STOCKWISEPrepared for less.

UK household preparedness, priced five times a day

Prepared for less.

Calm, practical kit for power cuts, floods, storms, water outages and the day the cards stop working. New and second-hand, every listing scored against what it should cost.

See today's deals The three kits

Prices checked
4 Nov, 22:54 UTC
Live listings
2,633
Buys
448
Fair
1,008
How we score

Be ready for Power cut Flooding Storms Water outage Cards and apps down

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Buys that are also cheaper than other listings of the same thing, one per kind of kit.

Prices checked 4 Nov, 22:54 UTC

Buy well under typical · Fair about typical · Wait a little over typical · Avoid well over typical · Check seller price fine, seller unproven · How we score

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Browse by need

Every class

Nine needs, twenty-four kinds of kit, and hand-picked long-life food. Nothing with a blade, a weapon, a medicine or an indoor flame is ever listed.

Power

Keep phones, lights and a radio going when the mains is off.

70 buys at the last check · from £4.95

Light

Torches, head torches and lanterns: hands-free light first.

69 buys at the last check · from £5

Water

Store it and, if you have to, treat it. Follow your water company's advice first.

96 buys at the last check · from £5.13

Food stores

Freeze-dried buckets and bags that keep for years, with how long each lasts and what a day costs.

Five picks · from £27.09 a day, prices checked by hand

Cooking

A camping stove for hot food and drinks. Outdoors only.

15 buys at the last check · from £11.99

Warmth

Sleeping bags and blankets for a cold house or a night away from it.

121 buys at the last check · from £3.31

First aid

Dressings and the basics. Stockwise lists no medicines.

23 buys at the last check · from £3.09

Alarms

Carbon monoxide and smoke alarms, new and certified to the British and European standard.

0 buys at the last check

Radio

A wind-up or solar radio for news and warnings, and licence-free walkie-talkies, when the network is down.

29 buys at the last check · from £8.65

Bags and documents

Somewhere to keep it all, and your papers dry and safe.

25 buys at the last check · from £4.75

Food that keeps for years

Food stores

Freeze-dried buckets and bags, hand-picked, with the sums done: how long each lasts and what a day costs. From £27.09 a day.

Grab-and-go dry bag, 28 servings (breakfast, lunch and dinner)Grab-and-go dry bag, 28 servings£32.84 a day£89.99 · price checked on 3 NovLunch and dinner bucket, 60 servingsLunch and dinner bucket, 60 servings£27.33 a day£169.99 · price checked on 3 NovLunch and dinner bucket, 120 servingsLunch and dinner bucket, 120 servings£27.09 a day£329.99 · price checked on 3 NovBreakfast bucket, 120 servingsBreakfast bucket, 120 servings£20.44 a day£279.99 · price checked on 3 NovMeat and rice bucket, 80 servingsMeat and rice bucket, 80 servingsAn add-in£289.99 · price checked on 3 Nov

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How Stockwise scores a price

The method
  1. 1

    Read five times a day

    Every live fixed-price listing in the catalogue is read five times a day, and none is shown once its check is six hours old. Auctions are kept apart and never set a price.

  2. 2

    Priced per unit

    Where the title states a size, the comparison is per watt-hour, per 1,000 mAh, per watt or per litre: the typical is the 30-day median, one value per seller.

  3. 3

    Scored, not judged

    The verdict is the price against that typical, by the bands below. A buy also needs no comparable listing to beat it, and an unproven seller turns a buy into a check.

typical price90%105%125%BuyFairWaitAvoid

Classes compared on plain price (torches, stoves, first aid kits) use wider bands. The whole method.

Three complete kits

See the kits

Rebuilt at every price check, five times a day, from live listings for budgets of £50, £150 and £400, each saying what it covers, what it leaves out and what each step up adds.

The £50 kit7 items · Prices checked 4 Nov, 22:54 UTCCovers light, radio, first aid, power, documents, water, warmth.The £150 kit12 items · Prices checked 4 Nov, 22:54 UTCCovers light, radio, power, first aid, water, warmth, documents, room light, cooking, gas, co alarm, grab bag.The £400 kit16 items · Prices checked 4 Nov, 22:54 UTCCovers power station, power, light, room light, radio, first aid, water, water treatment, warmth, second warmth, documents, cooking, gas, co alarm, smoke alarm, grab bag.

Be ready for

All checklists

Short, plain checklists, every line linked to the official source.

Power cutMost power cuts are short-lived and occur locally. Gas ovens, boilers, heat pumps and home internet won't work without power, and a mobile may stop if the local mast is affected.FloodingAround 6.3 million properties, homes and businesses in England are in areas at risk of flooding. You can check your own long-term flood risk.StormsStorms can disrupt power, internet and phone networks, bring down trees and flood infrastructure. Named storms are the ones most likely to bring the biggest impacts.Water outageInterruptions are usually over quickly. Your water company is the best source of information if one happens.Cards and apps downElectronic payments and cash machines can be disrupted, and in an outage you may not be able to call people. Keep some cash, paper copies and numbers written down.

And the loo roll question: how long the cupboard lasts, with a pyramid drawn to scale.