Submitted by Ben Tanner
Emergency preparedness is something that two people in a relationship should do together. This is because if you have two people handling all of the details, equally together as one, it is twice the work being done. Having two people doing emergency preparedness together means planning ahead together and being in sync successfully if any form of 911 emergency does strike the area that you are living in.
It doesn’t matter what the type of emergency is either, as there are various scenarios. What matters the most is having all of your prepping steps ready to meet any emergency that may strike unannounced. This is because by having your emergency preparedness done ahead of time. You are ensuring yourself, as well as your significant other, a much better chance of being able to survive any emergency that may take place without any advance warning.
How to get your significant other on board with prepping for any emergency? First of all, before you get your significant other involved in any real plan to do emergency preparedness, you should do something in advance first. What is this something in advance? You need to personally determine what type of events can take place in your community.
Is your area prone to hurricanes, tornadoes, and other forms of natural disasters such as earthquakes, wildfires, mud slides? The list goes on. Once, you have determined what events usually plague your locale, then you should build an emergency preparation plan around these kind of debilitating occurrences. Some people also prepare for nuclear war, or other man-made disasters too. Therefore, this can be incorporated into your particular emergency preparedness plan, as well.
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The next step is to give your significant one category of the emergency preparedness plan to take care of specifically. One area that is crucial is for food storage and emergency food. You can dispense this key part of the plan to him or her.
You shouldn’t overwhelm others with the whole plan. Giving them a small part of the plan can introduce them the whole vision and picture. If you try to unload all the problems that can happen, they will be less likely to participate.
Then you can go ahead and take another category, which does include getting an emergency kit together. Getting your significant on board with prepping for any emergency allows both of you to get the emergency preparedness work done a lot faster as a team. It is something totally different with just one person doing it. However, when two people are involved in the process, it is not as time consuming and endless a task to handle.
Important:
If your significant other does choose to do the emergency food storage supplies task make sure that he or she only buys items that can withstand the test of time and are designed to for emergency food storage.
For instance, freeze dried food is ideal for long time storage, and is great to serve as part of an emergency preparedness food survival preparation. Some other items that are very good for an emergency food checklist include bottled water, food bars that have a shelf life of five years, as well as trail mix, nuts, raisins, are just an example of the many that are available. You should also include some water purification tablets too. When you make up your disaster emergency kit. It should include a flashlight and extra batteries, a battery-operated radio, a cell phone with chargers, inverter or solar charger, a first aid kit, a dust mask, a manual can opener, garbage bags with ties, moist towelettes, amid some of the things to put into it.
A great source for these items is www.foodstorehouse.com
Once you’ve got them onboard, the sky’s the limit. Your relationship can be strengthened as you are both focused on a common goal. And one last thing, remember to have fun!
I tried directly and she did not want to hear about what I thought would be coming. I backed off, waited a few months then appealed to her “shopping” jones. She loves to buy when things are on sale. I convinced her to buy sale items in bulk using the argument their price will only go up, so if we buy bulk now we will always be eating food that will be lower in price than current prices…she went for it so we have many months( some a year) of prep items.
Damn, if the bitch don’t want to prep, throw her ass out. You wanna die because your wife/girlfriend is a fucking idiot? Take the pants off your wife and put them on, grow a pair, do what needs to be done, and don’t look back. Only the strong and prepared will survive. Don’t be a pussy, or get punk’d by a pussy.
AWD,
You charmer you. Can’t you be more blunt.
Thanks, I was doing my thug imitation. Being blunt and intolerant, maybe explains two divorces, ya think?
Still waiting for AWD to come out of his shell and really say what’s he’s thinking!
Wow!
Its that or some innate urge to give a woman half your shit.
Funny, you guys read this article and tell me if you’re man “A” or man “B”
MAN “A” OR MAN “B”?
http://angrywhitedude.com/2014/02/man-man-b/
@AWD, how funny, my man isn’t EITHER.
He is man “AB”
AB men do not make 60% or more of the income, nor work 60% or more of the manhours it takes to support the family.
They do not nurture the children, rarely cook and putting their coffee mug in the dishwasher is cause for a celebration and lots of asskissing to try and get that behavior again.
Nor do mend the fence, schedule maintenance on the car, nor prep for tomorrow, let alone a disaster.
This article was of absolutely no help to me in trying to get my s.o. to “help” prep.
Of course, he won’t help with anything other than the bare minimum required, so kinda funny I would even bother.
AWD – yep, sure will listen to your marital advice. At least you own up to what beating your hairy chest has resulted in.
By memory, you are living on the crumbs the mice leave because the exes have all your dough. You’ve been punked, but advise us not to be punked? HAHAHAHAHA! You really do make me laugh – you are a smooth talker, you are you are.
BTW – I make Man A look like Richard Simmons.
Jesh, I’d do man A.
Back to the original post, my wife is on board, has been for a couple of years, she depends on me to keep her informed, well stocked, well armed, and happy. Our son is on board, our daughter not so much.
