Knowing that everyone's needs are different, I would still like to make a basic list of things people need to HAVE on hand. To this basic list, each can then add to it how they want for their needs. We all know we need food, water, guns, ammo, warm clothing, etc but I would like everyone to think about this long and hard.

What do we have to have? Basic things to survive no matter what happens; economic collapse, CME/EMP, pole shift, or just whatever! This basic list will work for it all. You work to get 3 month worth, then you push to 6 months. For LTS you want to have 1 year of this. It last 30+ years and you don't have to worry about rotation, except when you add to it.

Basic Stay At Home Supplies:

Water

Food

Gun(s)/ammo

3 months worth - Multi Vitamin, basic OTC meds/herbs, Prescription meds

1st Aid Kit - this should be a big kit and not one of those that goes into a car.

Sewing supplies

Toilet paper - enough for each person for 3 months

A tent to set up in your home in case the power is out and it is cold. Body heat will keep you warm.

Candles, lanterns, flashlights and tons of batteries. Solar powered yard stakes, the kind you buy to decorate your yard or to light a pathway. These would be great to provide light. Set them out in the day time and use during the night!

If cold weather, a way to enclose one room to keep all the heat in there. Remember to have one small area to vent so carbon monoxide doesn't build up.

Feminine hygiene items. Make some washable pads (old towels and wash cloths are very absorbent) to use over and over. Our girls are not use to this, so keep a diaper pail and bleach water to help them out.

Baby needs if you have small ones. Cloth diapers and plastic pants. Same thing, get a nice diaper pail and remember bleach water.

A way to cook food without power

Soap - laundry and hands

Basic hygiene - deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, razor, shaving cream, lotion, toothbrush and paste, etc. Stuff you use everyday but 3 months worth.
Extra glasses, contacts, sunglasses, eye wash

This is in two sections. One is for staying home and one is for getting out of dodge when you have no other choice. As a family we are not going anywhere. We don't have a location to go except for one and at that location, there really isn't room for us. We will go there if we have to but that means leaving so much behind. Everyone want to stay in their own home. It doesn't always work out that way. Murphy has a way for popping up, or as Mongoose and I say, the luck of the Irish happens!!

Get out of Dodge basic supplies:

10 gallons of gasoline (more if you have a way to store it safely)

BOB (bug out bag for each person)

Atlas for your Country

Maps for your area and surrounding states. These should be recreational or topographical maps so you know how to navigate the back roads and back country. You are bugging out, you sure don't want to be seen or using major roadways.

Water - very heavy, you need to know how to find more and make it safe!

Food - food is heavy so you want to go with MRE's and dehydrated good.

Weapons/ammo

Basic camping gear

Sleeping bags for each person

Lots of lighters, waterproof matches, steal fire starter.

Compass

Ways to purify water.

Small folding shovel
Good strong knife

Steel wire - many uses
Duct tape

1st Aid kit
Sewing kit

Kids need their special toys. Don't forget this or it will make it more traumatic for the little ones.

You may have to hoof it, so a collapsible wagon with those large balloon tires would be smart and allows you to carry more, or those kiddos who just can't keep up. To me this is basic, others might not agree.