One of the most essential and yet undervalued skills of any prepper is consistency and discipline.
Prepping can be a very overwhelming lifestyle because preppers have to dedicate themselves to handling so many things at once.
Namely, preppers have to ensure their home and property is secured, emergency supplies are well-stocked and in good condition, equipment is properly maintained, gardens are growing enough crops, and so on.
The prepper’s life is not an easy lifestyle, and the best way to live it successfully and ensure that all the bases are covered ongoing is to have the right mindset of sticking to a well thought-out routine.
If this is you, a prepper who’s struggling to keep up with each of your responsibilities, you’ll probably find the upcoming information to be particularly useful.
Daily Tasks
These are the daily tasks you’ll want to do each night before you hit the hay:
Check On The Garden And Animals
Do you have any livestock that you’re raising and/or gardens you’re growing?
If so, make it a habit to do a quick inspection before you return back inside at night. You’ll want to make sure all the animals are fed and watered, and likewise ensure that all your plants seem to be growing in good condition as well.
If you don’t have a garden check out this guide on how to make a year-round self-sustaining garden. Inside this book you’ll also find a whole chapter dedicated to “easy on the back gardening” as well as many other backyard projects to help you become as self-sufficient as possible.
Check And Lock The Doors And Windows
The security of your home is of the utmost importance. Don’t go to bed each night without first making sure that all the entrance doors and windows are locked.
By fulfilling your prepper responsibilities, you can rest assured that a potential burglar won’t gain easy access to your home during the night.
Charge Essential Devices
You always want any essential devices you rely on to be fully charged and ready to go when you wake up the next morning.
This includes your phone, tablets, laptops, and ensuring that you’ve saved up enough power in your solar panels to provide enough electricity to your home and property the next day.
Weekly Tasks
Make sure you’ve done each of these tasks each week before the end of Sunday:
Checking and Replenishing Emergency Supplies
Checking your emergency supplies and replenishing them is necessary is an ongoing thing that you should be doing. This includes checking the following:
Food stockpiles- Water stockpiles
- Ammunition
- OTC Meds and antibiotics
- Extra Essentials (batteries, candles, cleaning items, personal hygiene items, kitchen items etc.)
Make sure that everything is in good condition and check if anything is in need of replacement.
As a general rule water should be rotated out at least once every six months, but check up on it now for any signs of mold or discoloration that indicates it’s going bad.
Likewise, you’ll want to make sure that your food shows no clear signs of infestation, mold, discoloration, or bad smells either.
Checking up on your stockpile as part of a weekly routine will help give you peace of mind that everything is in order and good to be used should an unexpected disaster strike soon.
Workout
It’s vitally important for you as a prepper to stay in shape because a real-life emergency disaster scenario will become one of the physically trying times of your life.
Try to get at least one good workout per week, but honestly, two to three workouts will be preferable to ensure you’re staying in the optimum shape. Develop a workout plan if you haven’t already that focuses on both your strength and your endurance.
Monthly Tasks
These are the tasks that need to be completed at least once monthly:
Conduct An Emergency Drill
One of the biggest responsibilities for preppers with families is to have a procedure in place for how you will respond to an emergency.
Think about a disaster that you believe is likely to threaten your home, whether it’s a hurricane, flooding, terrorist attack, and have a plan in place.
Related: 20 Last Minute Ways To Prepare For An Emergency
Your plan needs to include the following elements:
- Meeting point (and backup meeting point) where your family can assemble
- Communication plan so your family can all stay in-touch
- How you and your spouse will pick up your small children
- Stashing your car with supplies
Having a plan is critical, but executing and practicing that plan is even more so. You need to run monthly drills of the plan so everyone in your family knows exactly what to do. Drills will also help you to identify any weak points in the plan that will need to be fixed.
While practicing an entire emergency drill monthly may seem overbearing, it’s simply the best strategy to ensure that you, your spouse, and your children are all in-sync and know exactly what to do when disaster strikes. When a real disaster does happen, it will all pay off in the end.
Inspect Your Bug Out Location
Do you have a bug out building or property that you and your family can retreat to in the event that staying at home becomes too untenable during an emergency?
If so, inspecting your bug out location is something you’ll want to preferably do on a monthly basis. Have at least two or three routes for getting to your bug out location from your home and make sure you use these routes to get there so you know them by heart.
When you arrive at your bug out location, make sure that everything is in order. Any stockpiles you have set aside there should be checked, make sure there are no signs of anyone trespassing or breaking in, and check any defense or alarm systems you have installed as well.
