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10 Steps to Basic Preparedness:
Prepping has become mainstream. Rest assured that you're not a
crazy prepper. There are 25 reasonable reasons to prepare! Below
are the steps to get started.
STEP ONE: Ensure you have basic pantry items.
Stock up on shelf-stable foods and pantry items such as canned
meats; boxed rice, pasta and potato flakes; oatmeal, boxed
cereals and breakfast bars, canned sauces, soups, chilis and
stews; pancake and baking mixes; crackers and nut butters; and
canned fruits and vegetables. Add powdered milk, coffee, tea and
drink mixes that your family already uses.
Make sure the food you stockpile is food already eat and enjoy,
but venture out to try new shelf stable foods. A good starting
point for a prepper's pantry is to have at least two weeks of food.
You can build your food storage from there. One or two months
supply of food is what average prepper has, while more advanced
preppers aim for six months to a year of food.
STEP TWO: Get water wise!
You can live only three days without water, so be sure to store
water and get a water filtration device. Learn to harvest, store
and treat your most vital resource: water! Daisy Luther's book,
The Prepper's Water Survival Guide, will get you started.
STEP THREE: Stockpile a deep larder of food.
You can live only three weeks without food so plan for your
family's survival. Go for a deeper larder of food than what's in
your everyday pantry to withstand a crisis. Food shortages, job
loss, or an economic crisis can happen without warning. It's a
comfort knowing you can feed your family in an emergency.
STEP FOUR: Get your financial house in order.
The Prepper's Financial Guide, by Jim Cobb can help safeguard
your financial resources before, during and after cataclysmic
events. Become self-sufficient; purchase precious metals;
safeguard your valuable possessions; barter and trade for needed
supplies; build an off-grid marketplace; reduce debt so you can
save for the future and much more.
STEP FIVE: Put together a bugout bag and a get home bag.
One of the best ways to build the ultimate bugout bag is to put it
together yourself. Lay out all your gear before you pack to see
how you might add or subtract items. When you know what's
inside you'll be better able to access what you need in an
emergency.
STEP SIX: Assemble medical supplies, not just a first aid kit.
Prepper's go beyond a sample first aid kit. The prepper's medicine
cabinet is filled with natural antibiotics, fish antibiotics and
supplies that won't be available from the pharmacy when the
world goes dark such as compression bandages, tourniquets, EMT
scissors, a stethescope and more.
STEP SEVEN: Learn to live without electricity.
Go off grid! Your long-term survival depends on your skills and
survival gear. Learn to live off grid or go without electricity in the
city. Prepare for a black or live like the Amish without electricity
in the country. Ensure you have heat, light and can cook.
STEP EIGHT: Have a communications plan.
You rely on your phone for navigation, weather information,
survival apps, news, and communications with family and friends.
What will you do if cell phones are useless? When transmission
towers are destroyed and networks become overloaded, you'll
have a means to communicate if you're an advanced prepper.
STEP NINE: Gear up with gas masks and respirators.
Preppers in the advance stages feel the need for equipment
needs arising from concerns of civil unrest, Martial law,
pandemics, nuclear catastrophes, biological warfare and more.
There's much to know
STEP TEN: Remember Knowledge Weighs Nothing.
Preppers have street smarts and they know how to defend the
homestead! It's not just about defense, it's about having the
skills to survive and to never give up.
Be prepared, not scared! Happypreppers.com has been writing
emergency preparedness articles for you since 2012 and we thank
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10 Steps to Basic Preparedness:
Prepping has become mainstream. Rest assured that you're not a
crazy prepper. There are 25 reasonable reasons to prepare! Below
are the steps to get started.
STEP ONE: Ensure you have basic pantry items.
Stock up on shelf-stable foods and pantry items such as canned
meats; boxed rice, pasta and potato flakes; oatmeal, boxed
cereals and breakfast bars, canned sauces, soups, chilis and
stews; pancake and baking mixes; crackers and nut butters; and
canned fruits and vegetables. Add powdered milk, coffee, tea and
drink mixes that your family already uses.
Make sure the food you stockpile is food already eat and enjoy,
but venture out to try new shelf stable foods. A good starting
point for a prepper's pantry is to have at least two weeks of food.
You can build your food storage from there. One or two months
supply of food is what average prepper has, while more advanced
preppers aim for six months to a year of food.
- Popular prepper's pantry articles:
- Guide to the 37 foods to hoard before crisis
- Best emergency food options
- Food bars provide quick energy and nutrition.
- Discover sealed foods to will last a lifetime
STEP TWO: Get water wise!
