Here at The Ready Store we have been providing a great source of information with our Ready Blogs.

We’ve had the enjoyment of producing over 250+ blog posts over the past years and it can get quite overwhelming when you’re going through those posts to find out what would best help you.

Some people just don’t know where to start, and so to help, here are our Top Ten Ready Blogs:

#10 – Where to Start
The first thing on the list is a 72 hour kit. Some people love the to purchase our pre-assembled72 hour kits, but others like the ability to add, remove, and adjust to their needs. So that brings us to our next post. . .

#9 – What should I put in my 72 hour Emergency Survival Kit
Now that you have a game plan & understanding of where to start, you already know that water is one of the first things you need. To find out how much water you should store read. . .

#8 – How much water should I store?
Did you know that there are preparation steps you need to take with water storage? Read below. . .

#7 – How to Clean, Prepare and Fill a Water Barrel.
What is the next step after water storage? Food Storage! But with all the different variety and options, what will really would suit your needs? The answer is in our next blog topic. . .

#6 – Food Storage FAQ: What Options Work Best for You?
With man made & natural disaster’s occurring more often it has caused a large demand for food that is easy to distribute to the masses and also requires no preparation. So that is where

#5 – MRE’s (Meals Ready to Eat) come into the picture, they meet all the requirements. A lot of people have heard of MRE’s but always have questions so that swings us along to. . . .

#4 – FAQ’s for MRE’s
So now you have your food storage but how should you store the food? To simply answer that question, yes their is more to it than just buy the food and toss it into your Attic. So it brings us to one of our most read Ready Blogs. . .#4 – How do I store my emergency food storage?Emergency preparedness has become more & more main stream and a large amount of people love the idea of having there house hold independent and self stable. And there is nothing better than having your own garden of fresh vegetables! So that will sprout us to. . .#3 – Start a

#3 – ReadyGarden!
For those who know that in an emergency your best bet is to go home or as we call it your Shelter-In-Place™situation, then you know you have to make sure that your house is ready to handle a disaster. So it would make things easy if you had some form of a check of list, well now you do with .  . .

#2 – How to Make a Home a Little More “Disaster Proof”

Now to go from an emergency situation where you sit & wait it out, to one where you have to “get out of dodge” due to the situation. When you have to evacuate that falls into our Grab-n-Go™ category and with all evacuations you need to have a plan.

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#1 – Preparing an Emergency Evacuation Plan!!!

Hi, my name is Ben, I work in the marketing department at The Ready Store and I wanted to share with you a couple of the lessons I learned from 2010. The end of the year often is accompanied by reflection of the events that have transpired in our lives and 2010 has been an interesting year for my neighborhood. We have had some problems that in all my years I have lived here we had not yet experienced and in one case never though could happen.

In September there was a fire in the foothills about 1 mile from my home that burned down three homes and charred 4,300 acres causing an evacuation of about 5,000 people. Thankfully the wind gusts died down and allowed fire fighters the chance to slow the blaze and put it out.

In May our little town’s water source was contaminated with bacteria that made thousands of people sick. Thankfully no one passed away but the problem led to a lot of pain literally and figuratively. After the two week boil order was lifted we went back back to drinking tap water again.

While we learned lessons from both issues, the water contamination was the disaster that affected our family the most and exposed some of the chinks in my family’s food storage armor. Here are some of the lessons we learned:

1. Don’t assume that the local/state officials will make the right decisions.

Our family assumed that the poison-sickness related symptoms had to do with something we did wrong (like food preparation issues) or that our neighborhood was passing around the flu bug. We learned to trust less in the local official’s ability to detect problems and communicate them. There was a 3 week period before the city announced that there was an issue and to not drink the water.

2. Have a larger water supply to use.

We had a couple days supply that we used once we were notified not to drink the water but that soon ran out. Luckily we live near other cities that were not affected so we could go buy water at some of the grocery stores out of our area. The water at our local grocery stores got bought up within the first couple hours of the boil notice.

3. If you get sick, don’t drink tap water.

Often when people get sick conventional wisdom tells them to drink a lot of fluids. Well that is a problem when the fluid is contaminated water. We kept drinking the bad water for weeks not knowing it was keeping us sick. Next time we experience those symptoms we are going to drink from our water supply first.

4. Have an alternative heating source.

We ran out of our small water storage within a couple days and decided to start boiling water. If we had another stove (like a camping stove) it would have made things a bit easier, this isn’t a big one but considering I like the outdoors I need to just buy a JetBoil or similar heater.

By raise of hand, who’s ever used the retort, “What’s that got to do with the price of tea in China?”

The response is obviously intended to imply that the price of tea in China has absolutely no relevance to whatever is going on here in your neck of the woods. Clearly this saying came into existence long before the world became Global.

Did you know that the current concerns with Hyper-inflation has a lot to do with the price of tea in China? Okay, not tea specifically but the price of food in general within China.

Of course the Fed has assured us that inflation is non-existent. My pocket book and my grocery bill say differently. Apparently the Fed’s have a permission slip to exclude ‘volatile’ items like food from their reports, but I digress.

Regardless of the accuracy in the Fed’s data, there’s something going on in China that should have us all concerned…

* 200 Million migrant workers in China have moved from rural areas to Chinese cities in recent decades, with another 400 million predicted to follow suit in the next 20 years

* China had an urban population of 620 million by the end of 2009, which was 46.6 percent of the nation’s total population. Urban residents are expected to comprise about 52 percent of the Chinese population by 2015.

In short, China is becoming more industrialized and urbanized and this translates into a growing shortage of commodities, food, gas, raw goods, copper, etc… When supply goes down and demand goes up the result is inflation. To this point China has been very effective in managing this, they’ve done this in part by securing resources across the globe, from copper mines in Africa, to land and companies in Australia, Canada and even the US.

As supplies get smaller the Chinese will be funneling these resources directly back to China and this inevitably will result in less supply here in the US despite the fact that there’s still demand (We All Need to Eat). Basically, when the straw that breaks the camels back finally drops supply will drop exponentially and demand will remain if not increase and the end result will be HYPER-INFLATION.

In this type of a scenario- among other things- having food storage in place could be all the difference in your ability to weather what could literally go down in history as the worst economic storm of the century.