What's in your emergency box/bag?

[KateyCuckoo]

After an incident today, I've decided we need an emergency box or bag for things like power cuts, hospital trips, general emergency moments!

I bet you lot have one..... what's in it?

So far I have
Torches
Power banks
Phone numbers written down
...

What else?

I have a hospital bag which is kind of the same? Pyjamas, dressing gown, slippers, knickers, spare meds, phone charger, warm socks, tenners worth of change. To turn this into an emergency bag I suppose powerbank, water and snacks?

When Dc was little we had several late night ambulances to hospital due to asthma. Dc has outgrown it now but I still keep a hospital bag ready for both of us- clothes, pjs, water, sweets, cash, book, lip balm, charger , warm socks. Very handy just in case.

Emergency bag lives on top of my wardrobe, my parents who live nearby know where it is.
Inside is
Several pairs of leggings in DD and my size
Cheap t-shirts from Primark so those two things could double as day or night clothes
A couple of zip up hoodies
2 x packs of 5 underwear each
2 x packs of socks
Shampoo
Conditioner
Soap
Toothbrush and tooth paste

Fortunately we have never had to use it in an emergency but when I was pregnant with her I was ill and taken to hospital and had to have friends looking through my drawers for things for me. As I'd been so ill in the lead up to the admission I was behind on the washing too which didn't help. It's cheap to set up and gives me piece of mind that in a hospital admission we'd have enough stuff for a few days.

I don’t have one - I rarely ever leave the house with a bag of any kind (for a regular day out, obviously I’m not talking about overnight stays etc) and am pretty low maintenance in terms of my needs.
I just think if it came to it we’d figure something out - happier to live this way tbh.

Oddly enough I packed one last night as I’ve got a health issue that has flared and could send me to hospital.

Dressing gown
pants
Shampoo, conditioner, body wash tooth paste/brush/face cream
Headphones
spare Ipad
earplugs
eyemask
slipper socks
Mirror
charger and long lead

Is this something I need to do?!
Im over thinking and guessing it’s to do with the end of the world. You know. PoW, Obama not being Obama and the bridge collapse?!

I've never even thought about having an emergency bag even though we were on standby to leave because of flooding a few years ago. When we got the knock on the door to say we might have to leave I packed everything the cat needed and left DH to sort out everything else!

@Borntobeamum It's a sensible thing to do, not a super prepped version but a couple of changes of clothes and some toiletries in a bag should you have an unexpected hospital stay, I've had one for at least 15years so not related to ay world events.
I mean if you can rely on your husband or someone rooting through your drawers and picking the right things when they themselves are probably under stress then great.
As a single parent though, I dont particularly want my parents going through my drawers and having some cheap leggings, t-shirts and underwear with some basic toiletries in a bag that they can grab if needed makes me feel a bit better as I certainly wouldn't want to leave DD if it was her in hospital to go home and sort my stuff out.

Oh, I assumed an 'emergency box' was a wine box squirreled away that was called upon if the corkscrew broke, or if you found that the bottle of wine you had just opened had 'gone off' and the cellar was empty. 🍷

So do people regularly redo the bag?

Put freshly charged power banks (they often lose power over time), swap out dc clothes as they grow. Refresh the food and meds so it's not all out of date.

Are we supposed to have one?

I have one that has basics in and documents and also spare dog lead and heat packs for the Tortoise