Emergency planning
The complete UK household emergency preparedness guide
Household emergency preparedness done properly: what the UK government recommends for water, power, food, documents and a seven day plan.
By Slightly Anxious
1st July 2026 30 minute read
IN SHORT
Assess how prepared your household is, work out how a crisis would affect you, then build a plan, a kit and a store to see you through up to a week at home.
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The UK Government has a very generic guide to crisis preparedness. This is due, arguably, to it being calculated that currently in the UK there is more risk of a crisis being caused by ‘acts of God’ than by ‘acts of Men’ and they focus their advice accordingly. Given the state of geopolitics at the time of writing, this may not be the case for much longer and governments closer to the border with Russia, have a very different tone in their advice. But the message is much the same from all of them, they strongly advise you and your loved ones to be prepared for the worst. That is why you’re correct in feeling Slightly Anxious.
In this article, we will discuss what the British government and European governments are recommending their citizens do to prepare for times of uncertainty and unrest. We will start with you needing to assess your current state of preparedness for your household and your workplace. Then we look at what a crisis is and ask the question of how it would affect you and your loved ones. We then recommend that you upload to the Slightly Anxious website, the details needed for your Emergency Plan
You should be Slightly Anxious
In all types of emergency, whether it be acts of God, such as flood, fire or extreme weather, or acts of Men, such as technical failure, industrial strife, civil unrest, terrorist attack or military conflict, the very basics for how you and your household prepare and deal with a crisis, remain pretty much the same, preparation is crucial. In all cases you will be probably suffering from a shortage, if not an absence, of the things you depend on to make life comfortable. That’s why preparing for the worst is about ensuring the comfort levels for you and your household are kept as high as possible for the duration and that you have everything necessary to, sometimes literally, ‘weather the storm’.
You do this by firstly assessing your current situation, reading and understanding the advice (like this article) you’ve been provided with and acting on it to ensure that once the crisis happens, you and your household know what to do, when to do it and you have the right equipment to do it with. By being Slightly Anxious and preparing for a crisis you can have the best chance you and your household will minimise any discomfort.
What is very apparent from His Majesty’s Government’s (HMG) advice as well as the advice from governments around Europe is that when a crisis eventually happens, they expect you and your household to be resilient and able to look after yourselves. Unless you have some life-threatening emergency, like a serious injury, you will be left alone to get on with things. HMG will be dealing with its own survival and then working on getting the world back to as normal as quickly as possible. It will only have the resources to help you if you are in critical danger of life, so unless you have a really good reason for dialling 999, you will effectively be left alone to look after yourself and your loved ones. This is why being prepared is so important. You can’t be certain there will be almost instantaneous assistance available as there is in ‘normal’ times. This is why you need to do the preparation work during ‘normal’ (i.e. when there is no crisis) times so that you are prepared and ready for any forthcoming crisis. Only by being Slightly Anxious will you have the best chance to making it through with the least anguish.
Numbers to keep by the phone
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Emergency services: 999
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NHS non-emergency: 111
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Police non-urgent: 101
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Power cut: 105 (Northern Ireland 03457 643643)
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Floodline: 0345 988 1188
Thinking about you and yours
The first task is the assessment of you, your household and where you live and work and how prepared for crisis you and they are.
For your home you need to consider the risks of fire and flood. These may seem to be more of the ‘everyday’ risks rather than the apocalyptic melt down of the National Grid or a Russian ballistic missile attack, that may have got you to your state of being Slightly Anxious, but these are very real risks and have a higher probability of occurring.
