Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

So I’m in the kitchen, minding my own business, making a bowl of cornflakes. Milk? Check. Corn flakes? Check? Sugar? Uh…hmmm…the sugar container is only about 7% full. I sprinkle some sugar on my corn flakes and then ponder the options. I could gear up, head over to Albertsons and pick up some sugar. But its 9:30 PM and about 2 degrees out. Not appealing. I could mark ’sugar’ on the shopping list for next time and hope I make a shopping trip before any large quantity of sugar is needed for something.

But thats for other folks. The unprepared. The sheep. For me, I simply pull up the stepstool, climb up to the high cabinets in the kitchen and open up one of them. Lo! Behold! Several 5# bags of sugar in vacuum-sealed bags to keep out the moisture and bugs! Pull one down, crack it open, refill container and life goes on.

See, this is exactly how preparedness pays off in a non-EOTWAWKI way. I remember wandering through Albertsons a year or so ago and they had an endcap that was just a pallet stacked high with these 5# bags of sugar like they were sandbagging against a flood. I think it was $2 per bag so, naturally, I grabbed 50# worth. Each bag was vacuum sealed against moisture and bugs and tucked away. Some were stuck in the kitchen for use like today’s situation, some were stuffed into sealed 5-gallon buckets, labeled, dated, and stockpiled with the other food.

But more importantly, this sort of lifestyle is keeping me from having to go out in 2-degree weather at 9:30 PM when I really dont feel like leaving the house.

Preparedness FTW!