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.

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The full Family Emergency Binder is coming soon. Every document, contact, and plan in one place, including after-a-death and estate paperwork. Join the list and we'll email you the moment it's ready, at the $19 launch price for a limited time.

Inside the binder

Every household and medical contact, in one place
Insurance, ID, and property documents
Where the accounts live, without writing down passwords
Wills, wishes, and estate paperwork
Evacuation plan and go-bag lists
…and the rest across 12 tabs

12 tabs, fillable or print-blank

The one thing to do

One binder, everything in it

It's coming soon. Join the list and we'll email you the moment it's ready, at the $19 launch price for a limited time.

The whole system

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The Family Emergency Binder

$19launch price for a limited time, then $39

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

Join the list, get it for $19

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 · Emergency Now

First-10-minutes action page for a power outage

First 10 minutes: power outage

Master document locator

Progress tracker page with milestones and per-tab checkboxes

The progress tracker

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Death Binder: What to Include

A death binder checklist arranged by when your family will need each piece, with a death certificate facts sheet, and locations instead of account numbers or passwords.

16 min read

Illustration of a hand turning the red wheel handle of a gate valve on a copper water line, next to the water meter where the pipe comes through a basement foundation wall.

Skills

How to Shut Off Your Water Main (and Turn Off Water to the House)

Find the main valve, close it the right way for its type, and confirm the water is off. Then practice once, before you need it.

14 min read

Illustration of a handwritten two-page letter and a fountain pen on a wooden desk, with an open kraft envelope, a manila folder with reading glasses on it, a brass house key and a cup of tea.

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Letter of Instruction: What to Put in It (Free Template)

What to put in a letter of instruction, in the order your family will need it, with a fill-in template that records where things are, never the numbers or passwords.

17 min read

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The Family Emergency Binder is coming soon. Join the list and we'll email you the moment it's ready, at the $19 launch price for a limited time. After that the price is $39.

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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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