A friend of mine took a much larger packet of information given out by our city and organized, edited, rewrote, and distilled it into a 12 page plan for getting your emergency preparedness items together. Each page has the steps to take for one month.

Each month has four different things to consider:

1. Food Storage Goal – items to add to your food storage supply.
2. 72 Hour Kit Goal – items to add or check in your bug out bag or 72 hr kit.
3. Home Security & Safety Goal – something to do around your home to make it safer.
4. Family Training Topics – topics to research and discuss with your family for the month.

Of course there are a hundred different roads you can take to preparedness, but this is a good plan and can give you an excellent start.

Feel free to pass this one along to your friends and family.

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12 Month Plan to Emergency Preparedness (pdf)

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Here are some articles on useful self reliant topics that I found this week. I try to avoid political rants (however well founded they might be) and other time wasters.

Take care!

Ten Great Ways to Crush Creativity

Rule #11: Find and Work Toward Your True Passions.

Container Gardening: DIY drainage holes

Square Foot Gardening: How to Install Drip irrigation

Avoid Bank Fees

Frugality That’s "Outside the Realm of Possibility”

3 Jedi Mind Tricks to Feel Better in a Nanosecond

Revising My Money Goals – And Setting New Ones

To Camp, or Not to Camp…

make your own “sun-dried” tomatoes

Handling an Overwhelming Harvest without Waste

Review: The Wall Street Journal Guide to Starting Your Financial Life

Education Needs to Be Turned on Its Head

Dreaming of a Frugal Christmas: 6 Things You Can Make That People on Your List Will Use and Want

Decision Making On Money, Love, Work & Health: Why Decisions Errors Are Made

Get Survival Gun Guidance from "Guns & Ammo"

10 Things in Life That Aren’t Fair – and What to Do About Them (Part 1 of 2)

Super Doubles Are Back at Kmart

Seven Tempting Places – And Eight Ways to Minimize Their Impact

Dehydrating Shredded Zucchini

How to Make Your Commute Profitable

The Personal Finance Hour, Episode 18: A Twenty-Something Entrepreneur

Container Gardening: How to Plant a Bare Root Cherry Tree

Making the Most of Small Windfalls

This One’s Free: 10 Basic Tech Tips that Make a Difference

Survival Preparedness-It’s Your Month

Some Thoughts on Building a Successful Friendship

Make Money Recycling: Get Paid to Recycle by 15 Websites

freezing tomatoes

Minimalist Gmail: How to Get Rid of the Non-Essentials

On the Road to Financial Independence

Have I Got a Line for You-For Survival, Of course

10 Things in Life That Aren’t Fair – and What to Do About Them (Part 2 of 2)

Buying a Home Without the Money

Guest Article: Disaster Preparedness–Principles of Self-Sufficiency, by Don McAlvany

The Best Ways to Boost Your Retirement

Summer Camp as a Side Business

Vegetable Gardening: Three Sisters Update 2

Survival Kitchen-Have a Canning Party

Birthdays, Self-Reflection, and a Better Year Ahead

Your Mileage May Vary

Are You Wasting or Saving Money with a Warehouse Club Membership?

Borrowing from Friends: The Friendship Killer

21 Ways to Reduce Your Spending Without Making Your Life Miserable

My Debt Story: An Introduction

Rule #12: Build Real Friendships and Relationships.

Survival and the Flu Game-Get CeraLyte and Stay Alive

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