be prepared

With food and gas prices going up everyday, I guess I should have stocked up on food stuff sooner. I’m starting to buy extra canned goods when they are on sale, but MIL keeeps insisting that I cannot store things like rice for long periods. I need to look up on the web about storing food.

My DH got an emergency radio for Christmas. It’s great. It has phone chargers, a flashlight, weather-band radio, AM/FM, TV-band, and a hand crank to keep it cahrged up. No batteries needed. It will be so handy in a power outage.

I was talking to my MIL the other day and she said that she was worried about a major recession happening soon and said it wouldn’t hurt to stock up a bit in case times get tough. I’m glad that somebody finally is thinking kind of the way I do.

I set up a new aquarium today and bought several gallons of water for the tank. I still have a couple left over and these will be going into the closet for an emergency.

about this a lot lately. Every once in awhile my anxiety disorder gets the best of me and I start worrying about crazy stuff like disasters and pandemics and even zombie invasion. Well, when I get like this I like to try to prepare for the worst. It usually doesn’t last long enough for me to get much accomplished, but a little at a time and one of these days I will be prepared for anything. Today I was working on my Amazon wish list for Christmas and added a few survival books. They weren’t too overboard, just basic survival guides that would be good to have in case of a real emergency. My DH thinks I’m crazy, but when the zombies attack who’s going to be thanking me then. :)

I bought a plastic storage box yesterday along with items to go into a first aid kit. Right now its just your basic stuff like bandaids, alcohol, and peroxide…, but I plan to add more as I go along. At least I will have all of the stuff together from noe on and will not have to search all over the house to find something.

I need to make some lists of things that I would need for emergency kits. I want one for the car, one for home, and a first aid kit for each.

I want to have an emergency fund in case an unexpected financial situation arises. I also want to have enough emergency supplies in case we were to have a natural disaster or any disaster for that matter. We don’t even have enough food in the house to last a week. I usually make short trips to the store several times a week for things we end up needing. I really need to stock up some.