Why should you have an emergency kit?
By Matt - Thursday, November 13th, 2008
For most of my life I have lived in apartment or condo building and my only concern was myself I wasn’t worried about what if situations. Now that I have a house and a baby I have been contemplating putting together an emergency kit. The first question that came to mind was why should I have an emergency kit?
I don’t live in a place that is prone to natural disaster but that doesn’t mean a kit might not be useful one day. All it takes is a big snow storm to knock out power and make roads inaccessible. Granted this isn’t an emergency compared to a hurricane but it’s a plausible scenario.
Having an emergency kit provides you some back up just in case something does happen. I will be putting one together in the coming weeks now that we’re into fall and winter will be coming (one of the few scenarios that might require an emergency kit). The security of knowing that you have something to fall back on just in case will provide peace of mind especially when it comes to your family.
The final consideration is the fact that this peace of mind doesn’t have to be costly there are some off the shelf emergency kits that you can purchase. Rather than buying a boxed kit I’ll be putting one together from scratch to make sure it covers our unique needs.
This entry is filed under Commentary, Real-Estate.
2 Responses to “Why should you have an emergency kit?”
1 Rebecca says:
November 14th, 2008
at 12:46 pm
For those interested in a ready made emergency kit, I noticed http://www.shelfreliance.com has some really nice ones.
2 Andy @ Retire at 40 says:
November 15th, 2008
at 8:37 am
Since I’ve started blogging about Personal Finance, I have figured out that my life is simpler (less stuff), more rewarding (helping people), healthier (eating and exercising) and also my insurance plans are better. I have also been looking at emergency kits too since I live in an earthquake area. And have been telling work that they need to get these things too.
The peace of mind I have from all of the above is quite amazing.
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