Your GO bag

[Ninjasquirrel]

It depends on what particular disaster you're prepping for.

When I lived in CA our go-bags had water/food and a first-aid kit because we wanted to be prepped for "the big one" earthquake. In OR we had to get bags ready at level 1 evac orders and we opted for a few clothes, hard drives and a few sentimental/non-repleaceable items like birth certificates and wedding photos.

We keep emergency gear in our cars including water, food, a machete, thermal blanket and others. Been stuck on I-5 in a blizzard and it forever made me paranoid lol.

Reality is most things are replaceable, and even if it has sentimental feelings attached it's still just stuff. You have the memories. Your life can't be replaced so easily, and it would be a shame if you were turned into a memory.

Most things can be replaced certainly. The biggest disastors we face here are house fires and tornadoes. It just really got me thinking how devastated I'd be if I lost my mom's recipes that were written in her hand writing. Her cookbooks with the little notes on every page. The stained pages of the recipes that were used frequently...

...she passed away 12 years ago and those things can't be replaced.

 

[piminuse]

Most things can be replaced certainly. The biggest disastors we face here are house fires and tornadoes. It just really got me thinking how devastated I'd be if I lost my mom's recipes that were written in her hand writing. Her cookbooks with the little notes on every page. The stained pages of the recipes that were used frequently...

...she passed away 12 years ago and those things can't be replaced.

I hope my previous comment didn't come off as insensitive. I would also be devastated losing certain things (hence why I packed up our wedding book), but I in our circumstance we would need the spare room in our vehicle to put our pets (chickens included). I think most people would come to the same conclusion.

There is the virtue of living in the digital age where one can upload certain keepsakes/memories though. It's not the same, but have you thought of scanning your mom's books to preserve the memory in case of a disaster?

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

I hope my previous comment didn't come off as insensitive. I would also be devastated losing certain things (hence why I packed up our wedding book), but I in our circumstance we would need the spare room in our vehicle to put our pets (chickens included). I think most people would come to the same conclusion.

There is the virtue of living in the digital age where one can upload certain keepsakes/memories though. It's not the same, but have you thought of scanning your mom's books to preserve the memory in case of a disaster?

It would take quite a long time to do that. And as you said it wouldnt really be the same. I had hand typed several of my mom's old recipes to give to everyone on xmas one year so they could have them. My mom had a nasty habit of changing recipes and leaving out ingredients to preserve the secrecy. It's kinda like da Vinci's notebook. She has whole cookbooks with notations on the pages, whole cookbooks she wrote, a whole box of recipe cards. She even hid recipes in cookbook pages. I'm sure if I spent everyday for a year scouring through them I could probably preserve them. Ive actually committed a few to memory entirely for that purpose. I still havent found her spaghetti sauce recipe though

 

[RIR chicks]

I recently watched an episode of Rachael Ray where her house burnt down due to creosote buildup. It scared me and made me want to have a "go bag". My fiancee was arguing with me that that should contain all the things we need to survive. I argued that all the things we need to survive could be replaced by insurance and that instead it contained items that could not be replaced. Ideas?

Fooooooooooood, it can be replaced but, you don’t want to starve I don’t think insurance replaces you food. Don’t starve. Also water

 

[cheepteach]

emergency meds, food, insurance info, some cash, water, food. In my car is an overnight bag with a change of clothes for each of us anyway, and flashlights