How To Not Be Overwhelmed With Your Prepping – Tips, Advice and How-To For Putting Together the Perfect Bug Out Bag
If you are like me, you may find prepping for everything to be a little overwhelming. It can seem that no matter how much you have, there just is never enough. I have read hundreds of articles and watched endless videos on what to carry for EDC and how to make a BOB/INCH bag. I also seemed to focus on one aspect at a time and way overdo it while letting the rest slip by. So to keep me from having the most awesome arsenal in town and dying of thirst, or keeping me from caring an 80 lb. backpack everywhere I made a graph of what I might need in a survival situation vs. how long I need to survive.
My first concern in any emergency is can I breath, see, or am I bleeding? Next question is am I in immediate danger and what can I do to remove the threat? After that I need to ascertain what threats are likely to come from this situation and prepare my surroundings to deal with them. Once the threat is no longer my focus, it should turn to how can I sustain myself in this situation?
Now many of the answers may change depending on what type of emergency you are facing. I am bleeding but an EMT is currently coming through my door would be handled a lot different than I am bleeding and marauders are currently coming through my door. The two situations require both different responses from me as well as needing different gear.
To know what I need, I need to know how long the emergency will last. Here is where the problem comes in, I don’t know when, what, or how long.
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