When mistakes happen, foolishness is to pretend they never happened; wisdom is to learn from them. Many people were completely unprepared for the 2008 stock market crash where hundreds of thousands of jobs were eventually lost, and many families faced financial emergency.
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Five Steps To Start and Sustain Your Savings: Preparing for Financial Emergency
Getting Started on Emergency Preparedness
What if you went to the grocery store and found the shelves empty, or had to evacuate your home in fifteen minutes? Chances are, you would be in a world of hurt.
It is overwhelming to think about emergency preparedness.
“I need to acquire a year’s supply of palletized, freeze-dried food, 10,000 gallons of water and gasoline, cutting-edge emergency gear, paramedic certification and a bazooka to protect it all.”
72-Hour Survival Kits—The Basics
In an emergency, a 72-hour kit can help you survive until disaster relief teams mobilize. It can be hard to know where to start, but preparing a 72-hour kit is easier than you think.
When considering how to prepare, plan your kit around the Survival Rule of Threes. The Rule of Threes says people can survive:
MY List of 10 Food Storage Myths/Excuses
10- If you don’t have your food storage by now, it’s too late.
Storing food and other necessities is not an event; it’s a process. It means spending just a little more on groceries every month, either at the store or on “emergency” food supplies. Month after month, year after year, and then one day, you realize you really do have enough food to get you through some tough times.