Preparedness Essential: The Survival Mom Binder

I’ve spent hours and hours online researching everything from how to make homemade laundry soap to making a homemade food dehydrator.  I even researched how to make homemade fire starters using dryer lint.  All these pages, and more, have been bookmarked so I’ll have them for future reference.  Bookmarking is a great plan, except we could lose our electricity and/or our internet connection for a lengthy period of time, and then what?  My solution: The Survival Mom Binder!

My printer has been smokin’ over the past several weeks as I’ve been printing out information I want to keep .  Electronic storage is great, but sometimes a hard copy is the only way to go.

Think about the topics you’ve researched related to preparedness.   Maybe you’ve checked into alternate routes from your house to another location.  Have you researched making your own First Aid Kit or how to use a fire striker?  Maybe you’ve looked into which types of vegetables and herbs grow best in your region.  Marking an internet page as a “Favorite”, may not be enough.  Create your own Survival Mom Binder, a personalized reference book.

Begin by printing out information you want to have on hand, “just in case.”  Soon, this information will fall into logical categories, unique to you and your family.  Here are a few general categories just to get you started and notes of a few things I’ve printed out for my own binder.

Water:  purification methods, sources of water containers

Food:  food storage temperature chart, records of my long-term storage foods, recipes, edible wild plants

Medical: age/weight chart for medications, medicinal herbs and plants, first aid instructions, natural remedies

Gardening:  what to plant in my zone, directions for sprouting

Preserving Foods:  canning instructions, food dehydration directions

Alternative Energy Sources: directions for making a solar still and a solar phone charger

Evacuation: maps showing various routes out of our metropolitan area, a copy of our Family Evacuation Plan, a checklist of my Vehicle 72 Hour Kit 

Communication: directions for using our shortwave radio,  When Communication=Survival

To Do List:  books to buy, things to research

Miscellaneous: dosage chart for potassium iodide tablets!

A well-organized Survival Mom Binder is a must-have reference book tailored to your family.  Whether you grab it as you evacuate your home or just read it late at night in the comfort of your bed, it’s all yours with all the answers you were looking for!

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