To consider the risk of fire at your household you need to do the following:
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Ensure that you have smoke detectors installed at your property and that they have working batteries
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Register your household appliances – faulty ones can be a source of fire so ensuring the manufacturers can inform you if they have found faults mitigates this risk
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Plan your escape route if you find a fire, the easiest and quickest route is usually the best. Make sure you have a Plan B route just in case this route is blocked
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Make sure everyone in the household knows what to do if a fire is discovered. Everyone must evacuate. Don’t stop for clothes or valuables. Don’t try and fight the fire. Feel every door before you go to open it, if it’s warm there’s a fire behind it so don’t open it. If there’s smoke keep low to avoid it. Don ’t use the lift or go on to a balcony. Call 999 once you have evacuated the building.
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Agree with everyone in the household on a muster point to evacuate to. This is where your household will meet up so you can see that everyone has evacuated.
For more information the fire brigade have produced some useful leaflets on How to make your home safe and Fire safety in flats. You can even have your local fire brigade do an online check of your home for fire risks and give you recommendations, just enter your postcode here and you will be directed to the relevant brigade’s online checking service. If you become a Slightly Anxious member, we will send you fire safety information, a preparedness checklist and an annual reminder to check your fire alarms. We also sell fire alarms!
Flooding
The next high risk crisis possibility is flooding. As many of you will undoubtedly know, the UK is prone to flooding and the impact of climate change has increased the frequency of flooding events, so it’s no longer a question of ‘if?’ and more like ‘when?’. If you live in an area prone to flooding you really must prepare for it, or as you will have seen on TV, you can be suffering from its effects for years. Fortunately, there are websites to check if where you live is prone to flooding, enter your postcode if you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
If where you live is susceptible to flooding, you should sign up for flood alerts, you can do this online here. You can also sign up by using a telephone and calling Floodline on 0345 988 1188. Be aware that these services don’t always cover ‘flash flooding’ which might be highly localised. You may have memories of flash flooding in your locale but if you don’t, find out by asking around in your community because flash flooding can be an unexpected disaster.
If it does like you could suffer from flooding, you need to prepare, you need a plan and emergency kit which will be discussed below because they are similar for all crises. You will also need to prepare your property if flooding is looking imminent or just a regular occurrence. This is quite a lengthy procedure if you want to seriously protect your property from the effects of flooding then you will need to have enough time and resources to undertake it. The kind of jobs you may need to consider include:
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Moving important household items to higher floors
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Moving vehicles to higher ground
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Installing self-closing airbricks
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Having an inflatable bung for the toilet
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Ensuring you have separate electricity circuits for upstairs and downstairs
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Electrical sockets raised to higher level
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Raising kitchen appliances onto plinths
This article is not the place for a lengthy discussion of how to protect your home from flooding, but you can read our own article here and find a very comprehensive leaflet from Flood Mary explaining what you can do, click here and we thoroughly recommend a trip to their website, here. Just remember that flood waters are very dangerous and you should never consider driving or walking through flooded areas. You will need as part of your plan to decide whether you stay in the property or evacuate before it becomes inundated, your personal situation will determine this.
At Slightly Anxious, we can help you with providing you with the information you need, an emergency plan, the equipment for an emergency kit and best of all, flood defences that will go a long way to protecting your property.
Flood and fire risks at your home need you to be prepared. This means having a plan about what to do and having an emergency kit ready so that if you have to evacuate, you have the things you will need ready at hand and if you stay put, you have the ability to deal with not having the basic utilities that you’re used to. This also includes the members of your household, they need to have knowledge of your emergency plan, access to the emergency kit or their own emergency kits and knowledge and equipment of how to meet up, e.g. at a muster station, and how to communicate with each other. Fortunately, or unfortunately for you, you are the one who gets to organise your households preparedness and for seeing them through the crisis, which hopefully for them will seem like an adventure.
Your workplace
What about your workplace. Fortunately for you, this is not your responsibility. Your workplace has to, by law, prepare for emergencies and have relevant procedures in place accordingly, such as having a contingency office location set up should the existing office become unusable. Your job is to be knowledgeable of the policies and procedures and implement them when necessary. What you do need to be aware of and question is how do you contact your workplace if you are suffering an emergency. This can mean that there is no mobile phone signal and no internet. This may just be localised to you but could also include all your work colleagues. What you need to ascertain is how do you tell your boss how you won't be coming to work today because you’ve suffered a flood/ fire/ grid black-out/ food shortage/ missile attack? The same applies if you have children at school, how will you contact the school to let them know that your little angels will not be attending for very good reason?
