According to the Red Cross and Ready.gov, the best emergency kits include:  Water (One gallon per person per day) Food (Three-day supply for an evacuation or two-week supply for home use) A flashlight Battery-powered or crank radio First aid kit Medication (Seven-day supply of both prescription and non-prescription medication) Batteries Multi-purpose tool Hygiene items (toilet paper, feminine products, moist towelettes, garbage bags and plastic ties) Emergency blankets Maps of your local area Cell phone chargers (solar chargers are most useful) Copies of personal ..read more

First Aid Kit is a pack which has supplies and equipment used to give medical treatment if medical respondents can't reach you or may not be available. First Aid Kits are essential for survival and it is one of the things for survival that is easy to prepare and should be included in your survival kits. We all may be wondering what are the essential things that should be inside you First Aid Kit and can be used for most common injuries, well there are many lists out there which gives you the things you must have in your First Aid Kit but here we have chopped it all out to which are the most ne ..read more

How do you prepare your kids for surviving? As parents and adults, it is your duty to introduce the kids to the preparedness activities at a young age. The reality of the situation is that most people who are faced with survival aren't faced with it alone. You have a family that makes the task much harder and also gives you more motivation to make it through and survive. For all of the millennia, people have been surviving with kids for whom there weren't all of the conveniences of modern society to use while making it through. You need to find ways to do things, where you can keep your childr ..read more

There are many commercially available survival kits in stores today. Many of these kits contain items of poor quality. If at any time, you find yourself having to depend on a man-made item in order to survive, that item needs to be of excellent quality! One piece of your kit can mean the difference between life and death. Because we all don't engage in the same outdoor activities, a one-size-fits-all kit isn't practical. The items in your kit are relative to the activity you're engaging in. If you do decide that you'd rather purchase a ready-made kit from a local retailer or online shop, there ..read more

We are surrounded by modern conveniences, so much so that we take most of them for granted until we don't have them. From the knife and fork we use to the more complex machines we have built to serve us such as computers, washing machines and even the car we drive. We have developed a way of life where many think they cannot do without these modern-day 'necessities'. Is all the gadgetry we have surrounded ourselves with really 'necessities' or have we let ourselves become victims to so much gadgetry that even a broken pencil cannot be sharpened because the electric sharpener is out of batteri ..read more