How ready is your household?
Seventeen quick questions. About three minutes. No right answers \u2014 just an honest picture and the cheapest ways to improve it.
Your answers stay on your device. Nothing is stored, nothing is sent \u2014 we never see them.
How many people live in your home, including you?
Water
If the power went off, would your taps keep running?
How much drinking water could you pour right now without a working tap — bottles, filled containers, anything?
Food
If you couldn’t shop, how many days could everyone in your home eat properly?
Could any of that be eaten with no cooking at all — straight from tin or packet?
Power & heat
How is your home heated?
If the electricity went off tonight, could you still boil water?
Do you have a working torch and spare batteries — not just your phone?
Could you charge a phone with the power off — power bank, car, anything?
Information & money
Could you hear news with no power and no internet — battery radio, wind-up, or car radio?
Is there enough cash in the house to buy a few days’ essentials if cards stopped working?
Do you know where your stop-tap and fuse box are — and could you find them in the dark?
People
If someone in your home takes regular medicine, how many days’ supply is usually in the house?
Does anyone in your home depend on you — children, pets, or someone who needs care?
Is there a neighbour you could knock on — or who might knock on you?
Place
Could snow, flooding or a fallen tree cut off your road or street?
Does getting in and out of your home depend on electricity — fob door, buzzer, electric gate — and could you leave with what matters in five minutes?
Worth having ready: photos or copies of your passport, driving licence, tenancy or mortgage documents, and insurance policy — kept somewhere secure, or backed up online. Free, and one less thing to think about in a hurry.