The Emergency Box Every Japanese Home Keeps (And What I'd Put in Yours)

#japan #declutter #organization 📘 Get The Complete Japanese Home Way: https://unclekenjibooks.com If you’re watching this and wishing every one of these Japanese home habits was written down in one place, that’s exactly why I wrote The Complete Japanese Home Way. It’s not a list of bins and organizers to buy. It’s the whole Japanese way of running a home: owning less, wasting less, keeping things in order, and spending less on what you don’t need. It walks you through your house thing by thing, in the same order you’ll see in this video. The complete guide is at https://unclekenjibooks.com Japan's official advice is that every household should be able to manage for at least three days, and ideally a full week, with no power, no water and no stores. In this video I open the box I keep in my hall closet and go through all seven things on the Japanese list, with the amounts in gallons and in things you can buy at any American grocery store: water, the emergency toilet almost everyone forgets, light and a small stove, one warm room, a radio, rolling-stock food, cash, and the one sheet of paper I would put in your house before anything else. ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 Could you manage for seven days? 1:26 Why Japan says a week, not three days 2:29 1. Water: how much, and where to put it 4:47 The little medicine booklet, and my book 6:08 2. The toilet (the one everyone forgets) 7:49 3. Light and a way to cook 10:27 4. One warm room 13:34 5. A radio that does not need the wall 17:31 6. Food: the rolling stock method 20:26 7. Cash 22:20 Your medicine, and one sheet of paper 24:57 What all of this really costs 26:58 The four-week plan 💬 Tell me in the comments: what does your family keep in the house for emergencies? If this helped you, please send it to a parent, a grandparent or a neighbor who lives alone, and subscribe so you will see the next one. Safety: never run a generator or a charcoal grill indoors, not even in a garage. Anything with a flame indoors needs a window open for fresh air. Ask your own doctor or pharmacist about keeping extra medicine; this video is not medical advice. #EmergencyPreparedness #JapaneseHome #UncleKenji