New Prepper - Female in East London

[Victoriousone]

Hi All,

I am really new to prepping, I live in East London, a single mother with my two boys aged 15 and 9 - who are both interested in prepping too! I am looking to move out of London as soon as possible but at the moment I don't know where to start and its all a bit daunting!

I have only just found this site so I haven't yet had chance to look through all the wonderful informative topics, but if anyone has any suggestions of where I should start, I would be most grateful!

[pseudonym]

Hello and welcome to the Form.

Pull up a chair, grab yourself a cuppa and a pack of choccy hobnobs and read away.

[piglet]

Welcome to the group.
Single mother with 2 boys. Now to many, that would seem daunting.

Lots of information to be found here, read it all, decide and apply which is applicable to yourself, and dismiss the rest.

piglet

[TonyAge]

It can seem daunting. I initially made the mistake of thinking about preparing for "everything". I've calmed down a bit since then

I'd suggest you start by making a short list of the most likely scenarios you ought to prepare for.
Based on the experience of my eldest who is probably in a similar situation as yourself, that list might be (e.g.)

Unforseen expense for urgent repairs when on a limited budget.

Having to head for hospital in the middle of the night due to urgent child illness.

So, you might look at starting with a plan to stockpile 1 weeks worth of basic groceries and have an "overnight grab bag" tucked away somewhere.

I'm sure the kids can help with some of that planning.

[Arzosah]

Love the name! Welcome to the site.

The suggestion of an overnight grab bag is a really good idea - it took me months of prepping for the classic zombie apocalypse before I realised how many thousands of house fires there are in the UK each year, for instance, and since I live hundreds of miles away from my mother I might need to get to her in short order if anything happened, that sort of stuff.

Otherwise, what if you had a bad dose of flu, do you have enough kit for that? Or a lengthy power cut? That sort of thing, that gets you thinking and then you can build up from there.

[PreppingPingu]

Hello and welcome

[Patglazz]

Hello and welcome to the Form.

Pull up a chair, grab yourself a cuppa and a pack of choccy hobnobs and read away.

Ummmm? I never got told to do that?

Anyway welcome to the forum - and err... pass the hobnobs

[tigs]

welcome to the forum