What is your "Every Day Carry" or EDC?

[chilledwarmth]

For me

• Android phone, I have an In Case Of Emergency app with all medical info about me, and contact info for people I'd want emergency services to notify. That one specific app can be accessed without having to unlock the phone

• Glock 19 and spare mag

• Leatherman Wave

• Wallet with ID, credit card, and a bit of money

• Fenix TK15 flashlight

• Protein Bar

• Waterproof notebook and pen

• Lighter

• Keys (car and house)

"Bertrand, being trapped in a car overnight by a blizzard while you are 8 months pregnant is an emergency. Particularly when it's an unforecast one. You had actively prepared for potential winter emergencies by ensuring that you had access to warm blankets, food, water and entertainment. Congrats, you are a prepper!"

No I'm not. I'm just not stupid. Putting nappies, wipes and a banana in your changing bag when you go out with a baby is not "prepping". Neither is having a blanket in the car in cold weather.

Nappies, wipes and a banana are things you are likely to need nearly every day. The blanket you might put in the car and not need all winter. The two are not the same kind of thing - they are on the same continuum, but very far apart. Preparing for an emergency is preparing for something out of the ordinary and happens across all domains - some people's nappy bags will have rather more in than others, for instance, just like some people's pantries.

This board is just a handy place for gathering together the 'planning for the extraordinary' things from all sorts of domains of daily life into one place. Some people have a very holistic approach and are planning across many domains in an organised, joined up way, so they are either picturing either many scenarios, or a single much worse SHTF scenario; some people are picturing and planning for only certain isolated scenarios like snow. Either way this should be a good place to share information.

And Bertrand why do you care? You clearly don't feel this board is for you (since you said 'you are not preppers' rather than 'we are not preppers'). What's it to you anyway? Just the chance to tell someone they're wrong on the internet? That's rather how it's coming across.

Personally I think people massively overlook the need for salt and grit.

Perhaps, as the motto of Scouting is 'Be Prepared' you could be 'Parenting Scouts'?
What about 'slippers' for British preppers, as in planning to slip under the radar if the SHTF, but conjuring up images of everyday comfort?

Now, if someone could please come up with a way to get out of an emergency situation using all those screwed up old receipts, I'll be sorted.

I am actually so old that I can/ have used a Winchester. I'm still very thankful for British law/attitude to gun control.

Now, if someone could please come up with a way to get out of an emergency situation using all those screwed up old receipts, I'll be sorted.

Kindling- smoke signals. Just be sure to wax your matches

My father never went anywhere without a shooting stick and a hip flask of Armagnac. He was very popular with other parents at hockey matches........

LOL BertrandRussell if he was willing to share some of that flask he'd definitely be popular with me.

We have snow on the ground 7 months of the year. Yesterday the town brought in the heavy equipment and trucks and moved about 30 tonnes of the stuff from our street. Not sure where they dumped it. They are coming back today to get rid of some more. There was nowhereleft to park as the snow piles (from people clearing their driveways) were eight feet high and blocking both sides so that it was down to one way. We ran out places to put it. I haven't bought any salt yet. I do have a bucket of grit though. In the high street you have to walk to the two crossings that are cleared to get from one shop to another, otherwise you have to scale the wall of snow in the middle of the road caused by ploughing. On Monday I couldn't get out of the guide hut (we were not prepared).

I am loving slippers, lol, but perhaps slightly too esoteric...

If you had waxed the receipts, they would be even better fire starters

chilled why do you assume you know more than the rest of us? Why are we beginner preppers?
Maybe we are prepping for something different to.you in the way we deem fit to do so.

Oh madwoman - I'm sure you're sick of it (and I probably would be too in real life) - but I am still desperately jealous. I would love to live somewhere with snow.

It's lovely. but by about January March it's wearing thin.

Hi winchester. I don't know why you thought I was talking about you but when I talked about giving advice to new preppers it wasn't at you or anyone specifically here. I simply meant that whenever I see anyone asking for advice on how to get started I prefer to get them to think for themselves what emergencies they are most likely to face and plan according to that. Your second sentence is basically saying the same thing, you prep in a way that you deem fit, because it's ultimately you who is the best judge of what you should be prepping for, and how you go about it based on your individual circumstances.