72 hour kit building adventures.
Like most of you, when I thought of making a 72 hour kit ..... I shuttered ..... I'll admit it.
I didn't want to think that I might eventually need one, I thought it would take alot of money & time to put together and keep updated .... I was procrastinating ALOT.

But I knew I needed one.

Seeing the news on the earth-quakes in Haiti pushed me over the edge. The thought of not having any help for days or weeks on end and not being able to feed my child was too much for me so I bit the bullet and got 'er done.

GOOD NEWS --- it was not as hard as I thought, not as expensive as I thought, and OH my does it feel good to have them ready! They aren't completley done yet, there are still some things on my list to get, but for the most part they are good to go should we need them.

We used old gym bags that Davis had stashed in the storage room at first and while we were packing them we realized that all the zippers on these bags were broken and one of the bags had some mold action going (ewwwww) so I got on my favorite website KIJIJI and found us 2 good hockey bags on wheels for 15 bucks each.

The list of what is inside comes from the LDS website, they have a really helpful list there with lots of great ideas for what to put inside. Like with anything we had to adjust it to suit our situation (diapers and bottles for the baby(ies) preparing for the fact that its the middle of winter and freezing cold) so we made our adjustments and got a sweet list together and it only took me one morning of grocery shopping and dollar store shopping to get everything that we needed.

I was thinking of posting the list from the LDS website, but for some reason it wont let me "copy - paste" and I don't feel like typing it all out.

But if you just google - 72 hour kit list. a bunch of great stuff with pop up, the lds website is near the top and the best one that I found, but there are other great ones on there too.

Moral of the blog story for today is for me to encourage all of you to start thinking about a 72 hour kit! Heaven forbid we should ever need one, but there is something to be said about being prepared right? If you do have one allready let me know about yours, where you store it, whats inside, how often you rotate the stuff inside etc ... Im all for new ideas!!!!