Living in a smallish community, we're not completely new to some of this stuff but our commitment to actively doing something about it is. In a relatively short time, we have completed our first few priorities, which were:
1. A good water maker/filter that will make drinking water out of the contents of a dirty 'pothole'
2. Contents of a very portable 'one person, one week' food bucket (3 gal. tight seal bucket)
3. Contents of a very portable kitchen bucket (5 gal. tight seal bucket)
4. 4000 watt backup generator set
5. Fine tune food bucket contents and expand to a total of 4 buckets (2 people, 2 weeks)
6. A garden big enough to supply a full years worth of some of the things we use regularly (like garlic, beans, kale)
7. Chickens
8. Food dryer
9. vacuum packing food storage machine
10. 3 months food storage for 2 people, still very portable but in larger totes.
The order in which we did these things was driven by our state of mind at the time (seemed like a good thing to do at the time), and by a desire to enhance our ability to enjoy wilderness boating, something that has been a big part of our life together on the B.C. coast. Some of the other things on our to do list after # 10 is done are consolidation of hand tools, a really good medical kit and text, seed storage / self reliance, consolidation of fishing and hunting equipment, etc. The biggest surprise for me was how self funding some of this stuff was... watch for the regular sales at the local food and hardware stores! For example, 10kg. bag of flower, $17.50 regular price, but on sale for $8.50.
I think we may all benefit from a discussion about everyone's version of a top ten list.
I don't really use a top 10 list. Much of it I already have and although it can always use improvement. I'm concentrating more on the cabin and what it takes to be "Bug to" worthy. That said, I'm always topping up and expanding on existing supplies when I see a good deal.
What I do:
1. store water (at usage rate of 1 gal./ person/ day)
2. store food (canned goods, dried beans, rice, flour, dried veggie flakes, barley, pasta, oatmeal, lentils, soup base, spices...
3. put together BOBs
4. got camping equip. (tent, tarp, axe...
5. put together an evacuation bin (like a colossal BOB: contains camping equip, food, more first aid supplies, some water, solar/crank radio, magic heat...
6. got earthquake recovery equip. (pry bar, dust masks, safety goggles, rope, buckets...
7. short-wave radio in a faraday cage
8. got a food dehydrator and learned the basics
9. collect how-to and reference books (on paper) (eg. edible wild plants in this area)
10. store toiletries, laundry detergent, dish soap, toilet paper, paper towel, kleenex...
That's the basics of what I am doing. I live in the city, I am prepping, I don't have the resources to become self-sufficient. But that's okay for me.
1 - food storage (extra groceries, take advantage of specials)
2 - water storage (not a lot, we live on a lake)
3 - water purification (boiling & chlorine)
4 - alternate heating, cooking, lighting (firewood, camp stoves & fuel, candles, lanterns)
5 - bug out kit (a family of 6 needs more than a few backpacks)
6 - SAVE MONEY (stuff the mattress with cash)
7 - food production & preservation (gardening, small livestock, hunting, smoking, canning)
8 - Information gathering (research & skill improvement)
9 - expand all the above (ongoing basis)
10 - help make others aware and strive for mainstream acceptance of the prepper mindset (blogs, forums, podcasts)
1. Win the lottery
2. After achieving step one, all the rest will fall in place.
3. See step one. 
"We 'Prep.' to live after a downfall, Not just to survive."
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Russell Coight....outback legend
1, try and not eat GMO
2, try and not eat junk food
3, don't shop at corporation box stores
4, grow a big ass garden and hope the deer don't get in.
5, keep track of were the deer are.
6, stock supplies in cabin
7, buy bulk things I can't grow or make, sugar, I no, white death, hubby like it, got to keep him sweet.powder milk, female hygiene products.
8, move to better cheaper place.
9, get a ham radio.
10, try and stay alive, stress free, lots of exercise, organic food, be happy.
11, learn how to spell,
Tricks for deers, string mono filiment around garden, scares the dear when the encounter it (read this), Scatter hair around the garden (hair salons and pet groomers). Urinate in spots around garden, OR pee in a bottle and distribute it.
"We 'Prep.' to live after a downfall, Not just to survive."
I read deer don't like enclosed spaces. Lets say you fence a 20 x 20 patch. Every 4 feet inside that patch string a wide tape so you have what appears (to the deer) 4 x 20 plots and they won't want to get trapped in there. Just guessing at sizes. some searching should help you.
I'm pretty sure I saw rolls of that yellow caution tape at HD.
Tricks for deers, string mono filiment around garden, scares the dear when the encounter it (read this), Scatter hair around the garden (hair salons and pet groomers). Urinate in spots around garden, OR pee in a bottle and distribute it.
I don't know were you live, but the deer here don't care how much hair dog, person you put around, they like pee and if you don't have a ten foot strong fence you will loose every thing in your garden in one night. Ive even seen a buck in my garden in the fall, trying to get the beets i leave in as long as possible. The bugger ran right up the fiance, and broke most of it. If i only had a gun at the time. My garden is about 200m from the house, only because that's were the soil is. And I'm pretty sure there plotting in the forest in the bush until I go in the house and the stock the fence trying to find a week spot.
Sounds like urban guerrilla deer’s, sly suckers, they hire mice as lookouts. 🙄
"We 'Prep.' to live after a downfall, Not just to survive."
Hopefully your dog is not taking a bribe from the Deer Mafia.
😯 this is me imitating a deer.
Tricks for Deer:
180 grains lead x 2650 feet per second = freezer full of steaks and sausage 😉
Organic food. Someone start the BBQ
Yes but it's not ethical in the spring and summer when they have fawns.