Preparedness Challenge: Week 5

This is your challenge for January 27 through February 3.

Follow this link for the Preparedness Challenge Label for weeks 1-4 and information on the Grab and Go (the GAG) Notebook that all of this information will go into.

Week 5:

Make copies of the following licenses/certificates that pertain to you and your family:

Marriage
Blessing/Baptismal
Death

Place the copies behind the 'Proof of Identification' tab in the GAG notebook.

While shopping this week purchase juices (either concentrate or powdered) for your food storage. Examples are lemon, orange, or grapefruit juice. Or you might like powdered juice like Tang or Kool-aid. Purchase what your family likes to drink. Just get enough extra to rotate in your food storage. It is wiser to have food storage for only a few weeks or months, than to have no food storage at all.

Tip: It is recommended that 14 gallons of water, per person, should be stored for a two week emergency. Don't forget that other sources of safe water include ice from the fridge, water heater, toilet tank, and pipes.

I am doing this along with you. Last weekend, for the week 4 goal, we purchased over $100 in paper products from Costco. We were barely able to get our groceries and goods into the car. We had such a full cart because we go to Costco quarterly now, instead of bi-weekly like we did when we lived in southern Utah. We had become one of 'those people' that you see with the cart brimming full of stuff and thankful that you don't have their bill. It was quite ridiculous, but now we're set for a good length of time.