Ready, Set, Ready makes the case for going deep on one category at a time, and that's the right call if you're building this for real. This page is the opposite bet: a bare-minimum floor across all 15 categories at once, so nothing is a total blank while you work through the rest of the site properly. Not a substitute for the real thing, just something better than nothing, done this weekend.
The list
Thirteen items. Do them in any order. Each one links to the real guide behind it if you want more than the one-line version.
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If it applies to your household
What this doesn't cover
This list is deliberately shallow. It doesn't build real skill in any category, it doesn't cover the Tier 2/3/4 content that makes a household genuinely resilient past two weeks, and it skips categories, Fitness, Post-Disaster Recovery, Mental Health, that matter but aren't a life-safety floor the way the twelve above are. Once this list is done, Ready, Set, Ready is where to go next: pick one category and actually build it out for real, instead of staying shallow everywhere. Prefer a fixed order to work through instead of choosing? See Zero to Ready.
Something happening right now instead of planning ahead? See What to Do Right Now. Want the complete version of this list instead of the curated one? See The Shopping List's Tier 1 section.