2016
Goals for Preparedness: Suggested ideas
if you need some.
1. Evaluate what your family’s needs
are. What are the areas that your family
needs to work on? Concentrate on those
areas first.
2. Do you have EMPTY water
containers? If they are empty, you
cannot count that as water storage!
Fill-up your containers ASAP.
3. Do you have wheat but you don’t have
a wheat grinder? Buy a wheat
grinder. Start with one that is small,
affordable and non-electric. Victorio Brand is a nice little starter one that
retails for around $60.
4. Did you get some preparedness gifts
or items this past year? Practice using
them so you are familiar with the tools you have.
5. Continually add to your stock of your
most commonly used items. Buy things
when they are on sale. Put your favorite grocery store ads app on your phone or
read the ads that come in the mail each week.
6. Do you get these newsletter every
month? Do you read them right away and
put things on your calendar?
7. Make a goal of using the Stake dry
pack canner at least once this year. Or go to the Sandy Home storage center and
buy dry goods there. It is really easy.
8. Make it a goal to go to the case lot
sales this year and stock up on your most commonly used foods. Many times, the case lot sales have the
lowest prices on canned goods all year.
9. Are you lacking sanitation
supplies? Start gathering supplies and
make a sanitation kit or two. You can
keep your supplies in plastic tubs or 5 gallon buckets.
10. Do you have a garden plot but have
not planted a garden in several years?
Plant a garden this year.
Gardening rarely goes as planned and there is always something to learn. If you had to, could you live on only what
you grow?
11. Do you need a refresher course on
First Aid or CERT? Sign-up for a class
near you and take the class this year.
12. Sign-up and attend at least one of
the free classes that your church or community will offer on preparedness
topics. You cannot borrow someone else’s
knowledge.
13. Do you have some old foods stored
away but you don’t use it? Start using
it and as you use it, buy some fresher foods to store. You MUST rotate your food storage.
14. Do you have a FACEBOOK account? Great!
Find pages on Food Storage and Preparedness and “like” a page or two.
Other pages will be suggested for you to check out. There is a lot of information on Facebook.
15. If you use Facebook, please join our
large preparedness group, or one in your area.
You can even start a group of your own with family and friends. It only takes a minute and you can invite
whomever you want. If you live in West
Jordan you may join one of these groups.
COPPER CANYON NEIGHBORHOOD PREPAREDNESS GROUP or WEST JORDAN EMERGENCY
PREPAREDNESS GROUP.
16. So you ARE part of a preparedness
group? Do you check what group members
are posting? You can adjust your
notifications settings and check as often as you like. You may choose to only look at it once a
week. Set a goal to participate in more
group buys this year.
17. You have decided YOU WILL NOT GET A FACEBOOK
ACCOUNT. That is fine, many people chose
not to. There are many websites, stores
and blogs devoted to preparedness and food storage. Check them out and add some to your favorites
list.
Highlight of the month:
27 LED work light, also known as 24 +3 work light
This small light has 24 bright LED lights on the front and 3
LED lights on one end. Most of these
have 2 work settings. Some brands have a
strobe setting also. (I have seen the
same lights under different brand names online). On the back it has a magnet
and a hook for hanging. It comes with 3
AAA batteries. These retail for about $4
each. I have found them at Harbor
Freight stores as well as on-line.
I like that it is small, bright, very useful and very
affordable. We now have one in each car
and in each 72 hr kit as well. We also
have at least one in a handy location for when the power goes out.
