When we were having the bathroom floor tiled, I bought a portable camping toilet. I made a brick path and a rough floor (we have a stack of bricks from a demolished chimney) and erected a 10x10 pavilion. So we have a once-used backup toilet if necessary. *L*
Reading glasses. I have them all over the house, my garage, in the car, in my backpack and bicycle panniers, etc. That doesn’t stop me from not having them when I’m in Home Depot trying to read something. Luckily my wife, with her good eyes, is typically there to read to me 
We camp and backpack so have a lot of cooking and light methods, as well as ways to purify water, along with our large camping water carrier always filled in case it is needed.
I’m finding that to be a huge deal at the moment. Oh, we have water, and can just throw grey water in the yard and pee outside. But #2 is a bit problematic. I haven’t had a shower in 5 days, I can heat up water on the stove, either kitchen or on propane heat stove, and I just clean up that way.
I have 7 Epipens. Coincidentally, I also have 7 sets of wireless earbuds.
For some reason, we get a lot of short-term power outages here. We have uninterrupted power supply (UPS) devices with power surge protectors. One is here in the office for the modem and PC, another in the kitchen for the router/wifi, and another for the TV, cable box, and the stereo in the TV room. The garage door opener has a battery backup with enough power to raise and lower the door.
Of course, there’s an assortment of flashlights, candles, and lanterns.
I have a spoon, and a sleeping bag.
Aside from food of some sort and a box of matches, you don’'t really need more than that. A tent is nice to have.
I have camped successfully in my youth with just the spoon, some canned food, and the sleeping bag. Not even the matches.
I may well be an outlier though!
I have a titanium spork. Everyone needs a titanium spork.
A couple of old kerosene lamps that I don’t even know where they are. In the extremely unlikely (to the point of being unthinkable) event that a) it gets extremely cold and b) we have no power, we have a fireplace and enough wood lying around our yard that I could build a fire to get through a night or two.
Have you tried it out? I don’t have a thin enough hose to get into the gas tank. I presume there is a tapered wire coil to keep thieves from siphoning gas out of the truck.
We have a gas powered generator. I pour out of date fuel into the truck and refill the cans at the gas station.
Yeah, had my mechanic take out the anti-siphon screen in the one vehicle that had one.
My back up is my Wife, and I am hers.
I used to have all sorts of stuff, but this building has an emergency genny. I still have candles and a couple of battery lanterns. In Portland, the RV was parked in the driveway, and when we had a three day power outage I ran its generator and ran an extension cord to keep the freezer frozen and one for an electric heater for the upstairs.
Thank you.
Do you want names?
You can’t possibly have adequate backups unless you’ve built a fully-equipped and stocked underground bunker.
Remember to keep your bunker secret, or bad things could happen.
Sorry, quoting myself.
Besides my Wife, my dogs. The house is safe. Or at least I have an alarm system (most of the time).
Another back up is simply a good pocket knife. I’ve carried one since I was 9yo. Except I can’t fly with it any more. It sucks because I always find myself needing it for something once I get to my destination. I use it for something every day.
Urgent Public Safety Message (ignore if you’re already doing this): Check your chimney first. Do it before the storm, and again at least once a year.
You really don’t want to set the house on fire in the middle of a major emergency. Or, probably, even if you’re not having one.
– I have a hand pump on the old well. It’s the old well because it’s only producing about 30 gallons every couple of hours; but I’ve lived with no plumbing, and I know that if the regular water supply’s not working then 30 gallons right outside your back door every couple of hours is luxury compared to no water at all on site.
I have a wood stove. It’s basically a heating stove, has no oven, and doesn’t have the stovetop temperature control of a wood stove designed as a cookstove; but it does have a cooking surface, and with a little practice most stove-top cooking can be managed. It doesn’t heat the whole house by itself in the very coldest weather, but it’s always possible to stay warm in the room with the stove. The size of the woodpile varies, but in midwinter I’m a lot happier with at least a couple of months’ worth on hand.
I have a whole mess of assorted lighting devices that run on batteries or can be recharged from the car or from a little solar charger; also a couple of kerosene lamps and some lamp fuel, and candles, but there are also cats so the battery/rechargable ones are safer. There are backup batteries in stock, rotated so they don’t get too ancient.
