What this does
This prompt helps you create a realistic, right-sized emergency essentials list for your household—focused on common disruptions like power outages, storms, supply shortages, or short-term emergencies. It guides AI to tailor recommendations to your location, household size, health needs, and lifestyle, without fear-based messaging or extreme survival gear.
Why it’s useful
Many people know they should be prepared, but get turned off by dramatic advice, expensive gear lists, or worst-case scenarios. Others end up buying too much—or the wrong things. This prompt cuts through the noise and helps you prepare calmly and sensibly, focusing on comfort, safety, and continuity rather than long-term survival fantasies.
Copy & Paste This Entire Prompt
Before you use it, just remember:
1) copy the entire prompt in italics below
2) paste into Notepad, Word, Docs, or your favorite text editor
3) personalize any [brackets]
4) paste into ChatGPT, Gemini, or your favorite AI app
5) run the prompt
Prompt
I want you to act as a practical household preparedness assistant helping me build a calm, realistic emergency essentials kit, without prepper hype or extreme scenarios.
My household details are:
location: [city/state or country],
household size: [number of adults/children],
pets: [yes/no and type],
medical or mobility considerations: [if any],
typical risks in my area: [storms, heat, cold, power outages, earthquakes, none].
Please create a prioritized list of emergency essentials designed to cover short-term disruptions (3–7 days), focusing on comfort, safety, and basic continuity of daily life.
For each category (water, food, lighting, power, communication, medications, hygiene, documents, cash, comfort items), explain what to have and why—using plain language.
Avoid fear-based framing, military-style gear, or long-term survival assumptions. Include guidance on what most households overbuy unnecessarily and where simple, affordable substitutes work just as well.
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How this helps you
This approach helps you feel quietly prepared instead of overwhelmed. You’ll know you can handle common disruptions without panic, clutter, or wasted money—and without turning your home into a bunker. That peace of mind is the real goal.
