways having a photograph is going to help you locate that
person and your pet you want to make sure that you can locate your pet and that you can show
this is my pet and here's a photo of us together so that if you do become separated you can get
back together you're able to show that that's us and we're a family and those are our pets
and we belong together so nobody wants to live in fear but we want to be prepared because there are
so many things that can happen so figure out what are the things that could happen to you where you
live what are the risks are they hurricanes are they earthquakes volcanoes forest fires
only you know what are the risks where you live and that's what you should prepare for the more
planning you do and thinking about what are the risks to me and what do i need to have the better
off you're going to be in any kind of an emergency situation so don't be scared prepare so that you
can face every day the best that it can be you'll have the food the water the hygiene supplies the
first aid supplies the basics and you'll have a plan in mind what can i do where can i go who can
i rely on and that's the best we can do that's the best we can hope for we want to have just happy
days every day but life doesn't work out that way and so if you plan ahead then you'll have the best
outcome because you won't panic you'll know what to do so go over this beginner prepper checklist
if there's something that you think is missing leave it in the comments below so that we can
learn from each other what to do and if there's someone who's touched your life and helped you
reach out to them and tell them thank you because you can certainly brighten someone's day
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