Ready for the dark, together.
Size your 90-day outage kit free. Then put the plan on SmartPlan, the shared family calendar where the practice weekends, water swaps and buy lists show up for everyone.
Before
Build the kit in three steps: 2 weeks, 30 days, 90 days. Practice one lights-off weekend.
Hour 0–1
Fill every container and the bathtub while the taps still run. Keep fridge and freezer shut. Check CO alarms.
Day 1–3
Eat the fridge first, then the freezer. Set up the one warm room, the two-bucket toilet and the handwashing station.
Week 3–4
The 30-day line. Most households without a kit run out here.
The lit window, on everyone's phone.
SmartPlan · Our familySat
This weekend
- All day · Practice weekend 1Shutoffs & safety · outage plan, shared
- Sat 9 AM · Find and label every shutoffFrom the to-do list · Dad
- Sun 10 AM · Test CO and smoke alarms ★★Chore · Maya
- Lights off, Friday 6 PMCountdown · this weekend
AMGSample family · 1 of 12
Twelve weekends on the family calendar.
One skill a weekend, two to four hours, ready in three months. Pick a start and SmartPlan shows every weekend to everyone in the house, with the water swaps after.
In SmartPlan, open Settings, then Other calendars, paste the link and switch on Show to everyone. It refreshes on its own. .
Outage plan
Pick a start
Preview only. Nothing is saved or sent until you add the link to your own calendar.
A plan in a drawer keeps nobody warm.
SmartPlan is a shared calendar for families. Put the outage plan there and it turns up between school runs and dentist visits, where people actually look.
- Who knows the planWhoever printed it.
- RememberingNobody, until the power is out.
- The buy listOn the fridge, at home, while you are at the store.
- The kidsReminding them, again.
- Gran next doorA phone call that may not go through.
- Paper backupOut of date by spring.
Four people. Ninety days.
Every number starts from a daily amount, multiplied by the people in your home and by 90 days. The planner does the multiplying for your family.
- 360 gal
- of drinking and cooking water for four people. 1 gallon each, every day.
- 400k
- calories for two adults. More if working hard in the cold.
- 1,260
- diapers for a baby and a toddler. Buy one size up for later weeks.
- 0
- flames or engines indoors. Ever.
Size your 90-day kit
- full kit, about
- $9,143
- drinking water
- 360 gal
- calories of food
- 486k kcal
90 days, rough US prices. Saved only in this browser.
A little every week
About $355 a week.
$9,143 still to buy over 26 weeks. Most important first: water, formula, CO alarms and light before comfort.
Weeks 1–3 · $1,080
Save up for: Battery carbon monoxide alarms · Ready-to-feed formula, 32 oz
Week 4 · $490
Oral rehydration packets (Pedialyte) · Children's acetaminophen + ibuprofen · Bathtub water bladder (WaterBOB) · Disposable diapers (buy next size up too)
Week 5 · $268
Baby wipes, 80-count packs · LED lanterns · LED headlamps
Paste it into a SmartPlan to-do list and drag it onto the day you shop. Rough US prices.
Free, from the two handbooks.
The kit in the order that keeps people alive, the first $500 to buy this week, and both books to print and keep by the flashlight. No sign-up.
2 weeks
Survive the first shock
56 gal water, unscented bleach, a bathtub bladder. Two weeks of food you can eat without cooking, of ready-to-feed formula, diapers and wipes. Battery CO alarms, headlamps, a hand-crank radio, a first aid kit, a two-bucket toilet, cash in small bills.
Roughly $900–$1,300 for four people.
30 days
Get through the month
Water to 120 gal with drums or stacked jugs and a gravity filter. A 30-day pantry. An outdoor camp stove with two propane tanks. Sleeping bags, wool layers and sleep sacks for the babies. Two-way radios.
Roughly $2,500–$3,500 more.
Power
Quiet power, no fumes
A 1–2 kWh solar power station with folding panels charges lights, phones and a fan every day with no fuel. A small inverter generator is backup only, outdoors and 20 feet from the house.
Black Friday, Nov 27, 2026, is the usual moment to buy the station.
90 days
Go the distance
Water to 360 gal plus rain catchment for washing. The full 90-day pantry and toddler food, 90 days of formula and diapers one size up. Seeds, tools, a repair kit, books and games.
Roughly $3,500–$4,500 more. Full kit ≈ $8,700.
One person pays. The family joins free.
Who's on your plan?
- You · Owner. Pays the one membership and sets the plan up.Pays
- Partner · Admin. Joins with an invite code, runs half the weekends and can invite people.$0
- Gran nearby · Viewer. Joins with an invite code, sees the week and the water-swap reminders.$0
Invited members never pay. Each invite code is single-use and sets the role. Plans include a set number of members. A free-day key gives 24 hours of Premium, once per person.
- Basic
- The shared calendar: every member's week, roles and invite codes, reminders and to-do lists.
- PremiumBest for outage plans
- Adds chores with stars, meals and the grocery list, countdowns, routines, printing, the wall display, photos and custom looks.
- Business
- For a crew rather than a household: team view, a booking page, checklists, reports and activity history.
Fair questions.
How does the plan get into SmartPlan?
Pick a start Saturday in the 12-weekends section and copy the plan link. In SmartPlan, open Settings, then Other calendars, paste the link and switch on Show to everyone. The weekends appear read-only in everyone's week and refresh on their own.
Do family members have to pay for SmartPlan?
No. Invited members never pay. One person's membership covers every calendar they own, and each invite code sets what that person can do.
Can we try SmartPlan first?
A free-day key starts 24 hours of Premium, once per person. Or choose a plan on smart-plan.shop and cancel any time.
Is the planner part of SmartPlan?
No. The planner and both handbooks here are free and need no account. SmartPlan is the shared calendar where you can put the plan so the whole family sees it.
Is the planner really free?
Yes. The planner and both handbooks are free, with no sign-up and no account.
Where do my ticks and names go?
Nowhere. Your family size, ticks, tool list and skills tracker are saved in this browser's storage on this device only. Nothing is sent to a server.
Are the prices real?
They are rough US averages, not live quotes. Every item has Amazon, price history (camelcamelcamel) and deals (Slickdeals) links, so you can see whether today's price is actually low.
Will it work if the internet goes down?
Yes. Once you have opened the planner on your phone or computer, it keeps working offline, with your family and ticks. Download both PDFs too, and print the lists: paper works when phones don't.
Is this medical advice?
No. Ask your pediatrician and doctor about doses, feeding and conditions, and write their answers on the medical card in Book 1.
Not the one who decides?
Send them the plan, written for you.
I found a free 90-day outage plan for us. If we start Saturday, one skill a weekend, we're ready by spring. Can we put it on SmartPlan so we both see the weekends and the buy list?
Put the plan where the family looks.
Start a SmartPlan Family calendar, invite the house, and add the twelve weekends.
Start a Family calendar on SmartPlanOr size your kit first, free