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40 Reasons Vinegar Should Be in Your Preparedness Toolkit

Vinegar is the cheap multipurpose item everyone needs in their preparedness toolkit. Vinegar is essential because it is used for preserving food, cleaning, and healing.

6 Steps to You Should Take for Quarantine Preparedness

With US cases rising daily, the time to protect yourself and the people you love from the coronavirus and a home quarantine is now. You don’t need to wait on the government or healthcare system for help.

Disaster Preparedness for Women 101

If you’re a woman, preparing for a disaster involves a few additional important details to keep in mind. Learn how to prepare to manage your period, breastfeed, and more in an emergency situation.

Ditch the Bleach: 6 Uses for Hydrogen Peroxide

Hydrogen peroxide can be used for a variety of disinfecting and cleaning purposes and comes in handy during disasters. Here are six uses and you can add more.

6 Surprising Life-Saving Uses for Alcohol during a Crisis

During times of crisis, you won’t want to be without certain essential items, such as a water purification system, flashlights, and an emergency food supply. And alcohol. We're completely serious, and if you bear with us, we will explain why.

7 Survival Strategies to Teach Kids

As parents and adults, it’s our job to teach kids emergency preparedness skills so they can survive a tragedy when there are no adults around.

We can't rely on schools to teach what we as adults understand is vital in terms of being prepared for emergencies.

There's plenty to share with kids. Let's distill all the various strategies down to 7 that would be a good place to start.

Emergency First Aid and Medical – Preparing Ahead is Critical

In an emergency situation, we all know we need food, water, shelter, air to breathe. All of these are necessary to keep us alive and healthy.

But what if we’re not healthy? If you or anyone in your crew is injured, sick or worse, everything else you’ve prepared won’t matter if you can’t attend to the medical need.

This week, I want to give you an overview of my approach to emergency first aid and medical preparedness. My 3 “quick-start guidelines will help you build your own plan.