Beginner Prepper List

Let’s supposed you are just getting started from ground zero. Here is a budget and priority list of what you should consider starting with.

	Total Cost for beginner level preparations ->		$  561.00
Quantity	Description	$ Each	$ Cost (2014)	Rule of 3 Factor
1	Ruger 10/22 Stainless Steel Rifle	$  309.00	$ 309.00	Security
2	High Capacity Magazines	$    35.00	$   70.00	Security
1	22 Caliber Ammo 100 box	$      8.00	$    8.00	Security
1	Home Brite Solar Motion Alarm	$    26.00	$  26.00	Security
1	Roll of trip wire	$    12.00	$  12.00	Security
1	Israeli Civilian Gas Mask	$    40.00	$  40.00	Air
1	Poncho (Digital Camo)	$    30.00	$   30.00	Shelter
1	Gallon of unscented Bleach	$      4.00	$     4.00	Water
1	Box Strike Anywhere Matches	$      3.00	$     3.00	Water
100	Extra cans of common foods	$      0.50	$   50.00	Food
1	Hand can opener	$      9.00	$     9.00	Food

The rifle and ammo provides security along with the alarm. The Home Brite alarm is solar powered and with daily sunlight it will stay charged. When it detects motion at night, it starts flashing a light and saying “Warning, you have entered a secure area.” You can also thread cans with a few rocks in them on a trip wire. This can serve as an early warning if someone is walking up to your location and hits it.

The gas mask insures you have fresh air to breath (very important) in most smoke or chemical contaminated environments that still contain oxygen. The Poncho insures you have some sort of shelter when outside guarding your Retreat.

Unscented bleach allows you to disinfect drinking water while the matches allow you to start fires to boil water and cook without wilderness survival skills.

Then buy some extra cans of foods that you normally like to eat when home. A good stocking strategy needs to consider your consumption and the shelf life of the particular food. We cover more about this in the Prepper Handbook.  In addition to this, you need about $10 of US Silver coins and several hundred dollars in small bills in the event of a power outage.  For a Pandemic, add some acetaminophen, N95 Masks, disinfectant, sanitizer, wipes & extra toilet paper.  Most of these are things you should keep all the time.

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