Your First Weekend — Free Emergency Starter

Start your household emergency plan this weekend — free.

This free eight-page starter helps you take the first practical steps before a power outage, a stay-home emergency, or a sudden evacuation. You do not need to prepare for everything today. Start with the contacts, information, supplies, and decisions that matter first.

Most families intend to get ready and never start, because "be prepared" is not an instruction. This free starter is the instruction — six real working blocks across one Saturday and Sunday, plus the fillable pages you need to do them.

What is inside

• Your first weekend. The full two-day plan. Six working blocks from a 30-minute household meeting to a lights-off grab-and-go drill.
• Start with one small kit. Count, gather, build, label and test — without inventing a supply list.
• Emergency contact directory. Fillable. Utilities, doctors, pharmacy, vet, insurance, schools, out-of-area contact and local alerts.
• Grab in 5 minutes, grab in 30. Make the hard decisions now, before you have to leave fast.
• Water: buy it, count it, store it. Gallon tables by household size for 3 days and 14 days, with storage and date-check rules.
• Bonus — printable wallet contact cards. Four cards per sheet. One per person and per go-bag.

What comes next?

• Choose The Stay-Home Pack ($7) if your priority is preparing your household to manage safely at home.
• Choose The Extended Outage Pack ($7) if you want to plan beyond a short disruption.
• Choose The Car Evacuation Pack ($7) if your household may need to leave quickly.
• Choose The Complete Emergency Planning Binder ($17) if you want all of those plans in one organized system.

Built on public agency guidance

Water amounts and the 3-day and 14-day targets follow guidance from public agencies including the CDC, FDA, American Red Cross, CPSC, Ready.gov and the National Weather Service. Sources are coded on each page. The Life Plan Shop is not affiliated with or endorsed by these organizations.

Format

Instant free download. Fillable PDF, US Letter, 8 pages. Type into the fields and save, or print and write by hand. These are real pages from The Complete Emergency Planning Binder — if you want the full system, all five tabs and seven hazard quick-sheets are in the 61-page binder for $17.

General household planning guidance. Not medical, legal or professional advice, and it does not replace instructions from local officials, your health care providers or equipment manufacturers. A plan improves your options; it cannot guarantee safety or any particular survival duration. When officials give an instruction, follow it. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.