What does a crisis looks like
Crises can take many forms, Acts of God and Acts of Man as detailed above, but in all cases they result in a varying degradation of you and your households ability to have:
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Shelter – fire and flood may force you to evacuate your home, do you know where you will go? How will you manage in your new location?
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Heat – your home is heated by either gas, electricity or oil, you may even have a wood or coal fire. How will you heat your home if your usual form of heating fuel is no longer available? The UK at night remains relatively cold for much of the year, how will you keep warm?
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Water – is absolutely vital to your comfort as you need it to drink, cook with, wash with and its what makes your toilets work. What will you do if the water is shut off?
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Food – you and your household need food on a regular basis. Good food ensure that the morale of your household stays high. What will you do if you can't go to the shops because you’re flooded in, or you can make it to the shops but they are empty because of industrial strife or military conflict?
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Health – a large proportion of the population need regular medical care and medication to maintain their lifestyles. How will you survive if you don’t have access to a GP or a pharmacist? Do you know how to treat accidents and deal with emergencies if there is no way of you getting to Accident & Emergency?
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Light and Power – if you have no electricity, how do you light your home and how do you power your electronic devices. Remove electricity and your quality of life plummets, what can you do to mitigate this?
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Information – in a time of crisis, what you need is information – what you need to do, what is happening and what is going to happen next. Information will help you decide whether to seek help from elsewhere or stay hunkered down indoors, are the flood waters receding or has the National Grid been re-started. Do you know where to find the information and on what device and powered with what will you use to access it?
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Entertainment – one common factor of all crisis situations is the amount of waiting involved. Waiting for things to happen and once things have happened waiting for normality to be restored. This kind of waiting can be rather frustrating, especially if you have children who need constant distraction which is why entertainment is crucial to good morale in crisis situations. Have you considered providing entertainment? Can it be supplied if it needs devices that require power?
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Administration – in ‘normal’ times we have electronic systems which can identify who we are so that we can undertake with interact with institutions. This can be proving to the police who we are and what we own, accessing our money from a bank or transferring it to someone else, having proof of insurance to pay for any damages or getting medical care from a GP or hospital. In a time of crisis there is a good chance that these electronic systems will fail. Have you got the right documentation, safely stored and available? Do you have cash?
As discussed in a previous article, ‘Why you’re correct in being Slightly Anxious’, we live in times of heightened risk and the chances of you having to endure a crisis are now higher than they have been for many years. This means that unless you prepare for it, you and your household have an increased risk of having a rather tough time of it. This is where Slightly Anxious come to your rescue.
At Slightly Anxious our goal is to provide you with everything you need to survive the worst that the world can throw at you. We want your loved ones to thank you for making their crisis an adventure and for minimising their stress levels. By careful preparation you can be certain of Keeping Calm and Carrying On.
The first thing you need to do
When you join Slightly Anxious, the first thing we will help you do is complete an emergency plan. This is important because it stores the information that you will need readily at hand should a crisis arise. It puts it all in one place so it can be easily accessible and when you only have minutes to spare this is essential.
The British government have provided one for free and you can access it here.
At Slightly Anxious, we believe we can offer you something better. We will get you to fill in the form online, providing you with advice with how to do it and then we will send you the plan, laminated to protect it from poor conditions and with QR codes so that the information we will ask you to upload (we will help you) can be accessed by the authorities, or they can just see the scans on the laminated form.
A good example of this in action is when one of the first things we ask you to do is identify how you switch off your utilities. You’ll need to turn off your mains water, gas and electricity if you have to leave the property if there is a flood, you may even have to turn them off if pipes/wires get damaged on the network. The safety default in times of extreme crisis is to have the mains turned off.
