Prepping for the Worst:
Basic Survival Strategies for Everyone
I’m Lisa Bedford, The Survival Mom!
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Remember the Spring of 2020?
It’s time to…
• Make a PLAN
• Prepare your home first
• Write down your plan
• To DO
• To BUY
• To LEARN
• Discuss your plan
Learn the 8 S’s
Sanitation Sustenance Sanity
Shelter Security Seasonal
Survival
Strength/Health
Sundries
Sanitation
• Keeping everything clean &
healthy
• Bathing/Toilet
• Clean surfaces
• Water purification
• Laundry
Sustenance
• Shelf-stable foods
• Simple meals
• 30 days’ menu
• Freeze-dried meals
• Off-grid cooking method
Sanity
• Peace amidst chaos, fear
• Routines
• Schedule
• Quiet time
• Activities
Shelter
• Home is cool enough
• Home is warm enough
• Lighting
• Power outages
• Organize supplies
• Declutter!
Security
• Locations/situations where you
feel vulnerable
• Lighting, “someone’s home”
• Deterrence
• Take measures now for home,
vehicle, workplace
Seasonal
• Supplies & plans for different
weather
• Hot
• Cold
• Wet
• Drought
• Consider extreme weather that
doesn’t usually occur
Strength/Health/First Aid
• Typical family ailments
• Prescription medications
• Plan for improved health
• Learn first aid/CPR
• Supplies
Survival Sundries
• Versatile, multi-use supplies
• Paracord
• Knife
• Duct tape
• Multi-tool
• Work gloves
Apply the 8 S’s to your Home Base
HOME BASE: Sanitation
✓Toilet supplies
✓Cleaning supplies
✓Laundry supplies & method
✓Water storage
✓Water purification
✓What does YOUR Home Base need?
HOME BASE: Sustenance
✓Shelf-stable foods
✓Simple-to-prepare meals
✓List a few ideas now…
✓30 days worth
✓Off-grid cooking method(s)
✓What does YOUR Home Base need for sustenance?
HOME BASE: Sanity
✓Routines
✓A schedule
✓Private/Quiet time
✓Activities
✓What boosts your emotional/mental health?
✓What does YOUR Home Base need?
HOME BASE: Shelter
✓Plan for extreme temperatures
✓Plan for power outages
✓Emergency lighting
✓What needs to be decluttered/organized?
✓What does YOUR Home Base need to provide
a safe shelter?
HOME BASE: Security
✓Home security
✓Personal security
✓Safe place within home
✓Firearms, training
✓What does YOUR Home Base need to be more secure?
HOME BASE: Seasonal
✓Changing weather
✓Extreme weather/temperatures
✓Prepare for next season ahead of time
✓What does YOUR Home Base need for the coming season?
HOME BASE: Strength
✓Family health issues
✓Mobility issues
✓Over-the-counter & prescription medications
✓Prepared for simple injuries
✓Plan for improved health
✓What does YOUR Home Base need?
HOME BASE: Survival Sundries
✓General-purpose supplies
✓Great lists on survival/prepping websites
✓What survival sundries does YOUR Home Base need?
Apply the 8 S’s to a bug out bag
• Sanitation
• Sustenance
• Sanity
• Shelter
• Security
• Seasonal
• Strength/Health
• Survival Sundries
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