Water is extremely important in preparedness and self-sufficiency. A person can only live three days without water. How much water does a person need to store? Ideally, a gallon a day per person for drinking water. For non-drinking water, I don’t think you can have enough water stored. How many days of water storage do you need? This would depend on what you are preparing for. Right now, I am planning and buying three days’ worth of gallon size containers…
What about the cost of preparedness? Well, what about the cost? I think of the costs of preparedness in a few different ways. The monetary costs of preparedness can be a lot or a little, depending on what you are preparing for. You have to decide on what you can afford and what you can’t afford to live without. Most of what you buy and stockpile can be done cheaply and over time. You have to think about your priorities…
Sorry this post is a day late, but we are having one of those weeks at my house. The one where I forget my list of things to remember. Not good. Not good at all! Last week we discussed why I wanted to prepare – my family, continued inflation, and emergencies/hard times. So I have my motivation and focus. The second phase of preparedness is getting myself ready for preparedness. What do I mean getting myself ready for preparedness? This means…
This is the second in the Preparedness Series that I have decided to start blogging about on Mondays. I am not sure how long the series will go for, but I am excited to share my journey with you all! Why am I preparing? When I started storing more food and non-perishables, I didn’t think of it as preparing. I knew what life was like with no money and/or very little income coming into the household. I knew how helpless…
For preparedness this week or the last two weeks, however you look at it, has been going a little slow. I have accomplished a few things though! I have added to our water storage. In case of emergency, a person can only live without water for three days. Water is crucial and having extra water will only help you. I added three more cases of water bottles to our storage as well as three gallon containers to our storage. I…
I have been coming across a few articles about this comparison this week. I almost had to laugh because I see very little difference between prepping and preparedness. Both of these terms have almost the same goal: anticipating and being ready for every and all contingencies. In my view, the differences would be: Prepping involves the thinking that something is going to happen that will be catastrophic. For example, the government will collapse (I see this happening); solar flares or…