Emergency Preparedness:

Do your Research (Become a Prepper)

I’ve been spending quite some time researching all sorts of topics to do with Emergency Preparedness. I want to prepare but I want to be informed as to why and how my family can prepare. I want to be assured I have thought things through and not just jumped onto the bandwagon. I have joined a local group of families that are learning about Emergency Preparedness and Homesteading skills. I have volunteered to teach about 72 Hr. Kits or Bug Out Bags as you may have heard them called!

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The next few weeks I will be sharing what I have learned as well as what our family has done to prepare. You may remember me dabbling into this subject in the fall with my articles: 10 Steps to Getting Prepared for an Emergency and Emergency Preparedness: Are you Prepared?

What is a Prepper you might ask? I would define a Prepper as a person who prepares for the future by not relying on everyday conveniences of technology, electricity, and common societal info-structure. The Modern  Day Boy Scout/Girl Scout but not an extremist. I am not talking doomsday or zombies here. Just talking about a few days without power and grocery stores are unable to sell food! A gas leak calls for a couple day evacuation of your neighborhood.

 

Places to Research:

Google- terms to search First Aid, Camping Skills, Camping Recipes, Ways to start fires, Ways to build a shelter, Ways to purify water, Survival Skills, Gardening, Container gardening,etc..

Pinterest-loads of items you could get lost for hours. Check out my Camping and Emergency Preparedness boards. Follow them, repin them, or tweet them all you like!

FEMA– have videos and lists of ways to get ready and be prepared.

Red Cross- check online for free resources and your local chapter for classes.

Local Library– check your local library for resources mentioned below so you aren’t spending your hard earned money on books when you need first aid supplies or other skill training!

American Girl’s and Boys Handybooks-Great series from my great-great grandparents era! Learn to make kites, boats, traps, fishing lures, party planning, painting, and all sorts of skills that used to be the norm for young ladies and young men!

Make sure to download American Girls part 1 and American Girls part 2.

Make sure to download American Boys part 1 and American Boys part 2.

GUTENBERG/ACHIVERS– free ebooks abound on these topics!

Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making

On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls

How to Camp Out

Camp and Trail includes wilderness,horses, and canoes

The Scientific American Boy – something our grandfather’s read and enjoyed with lots of skills!

Camping for Boys– camping, cooking, hygiene, first aid and weather forecasting.

 Boys Scouts Handbook 1911– nature, tracking, camping, health, chivalry, first aid, patriotism, and citizenship.

Girl Scouts Handbook 1925-History, Principles, First Aid, Child Nurse, Home Maker, Health Guardian,etc.

The Home Medical Library

Amazon– Some choices that are not free but worth looking into. If you are a PRIME member you can borrow most for free!

FREE Today! I included this book thinking that the more money you save on everyday items like groceries then you could put some of that savings towards-prepping.

 

 

 Should also be free!

 

I will be referencing Survival Mom’s website throughout my Emergency Preparedness series. So stay tuned to see what the “Survival Mom” has to say!

For the more military minded!

 

 

 

 

 

Budget friendly ways to prepare for the future.

 

 

 A variety if ideas for food storage.

A friend of mine constantly talks about Backwoods Home magazine! She loves it. She has learned all about canning and some food storage ideas that she has implemented. I don’t even think of her as a prepper but maybe she is more than I know:)

 

 

I have collected this entire series over the last year or so for FREE! I love how it is broken down by months. I would keep my eye out on this one as a great quick start guide to homesteading.

 

 

50 methods for starting fires without matches. You will learn how to light fire with friction, chemicals, the sun, electricity, and sparks. You will learn how to start a fire with ice, guns, rocks, sticks, flashlights and even air.

Magazines:

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What have you done to become a Prepper? What is your favorite resource or book or website about Emergency Preparedness?