PRETEND for just a minute that you have all of your food storage to your satisfaction. Now what? How about a fully stocked medical storage. To you, this might mean a shelf, or a full room. Where do you start? Always start with basics and things you can do with what you already have on hand. Triangle bandages for example. Or even Needles and thread for of course sewing. (we're not talking embroidery, we're talking stitches.) How about along with your triangle bandages, some pressure bandages, and pads to pack wounds? Absorbent, clean cloth or material can be sewn or even just rough cut to serve medical purposes. (Pinking shears, ~the ones that make the zig zag cut~, make non frey edges. Once made they can be stored in ziplock bags.
Now that you've gotten this much started you can put that extra $10.00 a pay day towards other medical needs. Alcohol, iodine, peroxide, commercial bandages, sunblocks, actual sutures (when you can find them), maybe more serious supplies like scalpels, forceps, pickups, hemostats, and so on.
The point is, once the basics are taken care of everything else begins to fall into place. You begin to see a clearer picture of what you have and what you still need. Be diligent in gathering your supplies. If you are short on space and have to become creative, make sure to keep an inventory. It is much easier to see what you need, if you can actually see it or have it written down. Consider your families needs. Do you have someone with special needs, or perhaps a particular medication. Maybe even a type of cough or cold medicine that is preferred. Would you rather use mylanta or pepto? You know those kinds of comforts, will make a huge difference.
There is no time like the present to start. Wouldn't you rather be prepared and have nothing happen, than not be prepared and your whole world falls apart?
(I do recommend as soon as you have a couple of weeks of storage ready to go, to start on other supplies like first aid/medical and cleaning and sanitary supplies. This allows you to have a small collection in several different storage groups rather than everything in only one storage group, ie; food and medical and sanitary and ammo, rather than only food and nothing else.
Don't forget about your water. A 5 gallon square storage container complete with spicket can be picked up in many different locations now for under that $10.00 mark. Many stores now sell bottled water with different sized containers. Or as a fall back, save those two liter soda bottles and fill them. When your desperate, it wont matter what the container looks like, as long as your prepared.
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