You can live only three days without water, so be sure to store
water and get a water filtration device. Learn to harvest, store
and treat your most vital resource: water! Daisy Luther's book,
The Prepper's Water Survival Guide, will get you started.
- Water is precious to life, so remember that...
- Bottled water is only your first defense: store it.
- You'll need more water than you think! Ensure you have a
three month supply of water for you and your family. - Water purification is an essential prepper skill learn the
various ways to make potable drinking water. - Water is hiding for you in emergency situations if you know
where to look. Learn more in our water survival guide.
- A water filter is precious for survival. Pictured slightly top
right, the Big Berkey Water filter, brings peace of mind for
the water quality in your home and can save you money on
bottled water. Another trusted water filter is by the U.S.
Military. The only water filter with a lifetime guarantee is the
Katadyn filter pictured right. Both are the best in class
options.
- How much water should you have for an emergency? A
family of four needs 270 gallons of water for a three month
supply, according to Utah State University. That's entirely
too many bottles of water to have in storage, which is why
you need to look at all your options for emergency water
storage. How to buy large water tanks.
- Water pouches for survival: are they worth it?
- Live in hurricane country? Never be without a waterBOB! A
waterBOB is a clean water storage solution to fill 100 gallons
of fresh drinking water in any standard bathtub. It sells out
quickly during hurricane season.
- Securing potable water is a survival skill. A gravity-fed
water filter is easy to own and operate. Learn more about a
Big Berkey!
- Nine reasons to get a Big Berkey Water filter
- Bottled water warnings.
- Top ten reasons NOT to drink the tap water
- How to remove lead from your drinking water
- How to filter water from radiation
- How to get fluoride out of your water.
STEP THREE: Stockpile a deep larder of food.
You can live only three weeks without food so plan for your
family's survival. Go for a deeper larder of food than what's in
your everyday pantry to withstand a crisis. Food shortages, job
loss, or an economic crisis can happen without warning. It's a
comfort knowing you can feed your family in an emergency.
- Plan for special dietary needs. Make sure you have food on
hand for any family members who is diabetic, lactose
intolerant or requires a low-sodium diet or gluten-free diet.
Thankfully there are gluten-free emergency foods and even
shelf-stable foods for people who have diabetes.
- Learn the art of dry pack canning. Stock up on buckets of
grains and dry goods such as rice, beans, peas, pasta, oats,
and wheat. Dry-pack canning is selecting dried foods to store
for the long term in mason jars too. You can put together
delicious meals in a jar and dry can, pasta, beans and more
to make easy, just-add-water meals.
- What is the best prepper protein? The answer is meat!
Here's how to stockpile meat in the prepper's pantry.
- Here are more ways to get a deep larder of food:
- Best emergency food options
- Butter food storage options
- Stock up on versatile oatmeal
- Augason Farms freeze dried and emergency foods
- Emergency ration bars review
- Pilot crackers are the modern-day hard tack
- Supersize your prepper's pantry with food buckets
- Learn all about oxygen absorbers
- Get gamma seal lids for food grade buckets
- Consider a foodsaver to seal in food at its peak flavor
STEP FOUR: Get your financial house in order.
The Prepper's Financial Guide, by Jim Cobb can help safeguard
your financial resources before, during and after cataclysmic
events. Become self-sufficient; purchase precious metals;
safeguard your valuable possessions; barter and trade for needed
supplies; build an off-grid marketplace; reduce debt so you can
save for the future and much more.
- Articles on finances, precious metals and cryptocurrencies:
- Prepare for an economic collapse
- Lessons from the Great Depression
- The Happy Prepper's Financial Guide
- Have you considered stockpiling copper?
- Secrets of prepping with silver.
- Are crypto currencies worth the hype?
STEP FIVE: Put together a bugout bag and a get home bag.
One of the best ways to build the ultimate bugout bag is to put it
together yourself. Lay out all your gear before you pack to see
how you might add or subtract items. When you know what's
inside you'll be better able to access what you need in an
emergency.
- What goes in the bag? The best bugout bag is 25-lbs and
under, and it should be no more than a third of your
bodyweight. Consult our Bugout bag checklist.
- Consider adding a Bivvy to your bugout bag. A bivvy is
better than a Mylar blanket to help you retain body heat. A
bivvy also can help keep your gear dry.
- A BIC is a big deal for many reasons. Is a BIC lighter part
of your every day carry? It should be. Did you know that a
BIC lighter is refillable? Refilling your BIC lighter is a hack
worth knowing about if you're a prepper. Stock up on the bulk
dea for the best deal on a BIC lighters in bulk and learn the
ten reasons to bugout with a BIC lighter...
