Sep272012
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28 Ways a laminating machine can help you get prepared
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PDFIn this video I share how easy it is to use a laminator, something you probably already knew! However, until I started pulling out those laminating sheets and scouring the house for various documents, I didn’t realize how many uses there were for that machine!
Here’s the video, which also reviews the Fellowes laminator, followed by my list of 28 things to laminate!
- Photos and a personal information sheet of each family member and pet in case of evacuation or lost child/pet
- Local wildlife ID cards
- Chore lists
- Evacuation checklist
- List of items for your emergency kits/bug out bags
- Medication lists- who gets what, when, and how much
- Insurance information (house, car, life, health, etc.)
- Whiteboard pages – Put one in each kid’s emergency kit along with a dry erase marker.
- Vehicle maintenance checklist
- Vehicle emergency checklist
- Laminate one emergency card per person. Include name, photo, description, medical info, and identifying marks.
- Maps for evacuation with routes marked
- Important contacts, including phone numbers, addresses, and email addresses
- Homeschool schedule
- Learning tools, like multiplication table, flash cards, vocabulary lists/cards
- Instructions for emergencies, such as how to start a generator, tying knots, battery hookups for the camper, turning on/off the gas, water, and power
- Food storage inventory
- Camping supplies checklist
- Copies of well loved recipes
- First Aid procedures
- 911 instructions for kids
- Directions for purifying water
- List of last minute things to pack for evacuations, such as medications or medical equipment
- Sewing patterns
- Legal documents/licenses/permits
- Paper instructions for anything you refer to again and again, such as canning times/temperatures
- Specific medical instructions for things like CPR, burns
- Items for the Grab-n-Go Binder
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Robert
I have been using one for years.
JungianINTP
I, too, have used one for yeas
–and often ask my wife this,
about an item she’s cutting
out of a newspaper or magazine:
“Is that laminator-worthy?”
Heather @Cube2Farm
LOVE my laminator!!! Great for homeschooling preschoolers AND becoming a Survival Mom! Awesome!
Do you have any resources links for good printable wildlife guides? Or do you mean cutting out of actual books/purchased pamphlets?
Thank you again for another awesome resource!
Elissa
I seriously just decided that each of our BOB’s needed to have their own wild edibles book/booklet and that I may have to make one myself. I thought to laminate them so that they can survive the rain. I have several wild edible books but I want to focus on a dozen or so wild edibles that are easily identifiable and found all over in our area. Winter bugging out will pose many problems not the least of which is finding wild edibles in the winter. I keep meaning to watch Dave Canterbury’s videos on useful and medicinal trees in the eastern woodland. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k5DsHQPU78&feature=share&list=PLBE878CC425E56A77
Dee
Laminators are great!
Here is another tip: If you want your documents to be truly waterproof, trim the paper a little smaller than the lamination envelope so that the hole punch holes penetrate only the plastic and not the paper.
This way, water cannot leach into the document through the paper punch holes.
Dee
Saira
Sewing patterns! Awesome! (Now why didn’t I think of that?)
BeaReady
Good alternative to laminating is clear contact paper available in rolls or sheets. Also makes a good patch for a cracked tail light lens . Still held strong after five years on our old truck.
Coupon To Survive
If you need a deal on a laminator, watch Scotch Thermal Laminator 2 Roller System (TL901) on Amazon. It is currently $30, but drops to around $17 often and has great reviews. This is a great post, organization is so important in prepping.
Mike
I have some large family picks and need a larger than 9″ and maybe even 12″, does anyone know where to buy a good laminator?
Thanks