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Survival Retreat or Homestead list

These are all the items you need at your home or wherever you decide to hunker down.
This is the list that could go on forever. You can only carry so much stuff in a bug out bag, but
you could buy and store an endless amount of preparedness items in a retreat homestead. That is
both a blessing and a curse as you might find out.

Water
- water well or river, lake, stream or stored water
- water filter
- purification tablets
- water containers
- pump and way to run a pump to get water out of the well(don't count on electricity from the utility company)
   
   
   
Food

- freeze dried food (30 plus year shelf life)
- garden
- cast iron cookware
- fire pits and outdoor cooking accessories
- fish traps
- animal traps
- fishing rod and accessories
- canning supplies
- seeds
- propane stove
- propane tanks
 		  
   
Shelter
 		  
 - fortified house
- bomb shelter/fallout shelter if possible
- clothes
 		  
Light
It is hard to do anything without light.		  
- crank flashlights
- crank or fuel lanterns
- generator with stored fuel
 		  
Medical
 		  
- medical kit with the standard stuff
- any of your prescription meds
- common meds like aspirin, allergy or stuff for colds/coughs
- Celox and barrier bandages for major wounds that can kill
- a more complete medical first aid and medical kit
- antibiotics

 

  
Tools

- quality shovel
- gardening tools
- knife
- knife sharpener
 		  
   
Communications
Information is super critical in emergencies.. how do you know what is going on out there?
 		  
 - hand crank/solar radio
- scanner
- two way radio
- cell phone and crank charger		  


Money

- cash paper money for people who are still accepting it (don't expect to pop over to the ATM machine)
- gold/silver/plantinum
- ammunition if things are really nuts. people seem to want it all of a sudden and it is a compact store of value.
- any item of value that is valuable and can be bartered with.

Power

- generator
- stored fuel

 

  


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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