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Subject $185 to provide the basic equipment you need for MOST disasters: $600 for a complete set up
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Original Message $185 to provide the basic equipment you need for MOST disasters:

$600 for a complete set up including fuel for heater/stove and also getting a real Cassette Toilet
(stop getting water to flush your damn toilet!)

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For $185+- plus the fuel for your heater and stove you have covered the basics of the equipment you NEED for surviving a few days without electric or water service. That is well within the budget of most families


Water: $35

Get one of these BOB bags and put with your emergency preps – a water bag you put in your bathtub and fill up when you think you might be losing water, holds 100 gallons. $35
example: [link to www.amazon.com (secure)]


Cooking: $20

Single Burner Butane Stove is my #1 choice, use it when go trunk camping since easier to use than anything else. $20
(I do have both a 2 burner Coleman dual fuel stove AND a Coleman Stove/Oven combo that they only sold for a short time – both work great, but the single burner butane stove is just easier to use).

Get your Butane Canisters at Asian Supermarkets – 1/3 the price of Wally World or other camping /hardware stores, about $1.25 to $1.50 each or so around here at the Asian markets
example: [link to www.walmart.com (secure)]


Heat: $130

Kerosene Heater – round ones are about the best imo for most uses since little smell as long as you keep them cranked up to high and let them fully burn the kerosene – about $130 is the proper price
(will use 5 to 6 gal/day so need to get your kerosene AHEAD of time, minimum of 2 days imo, 5 days worth is safer – need to store OUTSIDE in an outside shed imo)
example: [link to www.menards.com (secure)]

ALWAYS start and stop Kero heaters OUTSIDE … that is when they outgas kero fumes which is when most of the smell (95%) is generated

Also have at least TWO battry powered carbon monoxide detectors with GOOD batteries. Have one low and one mid level in case CO starts to accumlate. Also crack a window for fresh air.


EXTRA ITEM!!! Toilet Facilities: $120
Why is everybody collecting water to flush their toilets? TOO much work!!

If you don't want to worry about water to flush your toilet add to your emergency supplies a FLUSHING Cassette Toilet (makes going to the batheroom EASY for women doing a #2 easy for men).

*NO carrying water to flush your toilet.
*No power required.
*Just give the pump a couple of pumps after going and voila, bowl is clean flushing it from the liquid storage tank.

Keep a couple of bottles of RV Anti Freeze around for charging it up if the weather is below freezing. Get the one with the biggest holding tank you can ... so you don' t run out of sewage storage capacity before you can empty it. This one, with a 5.5 gallon detachable (for emptying) storage tank is what I would recommend (Thetford is know for quality in this arena) . Be sure to get the camping toilet paper to use - camping section of Walmart ... dissolves much better which makes emptying easy - $120
example: [link to www.cabelas.com (secure)]


Extras you may not think about ahead of time:

* Paper plates, plastic silverware, plastic cups, paper coffee cups - so don't have to wash dishes
* Coffee filters for strainig water - for non potable use obviously
* Garbage bags and Paper Towels


Of course any food, fuel for the heater and stove, and the extras mentioned above are separate from the equipment cost. Even adding those in (including 30 gal of Kerosene + six 5 gallon kerosene containers) you are only adding about $250 -$300 to the cost of the equipment not counting food.

$600 ... plus food. Easily doable on any middle class budget. Throw in a couple of good tarps and if you are out of a flood zone and don't get hit with a hurricane or tornado you have covered 90% of what you need to survive the better part of a week with NO outside services for most situations.

One further item, if you want ... for keeping cell phones charged. Get and plug in a computer battery backup box, but DO NOT connect any computers etc to it. Leave it TURNED OFF. Turn it on when you want to charge up cell phones, turn it off when done. Will easily charge MANY cell phones for a long period of time. (these run $65 to $200 depending upon the size you get ... a smaller one is probably fine for a couple of weeks of use charging cell many phones)
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