- Pack the right foods! Your bugout bag should have food to
get you through the first 72-hours of an emergency as well
as snacks. Pack the right food bars in your bugout bag and
keep some in the pantry. Consider freeze dried and
dehydrated foods to lighten the load on your pack. The
Harmony House Backpacking Kit, pictured right, has a
healthy selection of foods to try.
- How to select your bugout clothes. The clothes you wear
bugging out are just as important as the gear you pack. The
clothes you have could be among the last man-made items
you ever own! They must be versatile and keep you warm.
Here's how to select and pack your bugout clothes.
- Build a get-home bag! What is a get home bag? Hint: a get
home bag is not the same as a bugout bag. One bag gets
you home, the other gets you out of Dodge.
STEP SIX: Assemble medical supplies, not just a first aid kit.
Prepper's go beyond a sample first aid kit. The prepper's medicine
cabinet is filled with natural antibiotics, fish antibiotics and
supplies that won't be available from the pharmacy when the
world goes dark such as compression bandages, tourniquets, EMT
scissors, a stethescope and more.
- Remember, knowledge weighs nothing so study up:
- Get a medical guide so you know what to do! The
Survival Medicine Handbook, right is a guide for when
medical help is NOT on the way. - Learn how to use a tourniquet properly.
- Know the proper use of a butterfly bandage.
- Medicines to stockpile for emergencies.Here's our list of
ten over-the-counter medications to stockpile before disaster
strikes.
- Barf happens. An emesis bag will help you effectively trap
the contagion to help minimize the risk to others. It's an
item you'll find only at the hospital or online here. Get them
before you need them.
- Got electrolytes? Be well hydrated during an illness by
ensuring you're stocked on electrolyte drinks.
- Neosporin prepping secrets! A first aid kit favorite, here are
ten things a prepper needs to know about Neosporin.
- How to prevent the flu. Preventing the flu and staying
healthy go hand-in-hand, starting with good gut health.
Here's how to NOT get the flu!
- Stock up on antiviral tissues. Stop germs where they start
with tissues that kill 99.9% of cold and flu viruses. They are
in short supply. If you have anti-viral facial tissues, use
them for when you sneeze or to relieve nasal congestion,
then use ordinary tissues for itches on your face so that you
don't touch your face. Assign everyone in your family a
ziplock plastic bag with their name on it to dispose of
tissues and the contagion properly.
- Pandemic Preparedness: 2020 brought Coronavirus, but
before that was Ebola in 2014 and H1N1 in 2009.
- Coronavirus information for preppers.
- How to set up a quarantine.
- How to NOT get the flu.
- Best disinfectants for pandemics.
- How to clean up vomit.
- How to control diarrheal symptoms.
- Do you own a hazmat chemical suit?
- Superbug preparedness steps.
- Hand sanitizers with essential oils.
- The power of Thieves Oil for infection protection.
STEP SEVEN: Learn to live without electricity.
Go off grid! Your long-term survival depends on your skills and
survival gear. Learn to live off grid or go without electricity in the
city. Prepare for a black or live like the Amish without electricity
in the country. Ensure you have heat, light and can cook.
- Power outages happen. Stay warm without electricity, even
if you don't have a wood stove or a fireplace with these
emergency heat sources. When electricity goes out, these
alternative heat sources will give you the heat you need.
- Cook indoors in an emergency! When it's wet and rainy, or
cold and snowy, how will you cook when the grid goes down?
Can you take your off-grid cooking inside? Yes. Here are
eleven ways to cook indoors in an emergency.
- Power up with a portable power station. Hurricanes, flood,
mountain fire, Tornadoes may result in power outage.
Jackery Explorer 240 Portable Power Station, pictured
immediate right, can be your reliable emergency power
supply for lighting, phones, laptop, radio, reuters etc. to
keep daily goingTake the lightweight generator Explorer 240
with you on camping, travel, cottage trips, off-road,
excursions, or anywhere you might need power. A generator
is a lifesaving piece of equipment! Here are Ten reasons to
own a generator.
- Best campstoves for preppers. Have a look at our popular
list of the best campstove options for survival and
enjoyment.
- How to prepare for a total blackout:
- How to prepare for an EMP.
- How to survive the final blackout.
- How to prepare for a cyber attack.
- Get ready for a planned power outage now.
- How will you do the laundry without electricity? Discover
the off grid laundry techniques of the Amish and pioneers.
