Be Ready College Car Safety: The Glove Box Card Every Student Should Have A simple, printable glove box card and phone backup guide to help college students handle car breakdowns, accidents, or towing with calm and confidence.
Be Ready Change Your Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Detector Batteries: The 5-Minute Fix That Saves Lives Don’t let a dead battery put your family at risk. Learn when to replace smoke and carbon monoxide detector batteries, which ones to trust, and how this simple habit could save lives.
Be Ready What Is a Go Folder? How to Create One Before You Need It Learn what a Go Folder is and why every household should have one ready. This simple emergency grab-and-go binder holds your essential documents for fast, calm action in a crisis.
Be Ready How to Prepare Your Devices for Summer Travel Simple, smart steps to keep your phone—and your data—safe on the road.
Be Ready Storm-Ready: What to Do Before the Power Goes Out A calm checklist to help you prepare in under an hour.
Be Ready Should You Use Insurance for Roadside Assistance? What You Need to Know Before You Call Using your auto insurance for roadside assistance might quietly count as a claim—raising your rates later. Discover safer, smarter options like AAA, cell phone perks, credit card benefits, and local services.
Be Ready 30 Days Ready: How to Build a Real-Life Emergency Pantry Without Panic or Prepping Out A well-stocked emergency pantry creates calm in life’s literal and figurative storms. It lets you care for your people with quiet confidence—so you’re not the one racing to the store when things go sideways.
Be Ready Emergency Pantries: Selfish Stockpiling or Stewardship? When you build a pantry, you’re not building a bunker. You’re building a buffer—a margin of grace for the people you love.
Be Ready Goal Zero: Portable Power You Can Trust—Starting with the Venture Series Let’s take a clear, honest look at what Goal Zero does well, how the Venture line stands out, and whether it’s the right next step for your own preparedness.
Be Ready Graduation Gifts to Help Students Stay Prepared and Safe Here’s a list of physical, practical gifts that help new adults stay safe, be ready, and live wisely—on the road, at school, or wherever life leads next.
Be Ready Should You Carry Pepper Spray? What the Law (and Wisdom) Says In all 50 U.S. states, pepper spray is allowed in some form for civilian self-defense. But just like with many safety tools, the rules can vary more than you might expect.
Digital Security Why It’s Usually Safer to Use a Credit Card Instead of an ATM Card Have you ever wondered whether it’s better to use your debit card or your credit card when you’re shopping online or at the store? Here’s the bottom line: for most of us, credit cards are the safer bet—and it’s not just about convenience.
Be Ready What Should You Always Keep in Your Car? You don’t need to turn your trunk into a hardware store. But keeping a few thoughtful items in your car—just in case—can turn a minor emergency into a manageable moment. It’s not just smart. It’s a quiet act of care.
Be Ready The 12-Item Pantry That Keeps You Ready for Life’s Small Emergencies You don’t need to stockpile food for the end of the world. But you do need a few smart staples on hand for the kinds of everyday disruptions that hit most of us at some point—sick days, surprise bills, sudden storms, or a week when you just can’t get to the store.
Be Ready Featured Your Power’s Out—Now What? A Simple Shopping List to Be Ready Next Time You don’t need to be a prepper to be prepared. With a few items—gathered gradually—you can face the next outage with calm, not chaos. Let’s make your home outage-ready, one shelf at a time.
Be Ready When the Power Goes Out: A Calm Guide to Getting Ready for Summer Storms You don’t have to be a prepper to be prepared. With a few simple steps, you can turn a summer power outage from a crisis into a minor inconvenience. Let’s build your storm game plan—one habit at a time.
