• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
emergency preparedness

Simply Preparing

Survival blog for disaster and emergency preparedness.

  • Home
  • About Simply Preparing
  • Beginning Prepping
  • Simple & Inexpensive Prepper Projects

sunday skills

Write Your Representatives | Today’s Sunday Skill

January 14, 2013 By Prepared Mom

Write your representatives - NRA banner

Being politically active and letting your voice be heard is an important part of preparedness. Following the news and subscribing to political grassroots organizations serves not only as an early warning system for civil, financial or political unrest but as an opportunity to have your voice matter. Believe it or not, our governmental officials ARE listening to what we have to … [Read more...] about Write Your Representatives | Today’s Sunday Skill

How To Turn Off Water To Your House: Todays Sunday Skill

December 30, 2012 By Prepared Mom

How To Turn Off Water To Your House

There are many reasons that you would need to know how to turn off water to your house: broken pipes, frozen pipes, and outside water contamination are just a few. For today's Sunday Skill you will need to find where the water comes into your house. If you have a house with a basement, it is probably there. Mine happens to be housed in the basement next to the sump pump. If you … [Read more...] about How To Turn Off Water To Your House: Todays Sunday Skill

How To Open a Can: Sunday Skill

December 2, 2012 By Prepared Mom

how to open a can with a manual can opener

Today's Sunday skill is teaching your kids how to open a can with a mechanical can opener. This is another one of those tools where most of us are so used to popping out the electrical can opener that if we have a mechanical one, it is likely buried in the back of your drawer and your kids have no idea what it is. It won't do much good for you to have a stocked panty if your … [Read more...] about How To Open a Can: Sunday Skill

Sunday Skill: Cotton Ball Fire Starters

November 25, 2012 By Prepared Mom

Cotton Ball Fire Starters

Good morning everyone! Today's Sunday Skill will take you more time to gather the 3 ingredients than it will to make your fire starter. Super simple but a great thing to show the kids now that they know how to light a match and you'll have some wonderful fire starters for camping or to carry in your bug out bag in the end. Cotton ball fire starters burn for quite a bit of … [Read more...] about Sunday Skill: Cotton Ball Fire Starters

Can Your Children Light A Match? Todays Sunday Skill

November 18, 2012 By Prepared Mom

lit match

Last week I wanted to light a sugar cookie candle in the living room. I reached for the disposable candle lighter and it was out of butane. No biggie, I sent the 16 year old downstairs for one of the many boxes of matches stored and asked him to do it for me while I was doing something else. Then I heard something that sent me reeling into a mom failure mode: "Mom, how do you … [Read more...] about Can Your Children Light A Match? Todays Sunday Skill

Primary Sidebar

Simple & Inexpensive Preps

WHAT Is A Boil Water Notice How Can You Survive It_

How To Survive A Boil Notice

A boil notice is issued when a municipal water provider detects dangerous pathogens and microorganisms in the water that can make us sick.  Other … [Read More...] about How To Survive A Boil Notice

Privacy Policy and Cookies

This site uses cookies. Please read our Privacy Policy so you fully understand how we use them.

Affiliate Disclosure

We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

Emergency Planning Basics

Calculating Drinking Water Storage Needs
Breaking Down Prepping Into Small Chunks
Family Emergency Plan Series

Food Storage

Ham and Cheese Egg Muffin Recipe

Ham and Cheese Egg Muffin Recipe

We are grab and go breakfast people at our house.   Since my kids were little,  the best way to make sure everyone  got a good breakfast was to have ready made items stashed away in the freezer. Luckily, this Sausage and Cheese Egg Muffin Recipe is super easy to make in bulk.  Consequently, the only […]

Surviving In Style

Why There Must Be An Israeli Bandage In Every Emergency Kit

An Israeli Bandage In Every Emergency Kit

The Israeli Bandage  was created by the Israeli Defense Force to save lives during combat. The pressure applicator on an Israeli Bandage exerts 30 … [Read More...] about An Israeli Bandage In Every Emergency Kit

Alternate Uses

Diatomaceous Earth Uses

Diatomaceous Earth Uses And Benefits

Have you ever heard of diatomaceous earth?  No?  Then today is your lucky day.  Read on to discover  diatomaceous earth uses to benefit your home, … [Read More...] about Diatomaceous Earth Uses And Benefits

Why Worry About Preparing?

Preparedness for a disaster makes a lot of sense. With recent and predicted events like Hurricane Sandy, The Colorado Wildfires, Fiscal Cliffs, and rising food and gas costs just in 2012 there is no denying that things are changing in our world. Whether or not you believe "The End of the World As We Know It" is near there are plenty of everyday things to worry about: loss of a job, health emergency, local weather events to name a few.

I find that I worry less about the big "what if's" out there the more emergency planning my family does to deal with the unexpected. I will share the survival tips and tricks I have learned while on this preparedness journey and hope that you join in with lots of comments. We all have a lot to learn from one another.

Now, lets get started prepping! Pick a post and start reading. At the end of every post the blog randomly selects three more survival posts for you to check out. Set aside 10 minutes a day to build your preppers knowledge base. We can never be done learning or prepping, right?

Things To Know

  • Advertising
  • Privacy Policies

Copyright © 2025 Indigo Ink, LLC: Simply Preparing Disaster and Emergency Preparedness · WordPress · Log in