Planning ahead.
The next holiday coming up is Halloween, and because of that, we have some time to relax, take a break, enjoy the summer days and put a dent in those things we keep saying that we mean to do.
Today, we want to focus on our ongoing paranoia, being prepared in an emergency. It makes sense given the world in which we live that we prepare for emergency situations. Emergency preparations are one of those things that we keep talking and planning, but we find that we aren’t going through with the actual education part of the knowledge. Make sense? No? Then how about this:
We issue an challenge. If something happened to you today, would you know how to save a life? Yeah, sure, we had secondary education on First Aid, but how much has changed in the decades since our last class? Since yours?
Here’s our proposal: Start simple with the American Red Cross. Find your local chapter (or your country’s chapter if you do not live in the USA) and enroll in a first aid class before the 2007 holiday season. That is a good three month time period. Plenty of time to find the $50 dollars for a class. Better yet, see if you can get a class scheduled at your workplace. Ask around to see how you can get a free class. We pledge to take a class before the beginning of October 2007.
While you are reading around the Red Cross website, why not take the opportunity to read up on disaster preperation? We live in the hot Southern states, which means that right now, summer storms reign supreme. Thus, before the end of the hurricane season, we pledge to have completed a checklist for hurricane preparation.On the same planning ahead for emergencies thread, we know we are planning a cross-country trip during the 2007 holiday season. Now is the time to be thinking ahead about the holiday seasons and planning. Since we will drive cross country, time to put an emergency kit in the car. We will work on car emergencies later, but it does need to go into our mental tickler file.
Likewise, we are months away from the holiday gift-giving festivities, but now is the time to start putting aside a dollar here and there. We do not like using credit (another life skill we will write about later) and we think there is a lot to be said about living life on a cash only basis. You find your focus changes in time. But more on that later too.