- Prepper Toilets. If your #1 place to go #2 isn't available
because the toilets won't flush, you must have an alternative
sanitation plan. Read about your Prepper Toilet Options.
- Keep your kitchen well sanitized! Steramine, pictured right,
is an economical sanitizer that you can use to clean your
home. One tablet makes a gallon of sanitizer that effectively
kills microorganisms and infectious bacteria found on non-
porous surfaces to help keep you and your family from falling
ill in your kitchen.
- Preppers are going wild over wild lettuce. This natural
pain reliever that's used in teas and tinctures is easy to grow
and harvest. How to use wild lettuce prepping.
- Make your charcoal. Making charcoal is a lost skill. Learn
how to make your own clean burning charcoal.
- Prepping for an Electromagnetic pulse (EMP). Where are
the ten most dangerous places to be during an EMP? How
will you survive an EMP when the lights go out forever?
- How to turn loose coins into survival gear:
- Easy-to-find treasure in loose change: silver!
- Turn in loose change into Amazon money with no surcharges.
- More ways to get free money on Amazon.
STEP EIGHT: Have a communications plan.
You rely on your phone for navigation, weather information,
survival apps, news, and communications with family and friends.
What will you do if cell phones are useless? When transmission
towers are destroyed and networks become overloaded, you'll
have a means to communicate if you're an advanced prepper.
- Survival radio. Get cranking on getting a reliable emergency
radio for survival! The American Red Cross recommends you
have an emergency weather radio in preparation for a
disaster. They say, "no emergency kit is complete without
one," yet many preppers overlook this basic survival item.
- Crash Course in Morse Code! Preppers love Morse code
because you can express communication on paper, through
sound, visual clues, body language, flashlights and much
more. Get started in Morse code now.
- Ten Free Survival Apps! The best survival apps are free!
The survival apps in your cellphone are waiting to be
unleashed! One of many ways your cellphone can help you
survive is a survival app. The downside of any survival app is
that they're electronic. They'll help you get through a crisis
as long as the battery life of your Kindle Fire.
- Build a Faraday cage to protect your equipment. Shield
your electronics with a Faraday cage and the electronic
components of your car with Faraday protection. You can
build a small Faraday cage in five minutes using three items
STEP NINE: Gear up with gas masks and respirators.
Preppers in the advance stages feel the need for equipment
needs arising from concerns of civil unrest, Martial law,
pandemics, nuclear catastrophes, biological warfare and more.
There's much to know
- Personal protective equipment goes beyond a gas mask.
Consider also getting a chemical protection suit, a box of
nitrile gloves, and nuke supplies such IOSAT nuke pills.
- Do you own a respirator? Did you know there are ten
different kinds of respirators? Some are good for
pandemics, others for fires, contaminants or chemical
exposures. Learn about the 10 types of respirators.
- Gear up with a gas mask. While a gas mask is the iconic
prepper survival item, it's actually much lower on the priority
list than you'd expect. Don't buy a gas mask until you
understand fully how to put one on and when to use a gas
mask. Educate yourself on gas masks and filters because
there are eight things to know before you buy a gas mask.
STEP TEN: Remember Knowledge Weighs Nothing.
Preppers have street smarts and they know how to defend the
homestead! It's not just about defense, it's about having the
skills to survive and to never give up.
- Do you know the five basic survival skills? Gain a survival
mindset with this starter's list of the five basic survival skills
a prepper needs to master to survive.
- Improvised weapons. You're never unarmed when you're a
prepper, but that doesn't mean you always have a firearm
handy. There may come a time when you must defend
yourself with salad tongs, a hairbrush, and even a dirty
diaper! Improvised weapons could save your life.
- Fight or flight. It's a basic instinct for both man and animal:
the instant a being realizes that danger is imminent, there is
a "flight or fight" decision to make. The fight or flight instinct
is an acute stress response. In the world of prepping,
fighting is "bugging in" and fleeing is "bugging out."
- Homeless survival lessons. Could you survive the streets?
The nights? The hunger? The cold? The fights? Being
homeless is about staying out of trouble and also preparing
for a fight. Here's a prepper's guide to homelessness.
- Become a Grayman! Go unnoticed in an urban environment
with the five "gray man" survival skills.
- How to disappear. Want to disappear to evade an ex-lover
or a gang member? Learn how to disappear to save your life.
- Shopping thrift shops for prepping books? Shop Amazon
for used prepping and survival books and save money. Here
are Ten Prepping books to buy used on Amazon.
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