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PREPAREDNESS LIST OF LISTS
1. Water List • Storage containers (jugs, barrels for rain water, etc.) • House downspout kit for diverting water to barrels • Purification (chemical tablets, filter systems, plain Clorox) 2. Food Storage List • Dry goods -- corn meal, oats, flour, powdered milk, sugars o o o o o o Bulk dried foods and grains – available through food co-ops and wholesale suppliers (wheat, rice, corn) Pre-Packaged foods –available at grocery store. Familiar to us but take up lots of space. Rotate and use according to expiration date. Canned goods – fruits, vegetables, meats, honey, molasses, maple syrup, jams and jellies Dehydrated foods (remember you will need adequate water to prepare these) MRE’s (best for emergency use not for regular meal planning) High energy bars

• Pre-Packaged plans

• Frozen foods – excellent for meats but need to have back-up power source. • Home food preservation – such as drying and canning. It’s economical, but food quality is reduced if stored more than a year. Other important items for your food storage: • Canning lids and rings—buy plenty of extras for barter • Sulfur for drying fruit • Vinegar - buy a couple of cases of one-gallon bottles • Spices • Baking soda • Yeast • Food storage (freezer and vacuum) bags • Aluminum foil (Buy lots! 101 uses, including making improvised solar ovens.) • Deer bags 3. Food Preparation List • Large size skillets, Dutch oven, large kettles, • Extra large kettle (heating water for bathing, dish washing, and clothes washing) • Knives for food prep; meat saws, and skinning knives; sharpening tools • 5 Gallon PVC buckets for water hauling, hauling food scraps to compost pile, and gut buckets 4. Personal List • Make a separate personal list for each family member and individual expected to arrive at your home. • Spare glasses

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PREPAREDNESS LIST OF LISTS
• Prescription and nonprescription medications • Birth control • Keep dentistry up to date • Any elective surgery that you've been postponing • Work off that gut • Stay in shape • Back strength and health—particularly important, given the heavy manual tasks required for selfsufficiency • Educate yourself on survival topics, and practice them. It is better to learn through experience and make mistakes now, when the loss of crop is an annoyance rather than a crucial event. • “Comfort” items to help get through high stress times (Books, games, CDs, chocolates, etc.) 5. First Aid /Minor Surgery List. • When tailoring this list, consider your neighborhood going for many months without power, extensive use of open flames, and sentries standing picket shifts exposed in the elements. Then consider axes, chainsaws and tractors being wielded by inexperienced users, and a greater likelihood of gunshot wounds. With all of this, add the possibility of no access to doctors or high tech medical diagnostic equipment. • Put a strong emphasis on burn treatment first aid supplies • Don’t overlook do-it-yourself dentistry! (Oil of cloves, temporary filling kit, extraction tools, etc) • Buy a minor surgery outfit even if you don’t know how to use them all yet. (You may have to learn, or you will have the opportunity to put them in the hands of someone experienced who needs them.) 6. Gardening List • Top Soil/Amendments/Fertilizers • Tools+ spares for barter/charity • Long-term storage non-hybrid (open pollinated) seed • Herbs: Get started with medicinal herbs such as aloe Vera (for burns), Echinacea, valerian, etc 7. Hygiene/Sanitation List • Sacks of powdered lime for the outhouse -- Buy plenty! • TP in quantity (Stores well if kept dry and away from vermin and it is lightweight, but it is very bulky. This is a good item to store in the attic. Stock up on used phone books for use as TP. • Soap in quantity (hand soap, dish soap, laundry soap, cleansers, etc.) • Bottled lye for soap making • Ladies’ supplies • Toothpaste (or powder), Floss, Fluoride rinse (Unless you have health objections to the use of fluoride.) • Sunscreen