The solar charger, if there’s a reasonable amount of sun, can charge ipad and/or phone directly or recharge a couple of little power banks which are kept reasonably well charged and hold enough to recharge the phone and ipad at least once. The main computer’s plugged into a UPS, but when it was new it only held a couple of hours and it seems to hold a lot less now, so I wouldn’t be able to get at a lot of my stuff, but I can get online.
There’s a cell phone to back up the landline, and a landline to back up the cell phone. So far they’ve never gone down at once.
The cell phone backs up the modem, as it can be used as a hotspot.
There’s extra cat and dog food, and enough human food to supply me and if necessary a couple of stranded people for quite a long time. This also all gets rotated; it’s not a stock of things I don’t ordinarily use, but a matter partly of buying ahead and partly of putting up produce seasonally.
What I don’t have is a good summer backup for freezers and refrigeration. A long winter outage isn’t a problem there; the chest freezers are in an unheated back hall, and jugs of water stuck outside to turn into ice can be brought in to turn the fridge into an icebox if the back hall’s too cold to just use that as a fridge. But a long outage in hot weather would be a problem; chest freezers will hold through some time, certainly some hours, maybe a day or so, but not long enough if the power were out for days in July. I still wouldn’t go hungry for quite a while, there’s food in other formats; but it would be a shame to lose freezer contents, and I doubt I could can it all in time – especially since, in hot weather, cooking on an indoors woodstove would certainly be a problem of its own. I don’t have a gas outdoor grill, though in a sufficient emergency I could probably improvise an outdoor firepit well enough to produce a hot meal, but I certainly wouldn’t want to try to can on one.
I also have good neighbors. I would say that if the freezers thawed we’d have a neighborhood party and eat it all; but most of them also have their own freezers, so while it might be quite a party there’d be too much to eat to keep up with. Maybe somebody’s got a generator we could pass around enough to keep some of the freezers going.
However the longest power outage in 30+ years has been IIRC something like 11 hours, which was nowhere near long enough to have thawed the freezers even if it had been midsummer, which it wasn’t. But we were on the edge of the ice storm that caused that one. In some of the areas hit by that same storm the power was out for a couple of weeks – and some of those areas were part of major cities. And we get outages of several hours several times a year, it seems – I don’t keep track of those.
My wife and each have a small battery jump starter in each of our cars. It’s about half the size of a shoe box. It can also charge cell phones and such. Also a flashlight. It’s saved others a number of times when they need a jump start. If the car battery is completely dead, it’s a no go though.
Our house is passive solar. So, we can do do alright heat wise, even if propane went to empty. Would suck, but we have plenty of coats and blankets…
A spork does nothing a spoon cannot do. I can open a can with a spoon, eat roast lamb with a spoon, make scrambled eggs with a spoon.
A spork is just showing off!
We’re probably a little over-the-top on this stuff, but we don’t like surprises. Any calendar units are for 2 people and dogs. All values are maximums, it fluctuates 15-20% as we use and replenish.
175 gallons potable water, rotated on monthly schedule.
105 gallons (yes gallons) propane, with a variety of connectors/hoses.
120 gallons gasoline (mostly in the boat tanks, have fuel-safe hand pump to access belowdecks)
90 gallons diesel, in the truck – it’s modified w long range auxiliary tanks, plumbed into fuel system.
Jumper cables for all 3 vehicles.
Battery packs for both cars.
Tire chains for all vehicles (one set for each car, 2 for 4WD truck)
30-40 days food in pantry/freezers (approx, rotated continuously)
30 days commercial freeze dried backup supply (Auguson Farms, etc.)
4-6 month supply of TP, Paper towels, soap, cleaning supplies, alum foil, etc. etc.
12KW dual fuel generator, w connectors to access propane (above)
7KW gas generator (backup).
Transfer switch and 50A connectors for genset(s)
2 propane stoves.
2 propane barbecue grills
1 cord of wood, split and stacked.
Portable indoor-safe propane heater.
Backup batteries/solar for driveway gate, garage door, and CPAP.
60-90 days of vital meds (this varies some, but never below 60 days)
Variety of pumps/connections/hoses to move water without lugging buckets around.
Emergency lighting throughout house.
RV in garage, 2 miles from house. Can serve as backup dwelling or bug out vehicle.
Pipe antifreeze and tools/valves, sufficient to winterize the house if necessary.