10 Other Ways To Prep Starting Now

Other than stocking up on the things you need for several months think about other ways to prep also:

Simplify your life. Get rid of excess. Excess monthly bills, debt, and expensive car payments. Pay down what you can. Put the rest away. Clean house of clutter, sell off what you don’t need or want to make room for what you need to have on hand. “Lighten your load”.

Have a dental checkup. Stock an emergency dental repair kit. Can be found in the camping/backpacking sections of outdoors stores. Ask your dentist if there is anything else you should keep on hand.

Have your eyes checked. Get an extra pair of glasses or a supply of contacts. Don’t forget saline solution.

Get a checkup. Talk to you doctor about bird flu. Ask for prescriptions for pain, antibiotics and anything else that may be unavailable. Doctors will often put together an emergency prescription kit for adventure travelers that may be gone for weeks on a wilderness expedition and days away from medical help. Take a first aid course.

Get Your Personal Affairs in Order (click for article) Very important to have everything updated and to know where everything is at.

Have a contingency plan. Plan for staying home. Plan for leaving. Plan for the worse.

Have your workshop in order. Make sure you can repair, maintain or build essential survival items. Have a stock of simple repair items such as screws, nuts and bolts, glues, clamps, etc. Scrap wood may come in handy!

Avoiding Cabin Fever During a Bird Flu Pandemic (click for article) Being cooped up for several months with spouse and children will be a challenge onto itself.

Cookbooks. You may need to get creative with the food you have stored. Having several good cookbooks on hand will help you make the best use of your food prep and keep your family from getting bored. Read through them before hand to make sure you have all the needed ingredients. You probably won’t have the chance to run out to the store to pick up the missing ingredient. Start testing some of your recipes now.

Make sure you have needed cookware on hand. Extra bread pans, pots, measuring cups and preparation equipment. Consider countertop appliances such as a rice steamer (especially if you just bought 50lbs of rice) and convection oven. These can use less electricity and can cook your food quicker.

Keep planning and prepping.

ok..lets see kids have had medicals,optomitrist appointments are done...dentals are done...we just got a new living room set(free) and I got a new bedroom suite(free)...I took my older dresser a nice one and gave it to my oldest son and we were going to throw the old one out....but being Rona women I made a shelf out of it and wow it holds alot and we were going to throw out steel shelves we had..I put one on top of the Rona shelf and hammer nails to hold it in place and it holds the cleaners...i nailed it into the 2x4,s in the basement

I have no cable only the internet and we have no phone..I only owe on 2 credit cards..and the one has my car on it...and I am willing to sell at the drop of a hat and can get good money for it...

Kids and I have plans plans and plans in place...remember that I am a single Rona mom and have 4 kids ....and even I have and can prep on a low budget....ok..I have also stocked up on larger sized clothing for my kids(in the wash now)well 4 green garbage bags from salvation army..some hanging some upstairs waiting to be boxed...

and extra blankets and comforters....

the only I am lacking on and going to try hard this month on my budget(cause I cannot work) waiting for surgery and my EI has run out well I have hit the low chain(and thats ok I have alot more then others): is to get a coleman and some tanks for it...and another cord of wood..we will if we have the chance before the flu hits collect wood from the woods around us and store in the shed and back deck..

so this is my story and i,m sticking to it...

Unless civil  society is completely destroyed, I think you can expect those evil corporations to be looking for their money when it all settles down.

Toying with the idea that debts might not be enforceable is a pretty dangerous game anyway