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12 Preps You Can Do For National Preparedness Month 2016

Are you ready for National Preparedness Month 2016? I feel like this should be read by a Monster Truck commercial guy. You know  the ones where they repeat the day like three times.  National Preparedness Month 2016 is coming to your arena this SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!!

That’s how I feel about it anyway. While we should  prepare all the time. But September is special. Sure it’s great that the government actually gives reasonable recommendations on their Ready.gov Site. And even though I am very libertarian leaning. To the point of anarchy. I will admit when they do something I like. Telling Americans to get a kit and make a plan is worthy of a crisp high five. 

For us preppers, though this is like a month long holiday. It is OUR month! It gives me the fizzies in my stomach. I love it. Since it is so important of a month I like to use it as a time marker. What I mean by that is I schedule certain things periodically. Things like checking your food

Things like checking your food preps for expiration dates. I like to check the dates twice a year. Fall and Spring. So for the fall one, I will plan it during National Preparedness Month.  I won’t even go into the expiration date myth. I mostly check for physical signs of damage or swelling of the cans. 

We Cover all that and Much more! 

What do you do for National Preparedness Month? Let me know in the comments!

Topics

• Food expiration dates and cans should be checked.
   
• Check expired medicine
   
• Check bug out bag for items to be replaced
   
• Make a kit
   
• Alter bug out bag for the season
   
• Who all are you preparing for
   
• Update you bug out documents if you need to/ check for routes
   
• Good time to do a bug out
• Tool and knife maintenance
• Fall gardening    
• Automotive maintenance
• Yard sales for gear

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