Basic Prep List for “Buggin In”

Below is my starter list for getting us where we need to be so we've got a shot at making it in our home without ending up in some stadium being fed by FEMA. I’ve started on pantry items already and that’s a separate list. I’ve also been going through our First Aid kits and our medicine shelves and pretty much rotated out and updated everything in there plus took note of a few items to replace or add so I think I’m good to go there. I know about BOBs.... that's another list.

It’s this "Basic Prep List for Buggin In" I want everyone to rip apart…. literally. Tear it down if anyone wants. Some of it I have already and know I need more of.... some of it I don't have. I left out things I thought we had enough of. If there’s something I listed that needs to go or if there’s anything that should be added or swapped out…. please correct me. I could really use all the suggestions that can be thrown at me. Seeds I’m ok on for the most part and only added the ones listed below to remind myself to find them and buy them.

2-cycle oil
550 paracord
Act
Alcohol
Antibiotics
Baking soda
Bic lighters
Bicycles, repair
Books
-Foxfire
-S.A.S. Survival Handbook
-‘Small-Scale Grain Raising’ by Gene Logsdon book
Borax
Bleach
Buckets, food storage
Candles
Canning lids
-Kerr, large mouth
-Tattler, regular and large mouth
Cattle panels
Chicken wire
Chinois/Cone sieve
Cider press
Deoderant
Duct tape
Electrical tape
Flashlight, Dynamo LED Crank
Filter masks
Floss
FOI license, me & MIL
Foley food mill, 3.5 qt
Funnel, for wide mouth jar
Gasoline and containers
Grain grinder
Grapeseed extract
Holy Cow, concentrate refills
Hydrogen peroxide
Iodine
Jeans, 4 total; 2 pair next size up for our youngest, 2 more the 2^nd size up
Matches
Mason jars, Kerr wide mouth quart and ½ gallon
Meat grinder
Moulinex Food Processor
Monofilament, spool
Mylar
O2 absorbers
Oregano oil
Plastic sheeting, roll
Plywood
Pool Shock
Propane cylinders, filled
Pump and Seal vacuum for jars
Pumps, hand
Razors, disposable
Radio, handcrank w/ NOAA (ordered)
Row covers
Scrungies
Seed
-Appalachian White wheat
-‘Black Aztec’ corn
-‘Bubbles’ brussels sprouts
-Edamame Sayamusume Soybean
-‘Long Season Lutz’ beet
-‘Polish Linguisa’ tomato
-‘Red Weathersfield’ onion
-Shelton F-1 Cabbage
Shoes, 2 total; 1 pair next size up for our youngest, 1 more the 2^nd size up
Siphons
Soap
-Castile
-Fels Naptha
-Murphys Oil
-Pure and Natural
Tarps
Tetanus, make sure we’re current
Tetraglycine hydroperiodide tabs
Toothbrushes
Toothpaste
Shoes, 1 pair next size up for youngest, another the 2^nd size up
Solar Cooker (I have one picked out that I want)
Sta-Bil
Sump pump back up, manual (I have one picked out)
Toilet Paper
Trees, fruiting saplings with local provenance
Vinegar, apple cider
Water containers, short term
WD-40
Wear-Ever, #475
Well Bucket
Well pump, long term solar or solar/wind solution
Wood Stove, airtight portable
Wool blankets

 

Clotting agent: Celox
Non tissue destroying, non organic topical AB: Silvasorb
LED flash lights, small 9-12 led's, powered by AA. Lasts long.
Crank (dynamo) Led lights. I bought some from Sportsmansguide. I cranked one for about 3 mins.. the damn thing lit up 30 days later after the one time crank.

 

Celox I've got.... it's on another list. Silvasorb is an excellent suggestion! I don't have it and didn't have it listed... I'll add it to my First Aid/Medicine Shelf list. The Crank (dynamo) LED Lights sounds excellent too. Is this it, https://www.usaemergencysupply.com/emergency_supplies/dynamo_led_crank_flashlight.htm? I'll for sure add that flashlight. Thank you. Would I really need the LED flashlights that take double A batteries and the crank flashlight do you think?

 

That flash light is fine. Mine are more lantern like so I can illuminate a room with a few of them. The battery powered lights I use in those moments when I can't crank up a light for some reason. They're small, tactical size, lights. Probably no bigger than the length of your palm.

