quick start to begin prepping checklist get now must have supplies hi it's
AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper i wanted to share with you today some easy tips on how to get started
prepping whether you've been prepping for a long time maybe you've started prepping but you're not
sure what to do next or you haven't begun prepping at all these are some easy beginner tips prepping
checklist that you can go through and see how you're doing figure out what to do next a great
place to start prepping is with food storage it's important to have a good supply of easy to open
simple to prepare foods in your prepper pantry stockpile if you can make meals for several days a
few weeks even a month having that food on hand is a wonderful way to ensure your family's security
prepping doesn't have to be SHTF apocalypse for you to need to go to your pantry and be able to
prepare a meal what if someone in your family is sick and you can't go out to the store what if
there's a winter storm and the roads are closed or it's just too dangerous to go out and drive around
there's always the possibility that you could lose your job or get cut back at work and have
fewer hours having a full pantry with foods that are easy to open easy to prepare and
have several years shelf life foods that you know how to cook and that your family will eat
plan on how you're going to use food items that you choose what can you have for breakfast
what will you serve for lunch what can you make for dinner and what about some snacks
store foods that you would normally eat and then rotate stored food add more food you don't have
to buy a month's worth of extra food all at once many of us can't afford that but when you go to
the store every time choose an additional item or two of foods that you use everybody can figure out
how to get an extra can of soup another can of chili another box of cereal something that you
know your family will eat think of your food as a working pantry foods that you normally eat and
you've planned into your meals how you're going to use them and have extras of those foods on hand
along with food we need a prepping supply of fresh drinking water we can't always rely that our water
will be running or that the water flowing from the tap hasn't been contaminated in some way
you can buy extra bottles of water at the store you can refill a variety of empty food containers
wash and rinse them very well and then you can refill them with clean drinking water if the
water coming out of your tap is already safe for you to drink you don't need to do anything
extra to the water that you're going to store just put on the lid and store it in a cool dark place
never store water in old milk jugs it's nearly impossible to remove all of the milk residue
and they're simply not a sturdy container and trust me you will have leaking problems you'll
have disasters if you try to reuse milk containers and you won't have the water
that you would need to in any kind of an emergency water takes up a lot of room and it's very heavy
before you buy a large water storage container know where you're going to put it how you're
going to fill it up and that you'll be able to move it or relocate it if you need to
another great tip is to have a water purification filter if you run out of the stored water that you
have then you'll be able to filter and purify any other water whether it's flowing into your house
or whether you get it from a secondary source so that you can continue to have safe drinking water
some of the water that you'll store will be used for things like hygiene dishwashing so fill a few
extra containers of water and stick them under your sink in your kitchen and your bathroom
so that you have extra water available where you're likely to need it stash some cash there
are all kinds of emergencies where a few extra dollars can go a long way to smoothing out an
emergency type situation try to have small bills collect them a little at a time save money if
you think times are hard now what would you do if times were worse so having the extra cash on hand
gives you an emergency fund whether you need to fill up the gas of your car you need to give your
kids a few dollars for something they need for school or you are in a real emergency situation
and say the power is out and ATM's don't work you'll have cash to continue to provide the
things that you really need keep your gas tank in your car as full as possible never let it
go below a half a tank when you don't fill it up somewhere you could find yourself in the middle of
the night when someone is sick and you need to go to the hospital and if it's any kind of a distance
and you haven't filled up the tank of your car you could have a real emergency on your hand
there are also times when there are fuel shortages and then their gas is just not available trucks
maybe can't get through or there are oil embargos there's all kinds of reasons you might find
that gas is not available when you go to the gas station remember the six p's to be ready in case
of immediate evacuation forest fires in california hurricanes in the southern states flooding in the
midwest earthquake here in alaska what are some things you need if you had to leave your home
immediately how can you prepare and have those things what if you had five minutes notice that
you needed to evacuate do you know where your wallet is your keys your cell phone and charger
do you have your medications any medical devices you need what about glasses your laptops and you
need an emergency folder with all of your important information your shoes a jacket
and any special items you would need for your children and your pets what if you had 15 minutes
do you have all of those items do you have a radio flashlights and batteries a first aid kit
camping equipment food water clothing a blanket what about a portable toilet all of these items
should be in your bug out bag and you should have those prepared sitting ready to go at your door
what kind of important paper should be included in your bug out bag look over this list you need
everything from your identification your bank statements driver's license all of your important
insurance documents and things that are important to you have a copy of all of those documents
together in a folder with your bug out bag look over this list of important items documents to
have for your family for your safety and items for your car no one wants to evacuate SHTF find out
all they have are the pajamas they're wearing and they don't even have a pair of shoes you
can avoid those situations by preparing ahead of time everyone needs a basic first aid kit here's
a checklist list of all of the important first aid items that you can have in your first aid kit
you can buy a ready-made first aid kit and then add to it any items that you think you would like
in addition to that here's a home safety checklist go over these items you need smoke alarms
carbon monoxide detectors fire extinguishers have fire drills and a plan to get out of your house
just like you need a plan where you would go if you had to leave your home you also need a plan
of how to safely get out of your home declutter your home a few minutes each day look at one
drawer in your kitchen one bedside table get rid of the things that you aren't using clear it up so
that you can organize the things that you do want and you do need then organize prepping supplies
you have in a way that makes sense put together candles batteries flashlights put together fire
starting equipment get some lighters matches dryer lint cotton balls vaseline you probably
have a lot of prepping stuff around your home but it may be scattered and disorganized and if you
clear out a little bit sort your things out just do it a little at a time a few minutes every
single day and before you know it you'll realize you already have a lot of prepping gear it was
just scattered around and you didn't realize it and if we don't know where things are they're not
useful to us at all think of ways to use what you already have figure out how supplies are useful
to you how you could use them in an everyday environment how you could use prepping supplies in
an emergency the more you think about things you have you come up with creative ways to use those
things and every extra way that you figure out how to use something means that it's one less thing
you need to buy because you already know how to make prepping supplies out of what you have
there are a lot of ways that prepping is just interesting it's fun it's creative it helps you
have peace of mind that you have what you need and also gives you the confidence that you can
make the best of each day you can figure out what to do next using the things that you have
not sure prepping is for you try looking at the news tonight and see if there's anything
that sparks a little bit of reasoning in your mind of why maybe you want to become a prepper
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