As we go through our daily lives and form habits and routines, it’s easy to lose track of the big picture. As we do things over a long period of time, we tend to take shortcuts and the small details tend to be overlooked.

It’s especially important to keep this in mind with preparedness because all it takes is one small detail to derail the most thought out preparedness plan. It’s important to reassess our preparedness plans from time to time, and make sure we are doing the things we should be doing.

SPP242 Overlooked or Forgotten Preparedness Supplies & Techniques

This week Lisa and I talked about some of the prepping supplies we tend to forget about or overlook, and some of the details in our preparedness plans that get lost in the shuffle. We tend to focus on the bigger aspects of prepping and forget about the little details that make everything work.

While there are some survival supplies that are more important than others, it takes a well rounded preparedness plan to make everything run as smoothly as possible.

Sometimes we get so focused on food storage, emergency supplies, or large-scale disasters that we forget about what might happen as we go through our daily routines. While it’s important to think about these large-scale disaster scenarios, we can’t forget that bad things can happen at any given time.

Below is a list of some of the things we overlook, forget about, or just didn’t think about that are important to our personal security, and our preparedness plans in general.

Complacency

Over time we tend to become complacent, take shortcuts, and forget about all the details that make up a good preparedness plan. On top of that, it’s inevitable that at one point or another all of us will become complacent about prepping. This could be because of prepper burnout, lack of urgency, or because life gets in the way.

It’s important that we pace ourselves to avoid overwhelm, and make sure we are not giving ourselves too much credit for how prepared we are. Lets say we get to our 6 months preparedness goal, and then we drop the ball for a month or 2, that 6 month figure drops very quickly.

BTW, We do this all the time haha, sometimes it’s just unavoidable.

Critical Thinking

Learning to think critically is a skill that we can hone over time, and could be more important than any prepping supplies you might have in a SHTF scenario. Today when we make the wrong decision we have the luxury of hindsight, in an emergency, the decisions we make may be lifesaving.

Get into a habit of thinking through your preparedness plans, and all the variables involved. Think about what you would do if this happens? and what you would do if that happens? This is why we like to talk about these hypothetical situations and discuss all the “what if’s” involved.

The Details

Sometimes we get so caught up in the large details involved in prepping, that we forget the small stuff. Take food storage for example. The first thing that comes to mind is canned food, pantry food, and long term food. What we tend to overlook is can openers,