We will ask you to identify where the water stopcock is (usually near where the water supply enters your home or near to your property’s boundary under a cover), where the gas shut-off valve is (usually next to your gas meter) and where the electricity mains shutoff switch is (usually on the fuse board). As well as providing a written description of their location, we will also ask you to take photos or video on your phone of you pointing out where the switches are and how you physically turn them off. Thumbnails of these will be printed on the laminated emergency plan, but if the QR code is accessed, the photos/video will show how to find them and turn them off. Why this is so important is because these emergency plans are not just about you!
You need to think of others
One of the things we at Slightly Anxious appreciate, which is not given prominence in the government information, is the need for you to realise that there is always a chance that you may be away from your property when a crisis occurs. This is hopefully for good reasons, like being away on holiday or being at your workplace rather than bad reasons, like stuck in traffic or worse. This means that those remaining in the property need to know exactly what to do in case of emergency when you’re not there. If you become a member of Slightly Anxious we will ask you to enrol a Best Buddy. This could be your partner, a housemate or an elder child. We will send them and give access to all the information and support that we give you but most importantly, you will have taken them through your emergency plan and shown them where the emergency kit is and taught them what to do in the event of a crisis. Their job is to takeover if you can’t be there.
The next thing we will ask you to do as part of your emergency plan is to provide a list of contacts that you might need in an emergency. This will include the obvious ones:
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Emergency services (Fire, Ambulance, Police, Coastguard) 999
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NHS non-emergency number 111
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Police non-urgent 101
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To report a power cut 105 in England, Scotland and Wales 03457 643643 in Northern Ireland
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Floodline 0345 988 1188
Then we will ask you to provide contact details for:
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Every member of your household
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Everyone who you would want to inform if you were in an emergency (e.g. extended family)
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Everyone who may be expecting you and yours, e.g. workplace, school, carers
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Everyone you would want to check in with if there was an emergency
We would recommend that you set up instant messaging/texting groups for the contacts that you will communicate most frequently with – we can show you how – and that you have active discussions about your emergency planning. Sharing information increases everyone’s knowledge and also removes that feeling you are on your own. Apart from a house fire, the effects of a crisis very rarely are isolated to just one household, so you and your friend network will be going through the same things. Let these people become your support network. This is also a good opportunity to check on who in your group may need a little extra support in a crisis. Age, infirmity, disability or just life circumstances all mean that for some people in your group they will ned more assistance.
We will also remind you to ensure that everyone in your household who has a phone needs to use the In Case of Emergency function (ICE). On practically all mobile phones
Your important documents
We will then get you to deal with the important documentation that you need to keep safe during a crisis. These are:
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Passports
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Birth Certificates
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Property related documents (e.g. rental agreement, mortgage agreement, property deeds)
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Insurance policies
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Utility bills and bank statements to prove identity
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Any documentation regarding the receipt of state benefits or pension
The issue we’re dealing with is in the post-crisis world not every piece of data about you that is currently stored in various systems operated for the administration of the country may still exist intact or it just may not be accessible temporarily. Thus in order to get any form of service in the post-crisis world there is a chance that you may need to prove you’re identity and/or prove you were already authorised to receive those services.
We strongly recommend that you keep the originals of these documents in a safe place. At the Slightly Anxious website, we can supply with you a number of fire and waterproof storage options and also, as ‘belt & braces’, the option of an encrypted secure portal where you can upload scans of your documents and even have a separate QR code on your laminated emergency plan to allow those you’ve chosen to access your documents.
