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Married to the Grid
10 questions about who's really in charge of your life
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72-Hour Emergency Plan
Your household plan for riding out disruptions without panic
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Housing Hierarchy
Where does your home sit on the resilience pyramid?
Grid-Adjacent Tools
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The First Step
Self-audit of your water, food, energy, skill & community resilience
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48-HR Essentials Checklist
Walk your house in one hour and find your gaps
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72-HR SOP
Hour-by-hour action plan for home disruptions
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Emergency Contacts & Inventory
Fill out once. Always have it when you need it.
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Thirty Days – Four Moves
A month-long reset for how your home depends on the grid
Quick Check
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Quick Load Check
Is your money system in surplus or deficit? Find out in 60 seconds.
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Married to the Grid
72-Hour Emergency Plan

72-Hour Emergency Plan

A simple plan so your household can ride out short disruptions without panic. Fill out once, review yearly.

Household snapshot
Household name
Address
Main contact
Backup contact
Where this plan is kept
Food, water & basics — 3-day map
Using what you already have
Water on hand (gallons)
Simple meals you could eat right now without a store run
Food gaps to fill this week
Power & light plan
What must stay on (critical)
Backup power available
Light sources on hand
Home, meds & money
Meds that cannot be missed (name / person / days on hand)
Important docs location
Cash on hand ($)
Communication plan
Out-of-area contact (name & phone)
Neighbor check-in plan
Meeting point if we can't reach home
10-minute drill checklist
Run this once. It proves the plan works in real life.
Housing Hierarchy

Housing Hierarchy

Where does your home sit on the resilience pyramid? Takes 3 minutes.

Step 1 — your housing type
Location type
Own or rent
Step 2 — pyramid level
Why you picked this level
Step 3 — resilience scores
Grid dependence (1=low, 5=high)
Resiliency (1=stuck, 5=can pivot)
Step 4 — your next move
Specific action in the next 30 days
Your housing profile
Complete the steps above to see your personalized summary.
The First Step

The First Step

A self-audit of your current status across five resilience areas. Honest answers only.

Part 2 — priority ranking
Rate each area 1–5 (5 = most important to you right now)
Part 3 — your traction plan
Top priority area + action
Second priority area + action
Third priority area + action
48-HR Essentials Checklist

48-HR Essentials Checklist

Walk your house once. Takes one focused hour. Turn a two-day disruption into an inconvenience.

Your top 3 fixes this week
Field note: If it is not topped off, it is not there.
Fix 1
Fix 2
Fix 3
72-HR SOP

72-HR SOP

Your home emergency standard operating procedure. Hour-by-hour actions for the first 72 hours of any disruption.

Household name
Post-disruption follow-up
Emergency Contacts & Inventory

Emergency Contacts & Inventory

Fill out once. Update when numbers, meds, or neighbors change.

Thirty Days – Four Moves

Thirty Days – Four Moves

A month-long reset for how your home depends on the grid. Not a challenge — just one honest month of tightening up the basics.

Quick Load Check

Quick Load Check

Is your money system in surplus or deficit? Find out in 60 seconds.

Your three lanes — monthly income
Planted income (home/land)
$
Portable income (remote/online)
$
Professional income (career/business)
$
Monthly expenses
Essential expenses (rent, utilities, food, transport, debt)
$
Discretionary spending (dining, subscriptions, shopping)
$
$0
Total income
$0
Total expenses
Monthly balance
$0
Enter your numbers above.
Want the full picture?
The Resilience Experiment includes the complete 5-part Financial Load Map — breaking down every income lane, critical load, secondary load, savings goal, and monthly balance in detail.
Get The Resilience Experiment →