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Prepping: Getting Started-Introduction

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You may be reading this post because your interest in ‘prepping’ has been piqued and you’re wondering just what you will need to do, if you want to start. Or, maybe you have already decided that you want to be proactive for the possibility that disaster can strike your family in the many ways we mentioned in Why Prepare?

Emergency Managers and Emergency agencies are aware of the many situations that families can find them selves from something as ‘simple’ as a loss of jobs to an extreme situation from weather, disaster or terrorism. The scale of emergencies is wide.

Whatever the reason, you are sitting there, shaking your head, looking at your screen and asking “Then WHAT DO I DO?” — “HOW do I START?” . Starting is easy. But be warned: Once you start, you are going to find yourself on a life-changing journey that will be a continual process of education. ‘Prepping’ will offer you peace of mind that you have done all that you can to prepare your household & family so that they can weather a small disruptive event (like unemployment of a family breadwinner) or a major event that effects not just your family, but your local community or our country-at-large.

So, what to do? We’ll help you with some basic ‘How-To’ Information in this forum.
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Survivalblog's Quick-Start Guide for Preparedness Newbies

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HatTip to "cityhomesteader" @ American Preppers Network for finding this:

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Quick-Start Guide for Preparedness Newbies
https://survivalblog.com/?s=Quick-Start+Guide+for+Preparedness+Newbies

I often get e-mails from folks that have just found SurvivalBlog or that have just finished a copy of my my novel "Patriots" , that they received as a gift from a relative or a friend. Their response is surprisingly uniform: People feel overwhelmed by the enormity of what it takes to get a family prepared.

First, take a deep breath and relax. Just realizing that you need to get prepared has already put you ahead of 70% of your neighbors, who are sadly little more than clueless sheeple. If you accumulate a one-month food supply then elevates your preparedness into the 80th percentile of preparedness. And by the time you work your way up to a one year supply, you'll be in the 98th percentile. It's not very difficult, its not very expensive, and its not very time-consuming. Just do it one step at a time. --- Copyright 2005-2009. All Rights Reserved by James Wesley, Rawles - http://www.SurvivalBlog.comâ„¢ continued at link, above ---

Includes:
  • First Things First
    Start with a "List of Lists"
    Where to Buy
    Don't Overlook Searching the Archives
    he TEOTWAWKI Weekend Experiment
    The Ultimate in Preparedness--A Rural Retreat
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Mental Preparation

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Mental Preparations

The 12 Rules of Survival
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2010/08/laurence-gonzales/the-12-rules-of-survival/

The 12 Rules of Survival has been out of a couple of years now, but it never hurts to reread them. Read the whole book "Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why" if you get an opportunity!

THE 12 RULES OF SURVIVAL
By Laurence Gonzales
http://www.deepsurvival.com/

Includes:
  • 1. Perceive and Believe
    2. Stay Calm! Use Your Anger
    3. Think, Analyze, and Plan
    4. Take Correct, Decisive Action
    5. Celebrate your success
    6. Be a Rescuer, Not a Victim
    7. Enjoy the Survival Journey
    8. See the Beauty
    9. Believe That You Will Succeed
    10. Surrender
    11. Do Whatever Is Necessary
    12. Never Give Up
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Re: Ok - I want to prepare - what now???

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Steps to Consider for Emergency Home Preparation

Grain Storehouse

What is preparation or prepping? A brief breakdown.
http://www.grainstorehouse.com/?p=384

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let’s look at the wide variety of things that prepping include. Below is a breakdown of areas, not in order of priority, or even all inclusive – but a basic, brief list of things that are often included in preparation:

~ Building a Long-Term Workable Pantry or Food storage. This includes skills and tools.

~ Learning Survival Skills, Techniques and Planning

~ Assuring a Drinking Water supply.

~ Learning and using Emergency Reaction skills and tools.

~ Planning for Terror, Pandemic or Natural Catastrophes/b] to react in peace with a cool head.

~ Preparing for alternate Communications

~ Self-Sustaining lifestyles and skills such as gardening, storing harvest, skills and tools to feed from ones own efforts.

~ Obtaining an Alternate Power Source

~ The right to bear arms be it for hunting or protection.
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Re: Ok - I want to prepare - what now???

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Getting Started

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Start Preparing HERE:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2011/06/26/start-preparing-here/

Don't worry, be ready!

