10 Ways to Start Prepping Today
By Robert Paine
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Are You and Your Family Ready to Survive the Next Disaster? Not sure where to start?
If you have ever thought about prepping, you have probably been a bit overwhelmed, at least once or twice. It can seem like a monumental task that will take too much work. Where do you start?
Well, you have to start somewhere! With 10 Ways to Start Prepping Today you will learn how to jumpstart your prepper life. It isn’t all about buying food and supplies. There is so much more you can focus on. That is going to be where your prepping journey starts. Slow and easy is the way to go!
If you are interested in learning how to protect your family from any and all of the inevitable disasters that could potentially happen, this book is your first step to learning how to prepare for any emergency situation. Get started today!
The reasons why you prep really don’t matter. What matters is how long you’re prepping for, and the means you go about doing it.
Survivors are a unique group of people. Some people call us Survivalists, Doomsday Preppers, or Patriots. You may not consider yourself any of those things. Whatever you may want to call yourself, if you're reading this, you are on the first step to helping your family become Emergency Prepared Survivors - and really, that's what it's all about!
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10 Ways to Start Prepping Today - Robert Paine
Are You and Your Family Ready to Survive the Next Disaster?
If you have ever thought about prepping, you have probably been a bit overwhelmed, at least once or twice. It can seem like a monumental task that will take too much work. Where do you start?
You have to start somewhere. You can start with these ten things. It isn’t all about buying food and supplies. There is a lot of research and planning that goes into prepping. That is going to be where your prepping journey starts. Slow and easy is the way to go!
If you are interested in learning how to protect your family from any and all of the inevitable disasters that could potentially happen, this book is your first step to learning how to prepare for any emergency situation. Get started today!
10 Ways to Start Prepping Today
If you have ever thought about prepping, you have probably been a bit overwhelmed, at least once or twice. It can seem like a monumental task that will take too much work. Where do you start? You see these pictures of food storage shelters or pantries that have enough food to last a family a year or more and it can be daunting. Maybe you have read stories of people creating these bunkers or hideouts in the woods with a huge cache of emergency supplies. You are probably thinking, That will take me forever! I don’t even know where to begin.
Well, like a wise man once said a few hundred years ago, Rome wasn’t built in a day,
and neither are those vast emergency food storages.
You have to start somewhere. Somewhere small. Somewhere easy. You can start with these ten things, today. It isn’t all about buying food and supplies. There is a lot of research and planning that goes into prepping. That is going to be where your prepping journey starts. Grab a pen and paper and prepare to write down the thoughts that pop into your head as you read along. Remember, your prepping is best done in manageable, bite-size pieces. It will be less overwhelming and you won’t feel like you are trying to climb a mountain. Slow and easy is the way to go!
1) Research and Educate Yourself About Prepping.
Fairly obvious for a first step, no? Still, you’d be surprised how many so-called Preppers have never even read anything on the subject! Yes, it sounds tedious, but you are going to discover there is a plethora of information available about prepping, everywhere you look. Books, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and on and on. Some of it is helpful while some of it is really quite pointless and a waste of time. You need information that will prove of some value to you. Prepping is an activity that requires careful consideration. Every family and every individual will have different needs. When you are looking for materials about prepping, follow those that offer real solutions and suggestions that you can apply to your family. If something doesn’t apply to you and your situation, skip it. If you live in the city, look for prepping materials geared toward the urban prepper. Reading about raising cattle and farming isn’t going to be of much use to you if you plan on living in your high-rise apartment in the middle of the city.
Ebooks (like mine! And many others!) are great for finding information quickly. However, you will want to have print copies of the research you uncover as much as possible. What are you gonna do if the grid goes down?! Part of prepping is preparing to deal with long term power outages, which means your Kindle or Nook isn't going to work so well. All that beautiful information will be out of reach. Now is the time to really get organized. It is a good idea to keep all your research in a binder. Take the time to keep it all straight, with tabs and everything else you can think of. This will make it easy for you to quickly flip to the information you need when you are in a rush. A binder is a great way to keep all your research together in one place. Your family will also be able to find what they need in case you are not immediately available. Keep your binder with your emergency preps for easy access.
Don’t stop at just one resource. You will discover there are a lot of really good ideas out there. Nobody preps the same. Some ideas will work for you and your family, while some will not. Learn from other people’s mistakes. There is no need to reinvent the wheel. Again, I know it may seem really obvious, but don’t skip this vital first part of prepping: Do your research and educate yourself!
2) Create, Study, and Practice your Overall Emergency Plan (and then do it all again!)
You know those little maps on the back of hotel room doors that indicate where you are in the building? The maps have a red line that indicates the path for you to escape in case of an emergency. Those maps are there for a reason. When there is a situation that threatens your life and that of your family, you tend to get a little crazy. You could end up running in circles because you are panicking. Prepping eliminates those little panic attacks that threaten your life and sends you running in circles.
You need an emergency plan for your family. A map, of sorts, that tells you all what steps you’re going to take in case of an emergency. This is going to require you to think of all the little details that are likely to arise in a true emergency. All of the things that you will be too busy to think about when the situation actually arises. Now is the time to think about them and to plan for them. Brainstorm different plans and write them down. Put them away for an hour and come back to them and review your different strategies. Do you see any flaws or pieces of the puzzle missing? For example, if you are going to be hunkering down in your basement, who is going to ensure the front door is locked and barricaded? Who is going to make sure each of the children in the family gets to the basement safely? What are you going to do with your pets? Who will be in charge of doing a head count? Does the entire family know they are supposed to get to the basement when you give the word?
Pick each member of your family's brains for their best ideas. You cannot do it all and you don't want to do it alone. Get everyone in your household involved. The more people you have, the more chances you have to catch important things that you may have missed if you are trying to do it all alone. You need to rely on every source available. Once you have come up with what you think is a pretty good emergency plan, do a run through. Practice and drill it as though the event is actually taking place. Everyone needs to approach this with a serious mindset. This is going to be a bit rough the first few times through – that’s okay. Expect the family to be running in circles the first couple of times you test out your plan. Each time should get a little easier and a little more orderly. This is what you are trying to achieve. Practice makes perfect! That perfect plan you put together is going to have holes in it when you actually put it into action. This is why you are drilling it.
You absolutely must physically practice your emergency plan. This is the only way to discover those little hiccups in the plan. Time yourself and the family. How long does it take to get everybody into the basement? Are there things you can do to make the retreat go a little smoother and faster? Once you have established a plan, you will want to practice at least once a month to keep everybody familiar with it. If you move a piece of furniture or add a new member to the family, you need to tweak your plan. Try practicing for different scenarios. If the grid goes down and there is no power, how will your reactions be different?