30 Days to Better Preparedness, Day 10. Phone numbers/phones.

 I hope you had a good weekend.  I have caught up a bit and things are in better shape in my pantry.   I followed my own advice (haha!) and cleared out all non food.  Mostly for me this was a lot of empty jars I keep ready for jam making and so on.  I re homed all of them.  On top of this Andy filled the narrow space behind the pantry door with shelves.  I guess they would be four or five inches deep.   When my pantry was build they put in really nice thick wooden shelves but left behind the door a blank space.  Now it too has shelves!   Well,  I can't believe how much more I can fit in there now!   Also I am able to see much better what I have,  how many and what is getting low a lot better.

Today is easy.   But important!   

If you lost your phone (or it died over night)  do you know everyones phone numbers?  Or are they IN your phone!?  

This sounds simple but it is an easy thing to have all the numbers you need stored in your phone and we press names not numbers now and so they are not easily memorised.    It's a bit of a trap!

So right now without your phone as an option do you know all the numbers you need?

I keep a small book in my purse with my most often used phone numbers.   In the house I have a cupboard of emergency supplies like my lanterns and candles.  On the back of that cupboard door are all emergency numbers followed by all those of neighbours.    Beneath those are all the names,  addresses and phone numbers of everyone we know. 

Emergency numbers include (other than 000) 

Local CFS

Local hospitals.

Who to call in a power outage. 

Poisons information.

Doctors surgery.

Chemists.

Local bank branches.

Health Direct.  For the Australians this is 1800 02 222 and this gives you a registered nurse to talk to. 

I try to have everything clear and easy to find.  

Inside this cupboard are also CPR instructions and all sorts of other stuff.  I LOVE the use of inside cupboard doors to keep important information easy to find.  I also have emergency action plans.   When there is a crisis coming and your brain melts down you have a step by step plan to follow.   But that is a subject for another day. 

Today lets just get our numbers sorted out.  If you have ever had to find a number under the pressure of an emergency you know it is so hard.   Look them all up today, write them down,  add them to your phone too so all you have to do is press Poisons Information,  Emergency Nurse,  Electricity outage... or whatever.   

See you tomorrow! xxx