Preparedness and self-reliant home

10 Common Sense Steps to a Self-Reliant Home*

* (whether you live in the city or the country)

1. Water - Collect and Store.

a. Rainwater collection system

b. Store in gal plastic jugs, 5 gal plastic containers.

c. Water purification tablets

2. Food Storage

a. Buy 2: use 1 store 1, rotate 1

b. Long Term Food Storage

c. Grain grinder & flaker

d. Grow a veggie garden in your front or backyard

3. Ideas for Cooking

a. Free standing Wood Stove

b. Propane Gas Stove (with standing pilot lights--no electricity)

c. Camp stove

d. Build a wood fired brick oven in your backyard.

e. Invest in a Solar oven

4. Get an emergency generator to hook up

to your well, your washing machine, etc.

5. Heat

a. Free-Standing Wood Stove

b. Insert for Fireplace

6. Adopt a Re-Use Attitude

a. Give up paper towels, napkins and plastic wrap.

b. Start using rags, cloth napkins, plastic bowl covers,

waxed paper sandwich bags, and waxed paper.

c. Compost compost compost: build a compost bin

kitchen waste, yard waste, harvest waste.

d. Grocery/Retail Store Rule #1.

Do not take another plastic bag out of another retail

store. Buy reusable cloth market bags and begin the behavior modification program necessary to get the bags from your car to the store and from your kitchen back to the car. You can do it!

7. Tankless Hot Water Heater

preferably propane with a standing

pilot light.

8. Install a T-Post Clothesline

9. Learn to bake a loaf of bread.

10. Housekeeping

a. candles and matches

b. oil lamps and oil

c. emergency radio

d. batteries

e. trash - get a burn barrel