Time To Check Those Kits

If you have previously completed your 72-hour kits, now is a good time to check the contents. This should be done twice a year, to make sure everything is in good order, and that it contains everything you need. As we age, we have different needs. Besides that, it's not the little children that outgrow their clothes--we adults need to make sure our emergency clothes still fit! It would be a sorry state for us to experience an emergency and need those "long-johns", just to find that they fit us about 30 pounds ago, but not now! I have started taking a low-dose aspirin a day, so that is something I need to include in my kit.

As members of the Church of Jesus Christ, Latter Day Saints, we have our General Conferences twice a year--and this is a good reminder to review our water storage (it needs to be replenished once a year), our food storage, our emergency kits, and our emergency kits. Often we will remove items from our storage or kits and forget to replace them. Or, our children will use items without telling us. Either way, it's good to take inventory and replace outdated items, especially medicines.