Free Printables
Works when the screen doesn't.
Documents you fill in by hand, carry in a wallet, or hand to a paramedic. They do not need power, signal, or a charged battery. No email required. No account. Download and print.
See what's availableBy Dan Whelan, founder of New World Survival
Researched from government agencies, university extension services, and other published sources. See our sources
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Fourteen documents. All finished.
Every item below downloads immediately. If a printable appears on this page, it exists and it is complete. Anything still being written is named further down, without a download button, so you know what is coming and what is not here yet.
First Responder Note
Household members, pets, medical conditions, allergies, and medications, on wallet-sized panels. Keep one visible near an exit and one in your ready bag. Written to be read by a paramedic who has never met you and has ninety seconds.
Wallet Contact Card
Emergency contacts, one out-of-area contact, meeting point, blood type, and critical medications. Print, cut, laminate. A phone with a dead battery holds no phone numbers. Two copies per sheet so the household has a spare.
Utility Shutoff Sheet
Where the water, gas, and electric shutoffs are, what tool each needs, and the order to work in. Fill it in once and mount it near the panel, so a teenager or a neighbor can act without calling you.
First Aid Kit Checklist
Everything that belongs in a household first aid kit, with checkboxes to tick as you stock it. Includes what to skip, and why a high item count is usually the marketing rather than the value. Print it and store it with the kit.
Fitness Kit Checklist
The equipment and the habits that build practical physical capacity: carrying weight, climbing stairs, walking distance. Modest gear, honest cost ranges, and the things you do not need to buy at all.
Land Due-Diligence Checklist
Twenty questions to answer before making an offer on rural or semi-rural property. Water, access, zoning, easements, and the septic and well questions that cost the most to get wrong. Carry it when you walk the parcel.
Household Operating Plan
The capstone of the Household Management track, on two pages. Household profile, functions map, responsibility matrix, weekly rhythm, and improvement list. Fill it in from what the track produced, post it where the household looks, and hand it to anyone stepping in.
Housing Ledger & Key Contacts
Map true monthly housing expenses, hidden fees, maintenance reserves, emergency contacts, responsibilities, and critical renewal dates. The full picture on two pages.
Family Communication Plan Card
The plan on one sheet: out-of-state contact, two meeting points, the household radio channel and call sign, check-in times, who runs the net, and a check-in log. Fill it in together, tape one inside a cabinet door, put one in every kit.
Household Medical Profile
One sheet per person: conditions, allergies, devices, care team, insurance, advance directive, and emergency contacts. Written for a paramedic, a backup caregiver, or a clinic in another town.
Medication List
Fifteen lines for each medicine: brand and generic names, strength, how often, what it is for, prescriber, refill date, and storage. Bring it to every appointment, pharmacy, and shelter.
Medical Device Power Plan
Every device that needs electricity, its wattage, hours of use, and backup needs. Plus the calls to make, CPSC generator placement, and the point at which you relocate.
Medical Folder Checklist
The cover sheet for a grab-and-go medical folder. Tick each document as it goes in and record where the originals and the second copy are kept.
Medical Bag Checklist
Medicines, device power, vision and hearing items, records, and hygiene supplies, with expiration dates written by hand. Keep it inside the bag.
Print on plain paper, then laminate or slide into a zip bag. Update anything holding phone numbers or medications once a year, on a date you already remember.
Why paper
Not every document wants a screen.
A printable earns its place when one of three things is true. It has to be filled in by hand, so the information is yours and not a form field on a dead phone. It has to be carried on your person, sized for a wallet or a glovebox. Or it has to be read by someone who is not you: a paramedic in your kitchen, a neighbor checking your house, a shelter volunteer looking after your dog.
If none of those is true, it is not a printable. It is a checklist, and a checklist page does the job better because it tracks what you own and stays current when a product changes.
In development
Written, not yet finished.
These are named rather than shown, because a download button that does nothing is worse than no button. Each one is drafted. None is ready. When one is finished it moves up the page and gets a card.
The First 100
Field checklistOne hundred household purchases in the order that keeps a household safer after each one, across ten tiers with cost bands and checkboxes.
Power Outage Reference Card
Carry cardRefrigerator and freezer food safety timelines from USDA, generator placement distances from CPSC, and the carbon monoxide rules that matter most at two in the morning.
Household Plan Template
Fill-in sheetOut-of-area contact, two meeting points, childcare pickup protocol, pet plan, and medical information. The document a household fills in together at a kitchen table, once, and then keeps.
Important Documents Locator
Fill-in sheetNot the documents. Where the documents are. Deeds, titles, policies, birth certificates, and account access, recorded so that someone acting for you can find them in an afternoon.
Pet Information Sheet
Fill-in sheetVaccination dates, microchip number, veterinarian, feeding schedule, medications, and a printed photo. Written for a shelter volunteer or a neighbor caring for an animal that cannot explain itself.
Home Inventory Sheet
Fill-in sheetRoom by room, with serial numbers and photo references. The sheet that turns an insurance claim from a memory exercise into a filing task, at the worst possible moment to be remembering.
Pantry Inventory Sheet
Fill-in sheetA two-week food supply tracker. Categories, quantities per person, what you have, what you still need, and the rotation dates that keep it honest.
Water Storage Calculator
Fill-in sheetWork out what your household actually needs, then record containers, filters, treatment supplies, and the date each container was last filled.
Route Home Planning Sheet
Fill-in sheetMap a primary and an alternate route home on foot. Distance, waypoints, water sources, shelter, and the two people along the way who would open a door for you.
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