If you're new to the idea of preparedness, you can start your journey right here, right now. Check out these basic steps, start small, but keep a steady pace. --- continued at link, above ---

Includes info on:
  • Baby Step #1: Plan for a Short-Term Emergency
    Baby Step #2: Prepare Your Vehicle:
    Baby Step #4: Get Home, No Matter What
    Baby Step #5 Simple Steps to Preparedness
    Baby Step #6 Quick Ways to Increase Your Survival Education
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Take Baby Steps

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Getting Started-Baby Steps

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28 Baby Steps for Any Prepper
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/11/26/28-baby-steps-for-any-prepper/

Some SAMPLE Baby Steps ... FULL LIST can be found at link, above
  • * Make an evacuation plan for your home, hold a family meeting, and conduct a drill.
    * Learn how to use a solar oven.

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    * Find the shut-off valve for your home's water and gas systems.

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    * De-clutter one room in your house to make space for for your food and supply storage.

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    * Read a preparedness related book.

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Re: Ok - I want to prepare - what now???

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Preparing: General Information

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Urban Survival Food Storage, Rations, and Supply
http://www.urbansurvivalnetwork.com/featured/urban-survival-food-storage-rations-and-supply/

Image If you’ve planned well and have an emergency survival kit that includes food rations, you have a better chance of getting through the survival situation smoothly than those who did not put aside rations for such a contingency. Your food supply will get you through the difficult challenges that will come at you in the initial phase, such as assessing the situation, figuring out an action plan, and considering any natural food sources that might be in the vicinity. Your emergency rations might be all you need, since statistics show that in the majority of survival situations, people are rescued or escape unaided within 72 hours.

The importance of having a food supply on hand for a survival situation is crucial. Due to the fact that in our everyday lives, with food sources abundant and close by, we don’t concern ourselves with the possibility that our food supply might one day be cut off. It’s only in a sudden situation, when for example a political crisis or a natural disaster and you’re cut off from the usual food sources that you’ll quickly realize that your very existence is going to depend on your ability to feed yourself. --- CONTINUED at LINK, above ---

Includes:
  • What is the Ultimate Survival Food?
    What Kind of Containers Are best for Storage?
    Preventing “Appetite Fatigue”
    Should You Store Vitamins?
    The Fast ‘n Easy and Mood Boosters
    Having a Variety in Your Food Storage
    Storing an Adequate Amount of Staple Items
    Get Familiar with Your Storage Items
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Re: Ok - I want to prepare - what now???

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Household Preparations to Consider

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What a Prepper Should Do Around The House
http://www.askaprepper.com/what-a-prepper-should-do-around-the-house/

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing something today.
Image When we’ll have no running water, no extra food, no electricity… then we’ll truly understand this old saying… the hard way. Or we can make sure that our houses offer a decent level of protection. --- CONTINUED at LINK, above --- with list of suggestions to prepare your household
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Re: Preparation Guidelines

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Where and How Do You Start Preparing?
https://blog.foodinsurance.com/where-and-how-do-you-start-preparing/

Perhaps you’ve decided your family needs an emergency preparedness plan, but you’re a little overwhelmed at all there is to do. Maybe you’ve gone as far as to make a list of things to buy and how to store them, along with some information about surviving an emergency, but putting your plan into action seems a little daunting. For those who have a desire to get their families better prepared and aren’t quite sure where to start, here are some simple steps. ---CONTINUED---
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10 Things You Can Do Right Now
https://modernsurvivalonline.com/10-things-you-can-do-right-now/

(SNIP) ... With the massive violence and turmoil going on in the Middle East to the terrible and ever dangerous situation in Japan – along with the ripple of effects that are coming from both – it would be a good idea to shore up your preparations as rapidly as possible. If everything turns out just fine and dandy – great! If not – you will be glad to have taken action when you did.

Here we go: ---CONTINUED---
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The Habit of Preparedness
https://preparednessmama.com/habit-of-preparedness/

Preparedness Is More Than a Checklist

I’ve been at the business of being prepared for quite some time. Its something we talk about being “done” with. But are we really ever “done” with being prepared?

Take your survival kit for example. You race to finish it for National Preparedness Month last year. Check! Guess what it’s obsolete already.

Had a new baby? Now you’re missing a person. Your kids grew, now the clothes don’t fit. Even gaining weight can make your kit obsolete.

Haven’t consistently rotated your food? Take a look, with a trash can handy, you’ll probably find something that should have been used long ago.