I must be doing something wrong .Everytime I see these prep pictures people always have food in big bags..i have all can goods and peanut butter.
Good luck trying to get your spouse to do anything.
I learned a long time ago- with nearly everyone, there’s about a 7 day window between learning something awful and doing something about it. If you revealed to someone the collapse was happening in precisely 2 weeks, if they didn’t do a single thing about it in about the first week, they would be ready to tell you you were full of shit after that. You could plunk down dollars that are physically shrinking and emitting smoke right in front of them, point out the window at tanks rolling down the streets, and go outside to see asteroids and lightning bolts and flying monkeys and they would still deny anything was going on. For some reason, it’s even worse if you’re explaining this to a family member or close friend.
“Is something bad happening? Please, just send a sign. (portraits spin, voices shriek WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Walls crack) Just send a sign, any sign will do…”
I guess friends and family are just naturally going to assume you’re full of shit. Familiarity breeds contempt, even when you’re usually right.
After being trapped in a blizzard for over 8 hours one night, my spouse still ignores my warnings about snow and refuses to load the backpack I PACKED for them in case of cold weather emergencies in their car. All they need to do is place it in their car and that’s it. Nope. This blizzard, I did get them to sit down and look at the buddy heater I got for emergencies and practice turning it on and off. That was a big deal.
They decided they want a new coat. I explained I had a spare wool pea coat in the closet, please try it on just to see how it feels. They refused to even try it on-it wasn’t fashionable. They also refused to try on my army goretex, even when I explained it was unstoppable when paired with a fleece or polypro. “Just try it on to get a feel for it, we can get one for camping.” Nope. They want a fashionable one made in China that will fall apart in less than 1 season, like all the prior ones. They currently step into a coat that won’t completely unzip. It’s pretty funny to watch. I swear, sometimes my life reminds me of the opening theme to Green Acres.
My spouse was once robbed at gunpoint and refuses to listen to me when I tell them to get a pistol (my treat) and take the online concealed carry course ($40 and an hour or two + application and $20 fee at courthouse Again-my treat). Just as complacent as all hell and not willing to hear it from me. They were awfully impressed when we thought a burglar was in the house and I cleared the place with a shotgun-but refuse to carry a gun. Apparently, we’re going to be on something like the Romancing The Stone plan if anything bad ever happens. I’ll have the shotgun and a Hawaiian shirt and they’ll carry their highheels, or sandwiches, or something.
My family members have thought I was an idiot for a long time until recently when they started to listen to what I had to say. Even my dad ragged on me when he caught me reading Atlas Shrugged in 1997. He read it when it came out 50 years ago and thought it was utter BS. I told him to read it again. A week later he came back with this horrified look on his face. When it came out, it was cheap science fiction; now it’s non-fiction.
My mom can’t figure out where she went wrong. She says I’ve always been this way and she can’t figure out why I’ve never been able to trust anything, but so far it seems to work for me.
My wife is much younger than me by 14 years, so you won’t see me doing fences like Mr. A, but I do a lot of house work, as she works full time. I do most of the Prepping, but she is 100% on board. I will tell you what started it in one word, “Katrina”.
I like to give AWD a bad time, but he and I are on the same page most of the time. His input on TBP is top-notch. AWD is a well traveled seasoned guy.
I have prepped for three years, have a two year supply of food, guns and ammo, large garden, dozen hens, and TBP is my caffeine.
I just put into escrow a 7 acre almond orchard with an ag well and 1200 SF shop. The almonds are shot, but it is Vina Loam and hope to put crops on it, with my sons help. The land is right on the edge of town and I think a better investment than money sitting in the bank waiting to evaporate into toilet paper. I offered 15% over asking price, as I have lost out on three other parcels not nearly as nice as this peice of land.
So at 71 y.o., this is my next adventure, dirt farming with a lazy ass 23 y.o. millennial son. Stay tuned LOL.
T4C…she will figure it out..then laugh at me for tricking her. She has a great sense of humor particularly when, in the end we are better off.
I’m a pretty determined person. Right or wrong, I go “full bore” into most projects. I know this thing is going to pop. I also understand that it will be worse than any of us can imagine. I don’t care is my wife is aboard, she’s not going to stop me. Both her and the kids think I’m a little off base. They play along as best they can. There “is” a concern for the money being spent. I prioritize as best I can. Food, bills, cars, and college costs and “then” preps. I do what I can , when I can and I won’t be stopping.
She understands my reasoning. She understands my drive. She does not fight it. She learns what she can…. She doubts anything will happen….. She will be VERY thankful one day soon.
If YOU feel strongly about something GO FOR IT. If protection of the FAMILY is the ultimate goal, what spouse could argue with that? Sometimes shear determination for preparedness on your part might light a match in them to get the fire going. But………it could work in the opposite direction and start smacking a wedge. That’s a tuffy. You make the choice, you live together, you die together, or you live alone.
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Hang in there Mark,
My son humors me, as he needs a roof over his head, but he is coming around slowly.