281 | Emergency Items
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Joshua and Ryan discuss emergency items, preparing for emergencies, and when it’s appropriate to hold on to certain just-in-case items, and they answer the following questions:
How do we prepare for chaos? (04:33)
What are the three types of emergencies? (05:49)
What do you keep in your car? (08:02)
How do we reconcile what we actually need with what we want? (12:12)
What is the most important thing in an emergency? (14:36)
What essentials should we keep in a first aid kit for both home and travel? (19:18)
What is the difference between an emergency item and a just-in-case item? (25:50)
How do you differentiate between just-in-case items and just-for-when items? (31:42)
What are “b.s. emergency items”? (36:36)
What books, websites, podcasts would you recommend as resources for information regarding emergency preparedness? (43:27)
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Minimalists is brought to you by... |
| 0:02.6 | Nobody. |
| 0:03.6 | Because advertisements suck. |
| 0:05.6 | Damn Minimalists. |
| 0:07.6 | Hmm. |
| 0:17.6 | Every little thing, you think that you need. |
| 0:22.2 | Every little thing, you think that you need. |
| 0:26.8 | Every little thing that you're feeding your greed. |
| 0:31.4 | Oh, I bet that you'll be fine without it. |
| 0:38.6 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:39.6 | Welcome to The Minimalist Podcast where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less. |
| 0:43.6 | My name is Joshua Wilfields Milburn and I'm Ryan Nicodemus and together we are the minimalist. |
| 0:48.0 | Today Ryan, we're going to talk about emergency items. |
| 0:51.4 | Nice. |
| 0:52.4 | We're going to talk about preparing for emergencies. |
| 0:54.6 | And we're going to talk about when it's appropriate to hold on to certain just in case items. |
| 1:01.2 | Or, uh, yeah, yeah, okay, we'll get into that. |
| 1:04.2 | I don't know if this is the perfect time to release this episode or if it's too late, |
| 1:10.0 | but because of the pandemic, it's like if we could have put this out pre-pandemic, |
| 1:15.0 | you know, maybe people wouldn't have impulse bought when everything started hitting the fan. |
| 1:21.8 | But also, sometimes you got to learn those hard lessons. |
| 1:25.8 | So releasing this post, I guess we're still kind of in the pandemic, but, you know, |
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