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PREPAREDNESS LIST OF LISTS
8. Power/Lighting/Batteries List • When possible, buy nickel metal hydride batteries. (Unlike the older nickel cadmium technology, these have no adverse charge level “memory” effect.) • Kerosene lamps; plenty of extra wicks, mantles, and chimneys. (These will also make great barter items.) • Cyalume light sticks – come in various colors, sizes, and illumination times 9. Fuels List • Firewood, propane, gasoline, kerosene (please store away from your house) o o Chain saw, extra chains, sharpener, plenty of two cycle oil Leather gloves, safety glasses, ear protection

• Axe, machete, hatchet, survival knife 10. Firefighting List • Smoke detectors, CO2 detectors • Fire extinguishers • Long water hose • Fire escape plan (second floor ladder if needed) 11. Tools List • Gardening tools • Auto mechanics tools • Welding • Bolt cutters--the indispensable “universal key” • Woodworking tools • Gunsmithing tools • Emphasis on hand powered tools • Don’t forget to buy plenty of extra work gloves • Sundries List: systematically list the things that you use on a regular basis, or that you might need if the local hardware store were to ever disappear: wire of various gauges, duct tape, reinforced strapping tape, chain, nails, nuts and bolts, weather stripping, abrasives, twine, white glue, super glue, etc. 12. Communications/Monitoring List • When selecting radios buy only models that will run on 12 volt DC power or rechargeable nickel metal hydride battery packs (that can be recharged from your retreat’s 12 VDC power system without having to use an inverter.) • As a secondary purchasing goal, buy spare radios of each type if you can afford them. Keep your spares in sealed metal boxes to protect them from EMP. • Two way radios • Shortwave

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PREPAREDNESS LIST OF LISTS
• CB radio 13. Barter and Charity List • For your barter list, acquire primarily items that are durable, non-perishable, and either in small packages or that are easily divisible. Concentrate on the items that other people are likely to overlook or have in short supply. • Ladies supplies • Salt (Buy lots of cattle blocks and 1 pound canisters of iodized table salt. Stores indefinitely if kept dry) • Two cycle engine oil (for chain saw gas mixing) • Gas stabilizer. Diesel antibacterial additive • 50-pound sacks of lime (for outhouses) • 1 oz. bottles of military rifle bore cleaner and Break Free (or similar) lubricant • Waterproof duffle bags (whitewater rafting "dry bags") • Thermal socks • Semi-waterproof matches (from military rations.) Strike anywhere matches (Dip the heads in paraffin to make them waterproof) • Pre-1965 silver dimes • 1-gallon cans of kerosene • Rolls of parachute cord • Rolls of duct tape • Spools of monofilament fishing line • Rolls of 10 mil sheet plastic (for replacing windows, isolating airspaces for chemical or nuke scenarios) • Playing cards • Cooking spices (look for bulk priced spices) • Rope & string • Sewing supplies • Candle wax and wicking • Stock up on additional items to dispense to refugees as charity. • Lastly, any supplies necessary for operating a home-based business. Some that you might consider are: leather crafting, small appliance repair, gun repair, locksmithing, etc. Every family should have at least one home-based business that they can depend on in the event of an economic collapse. 14. Book/Reference List • When All Plans Fail, Paul R. Williams, M.D. • How To Survive the End Of The World As We Know It, James Wesley Rawles (founder of www.survivalblog.com) • Your Survival, Dr. Bob Arnot (comes with 90 min Disaster Preparedness DVD) • Dare to Prepare, Holly Drennan Deyo (3rd Edition 2009) • A Comprehensive Guide to Wilderness and Travel Medicine, Eric A. Weiss, M.D.

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PREPAREDNESS LIST OF LISTS
• Survival Handbook, Peter Darman (survival skill taught by the military) • When All Hell Breaks Loose, Cody Lundin • Patriots, A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse. James Wesley Rawles 15. Home Security and Tactical Living List • Door alarms (battery operated) for intrusion detection • Flashlights (buy several and have them accessible in each room; use quality batteries) • Safe room • Firearm and ammunition (If you have a firearm for home self-defense then get training from a qualified instructor and practice regularly.)

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