Preparedness is like Laundry and Dishes ... ---CONTINUED---
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How To Start Prepping- The Five First Steps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozc9QWjVuhY

This is a list of the first five steps for anyone looking to start prepping.
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Re: Preparation Guidelines

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How to Build an Emergency Food Supply: 20 Items to Kick Start Your Food Storage Plan
https://www.backdoorsurvival.com/20-items-to-kick-start-your-food-storage-plan/

[img(200px,150px)]https://images.backdoorsurvival.com/wp- ... e-Plan.jpg[/img] No matter how many times I write about food, there is always something new to consider or a new and different way to present the same old information in a more useful manner. With that in mind, today I would like to share a method for getting started with your long-term food storage program in an easy, step by step, and cost effective manner. ---CONTINUED---
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Re: Preparation Guidelines

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I think this article has good info for beginning preppers to see what they already have on hand, so I put it here, in 'Getting Started'. I think that if you are a more advanced preppers, you have already done the sorting/organizing.

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How to Perform a Preparedness Audit (And Why You Need To Do This Every Year)
https://www.theorganicprepper.com/preparedness-audit/

(SNIP) ... The best way to do a food inventory is to pull ALL your food out into one room and start a physical list of what you have. Yes, you can do this on the computer or on your phone, but if the power goes out, you may not have access to these lists. If you do the list on your computer, print it out.

(SNIP) ... Next is your supply audit. ... ---CONTINUED---
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Re: Prepping: Getting Started-Introduction

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Survival Prep Dot Net

Nine meals from anarchy, Part 4: Start slow if you must, but get started!
http://survivalprepdotnet.blogspot.com/2010/03/nine-meals-from-anarchy-part-4-start.html

Excerpt:

Food will always be on the grocery shelves when we need it, right?

Let's recap a video from a few days ago:

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7 Steps to Prepare Your Family for Survival
https://rethinksurvival.com/7-steps-to-prepare-your-family-for-survival/

Popular media has made prepping seem like something only paranoid people do. Yet it’s smart who have a plan for emergencies, like an extended power outage or natural disaster — especially if you have a family to take care of.

We’ve all been in a scary situation, whether that’s an earthquake or severe storm. However, while 60% of Americans say preparation for disaster is very important, only 17% are ready for an emergency.

How can you prep for survival with your family? Discover everything you need to know below… ---CONTINUED---
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From Beginning Prepper, to Fully-Stocked Retreat: What to Buy, and When
https://survivalblog.com/2010/11/08/from-beginning-prepper-to-full/

It’s easy to see that the world may be heading for more trouble, and we need to prepare for hard times ahead. But it can be daunting to decide what to do, what to stock, and when to get it.
I’ve been working at this a while, and I’ve figured out a simple balance in what to buy, and when to buy it, that I think will help other Preppers move ahead with confidence.
You could call it my 100/1,000/10,000 system, and I hope it helps you get going, and get to a place where you feel more prepared for the tough times ahead. ---CONTINUED---
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The Survival Pyramid: Helping Families Prepare
https://personalliberty.com/the-survival-pyramid-helping-families-prepare/

(SNIP) ... There is no way we can know exactly what emergency situations might occur. If you break down the short-term and long-term emergencies and prepare for them in sequence, it will be easier and less overwhelming to put together emergency survival foods and other supplies just in case you encounter a power outage, tornado, hurricane, flooding, civil unrest or any other type of local disaster. ---CONTINUED---
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Family Emergency Handbook
Bountiful Police Dept, UT 58pgs, 2005
https://www.bountifulutah.gov/file/fb48c112-8cbb-45d1-b528-e4f1baa4739a

EXCELLENT booklet, prepard by a Utah Police Department. Items of interest (besides preparation info) are Fill-in information sheets for:
  • ~ Individual Household Information
    ~ Family Preparedness Checklist
    ~ Family Member Information
    ~ Neighborhood Groups
    ~ Neighborhood Information
    • * Family Household Member Information
      * Those living at home
      * Emergency Contact and Special Instructions for that household
    ~ House Plan
    ~ Utility Shut Off Instructions
:arrow: CROSS POSTED in Library-Large Publications
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Preparedness Quick Tips
https://momwithaprep.com/quick-tip/

Quick tasks and ideas to help your family prepare for life’s emergencies, no matter how big or how small.   ---CONTINUED---
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4 page PDF from Backwoods Home Magazine Archive

A Practical Survival Strategy in the Event of Catastrophe
https://archive.org/details/Backwoods_Home/A%20practical%20survival%20strategy%20in%20the%20event%20of%20catastrophe...B/mode/2up

(BIG SNIP) ... What if we got bombed or had some kind of a catastrophe like an earthquake or something? What if water and electricity were knocked out and there was no food? What would we do? We’re not ready for that.

(SNIP) ... think of the things you need in a typical day, things you take for granted.

(SNIP) ... Also, remember, in a typical day there’s a whole passel of services you don't think about but you count on to be there. If there’s a disaster you may have to provide those for yourself. ---CONTINUED---
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