Discussion
Anyone here into prepping?
I'd like to get us (me, wife, baby, 2 dogs) set up to survive for a week. Not long enough to get through a zombie apocalypse, but should be long enough for extreme weather shutting down local roads, etc.
My list so far:
1) Lots of water. One gallon per adult, half gallon per baby/dog per day... 111 litres for a week.
2) First aid/Medicine.
3) Dog food is easy. Human food... Tins (meat/veg/fruit) that don't require to be cooked.
4) Cash. No power means no card payments.
5) A first-aid book. Although, if the internet is dead we won't want to live any more anyway.
6) Water purification tablets
7) Matches
8) Fire extinguisher
9) Feminine hygiene products
10) Disposable plates/cups/cutlery/paper towels
11) Battery-powered radio & wind-up radio
12) Torches with starlight mode for long battery life
13) Duct-tape to seal doors and windows if needed
14) Whistle to signal for help
15) Dust masks in case of contaminated air
16) Wet wipes
17) Bin bags
18) Tools
19) Several can openers
20) Local maps
21) Lots of non-rechargeable batteries with long shelf life
22) Solar-powered battery charger and lots of rechargeable batteries
23) A small camping stove
24) A large propane gas cylinder for the BBQ. Propane should be good to very low temperatures unlike butane.
25) Big tough knives.
26) Somewhere to keep all this crap.
Have I missed anything out and has anyone else done similar?
I'd like to get us (me, wife, baby, 2 dogs) set up to survive for a week. Not long enough to get through a zombie apocalypse, but should be long enough for extreme weather shutting down local roads, etc.
My list so far:
1) Lots of water. One gallon per adult, half gallon per baby/dog per day... 111 litres for a week.
2) First aid/Medicine.
3) Dog food is easy. Human food... Tins (meat/veg/fruit) that don't require to be cooked.
4) Cash. No power means no card payments.
5) A first-aid book. Although, if the internet is dead we won't want to live any more anyway.
6) Water purification tablets
7) Matches
8) Fire extinguisher
9) Feminine hygiene products
10) Disposable plates/cups/cutlery/paper towels
11) Battery-powered radio & wind-up radio
12) Torches with starlight mode for long battery life
13) Duct-tape to seal doors and windows if needed
14) Whistle to signal for help
15) Dust masks in case of contaminated air
16) Wet wipes
17) Bin bags
18) Tools
19) Several can openers
20) Local maps
21) Lots of non-rechargeable batteries with long shelf life
22) Solar-powered battery charger and lots of rechargeable batteries
23) A small camping stove
24) A large propane gas cylinder for the BBQ. Propane should be good to very low temperatures unlike butane.
25) Big tough knives.
26) Somewhere to keep all this crap.
Have I missed anything out and has anyone else done similar?
5 pages in and only 2 people have actually read my original post 
I said I'm not trying to prep for a zombie apocalypse - I want enough supplies to be OK for a week if there's a weather disaster, etc. If I had the time and money, it would be nice to know I could be self-sufficient over a long period - but I don't and I can't.
You might have always lived in Britain but that doesn't mean you can't learn from other countries' experience. I have lived in a civilised first-world country where at one point gas masks and sealing doors with duct tape was a part of our life - and no my family wasn't crazy they were government issues gas masks which everyone had to use. It does happen.
Britain's not that far from places where economic/war/other disasters have left people hungry. If I live as long as my grandparents I've got another 75 years - go 75 years back from today (1941) and a stash of food/water/medicine/cash would have been pretty bloody useful! And of course one week's worth of water wouldn't go far in WW2, but for every 6 year war there are many more short-term disasters. Is a week-long power cut or extended period of snow really out of the realms of possibility?
We're talking about a small stash in the garage of food/water/medicine/heat not Alexandria from The Walking Dead
I said I'm not trying to prep for a zombie apocalypse - I want enough supplies to be OK for a week if there's a weather disaster, etc. If I had the time and money, it would be nice to know I could be self-sufficient over a long period - but I don't and I can't.
You might have always lived in Britain but that doesn't mean you can't learn from other countries' experience. I have lived in a civilised first-world country where at one point gas masks and sealing doors with duct tape was a part of our life - and no my family wasn't crazy they were government issues gas masks which everyone had to use. It does happen.
Britain's not that far from places where economic/war/other disasters have left people hungry. If I live as long as my grandparents I've got another 75 years - go 75 years back from today (1941) and a stash of food/water/medicine/cash would have been pretty bloody useful! And of course one week's worth of water wouldn't go far in WW2, but for every 6 year war there are many more short-term disasters. Is a week-long power cut or extended period of snow really out of the realms of possibility?
We're talking about a small stash in the garage of food/water/medicine/heat not Alexandria from The Walking Dead
Crossflow Kid said:
one of the keys to surviving is to keep moving, be it nearer to water/food/crops/livestock or away from those who were soooooooo stupid and didn't do any prep.
Travel light, move fast.
Are we still talking about being comfortable for a single week during very bad weather?Travel light, move fast.
Sounds like you're heading back to zombie apocalypse.
If there's heavy snow and the roads/shops close, do I have to keep moving? Can I please just stay in my house where all my food/water is?
TLandCruiser said:
Surprised no one has mentioned keeping a stash of porn mags! When the internet goes down, your be doomed!
It has been mentioned before.However if the internet goes down I'll spend the week in the fetal position rocking back and forth and cycling aeroplane mode on my phone while refusing food and water.
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