Three budget passes

Pass A costs nothing. Pass B finishes the three-day count with ordinary groceries. Pass C, a two-week home supply, waits until A and B are done. A branded bag is not the first purchase.

Pass A — $0

Plan pages filled

Sealed water already here

Paper contacts posted

Flashlight already owned

Pass B — the three-day count

Dollars for supplies now

Price of one gallon

Gallons still to buy

Gallons × price

Dollars left after water

No-cook food still to buy

Price of one, from sheet 8

Store, ordinary groceries

Pass C — later, toward two weeks

A and B done

14-day gallons, sheet 8

Cash

Dollars this house chooses

No official dollar figure for cash was found, so this page does not print one. Dollars written above are a shopping budget. They are not cash to store, and they are not a figure this file recommends.

A budget example. Not a cart.

A family of 4 can spend $500 on supplies. Three days is 4 × 1 gallon × 3 = 12 gallons. One week is 28 gallons. They buy the missing part of the 12 first, at the price on the shelf in front of them. This page does not know that price, so it does not say the $500 covers the water. The week waits until those 12 gallons, and three days of a food they already eat, are in the house. A branded bag is not the first purchase.

Fiction. Not your house.

The apartment sample’s three-day people-count is 9 gallons, not 12. Pass A is the plan plus any sealed jugs already in the hall closet. Pass B is the rest of those 9 gallons and no-cook food from a grocery store. Pass C waits. No branded bag is the first purchase.

Water math is Ready.gov’s one gallon per person per day. The two-week pass is the Red Cross home-supply horizon. Kit listings were recorded in the project notes on 4 November 2026. This file is not on sale.