Smart storage solutions: Organizing your space for maximum preparedness

11/07/2024 / By HRS Editors

Organization may not seem like an important aspect of prepping, but you need to organize your survival stockpile and the rest of your home if you want to be an efficient prepper.

This ensures that when SHTF, you can easily grab supplies or survival gear when you need them without wasting time rummaging through a messy drawer. (h/t to TheSurvivalMom.com)

Categorize your emergency supplies

If you’re overwhelmed with organizing your home and preps, start by making a list of where your food stockpile, stored water and other preps are located.

Next, try to organize closets or your stockroom using these eight general categories:

Clothing, such as extra clothes for bug-out bags and protective gear (work gloves, neon yellow safety vest, etc.)
Emergency kit food, such as energy bars or MREs (meals, ready-to-eat)
Emergency light sources, such as candles, flashlights, light sticks, headlamps, etc.
Energy sources, such as batteries, battery packs and solar chargers
First aid kits and other medical supplies
General survival gear, such as paracord, multitools, etc.
Outdoor and camping supplies, such as mess kits
Water purification

After unpacking everything in a drawer or the closet, you can decide how to store them according to the categories. Each prepper’s categories might be different, but the important thing is to gather all items in one place so you can make an inventory and start sorting.

Once you store all items in bins or their respective packaging or boxes, stack them properly so you can easily see all the labels.

If you have young children, store their bug-out bags or camping gear on hooks at their eye level. (Related: The ultimate guide to long-term food storage: What you need to know.)

If your emergency supplies and preps are scattered throughout your house, you might want to store most of them in one location. Doing so makes it easier to sort them by category. It’s also easier to find items for specific situations.

Tips for organizing your emergency supplies

If you have a lot of gear and supplies, you should organize everything before SHTF. This ensures that no time is wasted when you need to bug out or find a specific item during different emergencies.

There are different ways of organizing, but sorting similar items by category and storing them in containers should work for most of your prepping needs.

Assemble all items in one place. This pile will include all your emergency supplies and preps. It’s also better to separate the largest items from the smaller items, but it can wait if you want to store them separately in other locations.

Use these categories to sort all items in separate piles:

Clothing
Emergency kit food
Emergency Light sources
Energy sources
First aid and medical supplies
General survival
Outdoor and camping supplies
Water purification

Once all items are sorted into these categories, identify additional categories for the remaining items if needed. If you can’t, store these items in a separate container marked “miscellaneous.”

Figure out what kind of containers you’ll need for each category and how large those containers need to be. You don’t need to have matching or color-coordinated containers unless you are using them for easy identification. Fill and label each container of supplies.

If you have a closet or a spare room for storage, move the organized supplies there and use sturdy shelving if you have them.

Once you’re done, restock any items that you need more of before SHTF.

Where to buy lab-verified supplies for your organized stockpile

The Health Ranger Store is here to help you prepare for emergencies while you keep your survival stockpile organized.

That’s why we’re proud to introduce an assortment of clean, lab-verified and healthy food options such as Organic Freeze-Dried Cranberry Whole, Mega Bucket Organic Amaranth and Mega Bucket Organic Flax Seed Brown.

Organic cranberries are the small red, edible berries that grow on the Vaccinium macrocarpon plant. Since cranberries don’t stay fresh for very long, they can be carefully freeze-dried to extend their shelf life while preserving the fruit’s original nutritional content.

To help you experience the full nutritional benefits of fresh cranberries all year round, the Health Ranger Store is proud to introduce our New Groovy Bee^® Organic Freeze-Dried Cranberry (Whole). Our premium freeze-dried organic cranberries are packed with beneficial phytonutrients and have been carefully freeze-dried to retain maximum nutrition.

We are offering our organic freeze-dried cranberries in convenient 28-gram pouches and long-term storable #10 cans.

A versatile, nutritious and delicious addition to a wide variety of recipes, our freeze-dried organic cranberries can easily be incorporated into your favorite recipes. Our Groovy Bee^® Organic Freeze-Dried Cranberry (Whole) is non-GMO, non-China, certified Kosher and organic.

Our organic freeze-dried cranberries have also been meticulously lab-tested for glyphosate, heavy metals and microbiology.

You can also try Mega Bucket Organic Amaranth from the Health Ranger Store. This item is 10 pounds of amaranth that is sealed into five two-pound packages and stored in a two-gallon bucket.

Enjoy the sweet and nutty flavor of amaranth in the Health Ranger’s non-GMO and laboratory-tested Organic Amaranth. This product is recommended as an excellent source of protein and fiber in a non-gluten diet.

Organic Amaranth is thoroughly lab-tested for glyphosate, heavy metals and microbiology. It is also USDA-organic and Kosher-certified.

Lastly, you can try Mega Bucket Organic Flaxseed Brown from the Health Ranger Store. This item also includes 10 pounds of product, sealed into five two-pound packages and stored in a two-gallon bucket.

Our Organic Brown Flaxseeds are one of the richest plant sources of omega-3s and other nutrients. We have carefully selected our growers and tested each production lot for heavy metals. This product is organic and free of GMOs.

Visit the Health Ranger Store and Brighteon Store to find more products for your survival stockpile. You can also go to FoodSupply.news for more tips on efficient stockpiling techniques.

Click on this link for a tasty Flaxseed Crackers recipe.

Watch the video below to learn how Organic Flaxseed can support your overall health.

This video is from the Health Ranger Store channel on Brighteon.com.