![]() ![]() Prescription Medicines – If you have family members that need maintenance doses of prescription medicines for chronic conditions, you need to have a stock of those on hand for them. Having a good assortment of over the counter medicines will make it possible to treat at least the symptoms of common ailments. Over the Counter Medicines – Self-diagnosis and treatment is dangerous but sometimes it’s all we have available to us. Make sure you print out information on dosages and to tell you which antibiotics are the best to use in different situations. You can buy these over the counter in Mexico, without a prescription. Tobacco –The second-best barter item there is.Īntibiotics – If you want to keep your family healthy, I’d recommend putting in a good stock of the most common antibiotics. Related: Ammo Storage Tips Every Prepper Should KnowĪlcohol – Probably the best barter item there is. Make sure you’ve got enough for all the calibers you use, as well as the most common calibers out there. But you’re going to need them for a lot of other things too.Īmmunition – This is probably one you’ve already thought of, but it’s so important, it bears mentioning. If you are planning on using a bucket toilet, you’re going to need a lot of bags just for that. Yet they are something we use all the time. Plastic Bags – Nobody is going to be making plastic, let alone plastic bags in a post-disaster world. Cleanliness in a post-disaster world is important as a means to help combat the spread of disease. Personal Hygiene Supplies – While we’re talking about TP, we don’t want to forget things like soap, toothpaste, and shampoo. Do you have any idea how much TP your family goes through? Toilet Paper – If you want to see something that people will kill for in a post-disaster world, I think this is it… especially women. Stocking batteries, especially AA and AAA sizes, will make your life in a post-disaster world much better. if you’re going to preserve food in a post-disaster world, you’d a better plan on having plenty of salt on hand.Ĭanning Jar Lids – I’m assuming you have canning jars but how many lids do you have? They’re not considered reusable, so you’d better have plenty.īatteries – Ok, batteries aren’t really a survival necessity but we’ve got lots of things we use every day, which are battery operated. Salt – Salt is not only essential for survival, it’s nature’s number one food preservative. It takes four to six cords of firewood to heat a home through the winter. If you use a filter for purifying water, be sure to have plenty of them.įirewood – Many preppers are planning on heating their homes and cook with a wood fire in a post-disaster world but few have enough firewood to do that. Water Filters – Water purification is essential to survival, as water that has microscopic pathogens can spread disease and even kill us. Make sure you have a good stock, as this is essential with damp wood. Be sure to get the strike anywhere kind.įire Accelerants – Commonly referred to as “fire starters,” chemical fire accelerants or tinders work to get the fire from your matches or lighter into the larger kindling, so that your fire can keep burning. While many people have switched over to butane lighters, matches are still useful. Waterproof Matches – The waterproof match is the standard fire starter for use in a survival situation. It’s much easier for people who aren’t skilled at starting fires to start them with a disposable lighter than to try and do it any other way. Even though it is not considered one of the top three survival needs, it is useful for all three of them. But the items I’ve listed below are probably the most important things to include in your stockpile, either for your own personal use or to use as barter goods.ĭisposable Butane Lighters – Fire is one of the things we use the most in a survival situation. There are literally hundreds of things that we could use in a post-disaster world more than can fit in this list. ![]() Too much of that discomfort could lead to death perhaps not directly, but by permitting weakness and disease to bring us to an end. Stockpiling food, without bothering to stockpile these other necessary items might not guarantee our death, but it will sure make our lives more uncomfortable. There are many other things we need and use on a day-to-day basis. ![]() But stockpiling food isn’t all there is to be ready for a disaster. Most of us start out by trying to build a stockpile of food to see us through an emergency and will probably still be stockpiling food when the SHTF. Stockpiling necessary supplies is at the very core of prepping. ![]()
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