Good morning, have a great day.
God is good all the time
Judy
I keep a 3-ring binder with all my emergency notes, checklists and inventories. This week I'll be working to revise my Emergency Binder. It's amazing how much changes from year to year and I want to keep it up to date. The perfect project in looking at the weather ahead.
The emergency binder is what keeps me organized and confident that everything is taken care of. I can feel that I don't have to do it all in on day, I can spread it out over the year. This is where my weekly prepping-to-do checklist is which keeps my prepping tasks to less than two hours a week because, you know, I have a life, too.
It's also comforting to know that a trusted family member can pick up the binder and know what we have, where it is, how to use it and what to do in the event that I'm not unavailable.
In an emergency I have all the information at my finger tips without having to search. If we have to evac the house, I can grab this one book and have everything I need to rebuild after the disaster. My binder tabs are:
Do you have anything different in your emergency binder? Did I forget anything?
- Family Emergency Plan: 1 page, cause you don't have time to read a book
- Evacuation Checklist: 1 page (also posted on the inside of a kitchen cabinet door)
- Emergency contacts: utility outage updates, family, friends, neighbors, medical pros
- Emergency ID cards; photos and descriptions to help identify/locate each family member after a disaster
- Emergency recipes and food/water prep - points to another binder with more info
- Natural and manmade disasters; CNBC, power outages, etc. -points to binders with more info
- Encrypted thumbdrive with copies of scanned
- Home inventory and insurance policies
- Legal Documents; will, power of attorney, living will, etc.
- Medical Information; px lists, immunization dates, power of atty, advanced care directive, etc.
- Pertinent papers; driver license, passports, military records, deeds, registrations,
- Financial information: credit cards, banking statements, taxes, etc.
Costco flier these days mostly non food , supplements, and a few sales on snack type irems.
Oh yes! Good ideas. I had not considered education and such. thanks for that.better have DMV vehicle proof of ownership >>> possible checks at official roadblocks for stolen vehicles/RV/boat/trailers
anything to do with your education, training, certifications and previous work history is important >>> might make the difference in a pinch ...
if you have smaller kids that can't self ID - have permanent attachable ID like dog tags - permanent marker to write name & Soc Sec # on body limbs
Renee.. it sounds like we've had the same bug! All I did all day was doze and lay around. Had a splitting headache and my stomach was just enough "off" that I had NO appetite. I caught it either from hubby or 4 year old granddaughter... they both were sick Saturday. It is short lived, thankfully!Thank you for starting the thread this week, Judy; I appreciate it!
Toosh, I don't suppose you hire out for for building emergency binders, do you? Most of our stuff is in the safe, but it's not nearly that organized!
I was scheduled to work Fri/Sat/Sun nights; and we had snow in the forecast for Saturday morning, so I packed up some stuff and dropped it at co-worker Buddy's house on my way in to work Friday night. I'm glad that I did because we did get snow, and the roads just to get from the hospital to his house were pretty slick so I'm glad I didn't have drive any farther. The roads were clear by the time I got off work on Sunday so I headed on home. Woke up sick as a dog about 2 pm and called in to work - and then got calls from 3 different co-workers wanting to know if I had the 'Rona. Sorry guys, just gastro/headache; knew I shouldn't have gotten that breakfast sandwich at Mc Donalds... (I'm one of the few unvaccinated on the unit so they are all waiting for me to come down with it.) Other than taking time to call in and gulping down some water, I slept pretty much from the time I got home on Sunday morning until noon today - and now I'm ready to go back to bed!!
I'm itching to get my seed orders sent in but am waiting for one more catalog - the one with the yellow pole bean seed. I think it's Stoke's, but I could be wrong... I talked to Hubby about tilling up the 2nd garden - we haven't used it for a couple of years but I think I'd like to have it just in case. It's right next to the clothesline, so I have to be careful what I plant in there, but tomatoes and green beans shouldn't cause a problem. I also want to order more strawberry and raspberry plants, but those will go in a different area.
Yawning so big I can hardly see what I'm typing; guess that means I'd better head to bed... You folks all take care out there; stay safe!!
If you are wanting half gallon canning jars, start looking in the stores. My husband was lucky enough to snag one that had been put out at Walmart yesterday. Funny, I had been searching on Walmart.com to see if I could order them for pickup, and one magically appeared.
I bought a few cases of them last year at Hometown Market near us. I haven't been back there, lately, so I don't know if they still have them. Last year, there were cases stacked almost to the ceiling. I use them a lot with vacuum sealing.
You can freeze flour tortillas without a problem.
Sherree,Well, the guy never came to install our fiber optics, so I guess we'll sit here all day waiting for him to show up. If he shows up at all. I hate it when someone tells me that they will be here a certain time and day, and never show up. He never even called to say he wasn't going to be able to make it.
Has anyone bought the flour tortillas in packages at the grocery store and frozen them to keep them fresh longer? I have 4 packages in my fridge drawer that are getting close to their expiration date. I was wondering if I could freeze them. We use these a lot when I make Mexican type meals, so I like to have plenty on hand.
Sherree,
I have frozen tortillas that have been im my freezer for 2 years. I do use them every week or so and I have not noticed funny taste or freezer burn. I do put them in freezer bags. I used to make tortillas all the time but then I moved to town and the grocery store was just around the corner. Now that I am back in the country and 30 minutes from the nearest store I am making them again! I had everything in preps so I didn't have to add anything new to be able to make them. Takes about 5 minutes!