The final piece of information we will want you to upload to the website so that it can appear on your laminated emergency plan is a list of the medication you and your household are taking. We will want to know what the medicine’s name is, who takes it, what does do they take and when. The reason for this is quite simple, if for some reason you lost all your medicines and had to replace them, could you remember what they were exactly called or what the actual dose in milligrams was? If you can, congratulations on your amazing memory skills, but does this apply to everyone in your household also? Having them written down on the emergency plan means that even people without your amazing memory skills can read what you and your household are taking so they can either replace them or if they need to know what you are taking because they providing medical support.
The Slightly Anxious website provides you with a secure and encrypted portal to upload all the relevant information you will need for a comprehensive emergency plan. We will also provide you with a printed and laminated copy so that you can keep it safe. Just remember to tell people where it is!
Get the tools for the job
As we discussed above, in any emergency there is the chance that you won't have access to the things that make everyday life work. That is why it is strongly recommended by HMG and every government in Europe that in order to prepare for a crisis you have put together an emergency kit. HMG (see here) suggest the following should be the minimum:
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Battery or wind-up torch – torches are safer than candles.
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Portable power bank for charging your mobile phone.
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Battery or wind-up radio to get updates during a power cut – a car radio can be used, however in severe weather it might be safer to stay inside.
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Spare batteries for torches and radio and a backup battery for any medical equipment you rely on.
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A first aid kit (or some first aid items) including items such as waterproof plasters, bandages, a thermometer, antiseptic, eyewash solution, sterile dressings and gloves, medical tape for dressings, and tweezers.
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Hand sanitiser and wet wipes for hygiene purposes when the water is off.
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Bottled water
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Non-perishable food that doesn’t need cooking, such as ready-to-eat tinned meat, fruit or vegetables (and a tin opener).
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Food specifically for pets, small children, babies
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Baby supplies such as nappies and baby formula – ready made or ‘ready-to-feed’ formula is best as you may not be able to boil water or sterilise bottles.
The government minimum and what we add
The UK government minimum
What Sweden, Poland, Germany and Finland add
Battery or wind-up torch and radio
Charging cables, toilet paper and toiletries
Power bank and spare batteries
Camping toilet, camping stove, disposable crockery
First aid kit
Water filter and chlorine tablets, disinfectant
Hand sanitiser and wet wipes
Tools: tin opener, matches, bin bags, utility knife, duct tape
Bottled water
Warm clothing, blankets, sleeping bags
Non-perishable food and a tin opener
Heat source that needs no electricity, plus a carbon monoxide alarm
Pet, baby and child supplies
Masks, ID tags for children and pets, fire extinguisher or blanket
We agree that this is the bare minimum and would suggest considering the addition of the following items, as per the governments of Sweden , Poland, Germany and Finland:
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Cables needed for charging electronic devices
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Toilet paper and toiletries
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Feminine hygiene products
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Camping toilet
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Camping stove
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Disposable crockery and cutlery as if there is no water you won’t be able to wash up
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Filter for water and chorine tablets
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Disinfectant
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Essential tools: tin opener, waterproof matches and/or fire starter, plastic bags to store waste, bucket with lid to store waste, a utility knife, gaffer/duct tape, pen and notepad,
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To keep warm: all-weather outdoor clothing, clothes made of wool, thick socks, beanies, gloves, and scarves. Blankets, sleeping mats, and sleeping bags.
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Alternative heat sources that don’t require electricity – for example, a gas or paraffin heater. Candles, tea lights, and fuel for heat sources. Matches, fire-starters, and a fire extinguisher.
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A battery powered carbon monoxide alarm. Anything that burns produces carbon monoxide, including every heat source listed above, and a fire extinguisher offers no protection against it whatsoever. If you have any of the above in your kit, you need one of these.
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Masks to protect from smoke/ gas/ pollution – these can be similar to the ones use during Covid or as extensive as gas masks
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Identification tags for children and pets in case they get lost – these give details of who they are, where they live, how to contact you
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Fire extinguisher/ blanket
Seemingly not considered to be essential by these governments, but we consider to be somewhat necessary are:
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Entertainment for adults – this can be board games, cards, console games, e-readers
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Entertainment for children – as above but with the addition of toys
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Entertainment for pets – toys!
