Family Photos for your 72 hour Kit!

I thought it might be a good idea to go a little more in depth into what I did for our family pictures for our 72 hour kits! It was VERY simple actually! All I did was find the photos I wanted to use (family, my hubby, me, and my baby) and opened them with photoshop. Make sure they are photos that your faces are visible, these can be used for anything from photos from children to look at to pass time, to photos needed for a search party! I typed our full names underneath and printed them onto regular paper. You could also just write the names under the photos. Then I cut them out and laminated them, punched holes in the corners and tied them together with some ribbon. If you arent able to get to a laminater, you can use packing tape over both sides and then just trim it!

This was SO fast and easy! And it was cheap so I can redo the book every time we get our new family photos!

Isn't he a cutie!?

Emergency Preparedness Kit {week-by-week}

I had REALLY been wanting to start an Emergency Kit for our family, and I finally got the ambition to do it! I broke my list down into weeks, adding up to a year. That way it's not so overwhelming (and expensive) to do all at once! You can either go by order, or pick and choose things that you find on sale, or that you have in the house. Just make sure if you do miw them up, to add the $5 + 4 quarters periodically, or you will end up putting in $70 all at once! Don't get this list confused with a Food Storage list, this has a FEW food items, but its mostly emergency supplies. Feel free to add/take away from this list to fit your family's needs!

I found a container that I had lying around and cut out some vinyl for it (because every project starts with vinyl!) Then I went through the list and found the things I had already in the house that we could spare and added them.

it isnt much... its a start!

1.       Container to hold your Kit.

2.       1 Flashlight for each person + extra batteries

3.       Current family picture and photo of each family member (More on this later :) )

4.       Can opener

5.       List of important phone #’s (laminated if possible) (I added our cell phones, all 4 of our parents cell phones, our Family Doctor, the city police, and the city fire dept.)

6.       $5 in one dollar bills + 4 quarters

7.       4 rolls toilet paper

8.       1 bar soap

9.       1 emergency blanket per person

10.   1 roll paper towels

11.   $5 in one dollar bills + 4 quarters

12.   1 box bandaids

13.   1 package wet wipes

14.   100ct multi vitamins

15.   1 pack of gum

16.   2 candles

17.   Package of matches

18.   2 decks of cards

19.   Face Masks 2 per person

20.   1 bottle Ibuprofen (add baby Tylenol if you have a baby)

21.   2 lighters

22.   $5 in one dollar bills + 4 quarters

23.   1 whistle per person

24.   5 dice (to play games)

25.   Rubber gloves 2 pair per person

26.   Sunblock

27.   $5 in one dollar bills + 4 quarters

28.   Gauze and medical tape

29.   3 heat pouches per person

30.   Bugspray

31.   Rope

32.   $5 in one dollar bills + 4 quarters

33.   1 package garbage bags (10)

34.   Package of tums

35.   Pocket knife

36.   Thermometer

37.   $5 in one dollar bills + 4 quarters

38.   Hand sanitizer

39.   2 packs instant hot coco per person

40.   5 packages garden seeds

41.   2 packs instant soup per person

42.   $5 In one dollar bills + 4 quarters

43.   10 hard candies per person (i.e. butterscotch, cinnamon etc.)

44.   4 AA batteries

45.   10 instant crystal lite packages

46.   2 instant oatmeal packs per person

47.   $5 in one dollar bills + 4 quarters

48.   Notebook and pens (for journaling/notes/entertaining kids)

49.    Small pot

50.    Travel size shampoo/conditioner

51.   Bible/Book of Mormon

52.   $5 in one dollar bills + 4 quarters

I'll try and update every few months of what it looks like, as it fills! I hope this gives you the ambition to start your own!