Binder

Practical emergency prep for families

Most family emergency plans never get finished. This one takes a weekend.

Twelve tabs. A 15-minute quick start covers tonight. Three focused days finish the rest.

Families usually start this the week a storm's already in the forecast. Do it now, while things are calm. That's the whole trick.

Get the Binder for $19 at Launch

The full Family Emergency Binder lands mid-September. Every document, contact, and plan in one place, including after-a-death and estate paperwork. Leave your email and you pay $19 instead of $39.

Cover of the Family Emergency Binder

Inside the binder

  • Every household and medical contact, in one place
  • Insurance, ID, and property documents
  • Where the accounts live, without writing down passwords
  • …and the rest across 12 tabs
12 tabs, fillable or print-blank

The one thing to do

One binder, everything in it

It lands mid-September. Join the list and lock in the launch price.

The whole system The Family Emergency Binder cover

Coming mid-September

The Family Emergency Binder

$39$19

Every document, contact, and plan your family needs, organized in one place, including after-a-death and estate paperwork. Print-yourself, fillable, 12 tabs.

Get it for $19 at launch

A look inside

Real pages, ready to fill in

111 pages across 12 color-guided tabs. This is what prints when you buy it — here are four of them.

Tab 1 divider: Emergency Now

Tab 1 · Emergency Now

 First-10-minutes action page for a power outage

First 10 minutes: power outage

 Master document locator page — records where documents live, never the secrets

Master document locator

 Progress tracker page with milestones and per-tab checkboxes

The progress tracker

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Four pages from the Family Emergency Binder in a loose stack, the cover on top reading Prepare Not Panic above a row of twelve colour-guided tabs, with the Emergency Now divider, the progress tracker, and the 15-minute quick setup fanned behind it. binder

Emergency Binder Printables: What's Actually Free Here

Two free emergency binder tools exist on this site right now, plus a binder cover page you can copy onto paper on this page. Here's exactly what each one gives you.

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A Family Member Profile page from the Family Emergency Binder held large in front, with the binder progress tracker set back behind it. binder

A Free Emergency Binder Template You Can Fill Out Now

A real, fillable Household Info Sheet rendered on this page, free and complete on its own, plus an honest look at what the full binder adds beyond it.

8 min read
Three pages from the Family Emergency Binder fanned on a desk, the Master Document Locator in front with columns for where each original, paper copy, and digital copy is kept. binder

The Complete Emergency Binder Checklist

The seven categories a family emergency binder needs, with concrete items under each, and a locator system that records where a document lives instead of the number on it.

8 min read

Coming mid-September

Get the binder for $19 when it launches

The Family Emergency Binder lands mid-September at $39. Join the list and it is yours for $19 in launch week.

One email when it launches. Unsubscribe anytime.

Who's behind this

Hi, I'm Todd

I'm a CERT-trained volunteer who has been through multiple hurricanes, a wildfire, and a flood. I started this site to give regular families the practical, no-panic guidance I wish I'd had. No bunkers, no fear, just what to buy, store, and do.

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The Family Emergency Binder is in final production

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It lands mid-September. Leave your email and it's yours for $19 instead of $39 when it does.

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