Sort Through Your Emergency Bags (But Out Bag, Get Home Bag, Etc.)
As a prepper, you should already have several emergency preparedness bags ready to go, including a three day bug out bag and a get home survival bag in your vehicle,
But are you intimately familiar with the contents of your bags? Sure, you may have purchased and stocked the items for them individually before, but do you remember where you placed everything.
The last position you want to be in is to be in an emergency needing a specific item and rummaging through your bag forgetting where you placed it.
The best strategy to ensure you are familiar with everything in your bug out bags is to go through them once every month. Make sure you are aware of every item in your bag and where that item is located in the bag. This also gives you the opportunity to think of any critical items that your preparedness bags may be missing.
These are just a few ideas for certain duties and responsibilities that a prepper would be wise to stick to a routine for. If there are any other tasks that you do as part of your own preparations, think about how you can develop a daily, weekly, or monthly routine surrounding those tasks.
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Ha, Ha!!! as the Homer Simpson character kid would say.
Your bugout cache has been compromised that land where you buried it. Is now squatters private property. Or the Chinese now own that land you invest $1000.00 of USD on.
Bugout caches are really over rated in our survival tools.
What upgrade techniques have the bugout planning preppers found as an alternative?
How about the agreement to store your bugout equipment with a trusted individual. Now things have changed, that person or family moved on or also had to bugout.
These are some thoughts the bugout plans don’t sometimes consider.
Side note news;
Just like the Trump doc prosecution and Punter wick Biden gets a free pass on tax and gun charges. A 3-tiered legal system where you and I would be in prison for 1/10th of what Punter did. So Punter is a poor example of cache a gun for future misdemeanor purposes.
Remember your smartphone tracks you, me, us with GPS. So your cache is not in a secure location anymore.
What have you, we done to upgrade our cache preps?
The rule Two is One, and One is None, comes to mind. The article is stating that a system needs to be in place in order to not be taken by surprise. If you have multiple stashes, even at your bugout location, then the possibility exists that you won’t be left without any supplies. If you keep food/supplies at a friend’s house, then you also have to trust that that friend won’t dip into your supplies when they are experiencing a period of tight funds or empty shelves.
By checking on your BOL and caches on a semi-frequent schedule, then you will know if the Chinese bought the land, if the government stole the land, or if squatters have infested the land. Frequent visits to the BOL may alert some that there may be something worthwhile stored there, but if the visits are rare, then you may not know that things have gone terribly wrong. Having a well maintained pet cemetery may explain your visits, and also provide an excuse for burying some preps. Tire swings and a dedicated camp site can also provide “cover”, and would also allow you let trusted allies check on your BOL when you can’t.
The old adage, “Just because you are paranoid, doesn’t mean they are not out to get you” should be considered a motto. If you have a healthy distrust of the general population, it doesn’t have to consume your life and actions, but it does need to keep you focused on sec-ops.
Good points made.
Some rules to think by:
That reminds us of “Fight Club” – 1st RULE: You do not talk about FIGHT CLUB.
2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about FIGHT CLUB.
So talking about our specific preps, locations on an open view website in public. Violates the rules 1&2, of keeping a low profile.
Or looking at preps and caches in a different view;
One’s too few, three too many, or two is company, three is a crowd.
For those retired, on fixed incomes or newbies to prepping.
I don’t carry 2 of every item, that would be financially impossible for me.
For ultimate redundancy, in example of knives.
So always 2 knives, often 3 knives, sometimes even 4 knives. Over that you maybe a hoarder.
Two is one and one is none. Three is backup and four is one too many.
Most people don’t even have one. I figure with my 5 EDC’s, I’m simply taking up the slack.
All kidding aside:
In retrospect, no joke; its a no-brainer to carry a couple as spares.
Keep current with different news sources that are available for now. Once AI is in full swing we may not be able to trust those news sources. Even if we go by local word of mouth news.
Remember playing the “Telephone Game”? Where the actual message gets screwed up to the last in line. The beginning or original message is somewhat different in meaning. That is a potential with AI.
Right now the liberal do that manually in their lame stream news network to confuse the public.
AI is used to rewrite factual books with nonsense. So now is the time to get physical hard copy books for reference.
Thanks for the head up!
