And that also works the other way. Under stress conditions it is very important that you and your family can play games together, individually read books, and generally look forward to building a better future. So keep educating the kids. Keep diaries to place things you and your family members experience in a historic light. Besides putting things in a temporal context, it keeps healthy reflection going.
Clothing
Besides the thermal underwear already mentioned, just think about the different weathers, and get the basics.
- Rain gear, rubber boots
- Woolen clothing
- Extra socks, t-shirts and underwear
- Scissors, fabrics and sewing supplies
- Hats with wide brims, kerchief soaked in water around your neck.
Hygiene
- Loooooots of toilet paper. And while you are at it, also kleenex and paper towels.
- That old washingboard your great-grandmother left you. It may come in handy.
- And that bucket and wringer that was useful for wringing a mop with can be reuseful for laundry as well.
- Hair and skin care products
- Feminine hygiene – one of those “keepers” is quite re-useful
- Razors and shaving creams, talc, after shave
- Soap, shampoo and laundry detergent
- Toothbrush and paste, floss !! ... And via Chelo Alfonso: "Aloe vera paste...or even better...organic oregano oil...(restores gums to total health) and for a nice touch use sesame oil to rinse (oil pulling) It tastes like yummy tahini and is a miraculous solution for teeth and gums. There are nutritional solutions to some of the damage done by some commercial toothpaste's, like blue algae, and enzimatic therapy...all quite affordable"
- Nail clippers
- Mosquito repellents and mosquito netting.
- Bleach, not scented (4 to 6% sodium hypochlorite)
Physical care
- Vitamins
- First aid kit
- Add alcohol, teatree, and peroxide to your kit for disinfectants, if not already covered in the kit.
- Keep a first aid manual so you know how to deal with emergencies.
- First aid herbs
- Complaints and remedies
Mental care
- Books, board games, cards, dice
- Writing paper, pads and pencils
- Solar calculators (likely won’t work under electromagnetic pulses, during a solar storm or expanded dark periods)
- Journals
- Diaries
- Scrapbooks
- Reading glasses
- Crayons for kids, too
- Balls and string for games.
- Books on math, sciences, history, art, gardening, as well as novels.
- Music!!
- Instruments of any type. Drums, strings, horns, kazoos, bells, chimes
- Bagpipes – good for defense as well as stirring the heart of northern peoples.
- Songbooks.
- Taking time to put a poem to music.
- Humming.
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