Prepping 101 Book Review

I decided to get a few non-fiction books at the library to see what they were about and see if there is any helpful hints.  Prepping 101: 40 Steps You Can Take to Be Prepared: Protect Your Family, Prepare for Weather Disasters, and Be Ready and Resilient w... by Kathy Harrison was the first in my pile that I decided to read.  It was short enough and entertaining enough to read it quickly and learn all the information.

The next severe storm, power outage, or financial meltdown could hit at any time. Having a household contingency plan and being part of a strong, resilient community could mean the difference between life and death. This friendly and highly accessible guide introduces the most important, practical steps your whole family can take to ensure survival in short- or long-term emergencies. The critical information is presented in 40 achievable tasks, ranging from simpler ones such as creating a preparedness notebook and repackaging store-bought food for storage to more involved preparations like learning to collect rainwater and building a solar oven.

There are many things in this book written in 2018 that are a little creepy now in 2020.  I thought it was really interesting to talk about all of the different ways to be prepared including having a 72 hour bag, 3 month food supply and long term storage.  I think that it provides a lot of introductory information but not all the details.  If there is something that you are interested in learning more, there are suggestions of many other books and sources that you might like to read for research.  I kept a list of a few interesting other books suggested that might provide interesting information.  I think that the best tip that is included in book was to stock up on things that you already use and it gives some ideas on how to store things.  Things that I wish we have are 72 hour bags but they seem so impractical because of season and size changes in clothes and difficulty to change out food stores in bags.  I feel like we are in an area where the fast evacuation is less likely so I always figure that I will grab books and pack up everything just like when we go on vacation.  I think that we have gotten pretty good at what bags hold what items and what we need to pack and where it fits in the car.  I do think that we should have all of our important paperwork stored together in a binder or other storage information that can be easily grabbed when we need to go too.  I think that it raises lots of questions and makes you think about your current preparedness.  I was most interested in the follow up books that I thought might also be interesting.  I hope that you check out this book and see the facts for yourself. I hope that some of them are helpful for you.