Great Article
Most important , pay attentention to your stock, Rotate, Review , check periodically
have what you need for at least 3–12 mth s depending where you are
always have a secrecy circle where everyone does not know you or what your up to
loose lips sink ships , best kept secret s given away in causual conversation s
Learn to read people , spot people , see real motives
and never take anything for granted
love your neighbor , allways be the friend your looking for , but keep a tight reign on your views, words, actions
many sites to get the info on how to see thru people
if you know motive, you know goals
The heart of man is desparetly wicked and who can know it , quote from bible , proverbs
evil times are coming and Deception will prevail like never before so you will worship, follow, do his bidding ( the anti Christ ) fake religeon , false truth , evil man of perdition
Be ready for you do not know the day or the hour when this shall happen , just the signs of the coming age of antichrist , who oppose christ , who choose evil over God, who Choose passion, lust, perversion over Truth and Repentance
Doors open , you must invite christ in , then you will have your eyes open and see clearly
Keep adding what you can.
Rotate stuff thats perishable.
Review, what you have and what you need to know.
Increase your variety and or amount.
Limit who knows what.
Always aim higher than “just enough”.
Practice, practice, practice.
Keep moving…your body will thank you.
Well written blessed fellow in Christ!!!Amen
Abe- For the squatters, he who has the biggest stick wins. Just make sure you have some big sticks for you AND your family are all are well trained in them. As far as the tracking of phones, you should keep ALL electronics in a faraday/fire/waterproof bag anytime you visit and equip your bug outs. Amazon has a ton of them and they’re not expensive. Don’t use you electronics at your bug out location. Find a few nice vantage points to run your coms and vary your routes to and from those points. Get some maps and waterproof them and study your surroundings. Find a few like-minded families near you and vet them, then your alternatives have exponentially increased.
Stay Frosty!
Good suggestions.
Yes locations, in a couple areas I had in the hills came under drug cartel operations. Which is probably under fed surveillance, so those $$$$ preps are lost for now.
So that is what I was alluding to in previous post.
And yes I don’t take a smartphone to a location. Am mirroring in another previous post the guy mentioned. Your location can be recorded by GPS he noted. Some people will still bring their phones with them out of habit, just because.
Thanks for the suggestions:)
“The three faces of Eve.” Or “Sybil” “Liberalism is a mental disorder.” – M. Savage.
I’d add check your cash cache, too. I think a mix of bills and change more useful than a pile of 20’s hastily grabbed from the ATM as you head out of Dodge.
Banks are going to start the digital system of control soon and when this happens
they have the ability to take, keep, use anything in it for their continuity , keeps them up , not you
Then will start with limiting you ability to use , or withdraw
Then when the stocks, markets crash , this will signify the start of collapse
investments will fail, collapse, come to nothing at a overnite rate , so fast you will not be able to withdraw
look at the graphs, details, of the great depression , overnite
The world funny money will be obsolete overnite
then the antichrist will have answers after the rapture
People will blame , hate , accuse and fail , fall away from any belief system they have in God
The bible says they the world will hate you , like they the religeous world hated Jesus christ
Well documented , well written in history , you must research to see truth
Gold and silver , food, Fuels , hard assets will be the only useable items
Citys will be so bad you will be like cattle to the slaughter and evil will abound in the citys and country sides
this is why : The Bible says : unless those days had been shortened by God who is holy, just, loving, gracious, forgiving until death , there would be no life , mankind will destroy himself, herself , themselves
Amen to that! We are repeating the same history of WWII Wiemar Republic did.
The American economy is going that way too.
GOD is in charge of all, it’s going through the mess liberals made, don’t care for.
Earth is not our true home. The liberals want to cancel life on earth by environmentalism. But if people believe in “Revelations” the earth will be purified by a consuming fire.
So all their plans of mice and men will be for not. Praise be to GOD.
A friend sent this:
JUST REMEMBER CALIFORNIA IS THE NATION’S TEST BED FOR MARXISM!
SO GOES THE REST OF AMERICA. See if you can help fight back these lib’s.
Biden Issues Ruling to Help CA Ban Natural Gas Appliances – Help Us Fight Back!
Here’s what’s being proposed under this mandate:
IMMEDIATELY: All new homes and buildings will be prohibited from putting in any new natural gas appliances – not just stoves, but all appliances such as furnaces, ovens, water heaters, etc.
2027-2035: Existing homeowners will be given a deadline to pay for expensive home retrofits to remove ALL of their existing gas appliances – all stoves, ovens, water heaters, furnaces! The Bay Area got hit with a 2027 deadline; San Diego already announced 2033 is their target. Every week a new region proposes a new deadline for costly retrofits! https://reformcalifornia.org/news/banning-gas-appliances-will-cost-california-homeowners-over-30k-each -Your State is next!
GOD help us to push-back Marxism ASAP!
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