Welcome back to the FamilyPreparednessGuide blogsite! Rita Bingham was my guest today, and she gave us some good advice about how to Keep It Super Simple! She discussed the following (from my notes): Nutrition Detectives handout (Dr. David Katz) will teach you AND the children/grandchildren to read labels and learn more ways to incorporate healthier foods into your [...]
Continue reading...17. June 2009
Welcome back to the FamilyPreparednessGuide blogsite! Last blog, I introduced you to my K.I.S.S. philosophy: Keep It Super Simple! Following on the tips for preparedness listed in the previous blog: Simply stated: if you like tuna––or anything else––just buy more of it. You can use regular canned foods like canned meats and [...]
Continue reading...16. June 2009
Welcome back to the FamilyPreparednessGuide blogsite! I’m introducing you to my K.I.S.S. philosophy: Keep It Super Simple! Here are the Basic tips for being prepared––it’s not so complicated. It does involve some part of your brain to engage with reasoning in the determination of: 1. Potential disasters and emergency situations that could occur to you [...]
Continue reading...27. May 2009
Welcome back to the Family Preparedness Guide blogsite! The academic answer to the question is: to achieve greater personal and family self-reliance by having a family preparedness plan that you develop and implement to preserve the lifestyle you want to maintain during and after a disaster! What is a disaster? A calamitous event beyond human control, usually [...]
Continue reading...11. May 2009
Welcome Back to the Family Preparedness Guide blogsite! At last, the computer is back on line. We had an electrical outage Saturday morning, and all the repair facilities had closed early for the Mother’s Day weekend. My regular repair guy had left town, and we were in a people-caused disaster which had become very personal. I [...]
Continue reading...8. May 2009
Welcome back to the Family Preparedness blogsite! Is your family’s preparedness plan in place? There will be many emergencies and disasters during the spring and summer seasons. Are you ready for the natural, people-caused, and those nasty personal emergencies and natural disasters that will occur? Take this 30-second test to find [...]
Continue reading...7. May 2009
Welcome back to the Family Preparedness Guide! I mentioned in the previous blog that I would share with you our family’s preparedness plan that we established many years ago. One of the basic rules is to set the parameters of the plan to be meaningful and challenging. That rule implies setting a goal at a [...]
Continue reading...6. May 2009
Welcome back to the Family Preparedness Guide! Preparedness Rules of Three #17 –– Make a family preparedness plan. Just do it! If you need any reasons for making a plan for the care and protection of your family, you’re on the wrong blog! Or, you’ve just come back from another planet! Before you start [...]
Continue reading...6. May 2009
Welcome back to the Family Preparedness Guide blogsite! Preparedness Rules of Three #16 –– How to overcome overwhelm! Family preparedness will provide you peace of mind and relieve you from being totally: 1. Disappointed, 2. Frustrated; and/or 3. Overwhelmed. None of us can control disasters. However, we can gain control over how they affect us and how [...]
Continue reading...24. April 2009
Welcome back to the Family Preparedness Guide blogsite! If you’ve changed your attitude about becoming prepared from mostly negative––or even unconcerned––to accepting the concept of family preparedness, then I’m tremendously pleased, gratified, and amply rewarded for my meager efforts. If you don’t yet have a conviction of the wisdom of preparedness, then we [...]
Continue reading...20. April 2009
Welcome back to Family Preparedness Guide! Getting back to the Preparedness Rules of Three – Rule #11… There are three conditions of mind you can have when confronted by disasters/emergency events. Unfortunately, they all are normally based on fear. The more prepared you are for dealing with disasters/emergencies, the more rapidly the fear factor is dispelled. Rule [...]
Continue reading...16. April 2009
Welcome to the Family Preparedness Guide! Preparedness Rules of Three Continue… This rule is one of the principal rules of food storage and utilization: Rule #9 –– Three Basic Food Storage Guidelines: · 1. Store what you eat! · Analyze your diet and food purchases. · Don’t do anything weird––like buying a ton [...]
Continue reading...16. April 2009
Welcome to the Family Preparedness Guide! Late last evening, I reviewed my copy of Esther Dickey’s Passport to Survival, now almost 30 years in my possession, to compare it to its revision, New Passport to Survival, revised by Rita Bingham, her daughter. I met Esther Dickey, the original author, many years ago, after she had [...]
Continue reading...13. April 2009
Welcome back to Family Preparedness Guide! Hope the Easter holiday was meaningful for you. I, too, needed some time to get away from the job to find some peace. Now, it’s back to getting you more information. My mission is to help you create a vision of family preparedness, define an effective family preparedness plan, help [...]
Continue reading...10. April 2009
Welcome Back to Family Preparedness Guide! Seems like it’s been years since anyone felt the need to think about being prepared, but now with the slowing economy and tight money situation, it’s on the mind of most people. Though most people are getting by, when the economics of the great American society worsen, there will [...]
Continue reading...10. April 2009
Preparedness Rules of Three — Part 6A Rule #5 There are only 3 types of disasters: 1. Natural disasters –– caused by the forces of nature, singly or in combination: drought dust storms earthquakes extreme hot or cold temperatures extreme wind storms freezing-thawing cycle grassland fires hail storms heavy rain and resultant flooding hurricanes mudslides snowstorms tornadoes and cyclones tsunami typhoons volcanic eruptions woodland wildfires 2. People-caused disasters –– caused [...]
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3. October 2009
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