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Toiletries for pets – pooh bags, cat litter, litter mats
At Slightly Anxious we can supply you with all the emergency pack supplies that you need, so you can purchase them all in one go. We supply curated packs based on your household size and also some nice to have additions, like candelabra to make your dining experience a little bit more special.
The Slightly Anxious Difference
We know that you can purchase all of these items online, Amazon or a specialist prepping site, so what makes us different?
If you have already shown signs of being ‘Slightly Anxious’ about the future and worried about how you would protect your loved ones if we got hit with a crisis, you may have come across ‘Prepping’ sites. ‘Prepping’ means preparing for a crisis. The thing about the majority of ‘prepping’ websites is what they are preparing for is the end of civilisation, the breakdown of society and the eventual Zombie apocalypse! The sites appear to be run by and for military obsessed men, who want to spend the rest of their lives living in a bunker, eating dehydrated trail-mix, going to the toilet in a bucket and being ready to kill, skin and gut a warthog or Zombie at the a moment’s notice.
We like to think that at ‘Slightly Anxious’ that we are really rather different to this. We do believe, as we explained in our article ‘Why you’re correct in being Slightly Anxious’, that as these are times of heightened risk for a crisis to hit the United Kingdom it is prudent to prepare for the worst. However, we do not believe that any crisis is going to be anything more than temporary, we do believe that British society and a normal way of life will bounce back relatively quickly and we still don’t believe that Zombies actually exist.
We’re a club of like-minded people who believe that being prepared, as the Scouts & Guides have known for decades, is a worthwhile endeavour. We know that when tough times happen you need to be willing to help each other and to have the tools and the knowledge to get through it all. The ‘Slightly Anxious’ website has been designed specifically to enable this.
One of our major considerations may sound trivial, but really we don’t think it is. A major part of preparing for any crisis, as we’ve explained above, is stockpiling food, drink and equipment. This means that you will have to store in your property some relatively bulky items. We recognise that if you’re the kind of person who is considerate enough to be thinking about protecting your household, then you’re already considerate about how that household is kept and the idea of plonking down a lot of ugly items on the off-chance that a crisis happens at some time in the future, is almost as worrying as the crisis itself. Who wants to live in what looks like a clearance sale from a military supplies shop?
So how do we solve the problem of having to have an emergency store in the property?
We do that by supplying aesthetically pleasing packaging. On our website you will find a range of options for how to store your emergency supplies without making your property look ugly or waiting for the Zombies. You will find ways to disguise the kit as an ottoman, a steamer trunk, a suitcase or even a sofa! But if you have a cellar, pantry or shed then we can offer you just the kit in rugged packaging. As for the roughly 10 litres of water you will need per day per person, we’ve found an ingenious way of concealing this so you won't need jerry cans blocking up your hallway and that is our range of decorative planters. These can sit by your front door, on the balcony, in the back garden and look like architecturally inspired planters where you can plant whatever blooms and foliage you desire. People won't know that hidden within is your potable water supply that will keep you and your loved ones going for the duration of the emergency.
With the drink sorted, we need to mention the food as that was our other major consideration when setting up ‘Slightly Anxious’. ‘Prepper food’ looks and probably tastes awful. This is because its designed to last 20 years plus. Unfortunately any kind of storage that enables you keep your food un-spoiled without refrigeration diminishes the flavour from fresh ingredients and that can't be helped. If we were expecting to need to store food for generation without refrigeration we would also be recommending dehydrated and flash frozen meals, because quite frankly any food is better than no food! Thankfully, this isn’t what we’re considering. We’re thinking about a crisis that could either temporarily cause an electricity black out or some blockage to supply chains that could lead to supermarkets being temporarily without food. The answer we have found is the age old staple of tinned cans. We can hear your sigh from across the screen and we understand that most people have a negative view of tinned food. There is good reason for this as most British tinned food is utterly appalling and seemingly only there to remind us of life in war time a century ago. Fortunately, what we found during our Covid-19 years experiments is that the problem isn’t the tinned food per se. It appears to be the country of manufacture. We have found that tinned food recipes from around the world is far superior than the meals made from tins available on UK supermarket shelves. The quality and composition is head and shoulders above in terms of taste and quality. No-one beats Heinz baked beans or John West kippers to give you culinary time travel to the 1960s, but we suspect that this won’t be what your craving if there’s nothing left in your un-powered fridge.
