I mean everything you would want to survive the week from cold medicines to paper plates to healthy frozen sick meals. For those days when standing for 2 minutes really is an effort and you need to be able to just pop something in the microwave to feed the family.
Cold medicines:
Real sudafed (that PE stuff does not work for us)
Mucinex (you can get the cheap $1 bottle 100mg stuff and take 4x-6x as much for the same effect)
Tylenol and Motrin
Delsym
Emergan-C
Ocillo
Garlic
Lemons
Honey (make this tea to break up congestion and stop even the worst coughs cold.)
Vitamin D
Zinc supp
Kitchen:
Paper plates, bowels, cups and silverware to last a week (remember this is for when you your so sick you can't stand so washing dishes is not going to happen. We only have a few dishes and would run out within 2 days.) Using coupons last year I scored enough to last the winter colds for about $4 total.
Food in the freezer
GF Chicken Noodle Soup
Chili
and not sure what else, we like potato and ham soup but potato anything doesn't freeze well.
Bathroom:
Large pack of extra soft TP for when the big D hits, you really don't want to be using the cheap stuff that day
Bedroom:
2-3 extra sets of bedding, for some reason when my kids throw up they are just not that considerate in just puking on the top blanket, oh no, they have to soak every single blanket on there bed!
So we try to keep 2-3 sets around but our blankets after hundreds of washings are falling apart and not insulating like they should. Hoping to score some warm ones soon.
General stuff:
Large metal bowels or bucket for puking kids who can't make it to the bathroom in time. Keep 2 on hand for each kid, give them the other bucket while your rinsing out the 1st one. This has saved me a lot of washing of bedding.
Something to use as a large trash can, tall hamper with a trash bag in it? My kids go though a serious amount of tissue from runny noses and can fill a small waste basket pretty quick. I bring in the larger one and can get away with emptying 1x a day.
Plain extra soft TP instead Kleenex, that stuff is $$ and TP works just as well and its actually in more kid friendly sized squares. (my kids have not been receptive to cloth wipes for their noses)
Lansinoh for raw/chapped noses, will heal even the worst nose in less then a day most of the time.
We don't use humidifiers, for some reason my kids get pneumonia every time we use them and that includes brand new out of the box ones. If we need damp air we go in the bathroom with the shower on, usually though the cold night air works wonders. More then once we've had to sleep in a room that's 40F to keep the croup (yes, at 9 my kid still gets croup!) under control and yes we were bundled up warm all night just had cold air to breath, felt like camping in the house
Pedilyte or similar drink.
GC for 1 mo of streaming Netflix ($9) to keep kids happy for 1-2 days while you recover because heaven knows mama is always the last to get sick. Also keep bookmarks for free sites movies/TV for the kids to watch online for free. (we have no reception here so we get everything online. When sick you don't want to be trying to figure out how to navigate a website to get to what you want.)
Cold medicines:
Real sudafed (that PE stuff does not work for us)
Mucinex (you can get the cheap $1 bottle 100mg stuff and take 4x-6x as much for the same effect)
Tylenol and Motrin
Delsym
Emergan-C
Ocillo
Garlic
Lemons
Honey (make this tea to break up congestion and stop even the worst coughs cold.)
Vitamin D
Zinc supp
Kitchen:
Paper plates, bowels, cups and silverware to last a week (remember this is for when you your so sick you can't stand so washing dishes is not going to happen. We only have a few dishes and would run out within 2 days.) Using coupons last year I scored enough to last the winter colds for about $4 total.
Food in the freezer
GF Chicken Noodle Soup
Chili
and not sure what else, we like potato and ham soup but potato anything doesn't freeze well.
Bathroom:
Large pack of extra soft TP for when the big D hits, you really don't want to be using the cheap stuff that day
Bedroom:
2-3 extra sets of bedding, for some reason when my kids throw up they are just not that considerate in just puking on the top blanket, oh no, they have to soak every single blanket on there bed!
So we try to keep 2-3 sets around but our blankets after hundreds of washings are falling apart and not insulating like they should. Hoping to score some warm ones soon.General stuff:
Large metal bowels or bucket for puking kids who can't make it to the bathroom in time. Keep 2 on hand for each kid, give them the other bucket while your rinsing out the 1st one. This has saved me a lot of washing of bedding.
Something to use as a large trash can, tall hamper with a trash bag in it? My kids go though a serious amount of tissue from runny noses and can fill a small waste basket pretty quick. I bring in the larger one and can get away with emptying 1x a day.
Plain extra soft TP instead Kleenex, that stuff is $$ and TP works just as well and its actually in more kid friendly sized squares. (my kids have not been receptive to cloth wipes for their noses)
Lansinoh for raw/chapped noses, will heal even the worst nose in less then a day most of the time.
We don't use humidifiers, for some reason my kids get pneumonia every time we use them and that includes brand new out of the box ones. If we need damp air we go in the bathroom with the shower on, usually though the cold night air works wonders. More then once we've had to sleep in a room that's 40F to keep the croup (yes, at 9 my kid still gets croup!) under control and yes we were bundled up warm all night just had cold air to breath, felt like camping in the house
Pedilyte or similar drink.
GC for 1 mo of streaming Netflix ($9) to keep kids happy for 1-2 days while you recover because heaven knows mama is always the last to get sick. Also keep bookmarks for free sites movies/TV for the kids to watch online for free. (we have no reception here so we get everything online. When sick you don't want to be trying to figure out how to navigate a website to get to what you want.)
Heaven knows I'm always the last to get sick and I get sick worse then they do.
