![]() ![]() Hand Sanitizer: Using this instead of soap will help you save water.Trash Bags and Buckets: For making a two-bucket toilet system.Toilet Paper: You can wipe with magazine pages or even stones, but do you really want to? Plus, you can use toilet paper to make an emergency heater.You can read more about survival hygiene and how to make an emergency toilet system here. Of these items, the most important will be buckets and trash bags to serve as a toilet. If you get dirty, then it can become a serious health risk. Hygiene isn’t just a matter of smelling nice while you wait out a disaster. Here is a list of non-food items you will also need to stockpile. So, you MUST have non-perishable foods, like canned goods and a lot of water stockpiled to help you get through a disaster (get a list of foods to stockpile here).īut, sorry to break it to you: stockpiling food isn’t going to be enough to get you through a long-term disaster. If you need more, store more.With the surge of disasters that have hit the country in the past few years, Americans are finally waking up to the need to stockpile emergency supplies.Įven if you can make it to a supermarket during a disaster, items are going to disappear off the shelves quickly – and you might even have to fight your way to get products. ![]() I couldn’t get canned tomatoes, rice or toilet paper for love nor money for nearly 3 weeks!īuilding a stockpile does not need to be an exact science, start small, build up to a 2 week or one month supply and then see how that works. When the panic buying of the 2020 pandemic hit I was so thankful I had my one month emergency supply. But even with this doorstep convenience I chose to have a one month food supply most of the time. I have always lived within 2 miles of a large grocery store and only 5 minutes walk from my local shop so in theory I shouldn’t need much of a stockpile. Once you have achieved that, then you could increase it to a month or more. Are you in town or very rural? Does your area suffer from weather extremes and hurricanes?Ī two week supply of foods is a good place to start. ![]() It does depend entirely on your individual circumstances. As a non-prepper I would suggest something smaller. Preppers might say you need a years supply of food as a basic stockpile. I wish I had a small emergency stockpile to see me through. I wish I had gone shopping yesterday and I wish I had thought about the best food for surviving a few days unexpectedly. You never want to be in the position of thinking: I wish. Life happens and gets in the way of best laid plans. Pandemics happen, as we now know snow storms and floods happen and cut you off from everything for potential a week or more. Building a small stockpile of foods, even if it’s not for an emergency is sensible for everyone.Įveryone should have an emergency food supply because you are not in control of being able to buy more food when you need it. She couldn’t delay going to the grocery store for one day unless they ate out, because they had no supplies at all.Ĭan you imagine her stress when we had the panic buying frenzy that preceded the 2020 pandemic?Ĭan you imagine not having enough food put by to go just one extra day without shopping? No, neither can I. No emergency meal, no half open packet of pasta or a can of sweetcorn. Why Everyone should be prepping for an emergency stockpileĪ co-worker friend of mine used to buy exactly what her family needed for one week, to the point where the night before shopping day they had nothing in the house. ![]()
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