Don’t Forget To Do This Tonight

One of the most essential and yet undervalued skills of any prepper is consistency and discipline.

Prepping can be a very overwhelming lifestyle because preppers have to dedicate themselves to handling so many things at once.

Namely, preppers have to ensure their home and property is secured, emergency supplies are well-stocked and in good condition, equipment is properly maintained, gardens are growing enough crops, and so on.

The prepper’s life is not an easy lifestyle, and the best way to live it successfully and ensure that all the bases are covered ongoing is to have the right mindset of sticking to a well thought-out routine.

If this is you, a prepper who’s struggling to keep up with each of your responsibilities, you’ll probably find the upcoming information to be particularly useful.

Daily Tasks

These are the daily tasks you’ll want to do each night before you hit the hay:

Check On The Garden And Animals

Do you have any livestock that you’re raising and/or gardens you’re growing?

If so, make it a habit to do a quick inspection before you return back inside at night.  You’ll want to make sure all the animals are fed and watered, and likewise ensure that all your plants seem to be growing in good condition as well.

If you don’t have a garden check out this guide on how to make a year-round self-sustaining garden. Inside this book you’ll also find a whole chapter dedicated to “easy on the back gardening” as well as many other backyard projects to help you become as self-sufficient as possible.

Check And Lock The Doors And Windows

The security of your home is of the utmost importance. Don’t go to bed each night without first making sure that all the entrance doors and windows are locked.

By fulfilling your prepper responsibilities, you can rest assured that a potential burglar won’t gain easy access to your home during the night.

Charge Essential Devices

You always want any essential devices you rely on to be fully charged and ready to go when you wake up the next morning.

This includes your phone, tablets, laptops, and ensuring that you’ve saved up enough power in your solar panels to provide enough electricity to your home and property the next day.

Weekly Tasks

Make sure you’ve done each of these tasks each week before the end of Sunday:

Checking and Replenishing Emergency Supplies

Checking your emergency supplies and replenishing them is necessary is an ongoing thing that you should be doing. This includes checking the following:

• Food stockpiles
• Water stockpiles
• Ammunition
• OTC Meds and antibiotics
• Extra Essentials (batteries, candles, cleaning items, personal hygiene items, kitchen items etc.)

Make sure that everything is in good condition and check if anything is in need of replacement.

As a general rule water should be rotated out at least once every six months, but check up on it now for any signs of mold or discoloration that indicates it’s going bad.

Likewise, you’ll want to make sure that your food shows no clear signs of infestation, mold, discoloration, or bad smells either.

Checking up on your stockpile as part of a weekly routine will help give you peace of mind that everything is in order and good to be used should an unexpected disaster strike soon.

Workout

It’s vitally important for you as a prepper to stay in shape because a real-life emergency disaster scenario will become one of the physically trying times of your life.

Try to get at least one good workout per week, but honestly, two to three workouts will be preferable to ensure you’re staying in the optimum shape. Develop a workout plan if you haven’t already that focuses on both your strength and your endurance.

Monthly Tasks

These are the tasks that need to be completed at least once monthly:

Conduct An Emergency Drill

One of the biggest responsibilities for preppers with families is to have a procedure in place for how you will respond to an emergency.

Think about a disaster that you believe is likely to threaten your home, whether it’s a hurricane, flooding, terrorist attack, and have a plan in place.

Related: 20 Last Minute Ways To Prepare For An Emergency

Your plan needs to include the following elements:

• Meeting point (and backup meeting point) where your family can assemble
• Communication plan so your family can all stay in-touch
• How you and your spouse will pick up your small children
• Stashing your car with supplies

Having a plan is critical, but executing and practicing that plan is even more so. You need to run monthly drills of the plan so everyone in your family knows exactly what to do. Drills will also help you to identify any weak points in the plan that will need to be fixed.

While practicing an entire emergency drill monthly may seem overbearing, it’s simply the best strategy to ensure that you, your spouse, and your children are all in-sync and know exactly what to do when disaster strikes. When a real disaster does happen, it will all pay off in the end.

Inspect Your Bug Out Location

Do you have a bug out building or property that you and your family can retreat to in the event that staying at home becomes too untenable during an emergency?

If so, inspecting your bug out location is something you’ll want to preferably do on a monthly basis. Have at least two or three routes for getting to your bug out location from your home and make sure you use these routes to get there so you know them by heart.

When you arrive at your bug out location, make sure that everything is in order. Any stockpiles you have set aside there should be checked, make sure there are no signs of anyone trespassing or breaking in, and check any defense or alarm systems you have installed as well.

Sort Through Your Emergency Bags (But Out Bag, Get Home Bag, Etc.)

As a prepper, you should already have several emergency preparedness bags ready to go, including a three day bug out bag and a get home survival bag in your vehicle,

But are you intimately familiar with the contents of your bags? Sure, you may have purchased and stocked the items for them individually before, but do you remember where you placed everything.

The last position you want to be in is to be in an emergency needing a specific item and rummaging through your bag forgetting where you placed it.

The best strategy to ensure you are familiar with everything in your bug out bags is to go through them once every month. Make sure you are aware of every item in your bag and where that item is located in the bag. This also gives you the opportunity to think of any critical items that your preparedness bags may be missing.

These are just a few ideas for certain duties and responsibilities that a prepper would be wise to stick to a routine for. If there are any other tasks that you do as part of your own preparations, think about how you can develop a daily, weekly, or monthly routine surrounding those tasks.

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