We have curated recipes from around the world that depend on tinned food for the main recipe components and then utilises common pantry staples that we expect you already have. On the Slightly Anxious website you will be able to inspect each of the recipes, see videos of how to prepare them (when our members send them in) and curate each of the meals to be served when your ‘adventure’ begins. It’s a bit like one of those home delivery meal kits just using tins, we will supply you with a shopping list and where to get them. We will also have on the website reviews of people who have tried the recipes and give you their honest views.
For those of you who need your Asian kick, we also direct you to an extensive range of instant noodles and self-heating instant meals sourced for Japan, Thailand and South Korea. You will just need to add water, boiling it for the noodles. For those of you who will just need a hit of something satisfying, we also direct you to a range of sweets and snacks to keep you satisfied. Remember, times of emergency put an end to all diets!
Slightly Anxious is different from the majority of prepping sites in understanding that one of the biggest problems suffered in times of crisis is actually boredom. This is essentially a good thing as it indicates everyone is safe, but it can, like with a lack of good food, rapidly sap the morale of everyone involved. Unlike other prepping sites, we do not expect you to spend this enforced free time designing home defence traps to ward off the Zombie invasion, we want you to have some fun. This is why we can supply you with a wide range of toys and games for adults, kids and pets. If you get yourself a portable power station, you will be able to run your home TV’s/ computers/ handheld consoles, but without any internet their use will be limited. That is why we can supply DVD players with DVDs and pre-loaded handheld games consoles so you can return to a bygone age and watch a movie or play video games with just the need for a charged battery.
We do remind all our members that even with battery stations and chargers, most electronic devices based on monitor screens will eventually use all of your stored electricity in just a few days and not much longer even if you ration your screen time. Which is why much of our entertainment range doesn’t need electricity.
Your to do list is:
1. Fit smoke alarms and check the batteries
2. Register your household appliances so you hear about recalls
3. Agree two escape routes and a muster point with everyone at home
4. Sign up for flood alerts if you are at risk
5. Set up a messaging group for the people you would contact in an emergency
6. Keep original documents somewhere safe and copies in your Grab Bag
7. Put together at least the government's minimum kit
In conclusion
To conclude this rather lengthy article on what HMG wants you to do in order to prepare for an emergency situation and what Slightly Anxious can do to help you, all we can say is Keep Calm and Visit Us at www.SlightlyAnxious.com.
Thinking about impending crises is quite depressing. Hopefully, we can alter that by showing you that it's very easy to get everything in hand, sign up as a member and we will virtually hold your hand through the whole process. You will be able to set up an Emergency Plan, choose from our menu of curated meals, find the right bits for your emergency kit so it bespoke to you and your situation and then manage to store everything in a way that is pleasing to your eye rather than deadening to your soul. Preparing for a crisis is never going to be about getting ready for an enjoyable experience. Our goal at Slightly Anxious is to make your preparation as easy as possible and when the crisis eventually happens, that it's more like an adventure – camping while staying at home, rather than depravation and suffering. We think you owe it to yourself to have the knowledge and the tools to look after you and your loved ones should the worst happen and to make it as bearable as possible. Being a member of the Slightly Anxious club is, we think, the easiest way to do it!
Remember, keep calm and visit us here.
