Your household
Nobody lives in the average house.
Most preparedness advice is written for a family of four with a car, a garage and a spare $300. Here is the version for everyone else.
If you live on your own
The smallest amount of kit and the largest amount of planning.
Small home, no storageIf you live in a apartment with nowhere to put anything
The most common reason people give up on this entirely. It is solvable.
Young childrenIf you have young children
Everything gets simpler once you accept that the child is the plan.
TeenagersIf you have teenagers
They are not a liability in an emergency. They are the second adult.
Older peopleIf you are older, or you look after someone who is
Most emergency harm to older people is cold, falls in the dark, and missed medication. Not the event itself.
Disability and medical needsIf someone in the house has a disability or a medical need
The one group for whom preparedness is not optional, and the one group most emergency advice ignores.
PetsIf you have pets
The reason people refuse to leave a flooding house, every single time.
No carIf you do not have a car
Most emergency advice quietly assumes a driveway. Yours will be better than theirs.
Renting and sharingIf you rent or share a house
You do not control the boiler, the breaker panel or the roof. You still control the plan.
On a tight budgetIf money is tight
The version of this site that most preparedness websites will not write, because there is nothing to sell you.