Everyone should have a minimum of 30 days reserves of everything needed to live. Food, water, medicine, etc. Don't forget the pets if you have them also.

 

All it takes is a natural disaster or some civil unrest to make those with supplies the new upper class.

 

Money means nothing when disaster strikes. Plus, most basic survival supplies are actually cheaper than one would think.

 

Last piece of advice; determine how much water you think you need. Then triple it, and buy that amount. I keep at least 50 gallons of reserve water, and have roughly 100 lbs of non-perishable foods for reserve.

 

OK, this is REALLY the last piece of advice: Don't advertise that you have such reserves to people unless you're ready to defend those reserves against desperate people.

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