Family Preparedness Guide

Want to Know More Food Storage Tips?

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 [...]

Want to Know My K.I.S.S. Philosophy?

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 [...]

Why Should You Live A Preparedness Lifestyle?

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 [...]

Family Preparedness Is Preferable to Family Panic

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 [...]

What’s Your Family’s Preparedness Plan?

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 [...]

Why Would You Prepare Your Family?

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 [...]

Not Prepared? Disappointed? Frustrated? Overwhelmed?

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 [...]

Finding Family Preparedness Information

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Rule #15 –– Do you know this Preparedness Rule of Three?

Rule #14 –– Do You Know This Preparedness Rule of Three?

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 [...]

Do You Have Vicki Tate’s book, The New Cookin’ With Home Storage?

Welcome back to the Family Preparedness Guide blogsite! Today, I’m reviewing Vicki Tate’s updated version of her original Cookin’ With Home Storage. In her 1st edition, it was the #1cookbook about utilizing food storage from the day of publication. I have this book in my collection since I bought a copy in the late [...]

Do You Know the Preparedness Rules of Three?

Do You Know the Preparedness Rules of Three?

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 [...]

Are You Aware of the 7 Mistakes of Food Storage?

Welcome back to Family Preparedness Guide! Inexperienced people often do weird things (scroll down to April 16 blog, Preparedness Rule #7) when trying to organize their preparedness plan in action. My friend (and author) Vicki Tate wrote an article in Backwoods Home Magazine, entitled The 7 Mistakes of Food Storage. I called the editor of [...]

Do You Know the Three Basic Food Storage Guidelines?

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 [...]

Do You Know the Preparedness Rules of Three?

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 [...]

Is the Concept of Family Preparedness Back in Style?

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 [...]

Do You Know How to Become Prepared?

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 [...]

Do You Know How To Become Prepared?

Welcome back to the Family Preparedness Guide. Preparedness Rules of Three — Part 3 In a previous blog, the terms disaster, emergency, and survival were defined. In the next few blogs, we’ll share additional Preparedness Rules of Three with you for your enlightenment and consideration. Rule #2: Disasters and emergencies are events–survival is a process! The more you [...]