7 Day Emergency Preparedness Challenge Introduction

So I’m doing this thing.

I got together with a couple of likeminded friends and we decided to challenge ourselves. Then we decided to open it up for other likeminded people to join us.

For 7 days, we are testing our individual Emergency Preparedness and Food Storage Plans. Each day will bring a NEW mock emergency, or situation that will test at least one of the reasons we strive to be prepared! And an opportunity to rate yourself and make a note of changes you need to make.

Originally it was scheduled for a particular week, so we all go through the scenarios together, and it is attached to a facebook group called WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER: 1 WEEK EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS CHALLENGE.

I hope you’ll join us here and take the challenge to test yourself. During the challenge, don’t take the easy way out and skip over the hard stuff, or cheat. No going to a store, or spending any money for the entire 7 days! And feel free to adapt the scenarios to fit your own family and situation.

Watch for follow up posts marked Day 1, Day 2 … and so forth.

Here are the daily report cards that you can print if you wish, for a self assessment on each day’s challenges.

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Challenge brought to you by Cindy, Karen and Linda because WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. Have fun, and remember to share your experiences here in the comments below or in our Facebook group dialogue.

Cindy

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My name is Cindy. I guess you could say my homesteading journey began in our second floor walk up apartment when we were newly married. It was fun to finally be “playing-house” for real, and I suppose I never really grew out of that stage. It just got realer and realer as time went on. Now I am the mother of five grownup children who all have children of their own. One of my sons called me a “closet hutterite“. Made me laugh. But I couldn’t think of a suitable retort. Still working on that one. These five great kids have given us nineteen wonderful grandchildren who are the joy of our lives. I am married to my best friend. His name is Dan, and he is not a closet hutterite. But he’s a patient sorta guy who doesn’t mind living with one. Most of the time. Truth is, in the beginning of our life together we thought (and hoped and prayed) we’d one day live on a small farm. ….. Well, life doesn’t always work out exactly how we picture it in our younger years does it? It didn’t materialize quite the same way we dreamed it might, but that is totally okay. Sometimes Heavenly Father gently nudges us in a different direction, and so here is where we are. In a big Canadian city, surrounded by lots of good neighbours. They’re also patient sorta people. That helps. View all posts by admin

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what’s the point?

In the beginning, pre-internet days, when I wanted to learn a new skill, I did it the old fashioned way. I asked.

Problem was, it was kinda hard sometimes to find people who knew how to do what I wanted to learn. Sometimes I had to figure things out on my own, using an old book with very few pictures and a whole lot of trial and error. It took time—and sometimes it was downright painful. Sure would have been simpler if I could have just ‘seen it done’, and what it was supposed to look like in the end. You know …. Something like a live YouTube video. Wouldn’t that have blown our minds way back in the day? Wow. It’s so much easier to learn how to do things now.

You can bet that whenever I found someone willing to share, I took full advantage. And if there were classes offered in my area, I signed up.

We read a lot and experimented a lot, and made a lotta mistakes, and learned a lot, and we’re still learning. I am including Dan in this, as most of what I did, we did together. We sure don’t regard ourselves as experts at anything we do. Just like you – we’re still trying to do the best we know how. And the learning never stops. In some areas, we just might be a little further along the road is all.

I have a motto that I live by. It is a quote from Maya Angelou stencilled in big black letters in my kitchen. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then, when you know better, DO better.”

So simple. So straightforward. And so absolutely profound. Just DO better.

Don’t beat yourself up over what you didn’t know before. Don’t live in a life of regrets. You did the best you knew how, but now you know better, and you can move forward.

I love the principle taught in the quote.

The purpose of this blog is to make your journey a little easier than mine was – by offering some shortcuts, hands-on instruction, and maybe even a few helpful suggestions.

Anyone who wants to, can achieve a greater level of self-sufficiency, and everything I share can be (and should be) adapted to fit your own home and situation. There is no single ‘right’ way, and no completely wrong way. Just ideas that might work for you and are worth trying.

Whether you live in an apartment with a balcony, a townhouse with a patio, a home with a yard, or a farm on the prairie – you can make it better than it is, and become more self-sufficient right where you are.

Here, we will explore a little of this and that – from the kitchen to the laundry room to the garden, to the thoughts and feelings that are intertwined with this kind of lifestyle, . . . . . and probably several places in between. We’ll go where the wind blows I guess. This is a new experience for me too. I’m looking forward to it.

I’d love it if you’d take a moment to comment when you read a post. Let me know what you think. Share your thoughts, your tips and your own way of “doing it better”. We can learn from each other.

– Cindy

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