A little tip for my LDS bruthahs and sistas

For all my Mormon buddies, here's a tip I'm finding useful:

Know how tomorrow is General Conference, and it recurs every six months?

Do you have 72-hour-kits? Good job if you do, I totally understand if you don't. We all don't have to have everything perfect.

If you have put some together, when is the last time you checked them?

You know, batteries in flashlights, size of kids' clothing, expiration dates on food and other products, etc?

Don't you think every six months would be a great schedule for rotating and updating? And isn't the fact that GC occurs every six months like clockwork a convenient reminder?

I heard that somewhere and have been meaning to follow it for, oh, about four years now. (I first started our kits at a Relief Society activity almost four years ago.)

I finally did, last night, and good thing. Some items were fine, but every single piece of food was expired, and the only food Jamie's had was two jars of baby food. (I did used to keep formula in it when that was appropriate.) I opened a package of cookies from ours, thinking I'd snack on them while I worked if they weren't too bad, and just the smell was sickening.

It really would have sucked to have an emergency and then realize our "emergency food" was worthless.

So that's my tip:
every time Conference weekend rolls around, take the opportunity to rotate and update your 72-hour kits.

Here's another tip:
Go to bed early the night before Conference, so you don't oversleep and miss this great opportunity to hear our prophet and apostles speak.
(I.e., don't be like me. Ahemtwelvethirtya.m.)

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Good night!