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Home preparedness guides
Guides and checklists on emergency kits, water, heat and power, written for normal households that want to get through a longer outage.
Car Emergency Kit: What to Keep in the Car (2026)
What to keep in the car for a breakdown or winter emergency: warmth, light, water and a way to call for help. A short, practical list per MCF guidance.
Emergency Preparedness for Pets: Dogs and Cats (2026)
What your dog or cat needs in a crisis: food and water, medicine, comfort and a plan. A simple add-on to your household kit, per MCF guidance.
Freeze-Dried Food and a Long-Life Food Store for a Week (2026)
Freeze-dried meals or a simple long-life store? How to plan a week of food that needs no fridge, how much energy per person, and how to keep it current. Per MCF.
How to Purify Water in an Emergency: A Safe Guide (2026)
How to make water safe to drink in a crisis: boiling, purification tablets and filters, how much you need, and the mistakes to avoid. Per MCF guidance.
How Many Components Should a Preparedness Kit Have?
There is no single right number of components for a preparedness kit. What matters is right-sizing to your household, who chose the contents, and how they are built. Here is how to judge any kit, a...
What Size Emergency Kit Do You Need? For 1, 2 or 4 People (2026)
How big an emergency kit your household needs: water and food scale with people, while some items are shared. A simple guide for 1, 2 and 4 or more people.
Premium emergency kits: what is worth paying for?
A higher price is worth considering when the specific contents and organisation solve a need in your household. Compare the selected household size, the equipment supplied and the cost of completin...
How to Stay Warm Without Power: A Safe Guide (2026)
How to keep warm at home without electricity: gather in one room, layer up, use a sleeping bag per person, and pick a safe heat source. With the carbon monoxide rules that keep it safe.
How to choose an emergency kit for your household
Choose an emergency kit by household size, the equipment you already own and the cost of completing your supplies. Compare the contents of the exact configuration, how you will store and use it, an...
How to Get Through a Week Without Power and Water (2026)
A calm, practical plan for a week-long power and water outage in Sweden: water, heat, light, communication and food, built to the MCF one-week standard.
Emergency Preparedness for Families With Children: A Complete Guide (2026)
How to prepare your family for a week without power or water: an age-banded checklist for babies, toddlers and school-age children, built to Sweden's MCF standard.
What to Put in an Emergency Kit: Complete Checklist and Buying Guide (2026)
The complete krislada / emergency-kit checklist for seven days plus a buying guide: water, food, heat, light, comms and first aid, build-your-own vs a complete system, and how to choose. Built to S...
Summer Preparedness Checklist: Home, Cabin and Car
Preparedness tends to bring winter to mind. Cold, storms, power cuts in the dark. But disruptions happen in summer too. Last August the power went out across the whole of Gotland overnight, and the...
The detail no one notices
Why we asked a designer with thirty years of experience to design something most people hope they will never use.When we started Kapsel, the hardest question was not what should go in the bag. The ...
MCF’s recommendation: seven days of home preparedness
MCF's home-preparedness recommendation is that every household in Sweden should be able to manage on its own for at least seven days without mains electricity, running water, mobile networks or dig...
Home preparedness: what do you actually need?
Most people reading this already know they should be prepared at home. Most have not done anything about it yet.That is not unusual. Preparedness feels abstract when everything works. The tap gives...
Emergency kit or crisis box: what’s the difference?
Search for "emergency kit" and you get hundreds of results. Plastic boxes with torches. Emergency rations in cardboard. Kits with contents nobody has verified. They all say the same thing: you get ...
Why we built Kapsel
We are not irresponsible. We have smoke detectors. We have insurance. Helmets when the kids ride bikes. We do what is expected.And we know the world looks different now. Cyberattacks on hospitals. ...
Preparedness isn’t about fear. It’s about getting rid of it
You don't do it because you're afraid. You do it so you don't have to be.
Home preparedness doesn’t have to be hard. Here’s how to start
Four things. Five minutes. That's how simple it is to start your home preparedness.
You own the gear. But do you know how it works?
Most people who own a camping stove have never lit one.
When it actually happens, it's too late to prepare
Most households hit by Storm Johannes had meant to sort out their preparedness. Most hadn't.