 

Is this it, Coleman - StormBeam Dynamo Crank Lantern -

 

OTC medications, such as analgesics and a variety of vitamins and herbal items. KI tablets and RAD strips in the event of a nuclear scenario(God forbid.)

Alternative cooking sources like a propane camp stove with propane cylinders if you can't use a woodstove or don't have one. Katadyne water filters and cartridges, water barrels(attach a faucet), the 55 gallon barrel plus smaller containers. An emergency radio(wind up.)

A camp style coffee pot for the coffee lovers.

Weaponry and ammunition as per your states' laws.

Generators and containers of gasoline and StaBil.

 

this is what I got:
3 - Pk. Led Crank - Style Mini Hybrid Lantern, Tools at Sportsman's Guide

Ok, I have an update on those lamps. I just pulled one out that I cranked up in AUGUST! it came on with about 80% of the brightness of a good full crank.. I was blown away.

 

Detentus> You might want to research KI tabs if you're over 40 but they are a great idea. Thank you.
Brokor & UGRev> I like!!! What other goodies do you two have that might be helpful to me?

 

I was thinking about testing out an Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) with solar panels. Figuring the batteries in there are meant to be drained and recharged, I thought hooking one up to solar panels to charge and run off of, if even for 2 hours at a clip might be useful. Would take a freakishly long time to charge, but hey, we can't win'em all.

 

I was thinking of having no generator or any other way to charge it other than solar.

 

You lost me. The UPS is, in and of itself, an AC device. It has an internal battery which runs my gadgets. It can run my laptop, router, printer and a 2nd laptop for 2-2.5 hours with all the settings on low on my gadgets. A larger one would be nice or maybe a few of the smaller ones. So I'm thinking a solar array to charge the batteries in the UPS so that I can run the gadgets for a short period of time before having to charge the ups again. You'll have to pardon any vocabulary here.. I'm not electrically skilled. I just wing the chat as best I can and hope I make sense.

 

'Female supplies', birth control (manual type), fire starting devices, dehydrater, solar of course.
Games, board...cards dice ect. Entertainment to take you mind off the SH** you are going through.
Good call on the blankies, sleeping bags too.
I have for along time recomended people turn off the power and water for a couple of days and practice. Summer is always easier than this time of year that is why now would be good. Uh, don't let the pipes freeze, Mine never do, I have none. ha ha

 

I was thinking of just attaching to the battery directly to charge it. Rip open the case, and clamp right on. This is all just a thought mind you. I've never tried it out. As for why if we already have services? well, this would obviously be in a "no power to the house, no electrical services" type of scenario.
1. no power from the grid
2. no generator
3. zippo way to plug in to a wall outlet.

I'm thinking strictly off the grid in the sense that I have no way to charge the ups from standard services and run my devices. Having a small solar panel array hooked up to the battery to charge it, which is then used to power my devices is the way to go.

 

Broker> "If you don't have any wool blankets, I suggest stocking up on those....If not for yourself, they make great barter items." We have one tattered and torn... but clean... wool blanket in the back of my husband's vehicle. There's another one floating around here somewhere but it's pretty holey from moths and getting dragged around. I'll for sure pick up some more for the house.
snowbyrd> female supplies are here in the house... we're going to try our best to stay put bugging in. I've made fire starting devices before. It's a great idea and the ones we make are super simple.... fill up the little pockets of a cardboard egg carton with wood shavings then poor hot wax from candles burnt to stubs and the spent seals from canned goods over the shavings is all. We like the egg cartons because we can rip off what we need. Board games are great.... we've kept most of the classics and we like playing cards so plenty of decks and chips around. A deck of cards is a really great idea to add to a BOB list. All weather sleeping bags we've got... our longest trip was 22 days in NM using only what was on our backs. We've got experience winter camping in the Dakotas and MN too.... I personally would take a pass on that these days but I've done it which was humbling. You know.... turning off the power for a few days is a fantastic suggestion. We lose power where we live all the time but usually not longer than a day and usually power losses are during construction season the end of summer. We drain the pipes if we lose power longer than 12 hours in winter. It sucks but not so much anymore since we picked up a small propane heater. It'll heat one room really well and we just take water out of the back of toilets or a sump pump pit as we need it. If I could wish one thing for everyone... it would be going without power for 10 days in their own home. That would probably be a major wake up America call don't you think?