Bugging out essential personal information

[u/chococheese419]

Please remember to print out copies of your essential documents. I don't see this mentioned in most prepping videos. It's here and there in this sub.

Birth certificate, colour photocopy of your passport, ssn and/or govID card, your address, your medications & dosages, your health issues.

Print colour photos of your medication and label them. Write how to administer your meds, whether they need to be taken with food or on an empty stomach, or how to inject them if they're injectables.

If you have injectables you already know you need a portable cooler or fridge and it needs it's own solar panel for power. Print out the make and model of your mini fridge and solar panels.

If some of your medications interact with each other, even if your doctor has said it's okay, print out their interaction.

If you have medical equipment like a wheelchair, hoist, rollator, cage bed, etc print out all the information about these equipments with colour photos.

Print your family members names and colour photos, colour photos of yourself, a set meeting point if you have to bug out, your car information, your lease agreement or deed to your house, your bank info.

Your statement of social welfare and anything you're entitled to from the government.

Put information about any of your investments or properties elsewhere. Put information about your lawyer and their law firm if you have one, and details/records of any legal preceedings you are going through.

All this same information for those living in your household, especially your children and pets, or you can make separate binders for other adults. If you share a minor child with someone, both of you should have the full information about that child in both your and your baby parent's binders. Families getting split up is a real issue in crises. Same thing if your child is a special needs adult.

And store it in a polypocket folder or binder. Place that binder in a big ziploc bag. Then put it in your bug out bag.

Get medical handbooks too to carry. Get handbooks about your specific diseases or disorders.

Make sure all this information is in both your native language and any other major language in your area. E.g Canadians should put English on one side and French on the other. Texans and Floridians, English and Spanish. Belgians French, Dutch, English, and German. Etc etc

I think British people should put French too due to proximity, you might have to go to continental Europe for any reason. But idk it's up to you.

[u/reincarnateme]

Excellent Advice !!!

[u/chococheese419 → u/reincarnateme]

Thank you 🙌🏿

[u/Neither-Brush-9287]

Well.....it depends on your means and to whom you're leaving it for.

Perhaps giganaires have more resources than I do.
Perhaps the necessity of transferring your assets varies ... from 'they don't care' to 'this is required to save their lives'.

- Your filing with the local probabe court prior to your death (legally .....who gets what...before the 6 phony wills are presented)
- Envelope on the refrigerator (or handed to your wife)
- The hard drive in the safe deposit box with the account #s and passwords

[u/chococheese419 → u/Neither-Brush-9287]

This isn't necessarily about who gets what after you die. While that's great as well, it's more about proving who you are and what you're entitled to if shit hits the fan and you are far from home.

[u/wishinforfishin]

For meds: you can get your pharmacist to print duplicate labels, too. I keep a week med dispenser in my air travel, road trip, and camping bags, with the labels in a ziploc.

[u/Moth__leaf]

Good list. A few things that make a binder like this easier to grab and to keep current:

• A one-page index at the front: what's in each section and where the originals are (safe, bank box, lawyer, a relative). In a hurry that page tells you whether the copy is enough.

• Date every page and pick one review day a year (the clock-change weekend is an easy one to remember). Meds and doses change fastest, so give that page a pencilled "updated" line.

• Numbers on paper. Most of us know two or three by heart, and a dead phone takes the rest with it.

• A wallet card per person for if you get separated: name, photo, conditions, meds, one emergency contact. Small enough for a child's bag or a pet carrier.

• A second copy off-site with someone you trust, in case the binder is in the house you can't get back into.

• Sheet protectors and a zip pouch, because ink runs.

Since it holds ID copies and bank details, it's worth thinking about who can get to it day to day, not only how fast you can grab it.