survival assessment of your prepping supplies skills stockpiling goals priorities
hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper just like we make a budget and then we review it we go over
our receipts and we decide how things are coming along for us it's important
to make a survival assessment of your prepping supplies and your prepping survival
skills you need to occasionally review your prepping plan the emergency gear that you
have the ideas that you've made the bug out evacuation plans and see if those things are still
working for you make an inventory of all your prepping emergency survival supplies and go through them food water first aid hygiene sanitation tools and
figure out which ones are you really using which ones do you need more of and
which emergency supplies prepper pantry stockpile food items ones do you have too many you're not using them up before they're expired
those are things you need to adjust and adapt your preparedness plan so that you have the emergency prepping supplies
things that you need in the correct amount taste change and needs evolve so
we need to make sure that we're updating our emergency plans to meet the current needs of
our situation ask yourself a few key prepping survival questions are you rotating your supplies
are they lasting as long as you had hoped or do you need to make an
adjustment in the supplies that you have do you have some items that are becoming
expired or you have just way too much maybe you need to donate some of those
or find a way to use them more frequently so that your things stay up
to date current and ready to use set stockpiling goals going forward for what
you're using now and what you predict you'll need and use in the future
those are the areas to work on going forward you can adjust your shopping and
stockpile needs to the things that you're currently using and the things
you expect to use in the future make a list of those food water first aid hygiene sanitation tools items and a plan for how
to collect those you always want to be working on your stockpile of food and
water then you want to make sure that you're rotating those foods and keeping
that water fresh make sure you have a way to cook that food and practice
cooking if you have no power if you have no water do you have a camp stove a
supply of charcoal a way to cook over a fire pit practice
starting fires so that you know you'll be able to do those things if you make it a
challenge and an activity that you try occasionally it's fun to learn to cook
outdoors over a camping stove and then it isn't going to be a hardship or a
crisis if you need to you can roll along with the events that are happening it
doesn't become a crisis when you don't know what to do you already have planned
and practice and it's time to implement your emergency plans it in the situation where it's really
required along with your stored water make sure that you have a water filter
then get it out occasionally and practice using it you don't want to wait
until a crisis situation to find out you don't really remember how and you've
lost the directions things that you store that you don't know how to use and
don't know what you would use them for just become clutter and a burden in your
life go through your emergency prepping survival supplies review each item and decide this is still
meeting the needs of what I expect I would want to use it for do I know how
to use it and am i confident that it'll meet the needs that I expect in an
emergency situation challenge yourself to use the prepping supplies things that you have try out
your camp stove your lanterns your flashlights try starting a fire making a
foil packet on your gas barbecue grill have emergency plans know how to give
first aid study over your evacuation route have fire drills in your home go
through your bug out bag and see how can I use these items the best are there too
many not enough is it too heavy I can't carry it do I know what every single
item in my bug out bag it is for make a home invasion plan know what you would do if someone
did come into your home avoid a confrontation but be prepared in case
you need to defend yourself and your family there are a lot of
areas of prepping and survival that we don't use on an everyday basis but they
are things we still need to plan for going forward the future is uncertain
but if you live long enough you know hard times come to everyone all lives
come with challenge but if we plan ahead the things that are most likely to
happen to us in the areas that we live and we think about what we would do in
all kinds of different situations then we're ready we don't panic we have the
idea of what we can do we have the supplies to use and we know how to use
those supplies to make sure that we can make the best of any situation so take
an assessment of your survival and prepping gear and supplies and make sure
they're meeting your needs for today and going forward
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