If you were to look inside your cupboards, refrigerator, and freezer how many days of meals could you make? If you are like most Americans, the answer would be not very many.
Have you ever thought about what you would do if there was an emergency and you couldn’t get to a store to buy groceries, toilet paper, or medicine? Having a stockpile is a way to have peace of mind in case an emergency would arise.
I’m not writing this post because I’m an extreme prepper, hoarder, or are worried about a zombie invasion! The emergencies I’m wanting to prepare for are ice storms, tornadoes, or family sickness where it’s hard to leave the house or food, water, and supplies are not available for several days.
A few years ago (the twins were just babies) we had a severe ice storm that caused power outages for several days. My family actually got snowed in at my parents, which was lucky because they had a gas stove (ours was electric) and my dad had a generator. It took 3 days to get from their home back to my home (under 4 miles).
Ladies, we about ran out of diapers with 2 babies! Luckily because they were twins, I always traveled with a box of diapers in my car. Otherwise we would have never had enough to get through that storm. It was scary. We were fortunate that my mom always had a stockpile of food because that was not the first time that a weather related emergency had happened. When you live in the country, it’s easier to a supply of food in the cupboards than to go to town every day to the store.
Last year when Jason and I got home from Puerto Rico, we came home to 2 weeks of sickness. When you have a larger family, when one person gets sick, the sickness has to work its way through the entire family. I’ve found that in our family, it can take about 2 weeks for the sickness to leave our home! By having a stockpile, I didn’t need to leave the house, expose other people to sick germs, and honestly, I was too sick to shop. It was a blessing to not have to.
In this short series I will show you a few different ways on how to grow your own stockpile. You will also learn how to stockpile the right items for your family, not just a one size fits all list! After you know what to buy and how to buy it, I’ll teach you how to store and organize your new stockpile.
Do you have a stockpile and would you share your tips with my readers? If you don’t what questions do you have about stockpiling?
this series looks interesting. I look forward to following it. I would be curious what your/other people’s tips are for building a stockpile as a single person and apartment-living preparedness.
I definitely appreciate common-sense prepping posts vs. silly zombie apocalypse scare prepping posts, haha! I would consider myself a common sense/disaster prepper myself and there’s definitely the drive during canning season to preserve all I can to feed my family in the year to come. And learning how to cook from scratch and stocking up on the basic staples to make sure that should disaster or power outage strike, we can survive- days, weeks, whatever. I look forward to your future posts on this topic!
Erin
http://www.yellowbirchhobbyfarm.com
This is looking like a very interesting series and I think it would also be beneficial to couples living on a fixed income!
I am with you on this! I call it homemaking prepping because it is common sense for a mother to secure her home in many ways including provisions. I look forward to reading the rest in this series!
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